Workbook 5 Answer Key

Unit 1 Lesson 2

1 2 turtle 3 prickly pear cactus 4 goose 1 Students’ own answers

5 porcupine
2 1 hedgehog 2 porcupine 3 porcupine
2 living organisms
3 2 stimulus 3 behavior 4 hibernate
3 b 3 c 1 d 5 e 2 5 protection 6 migrate

4 1 c 4 2 reacts 3 behavior 4 hibernation

2 Suggested answer: He keeps a diary to remember 5 protect 6 survive
events.
5 2 reacts – reactions 3 behave – behavior
5 1 F 2 F 3 T 4 hibernate – hibernation 5 protect – protection
6 survive – survival
6 Students’ own answers
6 Students’ own answers
Lesson 1
7 Students’ own answers. The journey is made by a
1 a chameleon bird, the Arctic tern.

2 2 f 3 d 4 g 5 b 6 a 7 e 8 1 b 2 c 3 a

3 2 ran, showed 9 Students’ own answers

3 went, didn’t see
4 Did (you) inherit Unit 2
5 did (the chameleon) change
1 2 e 3 d 4 a 5 c
6 flew, didn’t get
7 were, didn’t touch 2 1 environment 2 food web 3 food chain
8 did (this coconut) get, traveled 4 interact 5 ecosystem

4 2 Did (your teacher) like 3 did (she) say 4 told 3/4 1 They have black stripes on a white coat.
5 worked 6 found 7 wanted 8 asked 9 gave 2 Zebras have stripes to protect them from predators
10 did (they) ask 11 asked 12 explained and from the sun.
13 enjoyed
3 They look like horses and donkeys.
5 Parts of Animals and Plants: eyes, flowers, hair,
5 Students’ own answers.
leaves, mane, neck, pods, spine, stem
Adjectives to Describe Physical Appearance: attractive Lesson 1
(example), big, dark, dry, light, long, prickly, sharp,
short, smooth, tall, wrinkled 1 2 desert 3 grassland 4 tundra 5 rain forest

6 flowers, flowers, smooth, stem, prickly 2 b 1 c 3 d 2 e 5

7 Students’ own answers 3 Students’ own answers

4 Students’ own answers (for example: coat, hat,

gloves, boots)

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5 1 Sally is visiting the tundra. Unit 3

2 The ground was frozen.
1 2 rice 3 spinach 4 fish 5 beans
3 The caribous were eating grass and mushrooms.
6 milk 7 meat 8 orange
4 They dig through the snow to find food.
2 Answers and suggested answers:
6 Students’ own answers
Dairy Protein Grains Fruits Vegetables
Lesson 2
butter fish rice orange spinach
1 2 energy pyramid 3 resources 4 energy milk meat beans melon cabbage
5 food web 6 food chain cheese eggs lentils pineapple lettuce
yogurt nuts corn
2 Decomposers: bacteria, fungi, slug
Carnivores: alligator (example), lion, mountain lion,
owl 3 1 c 2 c 3 a 4 b 5 a 6 b 7 c
Herbivores: deer, grasshopper, rabbit
4 1 nutrients 2 nutrition 3 diet
Arrows from Herbivores to Carnivores to
Decomposers
Lesson 1
3 2 raccoon 3 deer 4 owl
1 1 c 2 a 3 d 4 b
5 squirrel 6 mountain lion
2 2 proteins 3 carbohydrates 4 starch
4 a 5 b 6 c 3
5 Calories 6 fats 7 glucose 8 cholesterol
5 2 There are more trees in the rain forest than in
3 1 Fats and Sweets 2 Milk and Meat
the desert.
3 Fruits and Vegetables 4 Bread and Rice
3 In a food pyramid, less energy flows to consumers
Fats and Candy is the smallest.
than producers have.
Bread and Rice is the largest.
4 There’s less energy in the higher levels of an
energy pyramid.
4 Students’ own answers
5 The mountain lion eats more than one type of prey.
6 When a population grows, more resources are 5 c
needed.
6 Students’ own answers
Lesson 3
Lesson 2
1 1 d 2 a 3 e 4 c 5 b
1 2 adjective 3 adjective 4 adjective
2 1 change 2 environment 3 positive 4 negative 5 noun 6 noun 7 adjective
5 competition
2 1 overnourished (example), dairy
3 Suggested answers: 2 malnutrition, deficient
2 Some changes help living, and others harm them. 3 undernourished, grains
3 Some soils are sandy, and other soils are fertile. 4 obesity
4 Some animals survive better than others.
5 Some people harm the environment, and others 3 1 C 2 B 3 A
protect it.
4 1 undernourished 2 normal 3 overnourished
4 Students’ own answers

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5 Mr. Bridge is quite healthy. Lesson 2

6 1 should 2 should 3 shouldn’t 4 shouldn’t 1 Fresh Water: glaciers, groundwater, ice caps, lakes,
ponds, rivers, snow
7 Students’ own answers Drinking Water: groundwater, lakes (example), rivers
Salt Water: oceans, lakes
Review 1–3
2 2 freshwater lake 3 salt water 4 ocean
1 1 b 2 c 3 b 4 c 5 a 6 c 7 a 8 c 5 ice caps 6 glaciers 7 groundwater
8 drinking water
2 Across: 2 goose 3 tundra 6 protein 7 starch
8 desert 9 fiber 3 3%
Down: 1 glucose 2 grains 4 moth 5 turtle 4 1 in the oceans 2 in glaciers and ice caps 3 31%
3 1 F 2 F 3 T 4 T 5 T 6 F 5 Students’ own answers

Unit 4 Lesson 3

1 2 c – flood 3 b – ash 4 f – landslide 5 d – lava 1 2 precipitation 3 evaporation

6 a – river 4 recycled 5 water cycle 6 water vapor
7 storage
2 2 V 3 F 4 V 5 L 6 F
2 1 b 2 a 3 c 4 b
3 A 2 B 1
3/4 both
4 1 B 2 B 3 A
5 1 when the water started to boil / reached 100°C
5 Students’ own answers 2 the evaporation
3 liquid
Lesson 1 4 the vapor
1 2 earthquake 3 epicenter 4 fault 5 focus 5 b
6 volcano 7 drought

2 2 F 3 F 4 T 5 F 6 T
Unit 5
1 1 d 2 c 3 e 4 a 5 b
3 geysers (and volcanoes)
2 2 solar system 3 space 4 star patterns
4 2 DS 3 F 4 F
5 phases of the moon
5 Students’ own answers
3 Suggested answer: space, the life of an astronaut,
star patterns, the moon

4 2 F 3 T 4 F 5 T

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Lesson 1 Lesson 3
1 a telescope 1 1 second 2 fourth 3 first 4 third

2 1 Galileo’s telescope made objects eight times bigger 2 2 solar 3 outer 4 inner 5 asteroids 6 comets
in size. 7 gravity 8 ellipse
2 People didn’t like Copernicus’s theory because they
believed that Earth was the center of the universe. 3 Students’ own answers
3 Galileo wrote about space until the last day of his
4 Which planet would you like to visit, and why?
life.
5 1 Neptune 2 Neptune’s moons
3 1 star 2 cause 3 astronomer 4 effect
3 the Martian/alien 4 Earth
5 constellation
6 Students’ own answers
4 farmers and sailors

5 1 the ancient Greeks Unit 6

2 When they could see all of the constellation
of Orion 1 1 measure 2 states 3 separate 4 matter
3 Because it is right above the North Pole
2 1 e 2 c 3 a 4 b 5 d
6 1 to move 2 can’t
3 Students’ own answers
7 Students’ own answers
4 1 Water 2 Ice Cream 3 Popcorn 4 Wood
Lesson 2
5 Suggested answers:
1 1 solar eclipse 2 lunar eclipse 3 orbit 1 Both wood and popcorn change state when
heated, but can’t change back.
2 False sentence: When the sun passes between the 2 Both water and ice cream can turn from a solid into
moon and Earth, there’s a solar eclipse. a liquid and back into a solid again.

3 b 6 Students’ own answers

4 b 3 c 5 d 2 e 4 F 6 Lesson 1
5 1 The moon shines because it reflects sunlight. 1 2 T 3 F 4 T 5 T 6 F
2 During a total solar eclipse, it becomes dark
because the moon casts a shadow on Earth. 2 Students’ own answers
3 There’s a full moon tonight because the moon’s
bright side directly faces Earth. 3 1 compare 2 liquid 3 volume
4 Don’t worry if you miss a lunar eclipse because 4 Students’ own answers
there are several (lunar eclipses) in a year.
5 1 d 2 a 3 c 4 b

6 1 What do you do to the butter? You melt it.

2 How is the cocoa measured? It’s measured in
teaspoons.

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Lesson 2 Review 4–6

1 2 solution 3 solubility 4 filtration 5 solute 1 1 a 2 c 3 b 4 c 5 b 6 a 7 a 8 b
6 condensation 7 evaporation 8 solvent
2 1 eclipse 2 land 3 cycle 4 water 5 system
2 2 solute 3 mixture 4 solubility 5 solvent 6 ice
6 condensation 7 solution 8 evaporation
3 1 flood 2 astronomer 3 comet 4 asteroid
3 Students’ own answers 5 gravity

4/5 oil ✗ salt ✓ sand ✗ sugar ✓ 4 N A J T V K T S X D

6 2 A magnet can separate iron from sand. E G S Y A N T G D R
3 How can you measure the volume of a liquid?
4 You can turn water back into ice, but you can’t L Z T H C H J B E J
unpop popcorn.
I N N C G D J Z C L
5 You can compare the mass of two objects with a
pan balance. Q U N U A L R E L A
Lesson 3 U P O N D K R M I V

1 1 substances 2 physical change 3 particles I R Z Q A E U A P A

4 matter 5 chemical change
D Y L R V X F H S N
2 2 crushing 3 folding 4 burning 5 melting
S M M I X T U R E H
6 decaying
Z E R Z M O C I S H
3 2 physical 3 physical 4 chemical 5 physical
6 chemical 1 lava 2 ash 3 river 4 pond 5 drought
6 eclipse 7 liquid 8 mixture
4 Suggested answers:
1 broken pencil 2 crumpled newspaper
3 origami / folded paper 4 burning wood Unit 7
5 ice melting 6 brown banana
1 a 3 b 1 c 2
5 1 Physical 2 Chemical
2 1 thermal energy 2 sound energy 3 light energy
6 If the temperature is below zero, these puddles
freeze. 3 1 sound 2 thermal 3 light
If it isn’t wet, it doesn’t stick, and it falls apart.
4 Students’ own answers
If you leave a banana on a plate for a few days, it
starts to turn brown. 5 Students’ own answers
If it’s out in the open and rain falls on it, the metal
parts turn brown and orange.

7 Students’ own answers

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Lesson 1 Unit 8
1 2 d 3 h 4 b 5 c 6 f 7 a 8 g 1 2 b 3 f 4 g 5 a 6 e 7 d

2 2 frequency 3 amplitude 4 volume 5 vibrations 2 Students’ own answers

6 sound waves 7 pitch 8 wavelength
3 From left to right: 3, 1, 4, 2
3 2 echo 3 echolocation 4 frequency 5 distances
6 temperature 7 greater 8 vibrations Lesson 1
4 2 outward 3 through 4 toward 5 between 1 1 electric force 2 static electricity 3 atoms
6 during 4 lightning 5 electric charge

Lesson 2 2 Included in the text: where and when he was born,

his inventions, his family, who he worked for
1 1 prism 2 rainbow 3 reflection 4 absorption
5 refraction 3 1 Serbia
2 a year
2 1 b 2 e 3 a 4 c 5 d
3 remote control / the first electric motor / radio
3 a 4 it can travel a long way and it’s safer
5 He didn’t believe that atoms are made of smaller
4 1 F 2 F 3 F particles.

5 1 couldn’t 2 could 3 couldn’t 4 could 4 1 move toward 2 sticks, picks up 3 builds up

4 reach for
Lesson 3
Lesson 2
1 1 friction 2 radiation 3 conduction
4 convection 1 2 conductor 3 battery 4 electric current
5 series circuit 6 parallel circuit
2 2 warm 3 touch 4 gases/liquids
5 liquids/gases 6 waves 7 surfaces 8 absorb 2 4 doesn’t move – moves
5 flows – doesn’t flow
3 Students’ own answers
6 there’s one path – there are two or more paths
4 Suggested answers:
3 Batteries—Don’t forget to recycle them!
1 Yes, I have. Heat was transferred from the blanket
to my body by conduction.
4 1 shouldn’t 2 can 3 half 4 15% 5 quarter
2 Yes, I have. Heat was transferred from the sun to
my body by radiation.
3 Yes, I have. The water got warm because heat was
transferred from the hot water to the cold water by
convection. The hot water got cooler and the cold
water got warmer.
4 Yes, I have. The wheels slipped because there
wasn't much friction between the wheels and
the grass.

5 Students’ own questions and answers

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Lesson 3 Lesson 2
1 1 b 2 c 3 e 4 a 5 d 1 1 average speed 2 speed 3 acceleration
4 direction 5 velocity
2 1 phantom energy 2 power source 3 resistor
4 filament 5 device 2 a 4 b 2 c 1 d 5 e 3

3 c 3 Students’ own answers

4 1 e 2 c 3 b 4 a 5 d 4 The Formula 1 car is the fastest.

5
Unit 9 Formula 1 car

Cheetah
1 2 e 3 d 4 f 5 c 6 a
Usain Bolt
2 a 2 b 1 c 3
Sailfish

3 1 DS 2 F 3 T 4 F 5 T
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 km/hr

Lesson 1 Top Speed

6 Students’ own answers

1 2 reference point 3 balanced forces
4 relative motion 5 mass 6 motion 7 force 7 Students’ own answers
8 weight
8 1 64 2 16
2 1 b 2 a 3 b 4 c 5 a
9 Students’ own answers
3 1 Prediction 2 Preparing for the Experiment
3 Doing the Experiment 4 Conclusions
Review 7–9
4 1 The student thought that heavier objects would fall
faster. 1 1 b 2 c 3 c 4 a 5 b 6 b 7 a
2 They dropped the balls from the window.
2 1 socket 2 lightning 3 balanced forces
3 No, it wasn’t. (Galileo’s theory is right.)
4 filament 5 battery 6 sound waves
5 1 c 2 a
3 1 direction 2 vibrations 3 absorption
4 reflection 5 resistor 6 insulator
6 Students’ own answers
7 acceleration 8 conduction

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Reading Skills Writing Skills

Unit 1 Unit 1
b 1 worked 2 noticed 3 were 4 looked 5 had
6 differed 7 didn’t know 8 became
Unit 2
a Unit 2
Students’ own answers
Unit 3
b Unit 3
Students’ own answers
Unit 4
a volcanic eruption Unit 4
Students’ own answers
Unit 5
c Unit 5
1 Each time the moon completes a turn on its axis, it also
Unit 6 travels once around Earth.
b 2 The sun’s gravity pulls planets toward it.

Unit 7 Unit 6
pleased, interested, well Students’ own answers
b
Unit 7
Unit 8 Students’ own answers
Students’ own answers
Unit 8
Unit 9 1 pick up 2 build up
You use the relative motion of the objects to decide what is
moving and what is not moving. Unit 9
Students’ own answers

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