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5th Grade, STAAR.
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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) The wind speed increased drastically since 7:00 AM
d) Ruidoso, NM averages more than 20 inches of rain per year.
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) Weather
b) Climate
c) Neither weather nor climate
d) Bother weather and climate
If a layer of soil contains many shells and fish fossils, what type of environment did the layer most likely form?
a) Tundra
b) Ocean
c) Forest
d) Desert
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) Ocean
c) Forest
d) Desert
What causes condensation?
a) Water vapor is heated up by the sun.
b) When droplets in the air begin to get to heavy and fall to the ground.
c) When water vapor begins to cool and form clouds.
d) When precipitation flows to the lowest places and is collected.
What change in physical state will occur during evaporation?
a) liquid to gas
b) gas to solid
c) solid to liquid
d) liquid to solid
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) 1 Boil the mixture to evaporate the water
b) 2 Pass a magnet over the mixture
c) 3 Pour the mixture through a paper filter
d) 4 Use Tweezers
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 force affects the mass of two objects
c) How the force used to pull a dictionary affects the mass of a box of marbles
d) How the mass of a box of marbles affects the mass of a dictionary
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
Which of the following does NOT describes the importance of photosynthesis?
a) Plants provide oxygen for organisms
b) Plants provide carbon dioxide for organisms
c) Plants use the carbon dioxide to produce sugar for themselves.
d) None of the above
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) The land will experience less hours of daylight
c) The land will experience decrease in precipitation
d) There will be a decrease in runoff
What must occur before precipitation but after evaporation?
a) Accumulation
b) Evaporation
c) Condensation
d) Runoff
What is the sun and oceans role in the water cycle?
a) The sun causes the water to condensate and the ocean supplies the majority of precipitation
b) The sun causes the water to evaporate and the ocean supplies the majority of the water.
c) The sun causes the water to freeze and the ocean supplies the majority of the water.
d) The sun causes the water to condensate and the ocean supplies the majority of the water.
What is the difference between mixtures and solutions?
a) Mixtures maintain their physical properties and so do solutions.
b) Solutions have something that dissolves and so do mixtures.
c) Mixture maintain their physical properties and solutions don't have any.
d) Mixtures maintain their physical properties while some properties in solutions may change.
If a producer was removed from its ecosystem due to a disease, what would most likely happen to that ecosystem?
a) All consumers would grow rapidly
b) All consumers would die or have to move locations
c) Herbivores would become producers
d) Some consumers would die, others would be fine.
Why are producers so important to any ecosystem?
a) Producers produce their own food and provide the oxygen we need to survive.
b) Producers are the end of the food web and provide little energy to the ecosystem.
c) Producers keep the ecosystem level by consuming carnivores.
d) Producers produce their own carbon dioxide which we can not use.
If the sun is in the West, late in the afternoon, what kind of shadow would you see?
a) A short shadow leaning West
b) A long shadow leaning East
c) A short shadow leaning East
d) A long shadow leaning West
If a student is conducting an experiment using a spring scale, weights, and different surfaces, what could he be testing?
a) The mass of the different surfaces.
b) The distance the spring scale will roll across the different surfaces
c) The amount of force need to move the weights across the different surfaces.
d) The amount of space the weights and different surfaces take up.
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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