4th Grade NYS Science Test Review #1

What is energy?
1. The ability to move or change.
2. When you force something.
3. potential energy
4. kinetic energy
What is gravity?
1. A kind of friction.
2. A force that helps things move
3. The force that holds everything down to Earth.
4. A push or a pull
What is a force?
1. It's when you force something.
2. Banging into something or someone.
3. A push or a pull
What is friction?
1. Friction makes things move.
2. Friction is the force that holds things down to Earth.
3. Friction is the force that stops things from moving when things rub together.
4. Friction is energy.
Which is NOT a kind of energy?
1. sound
2. heat
3. light
4. circuit
What causes sound energy?
1. vibration
2. potential energy
3. noise
4. people
What is white light made of?
1. A prism
2. electricity running through a circuit
3. force
4. different energy wavelengths that make up the colors of the rainbow
What are the colors of the rainbow, in order?
1. Red, orange, yellow, blue, green, purple
2. Red, yellow, orange, green, blue
3. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet
4. Red, orange, yellow, indigo, violet, blue
What's the science word for heat energy?
1. thermos energy
2. thermal energy
3. potential energy
4. insulator
What does reflection mean?
1. Light, heat, or sound energy bouncing back off of something.
2. Light, heat, or sound energy bending.
3. Light, heat, or sound energy being soaked into something.
4. Light, heat, or sound energy.
What is absorption?
1. Light, heat, or sound energy bouncing back off of something.
2. Light, heat, or sound energy bending.
3. Light, heat, or sound energy being soaked into something.
4. Light, heat, or sound energy.
What is refraction?
1. Light energy bouncing back off of something.
2. Light energy bending.
3. Light energy being soaked into something.
4. Light, heat, or sound energy.
What's the science word for materials that let electrical or thermal (heat) energy pass through them easily?
1. metals
2. nonmetals
3. insulators
4. conductors
A pencil in a glass of water looks broken. What makes it look broken?
1. reflection
2. absorption
3. refraction
Which statement its true?
1. Hot air sinks. Cold air rises.
2. Cold air sinks. Hot air stays in one place.
3. Hot air and cold air do not move.
4. Hot air and water rise. Cold air and water sink.
What's the sentence we use to remember the six simple machines?
1. We'll Simply Put In Less Work
2. We'll Simply Have To Put In Less Work
3. We'll Simply Need Less Work
What are the six simple machines?
1. Wheel & Axle, Screw, Nail, Ramp, Wedge, Pulley
2. Wheel & Axle, Screw, Pulley, Inclined Plane, Lever, Wedge
3. Wheel, Axle, Screw, Pulley, Inclined Plane, Lever
If you are rolling a ball down an inclined plane, which is NOT a way you could give the ball more energy?
1. Make the inclined plane longer.
2. Make the inclined plane steeper.
3. Push the ball instead of just releasing it.
4. Release the ball from the bottom of the inclined plane.
What is matter?
1. How much mass is in something.
2. How much volume is in something.
3. How much space something takes up.
4. Anything that takes up space.
What is mass?
1. How much volume is in something.
2. How much space something takes up.
3. How much matter is in something
What is volume?
1. How much space something takes up.
2. How much mass something has.
3. How much matter something has in it.
What are the three states of matter?
1. ice, liquid water, and water vapor
2. Solid, liquid, and gas
3. Solid, liquid, and air.
Which is an example of a solid changing to liquid?
1. Water evaporating
2. Water freezing
3. Clouds forming
4. A crayon melting
Which is an example of a liquid changing into a solid?
1. ice melting
2. clouds forming
3. water evaporating
4. Hot lava cooling into lava rock.
What do you need to add to liquid water to change it into water vapor?
1. gas
2. force
3. heat
What do you have to take away from a liquid to change it into a solid?
1. solid
2. gas
3. heat
Which is an example of a physical change?
1. paper burning
2. breaking a stick in half
3. Mixing Alka Seltzer with water
Which is an example of a chemical change?
1. cutting paper
2. mixing vinegar and baking soda
3. heating up hot chocolate

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