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5/24/22 Study notes for quiz on Wednesday 5/31

5^th Grade Study Guide for Science Final 2022
 

• Identify three states of matter
• Know characteristics of matter
• What is gravity
• Photosynthesis
• Ecosystems
• Food webs
• Composers, producers and decomposers
• Geosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and the atmosphere
• The water cycle
• Different ways of separating mixtures
• Friction and force

5/20/22 Study notes - Quiz on Monday 5/23
Notes from today 
NOTES Page 226
Precipitation

• Most rain in the USA starts out as snow
• The temp of the air high above the ground is often below 0 degrees C
• Clouds of ice crystals form in the cold air
• The ice crystals grow larger until the start to fall as snowflakes
• If the ice crystal falls through air that is warmer than 0 degrees c it will melt into rain
• If it passes through warm air then the air near the ground is cold – it could turn to sleet
• Hail is when the winds blow the ice crystals upward through the cloud up into the freezing air at the top of the cloud – again and again until it’s too heavy and it falls as hail.

NOTES page 228 - 229
Cirrus clouds

• High level clouds
• More than 6 km above the ground
• Thin wispy and white
• The sun can easily penetrate these clouds

Cumulonimbus

• Clouds that grow vertically and have rising air inside them
• The bases of the clouds may be as low as 1 km above the ground
• The rising air may push the tops of these clouds higher than 12 km
• These clouds can cause thunderstorms

Altocumulus

• Mid level clouds
• Between 2 km and 7 km
• Look like small puffy balls
• Bottoms of these clouds may look dark because the sunlight may not reach them

Stratus

• Low level clouds
• Less than 2 km above the ground
• Cover the whole sky
• Look dark because little sunlight get through the layer of clouds

Fog

• A cloud that is on the ground
• As air near the ground cools – water vapor condenses into tiny droplets and forms a cloud at or near the ground

NOTES cont
Clouds

• Sometimes many types of clouds may appear at the same time in the sky
• Clouds also interact with landforms
  • Water from large bodies of water like oceans evaporate and condenses to form clouds
  • Tall mountains push the clouds up higher into the atmosphere where the cloud cools
  • Clouds can hold less moisture at lower temp
  • So as the clouds rise, they release their moisture as precipitations.
  • This explains why there is snow on top of many mountains

5/13/22  Study Notes

5/11/22 Study Notes - Quiz on Friday Ch 5 sec 3

NOTES page 221
Water in the Atmosphere

• The three factors for determining weather are humidity, clouds, and precipitation.
• Humidity = the amount of water vapor in the air.
• The particles of water vapor in the air are too small to be visible, cut when conditions are right they can come together to form small water droplets and ice crystals.
• These droplets and crystals are bigger than the vapor particles and can reflect light from the sun
• That is when they form a cloud
• When the droplets and crystals get large enough they can fall to the ground as precipitation.

5/4/22 Study Notes 
Temperature

• Air temp affects weather.
• Warm Air
  • Sun warms earth’s surface
  • Air near earth’s surface becomes warmer
  • As the air warms – its particles move farther apart.
  • As the particles move farther apart air pushes down with less pressure.
  • Warm air rises
  • Causing an area of low pressure to form
  • Air form areas with higher pressure rushes in
• Cool air
  • As air near earth surface cools
  • The particles in the air become more closely packed
  • This denser cooler air pushes down with more pressure
  • Ans area of high pressure forms
  • Air from this area flows into lower pressure areas.

Wind

• Wind is the air movement caused by difference in pressure. 
• In general air moves from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure.
  • Example A balloon- when you let air out of a balloon air rushes from inside toe balloon where pressure is higher to were pressure is lower – the outside of the balloon.  You can feel the wind coming out of the balloon.
• Wind speed and direction affect weather. 
• Local weather can be affected by special winds called jet streams
• Jet Stream
  • Jet Stream = is a narrow band of high speed wind 
    • Polar jet streams blows from west to east high in the atmosphere ove North America.
    • The jet stream affects day to day weather and seasons.
      • In winter the jet stream can bring cold air from the north to state as far south as Kentucky
      • In the summer it can bring warm air into Canada
  • Winds interact with landforms like mountain ranges
    • Mountains force the air to rise upward and cool
    • Clouds form in the cooler air and release precipitation
    • This causes wet weather on the side of the mountain facing the wind
    • As the air passes over the opposite side of the mountain it sinks and absorbs moisture.
    • This cause this side of the mountain to be drier

5/3/22 - Study Notes 
NOTES page 217
Weather

• Weather is the state of the atmosphere, including its temperature, wind speed and direction, air pressure, moisture, amount of rain or snow and other factors.
• Meteorologists study and predict weather.
  • They collect data from many tools to tell about the weather today and to predict future weather.
  • Almost all of the data they use are collected automatically at weather observation stations.
  • Knowing and predicting weather is important for planning all sort of activities including farming, fishing and outdoor fun.

Barometric Pressure

• There is about 6000 miles of air = our atmosphere
• Air has mass and takes up space – air is matter
• Air
  • ¾ nitrogen
  • Rest mostly oxygen
  • Small amounts of carbon dioxide gas
  • Water vapor is in atmosphere closest to earth
• Water Vapor
  • Amount of water vapor depends on time and place
  • Over ocean and forest = more water vapor
  • Over a desert – less water vapor
• Gravity pulls the mass of air in the atmosphere toward Earth’s surface
• Barometric Pressure
  • The pushing force of the atmosphere is called Barometric Pressure.
  • Air pushes in equal force in all directions.
  • Air pushing down is balanced by air pushing up and sideways. 
  • Air pressure decreases as you go higher in the atmosphere.

4/27/22 
NOTES 
Lithosphere

• The solid rocky outer layer of earth
  • Rocks,
  • Soils
  • Minerals
• It covers the surface of the earth
• It is also the ocean floors
• Averages about 100 kilometers thick (the distance to earths center is 6400 kilometers)

Biosphere

• All living things
• It extends to about 10 kilometers above the earhts surface to about 10 kilometers below the surface of the oceans.
• All living things share resources
  • Air
  • Water
  • light

4/26/22 - today we went over our notes from Chapter 5 section 2 See below.  
Today we read page 213 and page 214  

NOTES 
Hydrosphere

• All the waters of the earth make up the hydrosphere
• The hydrosphere covers almost ¾ of the earth
• Most of the hydrosphere is oceans
  • Pacific is the largest
  • Atlantic
  • Indian
  • Southern
  • Arctic
  • All the oceans are connected
• The rest of the water is mostly fresh water
  • Lakes,
  • Rivers
  • Streams
  • Glaciers
  • Groundwater
    • = rain or melted snow that soaks into the ground
  • Fresh water is not evenly spread out over the earth.  Some places have more fresh water than other places do
• There is only 3% fresh water on earth and part of that is frozen in the glazers. 

4/25/22 - We took a quiz on the water cycle.  
finished the water cycle lab on page 198
Read and did pages 210 - 212

NOTES from page 211
Earth as a system

• Earth’s system is made up of four parts called spheres
  • Air
  • Water
  • Land
  • Living things
• These spheres interact with each other and overlap
  • Ex volcano erupting – spews gas and ash into the air

Atmosphere

• The atmosphere is made up of water vapor, nitrogen, oxygen, cardon dioxide , and particles of matter such as dust.
• Oxygen and nitrogen are the main gases
• There is just a little bit of carbon dioxide
• The atmosphere surrounds Earth’s surface
• It is essential for life on earth
• No other planet in the solar system has a life sustaining atmosphere.
• It holds in heat from the sun
• And keeps out too much damaging rays from the sun

4/20/22 - Study for a quiz on the water cycle


4/4/22 - 4/7/22 - no homework - Living Stations!!

4/1/22 -No Homework - No April Fools - Really no Homework!

3/31/22 Study for test 
Know vocab page 181-184
Study quizzes
Know the cross section of a leaf page 153
know the formula of photosynthesis page 154
know the formula for cellular respiration page 156
know how the two are connected
know producers, consumers, and decomposers
know how to draw a food web p163
know symbiosis page 165
know about nonnative species
know how humans help and harm the environment - from the book.


3/29/22 - Test on Friday - Chapter 4
3/29/22 - complete worksheet given out today - it's a test review
We also made bird feeders today - make sure they get put outside and don't stay in your school bags!


3/28/22 - start studying notes for test on Friday 
3/28/22 - Test on Chapter 4 on Friday 4/1/22

3/16/22 - We visited the Star lab with week
We are working on a lab on biodegradable substances in school
And finishing up the chapter on the ecosystem 
No homework

2/23/22
5^th grade Chapter 4 Lesson 2 Project – Ecosystems

This is a test grade.  You will be creating an ecosystem on a poster board. Your poster must display the following information.

• The name of the ecosystem - Pick one
  • Backyard
  • Ocean
  • River
  • Desert
  • Forest
  • Grassland
• Living things in that ecosystem
• Nonliving things in that ecosystem
• Changes that your ecosystem goes through and what causes that change
• Producers, consumers and decomposers of the ecosystem and
• whether the consumers are carnivores, herbivores, or omnivores.
• Examples of food chains and food webs
• Any other information about your ecosystem that you believe to be important.
• Example pictures/photos of your ecosystem – can be drawn or printed.
• Everything must be clearly, neatly labeled.

You will have two class periods to complete this project.



2/23/22 study for quiz.  Ch 4 lesson 2

2/16/22 - study notes and re-read pages 

2/11/22 study notes for a quiz on Tuesday 

2/8/22 draw, color and label the inside of the leaf where photosynthesis happens form page 155 in your copybook


2/7/22 in your copybooks draw, label, and color the layers of a leaf

2/2/22 - No Homework


2/1/22 - CSW Student Appreciation - No Homework 

1/28/22 - study for a test on Ch 3 - study the four quizzes I gave back today and went over with you.

1/26/22 - Butterfly worksheet - for a quiz grade - please make sure you color it.  Picture, words and color.

Tentative test on Chapter 3 scheduled for Monday 1/31/22

1/21/22 study notes - remember your plant lab - make sure your leaf adaptation lab is complete.  Read and do pages 124-125

1/18/22 answer questions on page 121-123


1/13/22 - make sure you are working on your plant lab and make sure your adaptation lab is complete



1/11/22 - write the hypothesis for your lab


1/7/22 Study notes for quiz on Monday Ch 3 sec 2

Happy New Year 2022

1/4/22 - study notes

1/3/22 - No homework - but Quiz on chapter 3 sec 2 on Friday

12/20 - January 2, 2022 - No Homework
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

12/17/21 - no homework

12/15/21 Homework - find the definitions of the vocab words 

Exoskeleton
Spiracles
Stomata

12/15/21 Study and finish notes Quiz on Friday

NOTES page 109 – 110
Physical structure

• All living organisms have structures that help them grow, get energy and stgay healthy.
• Sometimes structures can be very similar even though the organisms are different.           
  • Ex bark of a tree peels so the tree can grow
  • Snake skin sheds so the snake can grow
• Physical structures can be very different even if they do similar jobs. 
  • Ex animal egg is very delicate and it protects the new living thing
  • Seeds are very hard and they protect the new living thing

Structures for support

• Internal skeleton vs exoskeletons
  • Internal skeleton
    • Are on the inside
    • supports the body and
    • protects organs such as brain and heart
  • Exoskeletons
    • are outside their bodies
    • give structure
    • and protection
    • but need to be shed to grow
• plants have stems instead of skeletons for support and to stretch to the sunlight

12/14/21 - no class today - Quiz on Friday Ch 3 sec 1


12/14/21 - the plant lab should have come home yesterday.
The students need to water and measure the growth of the seeds once a week and keep track of the data in the back of their science copybooks.
5^th grade Plant Lab

Name:
Date: 12/10/21
Due date 2/14/22
Title – Growth of Seeds in Different Temperatures
Question – Does temperature affect seed growth?
Hypothesis – If I put a plant in a warm sunny spot Then it will grow quicker than a plant that is put in a cooler spot.
Materials

• 2 Cups
• Dirt
• 4 Seeds
• Water
• labels
• Sunlight
• Warmth
• Cool area
• ruler
• Notebook
• Pen

Procedure

1. Gather materials
2. Label the cups  with your name and
   1. Warm
   2. Cool
3. Put dirt into each cup – ¾ of the way full
4. Add two seeds to each cup
5. Cover the seeds up with dirt
6. Add a bit of water
7. Place in bag to take home
8. Put one cup in a warm sunny place
9. Put the other cup in a cool sunny place – like a basement or refrigerator
10. Each Saturday water the seeds
11. Each Saturday measure the seeds growth
12. Record the growth under results – label with the date you took the measurement
13. Repeat each week until Feb 14
14. Finish lab

Results
Measure the growth of the seeds and water once a week.
Keep all data here under results.
Dec 14
          cool
          warm
Dec 18
          Cool
          warm
Dec 25
Jan 1
Jan 8
Jan 15
Jan 22
Jan 29
Feb 5
Feb 12
Conclusion: My hypothesis was correct/incorrect – why – scientifically why
Question for next time


12/10/21 - write the procedure for the plant lab in your copybooks

12/6/21 - study test, quizzes, and notes for a test toorrow on Chapter 2.

12/3/21 - Study notes and worksheets for
test on Chapter 2 on Tuesday 12/7
We did not review the test from Chapter 2 sec 1 - 2 yet - we will do that on Monday. 

Week of 11/29/21

Test Monday 11/29/21 on Chapter 2 sec 1-2
Then finishing Chapter 2 on forces and shadows.
Quiz on Chapter 2 section 3 on Wednesday
Test on all of Chapter 2 on Monday 12/6




9/27/21 - Study vocabulary and notes

Test on Chapter 1 sec 1-3 on Friday 10/1/21


9/23/21 - We are working on the Scientific Method and doing labs in the classroom.  Their labs will be kept in the back of their copybook and will be a test grade.  I am giving out an example of what the lab we just did should look like.  Then we will do one more lab - just to get the Scientific Method down and then back to matter.  The properties of Matter. 

Homework - finish lab, study vocab and notes


What's the Matter?  No, what is Matter - That is our first lesson!
We will be doing experiments, but we will need supplies.  I will email you our needs when we get ready to do an experiment.
Homework - Look over notes and study vocab each night :)  

HOMEWORK

9/14/21 - Study your notes

Copy of notes 
5^th grade Science – Matter – Ch 1 Notes

Matter = all living and nonliving things are made of matter.  Matter is anything that has mass and takes up space.

Everything is matter and matter is made up of elements so everything is elements.

Elements = are the ingredients that make up all the other substances.

• Elements cannot be broken down onto other substances with ordinary physical or chemical processes.
• There are over 100 elements
• Most elements are metals
  • The properties of metals are – they are good conductors of electricity and heat and they can be shaped into sheets or wires that can bend without breaking.
  • Most metals are solids and have gray color.  Smooth metal surfaces can reflect light.
  • Other examples of metal are calcium, aluminum and mercury

 

• Some elements are non-metals
  • These elements do not conduct heat or electricity
  • Some are gases.  One example of a gases is oxygen
  • Some are solid.  One example is carbon.
• Some Elements are semi-metals
  • Are sometime like metals and sometimes like non-metals
  • For example they may conduct electricity but only when light is shining on them
  • One example is silicon

ATOMS

• Atoms = smallest part of an element that still has the properties of the element.
  • Atom is made of
    • PROTONS
    • NEUTRONS
    • ELECTRONS
  • The number of protons determines what element an atom will be

Atomic Theory = all substance are made of elements and all elements are made of atoms, all the matter around you is made of atoms
The idea of Atomic Theory is that everything is made of small particles.
Atomic Arrangement = the way atoms are connected affects the properties of an element

• Example – when carbon atoms are connected as flat sheets = soft and black = the graphite in your pencil.  When carbon atoms are connected as pyramids they form diamonds = transparent and hard

Compound = a type of matter made of two or more elements.  When elements come together they form a compound, the compound is not simply a mixture of the elements, it is a new substance.  It is different from its ingredients. 

• Ex Table salt.

Molecule = smalls particle of a compound that still has the properties of that compound, 

• Example the smallest particle of water is a water molecule.
• Changing the number, kind or position of the atoms in a molecule would result in a molecule of a different substance
  • Example – if you add another oxygen to H2O it is no longer water

9/10/21
In your science copybooks - Write a paragraph about one or more of the elements from page 10 and 11 in your science book.  The paragraph should include a brief description of the element as well as a description of how it is used or what it is used in. 
Due Monday