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Grade 5 · Building confidence · 10 questions · Version PG-IZ3PZ0-1K6R

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1.What is the difference between weather and climate?
2.What evidence shows a chemical reaction occurred?
3.Why do seasons occur?
4.How do greenhouse gases warm Earth?
5.What is the role of chlorophyll?
6.Why does salt lower water's freezing point?
7.What transfers traits from parents to offspring?
8.What is the pH of a neutral solution?
9.State Newton's third-law force pair when swimming.
10.What is density?

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  1. What is the difference between weather and climate?Weather is short-term; climate is long-term patterns
  2. What evidence shows a chemical reaction occurred?New substances form
  3. Why do seasons occur?Earth's tilt as it orbits the Sun
  4. How do greenhouse gases warm Earth?They absorb and re-emit infrared energy
  5. What is the role of chlorophyll?Absorb light for photosynthesis
  6. Why does salt lower water's freezing point?It disrupts ice crystal formation
  7. What transfers traits from parents to offspring?Genes
  8. What is the pH of a neutral solution?7
  9. State Newton's third-law force pair when swimming.Push water back; water pushes swimmer forward
  10. What is density?Mass per unit volume

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