Study Island Copyright 2014 Edmentum - All rights reserved. Generation Date: 04/01/2014 Generated By: Cheryl Shelton Title: grade 3 Physical Science 1. The picture below shows someone using a stove to cook food. A stove heats food by adding to the food. salt energy light D. water 2. Matter is anything with a mass less than a gram. only the liquids that are found in an environment. any solid that takes up space and has no mass. D. anything that takes up space and has mass. 3. Water vapor is water in its gas state. When liquid water boils, it changes into water vapor. The steam from a boiling tea kettle contains water vapor.
What happens to how much space the water fills when it changes into water vapor? the water vapor does not fill any space the water vapor fills less space the water vapor fills the same space D. the water vapor fills more space 4. The radio is playing music. Pat touches the speaker of the radio and feels the speaker vibrate. What makes the speaker vibrate? light heat cold D. sound
5. Astronauts use rockets to escape Earth's gravity and reach outer space. What do the rockets use to lift off of the ground and take astronauts to outer space? water anti-gravity energy D. weight 6. Air, water, popcorn, and snow are all examples of matter. Which of the following is true for all kinds of matter? A very small amount of matter does not take up any space. A greater amount of matter always takes up a greater amount of space. The same amount of matter always takes up the same amount of space. D. Any amount of matter must take up at least some space. 7. A slingshot is made out of a y-shaped object and a rubber band.
Ben places a rock in the middle of the rubber band. Then he pulls on the rock to stretch the rubber band. What will happen when Ben releases the rock? Energy from the stretched rubber band will cause the rock to shoot out. The rubber band and the rock will stay in the stretched position. Heat from the stretched rubber band will burn Ben's hand. D. The rubber band will break and the rock will fall onto the ground. 8. Tamika noticed water droplets on the outside of a glass of very cold water. Which of the following is the best explanation for what caused the droplets? Water leaked through the glass Water vapor in the air turned to solid on the outside of the glass. Water vapor from the air turned to liquid on the outside of the glass. Liquid water from the air turned to water vapor on the outside of the glass. D. 9. Kit wants to see what happens to chocolate chips if they are placed in a bowl and heated in the microwave. Which is likely the most accurate prediction Kit can make about what will happen to the chips? Heat will have no effect on the chips. When melted, the chocolate will take the shape of the bowl. When melted, the chocolate will weigh more.
D. When melted, the chocolate will weigh less. 10. Bradley hit a baseball with a bat. The baseball then hit a window and caused the window to break. Where did the energy that broke the window come from? The energy came from the moving bat and ball. The energy came from electricity in the glass. The energy came from waves in the air. D. The energy came from gravity. 11. Jacob sees a soccer ball sitting on the playground. He kicks the ball to make it move. What does the ball need to have so it can move? smooth surface energy round shape D. a motor 12. Bottle 1 and bottle 2 both have water in them. You can tell that the water in bottle 1 is in the solid form because it expands to fill the whole container. is warmer than 32 C has shapes of its own that can be measured. D. takes on the shape of the container.
13. George finds the following measuring tool in his school's science lab: What can he measure using this tool? area mass volume D. length 14. Which of the following is matter? soda a brick carbon dioxide gas D. all of these 15. Wes melted some cheese over some tortilla chips to make nachos. How is the the melted liquid cheese different from the solid cheese? It has a different shape. It has a different color. It has a different flavor. D. It has a different mass. 16. Technology Enhanced Questions are not available in Word format. 17. What is the difference between the stick of butter and the melted butter below?
One can be eaten and the other cannot. One is real butter and the other is not. One is a gas and the other is mostly solid. D. One is a solid and the other is mostly liquid. 18. If a solid stick of butter is placed outside in sunlight for an hour, the butter will melt. What melts the butter? blowing wind from the Moon pressure from the air germs in the butter D. energy from the Sun 19. Which type of energy is the result when a drum is hit with a drumstick? light energy electrical energy sound energy D. all of these 20. What is used to move a roller coaster car on the roller coaster track? energy sun wind D. water