Quarter 2 Science Exam Study Guide

Quarter 2 Science Exam Study Guide

For the Quarter 2 Exam you will be tested on the information from Unit 3 Lesson 5, Unit 4 Lessons 1, 2, 4, and 5 and Unit 5 Lesson 1. You are responsible to know and understand all of the vocabulary in this study guide as well as the information from the textbook, the online lessons, and any activities or notes in your Science notebook.

Unit 3 Plants and Animals

Lesson 5 How Are Living Things Adapted to Their Environment?

Vocabulary: Environment, Adaptation, Physical adaptation, Behavioral adaptation,  Instinct

*Define and explain the terms environment and adaptation.

* Define and explain physical and behavioral adaptations.

*Recognize physical and behavioral adaptations in plants and animals.

Unit 4 Energy & Ecosystems

Lesson 1 What are populations, habitats, and niches?

Vocabulary: ecosystem, community, population, habitat, niche, producer, consumer, decomposer

*Distinguish between habitat and niche.

*Distinguish between population and community.

*Describe the relationships between producers, consumers, and decomposers.

Lesson 2 What are food chains?

Vocabulary: food chain, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, food web

*Demonstrate that a food chain shows how energy moves from producers to consumers.

*Recognize that energy for most food chains begins with energy from the sun,

*Distinguish between herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores.

*Recognize that organisms higher in the food chain are affected by changes in the number of organisms lower in the food chain.

Explain why all animals depend on producers such as plants.

*Be able to make an example of a food chain that is 3-4 levels

Lesson 4 What are natural resources?

Vocabulary: natural resource, renewable resource, nonrenewable resource

*Define and explain the term natural resource.

*Explain the importance of natural resources such as water, animals, and plants.

*Explain the importance of energy sources.

*Explain the importance of forests, soil, and land.

Lesson 5 How do people impact ecosystems?

Vocabulary: pollution, conservation, endangered species

*Describe how human activities affect ecosystems.

*Define pollution and conservation.

Unit 5  Weather

Lesson 1 What is the Water Cycle?

Vocabulary: water cycle, atmosphere, evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff, groundwater

*Identify each part of the water cycle.

*Be able to label a diagram of the cycle

*Tell what happens to water as it goes through the cycle