Amazing Attributes

Unit Review Sheet

Facts and Definitions

Lesson 1: Describe It

• To describe means to explain what something or someone looks like, acts like, or does.
• Similar means that two or more things are alike or almost the same.
• An attribute is a quality or feature of an object, like size, color, or shape.

Lesson 2: Animal Attributes

• Some animals walk on two legs, and some walk on four legs.
• Fur, scales, and feathers are all coverings for animals.
• Wings, fins, and legs help animals move.

Lesson 3: Size, Shape, and Color

• Red and yellow make orange.
• Red and blue make purple.
• Blue and yellow make green.
• A circle has no sides.
• A square has four equal sides.
• A rectangle has two pairs of equal sides, one pair longer than the other.
• A triangle has three sides.
• An oval is like a long circle or a circle that looks like it has been a little flattened.
• Size describes how large or small something is.

Lesson 4: How Does It Feel?

• Texture describes the way something feels.
• A noun is a person, place, or thing.
• An adjective describes a noun.

Lesson 5: How Old?

• A person who is older is not always bigger than a younger person.
• A person who is younger is not always smaller than an older person.
• All living things get older.
• Age describes how old something is.

Lesson 6: The Measure of Things

• Weight is the measure of how heavy something is.
• Length is the measure of how long something is.
• Capacity is the measure of the maximum amount something can hold.

Lesson 7: More Attributes

• A Venn diagram uses circles to display ways that things are similar and different.

Lesson 8: Amazing Attributes

• A magnet is an object that attracts iron or steel.
• If an object is magnetic, other steel or iron objects are pulled toward it.
• Sink is the action of an object falling (instead of floating) when it is placed on top of a liquid.
• Float is the action of an object when it sits on the surface of a liquid.
• The density of an object refers to how close or far apart the particles are in a given material. Density determines if an object sinks or floats.

Lesson 9: Solids and Liquids

• Liquids take the shape of the container they occupy.
• Solids retain their shape regardless of the container they occupy.

Lesson 10: Earth Materials: Rocks, Soil, and Water

• The three types of rocks are igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary.
• There are three types of dirt: sand, clay, and silt.
• Loam is a combination of the three types of soil along with organic material. Plants grow best in loam soil.
• Prepositions are words that tell where someone or something is (they include words such as "over" and "under" or "above" and "below").
• Water can exist in solid and liquid form. (It can also exist as a gas, but this will be studied next year.)
• Cohesion explains how water molecules attract and flow together.

Lesson 11: Using Earth Materials

• Plants provide oxygen to support life on Earth.

Final Project: Presenting Attributes

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