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Test Description: 5th Grade, STAAR
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Which of the following statements is NOT about weather?
A
Annual high temperatures in March have increased over many years.
B
Groom, TX received less rain this year than two years ago.
C
Ruidoso, NM averages more than 20 inches of rain per year.
D
The wind speed increased drastically since 7:00 AM
2) The city pond levels are lower than they ever have been in decades. According to rain gauges in town, the city hasn't received more than 10 inches. We are in hopes of seeing precipitation midweek, but also a lot of wind! What is being described?
A
Neither weather nor climate
B
Climate
C
Bother weather and climate
D
Weather
3) If a layer of soil contains many shells and fish fossils, what type of environment did the layer most likely form?
A
Desert
B
Forest
C
Ocean
D
Tundra
4) If a layer of sedimentary rock contains many fossils of ferns, twigs, and fossilized wood, what type of environment was this layer most likely formed in?
A
Tundra
B
Desert
C
Forest
D
Ocean
5) What causes condensation?
A
When water vapor begins to cool and form clouds.
B
Water vapor is heated up by the sun.
C
When precipitation flows to the lowest places and is collected.
D
When droplets in the air begin to get to heavy and fall to the ground.
6) What change in physical state will occur during evaporation?
A
liquid to gas
B
liquid to solid
C
gas to solid
D
solid to liquid
7) A student is given a beaker containing gravel and water. Which of these ways could NOT be used to separate the gravel from the water?
A
4 Use Tweezers
B
2 Pass a magnet over the mixture
C
1 Boil the mixture to evaporate the water
D
3 Pour the mixture through a paper filter
8) A student used a spring scale to move a book across her desk. She then added a box of marbles to the top of the book and realized she had to apply more force. What can this experiment be used to determine?
A
How mass affects the force needed to move objects
B
How the mass of a box of marbles affects the mass of a dictionary
C
How the force used to pull a dictionary affects the mass of a box of marbles
D
How force affects the mass of two objects
9) Which of the following correctly lists the planets in relation to the sun
A
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Mars, Earth, Mercury, Venus
B
Mercury, Earth, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
C
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
D
Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Mars, Earth, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter
10) Which of the following does NOT describes the importance of photosynthesis?
A
Plants provide oxygen for organisms
B
Plants use the carbon dioxide to produce sugar for themselves.
C
None of the above
D
Plants provide carbon dioxide for organisms
11) If the wind is blowing heavily from the ocean toward land, how might the land be affected?
A
The land will experience an decrease in drought conditions.
B
There will be a decrease in runoff
C
The land will experience decrease in precipitation
D
The land will experience less hours of daylight
12) What must occur before precipitation but after evaporation?
A
Evaporation
B
Runoff
C
Accumulation
D
Condensation
13) What is the sun and oceans role in the water cycle?
A
The sun causes the water to evaporate and the ocean supplies the majority of the water.
B
The sun causes the water to condensate and the ocean supplies the majority of precipitation
C
The sun causes the water to condensate and the ocean supplies the majority of the water.
D
The sun causes the water to freeze and the ocean supplies the majority of the water.
14) What is the difference between mixtures and solutions?
A
Solutions have something that dissolves and so do mixtures.
B
Mixture maintain their physical properties and solutions don't have any.
C
Mixtures maintain their physical properties while some properties in solutions may change.
D
Mixtures maintain their physical properties and so do solutions.
15) If a producer was removed from its ecosystem due to a disease, what would most likely happen to that ecosystem?
A
Herbivores would become producers
B
All consumers would grow rapidly
C
All consumers would die or have to move locations
D
Some consumers would die, others would be fine.
16) Why are producers so important to any ecosystem?
A
Producers produce their own carbon dioxide which we can not use.
B
Producers keep the ecosystem level by consuming carnivores.
C
Producers are the end of the food web and provide little energy to the ecosystem.
D
Producers produce their own food and provide the oxygen we need to survive.
17) If the sun is in the West, late in the afternoon, what kind of shadow would you see?
A
A short shadow leaning East
B
A long shadow leaning East
C
A long shadow leaning West
D
A short shadow leaning West
18) If a student is conducting an experiment using a spring scale, weights, and different surfaces, what could he be testing?
A
The distance the spring scale will roll across the different surfaces
B
The amount of space the weights and different surfaces take up.
C
The mass of the different surfaces.
D
The amount of force need to move the weights across the different surfaces.
19) Which correctly describes the affect the moon has on the following cycles?
A
Tides are caused by the moon's gravitational pull every 24 hours.
B
Phases of the moon occur every month or 29 days as it revolves around the Earth
C
Day and night is caused by the rotation of Earth, which occurs every 24 hours
D
The order of the planets is affected by the moon's gravitational pull
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