SCIENCE EXPLORER Grade 6 - Pearson Education

1 780130587060900001 ISBN 0-13-058706-0 PRENTICE HALLSCIENCEEXPLORERPRENTICE HALLSCIENCEEXPLORERG rade 6 Grade 6 Grade 6 Guided Reading and Study WorkbookGuided Reading and Study Workbook Promotes active reading and enhances students study skills using innovative questioning strategies and exercises linked to the student text Builds a record of students work to use as a studyaid for quizzes and tests Provides a wide range of question formats for every section of the text to reach a wide variety of learners Gives parents a handy resource to help studentsstudy and learn Promotes active reading and enhances students study skills using innovative questioning strategies and exercises linked to the student text Builds a record of students work to use as a studyaid for quizzes and tests Provides a wide range of question formats for every section of the text to reach a wide variety of learners Gives parents a handy resource to help studentsstudy and learnGUIDEDREADING ANDSTUDYWORKBOOKG rade 6 Prentice HallSCIENCEEXPLORERGUIDEDREADING ANDSTUDYWORKBOOKG rade 6 See us on the HALLG rade 6 Guided ReadingandStudy WorkbookTeacher s EditionNeedham, MassachusettsUpper Saddle River, New JerseyGlenview, IllinoisGrade 6 GSW-6_FM-TE/FNL 5/2/01 12:42 PM Page iCopyright 2002 by Prentice-Hall, Inc.

2 , Upper Saddle River, New Jersey rights in the United States of America. This publication is protected by copyright, and permissionshould be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrievalsystem, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording,or likewise. For information regarding permissions(s), write to: Rights and Permissions 0-13-058709-52 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 05 04 03 02 GSW-6_FM-TE/FNL 5/23/02 3:17 PM Page iiScience EXPLORER Grade 6 Guided Reading and Study Workbookiii Prentice-Hall, Is SCIENCE ? ..1 Chapter 1 matter and Energy ..51-1 Describing matter and Energy.

3 51-2 Measuring matter ..91-3 Particles of matter ..111-4 Elements From Earth ..13 Chapter 2 Solids, Liquids, and Gases ..172-1 States of matter ..172-2 Gas Behavior ..192-3 Graphing Gas Behavior ..212-4 Changes in State ..24 Chapter 3 Relating Force and Motion ..293-1 Describing, Measuring, and Graphing Motion ..293-2 Force and Acceleration ..313-3 Water in Motion ..36 Chapter 4 Cells: The Building Blocks of Life ..414-1 What is Life? ..414-2 Discovering Cells ..444-3 Looking Inside Cells ..464-4 Introduction to Genetics ..49 Chapter 5 Cell Processes and Energy ..535-1 The Cell in Its Environment ..535-2 The Cell and Energy ..555-3 Cell Division.

4 59 Chapter 6 From Bacteria to Plants ..636-1 Classifying Living Things ..636-2 Bacteria ..656-3 Protists and Fungi ..706-4 The Plant Kingdom ..73 Chapter 7 Animals ..777-1 What Is an Animal? ..777-2 Symmetry ..797-3 Sponges, Cnidarians, Worms,and Mollusks ..807-4 Arthropods and Echinoderms ..837-5 Fishes, Amphibians, and Reptiles ..857-6 Birds and Mammals ..88 Chapter 8 Ecosystems ..938-1 Components of an Ecosystem ..938-2 Studying Populations ..968-3 Energy in an Ecosystem ..98 Chapter 9 Energy Resources ..1019-1 Energy and Fossil Fuels ..1019-2 Renewable Sources of Energy ..1049-3 Nuclear Energy ..1089-4 Energy Conservation ..110 Chapter 10 Solid Earth.

5 11310-1 Inside Earth ..11310-2 Minerals ..11410-3 Rocks and the Rock Cycle ..117 Chapter 11 Earthquakes and Volcanoes ..12111-1 Plate Tectonics ..12111-2 Earth s Crust in Motion ..12311-3 Measuring Earthquakes ..12611-4 Volcanic Activity ..12811-5 Volcanic Landforms ..132 Chapter 12 Fresh Water ..13512-1 The Water Cycle ..13512-2 Surface Water ..14012-3 Groundwater ..14312-4 Wetland Systems ..14512-5 Water Resources ..148 Table of ContentsGSW-6_FM-TE/FNL 5/2/01 12:42 PM Page iii Prentice-Hall, OF CONTENTS(continued)ivGuided Reading and Study WorkbookScience EXPLORER Grade 6 Prentice-Hall, 13 Earth s Atmosphere ..15113-1 The Air Around You.

6 15113-2 Air Quality ..15313-3 Air Pressure ..15613-4 Layers of the Atmosphere ..159 Chapter 14 Weather Factors ..16314-1 Energy in the Atmosphere ..16314-2 Integrating Physics: Heat Transfer ..16514-3 Winds ..16814-4 Water in the Atmosphere ..17114-5 Precipitation ..174 Chapter 15 Weather Patterns ..17715-1 Air Masses and Fronts ..17715-2 Storms ..17915-3 Floods ..18215-4 Predicting Weather Change ..183 Chapter 16 Components of the Solar System ..18716-1 Describing the Solar System ..18716-2 Characteristics of the Sun ..19016-3 Characteristics of the Inner Planets ..19116-4 Characteristics of the Outer Planets.

7 19516-5 Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors ..19816-6 Traveling in Space ..200 GSW-6_FM-TE/FNL 5/2/01 12:42 PM Page ivScience EXPLORER Grade 6 Guided Reading and Study Workbook1 Prentice-Hall, _____Date _____Class _____WHATISSCIENCE?(pages 10-19)This section describes how scientists explore problems and seek answers to questionsabout the natural world. The section also describes the branches of (page 10) is SCIENCE ? SCIENCE is a way of learning about the natural world and the knowledge gained through that many ways in which scientists explore the problems and seekanswers to questions about the natural world is referred to as .Thinking Like a Scientist (pages 11 15) skills do scientists use?

8 Posing questions, making observations and inferences, developing hypotheses, designing experiments, collecting data and making measurements, interpreting data, and drawing the term with its r possible explanation for observations that relate to a scientific question is called a(n) .hypothesisscientific interpretation based on gatheredinformation and prior sight, hearing, smell, andsometimes taste to gather informationGSW-6_00/FNL 5/2/01 12:26 PM Page 12 Guided Reading and Study WorkbookScience EXPLORER Grade 6 Prentice-Hall, _____Date _____Class hypothesis can be tested by observation or . the compare/contrast Is SCIENCE ?(continued)VariablesType of VariableDefinitionManipulated variableVariable that the scientist changesResponding variableVariable that changes as a the following sentence true or false?

9 In a controlled experiment,scientists keep all the variables the following sentence true or false? Scientists who study processesthat take millions of years cannot conduct facts, figures, and other evidence collected in an experiment are called . the letter of the units of measurement that are used by model that imitates something in the real world is called a(n) .Scientific Laws and Theories (page 16) statement that describes what scientists expect to happen every time under a particular set of conditions is a(n) . well-tested scientific concept that explains a wide range ofobservations is a(n) .scientific theoryscientific lawsimulationdatafalsefalseGSW-6_00/FNL 5/2/01 12:26 PM Page 2 SCIENCE EXPLORER Grade 6 Guided Reading and Study Workbook3 Prentice-Hall, _____Date _____Class the following sentence true or false?

10 If tests fail to support a theory,scientists do more tests until the theory is Safety (page 16) is it important to follow safe laboratory practices?They protecteveryone from injury and make investigations go more of SCIENCE (page 18) are the four main branches of SCIENCE ?Physical SCIENCE , Earth SCIENCE , life SCIENCE , and environmental about Earth and its place in the universe is referred to as . the letter of each kind of work scientists water safer rain who study the universe are called . the letter of each sentence that is true about study the effects of using Earth s determine the effects of human activities on the try to solve problems such as focus on the solar the following sentence true or false?