Physical Science

by Heidi Gillis

Genre Comprehension Skill Text Features Science Content

Nonfiction Cause and Effect • Captions Forces and

• Glossary Sound

Scott Foresman Science 1.9

ISBN 0-328-13757-X

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Vocabulary What did you learn?
Movement and Sound
attract 1. What kind of force makes things fall to the
ground?
force by Heidi Gillis
2. How can you make a toy car go fast?
gravity
3. Magnets have poles.
magnet
Write to explain how the poles of magnets
pole work. Use words from the book as
you write.
repel
4. Cause and Effect You have two
speed
toys. One is a metal car and one is a
vibrate rubber duck. A magnet attracts the car but
not the duck. Why?

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What makes things move? Gravity is a force.
Gravity pulls things down.
Force is a push or pull.
The sled goes down the hill.
Force may make something move.
Push the sled up a hill.
The girl uses
force to move
the snow.

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What is speed? Push the car again.
Use less force.
Push the car.
Now the speed of the car is slow.
Push it with a lot of force.
Force changes how things move.
It goes fast.
Speed is how fast or slow
things move.

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How do things move? Different Places

Look at the blocks.

Things can move up and down.
Which one is on top?
Things can move left and right.
Which one is on the bottom?
They can go straight or curve.
Which one is next to the tower?
How else can things move?

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What do magnets do? A pole is the end of some magnets.
Magnets have a north pole.
Look at the cars.
Magnets have a south pole.
The ends of the cars are magnets.
North attracts south.
A magnet attracts some metals.
North repels north.
Attract means to pull toward.
Repel means to push away.

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Pulling Metal The magnet pulls more when it is
Iron is a kind of metal. close to something.
Magnets attract things It pulls less when it is far away.
made of iron.

What will a magnet

attract in this bin?

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How are sounds made? Tap the drum.
It makes a soft sound.
When a sound is made something
Hit the drum hard.
vibrates.
It makes a loud sound.
Vibrate means to move back
and forth very fast.

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What sounds are Sounds of Nature

around us? Sounds are all around.

Many things make sounds. Nature has sounds too.
Sounds can be loud or soft. What are ocean sounds?
You can hear sounds on the street.

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Glossary
Vocabulary What did you learn?
attract 1. What kind of force makes things fall to the
attract to pull toward
ground?
force
force a push or a pull that may make 2. How can you make a toy car go fast?
gravity something move
3. Magnets have poles.
magnet
gravity a force that pulls things toward the Write to explain how the poles of magnets
pole ground work. Use words from the book as
you write.
repel
magnet an object that attracts some metal
4. Cause and Effect You have two
speed things
toys. One is a metal car and one is a
vibrate
pole at the end of some magnets rubber duck. A magnet attracts the car but
not the duck. Why?
repel to push away
Photographs: Every effort has been made to secure permission and provide appropriate credit
speed how quickly or slowly something
for photographic material. The publisher deeply regrets any omission and pledges to correct errors
called to its attention in subsequent editions. Unless otherwise acknowledged, all photographs are the

moves
property of Scott Foresman, a division of Pearson Education. Photo locators denoted as follows:
Top (T), Center (C), Bottom (B), Left (L), Right (R) Background (Bkgd)
Opener: ©Photographer’s Choice/Getty Images; 2 ©Photodisc Green/Getty Images; 3 ©Frank
Siteman/PhotoEdit; 4 Getty Images; 8 ©DK Images; 9 ©DK Images; 12 ©DK Images; 13 (TL) Getty
Images, (BL) ©DK Images; 14 ©Alan Schein Photography/Corbis; 15 ©George F. Mobley/NGS
Image Collection
vibrate to move back and forth very fast
ISBN: 0-328-13757-X

Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc.

All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America. This publication is
protected by Copyright and permission should be obtained from the publisher
prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission
in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or
likewise. For information regarding permissions, write to: Permissions Department,
Scott Foresman, 1900 East Lake Avenue, Glenview, Illinois 60025.

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