Review these concepts with your family this week:

By Friday, Feb 13, students need to master the following:

1. When to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in word problems (keywords are not
acceptable). www.IXL.com grade 5, P.4 is great practice
2. What are biomes?
http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/science/ecosystems/biomes.htm

3. What is the difference between taiga, tundra, deciduous forest, tropical rainforest,
desert, and grassland?
4. The cardiovascular system sends blood to your muscles and includes your heart.
It is very similar to the circulatory system.
5. The difference between biotic and abiotic
6. What is $16.038 as money ($16.04, not $16.38)

Questions to Ask Kids in Random Order (with answers in parentheses):

1. What is a biome? (A large area of land with its own climate, and it has its own plant and
animal life)
2. What is the main difference between biomes? (its climate)
3. What is climate? (weather in a large area)
4. Which biome has four seasons? (deciduous forest)
5. Which biome has a warm and humid climate all year round? (tropical rainforest)
6. Which biome only has cold winters and warm summers? (taiga)
7. Which biome is so far north and cold that no trees can grow there? (tundra)
8. Which biome has polar bears and reindeer? (tundra)
9. Which biome has a hot and dry climate? (desert)
10. Which biome has cactus producers? (desert)
11. Which biome has a lot of land that is good for growing grains and is found in the US, Asia,
Africa, and South America? (grassland)
12. What biome has hyenas, lions, and tigers? (grassland)
13. When do we add in word problems? (when we are gaining something once)
14. When do we subtract in word problems? (when we losing something once, comparing two
numbers, or figuring out whats left)
15. When do we multiply in word problems? (when we are gaining something over and over
again)
16. When do we divide in word problems? (when we losing something over and over, when we
are sharing/splitting equally, or when we have the total and need to know the value of each
individual one)
17. What is a hunter [an animal that hunts other animals] called? (a predator)
18. What is an animal that gets hunted called? (prey)
19. Which system is almost the same thing as the circulatory system? (cardiovascular)
20. What is an ecosystem? (a community of interacting biotic and abiotic organisms)
21. What is the difference between a biome and an ecosystem? (a biome is a large area with its
own weather and many similar ecosystems. Biomes are larger than ecoystems)
22. What is the difference between biotic and abiotic? (biotic is alive and abiotic is nonliving)