(904) Science Proficiency Exam
Which of the following statements about the relationship between the Earth sun and moon is not true
A lunar eclipse is visible from the earth when the moon is in the position shown in the photo
Would like to purchase an object in its path it behaves in a very predictable patterns with a light wave approaches a boundary. It may change direction and speed, or slow down, changing into a way with the large or shorter wavelength, which of the following best illustrates the property of light based in the previous question.
A pencil in a glass of water looks as though it is broken because the light is refracted
A collection of structures, cycles and processes that relate to interact and interact with each other to form a hole or perform a specific function is scientifically, known as
A system
Which of the following correctly describes one of the levels of organization in an organism?
A tissue is a group of similar cells and organisms working together to perform a particular function
The diagram below shows possible food webs of what it what in the pond system Arizona diagrams are drawn from each living thing to do things that eat it. For example, they heard from algae to a small fish indicates that a small fish eat algae, which of the following shows the correct the web for the pond
A, algae to small fish algae to insect insect a small fish, an algae to frog frog
Energy is best defined by the statement below, except by one of them that one statement is the
Ability to continually be created
Energy is best defined by the statements below, except by one of them that one statement is the
Ability to continually be created
The following image shows three different types of asexual reproduction, which statement below best describe how genetic information is passed from parent to offspring in each of the following examples
An asexual reproduction hundred percent of the DNA the offspring receives comes from one parent in the offspring is an exact copy of that parent
Are they working system involving many structure cycle and processes which of the following is not an example of structure within earths system?
Animals
A scientist studied the growth rate of a species of bacteria. The scientist introduced some of the bacteria into a flask of nutrient, rich solution, and monitor the growth of the bacteria population by measuring the number of living cells in the solution to graph below, shows the growth of bacterial pull up population over time in hours for scientist, want wanted to determine the effect of an anabiotic on the growth of the bacteria to a second flask of nutrient rich, Lucian wish the bacterial cells he added the antibiotic and monitor the growth of the bacterial population that the data show that most of the battery in the solution Dad, but some survive. The scientist concluded that some of the bacteria were resistant to the antibiotic why were some of the bacteria resistant to the antibiotic based on the theory of evolution?
Because of genetic mutations that have been passed down from older generations
Six grade students in Miss Cheung's class are working in small groups to replicate erosion of soil by the movement of water. Each group is given a small tray with a hole in the bottom of one in a container of soil, a container of freshwater and a bucket to catch the waterways the students were instructed to place 2 inches of soil in the tray. Then I placed one end of the tray at the bottom of the blocks and poured the water shown in the diagram. Their task was to measure the amount of soil collected at the bottom of each tray. Each group is asked to post results on a class chart. The results of the experiment showed a great amount of variance between groups in the quantity of soda collected at the bottom of the tray, which of the following best explains the differences between the groups in the amount of snow collected at the bottom of the tree in the experiment
Because the directions did not specify the volume of water, or the right in which the students were to pour the water. The vans in the force of water between groups most likely caused the difference in the results.
How do you abiotic and biotic factors represent form and function that come complement each other?
Biotic factors such as organisms use the abiotic factors to survive
I conclude that the shape of the block does affect the distance in Block travels after launched, and that block to travel. The greatest distance win, launched with the spring water based on the supporting evidence gathered in the table also in this experiment, the independent variable is____ and the dependent variable____.
Block shape, and the distance to launch block travels
Garbage is a big problem. Many cities and towns garbage is taken away to landfills which are often called dumps. Sunland fields are very big and may use may cover hundreds of acres but even those little big Landfield are getting full and they have to be closed. Running garbage is a good idea for solving the garbage problem which of the following do you think is a disadvantage of burning garbage
Burn garbage pollutes the air
In what ways does science organize the world?
Buy classifying things in chunking disciplines
The following image shows the molecular organization of a solid liquid and gas. What's the samples above which is the least dense has the fastest motion in the most energy
C because of molecules in a gas, move fast and bounce
Using fossil fuels to create electricity, has been ongoing for many years overtime scientist have come up with more efficient ways to conserve electricity, leading to a list, the crease usage of fossil fuels, which of the following describes how we can conserve conserve electricity in our homes or reduce the use of fossil fuels
Change from incandescent lightbulb to LED lightbulbs
My flashlight is a common household item. We used to help us see in the dark, which sequence of energy transformations does a flashlight go through for flashlight to work
Chemical energy to electrical energy to light energy and thermal energy
Students collect data on newtons second law of motion by pushing carts of different masses in measuring the amount of force necessary to move the cards and the students are using the data to support the claim for loud. What is the teacher coaching them to do?
Communicate and defend results of an investigation
Mr. Kennedy's class room was very warm, so we open the window to let it in a cool breeze as a cool breeze came through the window. It cool down the temperature in the room. An example of cooling that took place is a result of which of the following.
Convection
Hurricanes are built by the transfer of energy by which method is energy, transferred to win in the air and how does the accomplish the building of an extreme weather in that
Convection currents as water is warmed it evaporates in one, then when it cools it condenses and precipitates creating the rain and wind needed to produce a hurricane. The transfer of energy to the air creates win the more the transfer, the higher, the wind speed.
Which of the following human activities have caused an increase in greenhouse gases, which ultimately causes a rise in the earths atmosphere
Deforestation causes a decrease in the absorption of carbon dioxide
About slows down in the water, complete the energy diagrams below by representing source and receiver. Type of interaction change in energy and energy transformation takes place in the event
Drag interaction, boat, mechanical energy, water, decreasing motion, energy increase in motion, energy
In a simplified model of the solar system, the plants revolve around the sun in circular orbit all on the same plane each planet has a different period of revolution also, each planet in a sphere that rotates about an axis through it center, but with a different. Rotation in the smaller the axis of rotation of each planet is perpendicular to the plant of the orbit. What extensions or modifications could be made to the simplified model of the solar system to explain why the northern hemisphere is color in January and July.
Earths axis is tilted away from the sun in January, and toward the sun in July
How can earths changing season also be constancy of the system?
Earths four seasons occur every year, and a repeated pattern
How can El Niño be used to predict short time climate change?
El Nino is a repeated pattern of warm water that has similar results every cycle
Each of the animal animals in the pond need food what are two things that the animals get their food that keep him alive
Energy and nutrients
The science class has been researching about the possibility of embryonic, modification, designer babies, and Clooney students participate in a philosopher, cool chairs activity, and use their articles to have a debate through a Socratic seminar although the topics fortunate genetics, what were the students really learning about in their science classroom
Ethics in science
Students are studying, mixtures, and solutions that will be investigating the following substance found in the chart below based on what you know about mixtures and solutions how many of the following are mixtures
Five
Siri set a six grade science class have just completed the experiment in which they investigate the motion of balls on a flat, an incline ramps next teacher poses the following multiple choice questions on the board posting these type of questions on the board demonstrates, the teacher will most likely knows the importance of
Formative assessment
Students in six grade science class have just completed an experiment with the investigated the motion of falls on a flat an incline Rams next the teacher poses the following multiple choice questions on the board housing this type of question on the board demonstrates that the teacher most likely nosy importance of
Formative assessment
In 2017 hurricane Harvey impacted individuals, home and communities from Corpus Christi to Beaumont. Houston was included as one of the many cities along the devastation. Most hurricanes have had an intense effect of the environment, especially coastal ecosystems, which of the following is not a way that hurricane Harvey affected Houston's ecosystem.
Gale, force winds, picked up, saying, and sediment from the bottom of the ocean, and deposited it on shore
A student is completing sort of the taxonomic classification levels in a switch two of the classifications by mistake, based on the diagram of the inverted pyramid below, which two classification levels are in the wrong place
Genus and species
The science class has been researching, global warming the causes, and how weather is in packed and their research students have learned about the different laws being passed to reduce carbon emissions, and how that impacted the daily life of population, which would be the best text dad for the teacher to take in order to assess his students have analyze the topics
Have a debate using philosophical chairs to discuss the pros and cons of the laws and if global warming is connected to weather
Mr. Man. Is fishing a unit on plants and animals with this dude which of the following should he consider to effectively close the unit?
Have students complete a self reflection in a summative assessment of the unit
Teachers creating an inquiry based lesson plan to access the prior knowledge of her students, which of the following activities would most likely allow students to individually demonstrate their knowledge about an upcoming unit
Have students construct a KWL chart Have students write everything they know about the upcoming unit in their science notebooks Have students construct a concept map of what they know on a blank sheet of paper
Miss Garza teachers third grade and has force with special needs students in our first. Science class she's beginning a unit on the solar system. All the following are teaching strategies that would most likely support the special needs students in her class, except
Having students independently read a chapter on the solar system and complete the chapter quiz
When, referring to the frequency of sound waves, which of the following is associated with high frequency
High pitch
While studying shadow students have a misconception about how shadows change overtime as earth rotates series, think that the sun moves across the sky, creating the shadows as we see the day progresses, which of the following is an appropriate strategy to reteach and correct this misconception
How to do tomorrow, the rotation of earth, by placing objects on their open science notebook and hold the notebook in front of them as a trace, the shadows of the object, my rotating in front of a light source
Which of the following uses the kinetic energy of moving water to generate electricity for human consumption?
Hydroelectric energy
In which layer of earth kind surface water be found in used by humans
Hydrosphere
With regards to its role in student assessment, this checkless provides information that could best be used by the teacher to
Identify scale areas in which students may require additional instruction
All the following are factors that contribute to the increasing rapid population growth, except
Increase in the amount of pollution
Six grade students in Mr. Solis, his class want to determine if mealworms prefer to eat slices of potatoes or slices of apples. The design of this experiment should include all of the following, except.
Introduce another type of insect to see if the feeding patterns are the same
The right side of a magnet is brought very near to the o opposite side of a suspended, magnetic material that is free to move as shown in the picture above which of the following describes the reaction of the suspended magnet material in this interaction
It begins to move toward the magnet
The teachers hotels have a samples of physical and chemical change in the class for students to rotate analyze what station has multiplied like the image Shown below is this physical change or chemical change and why
It is a chemical change because a color change occurred a new product formed, and a smell formed
Which of the following is the best way to organize and analyze data showing relationship between two variables, or to track changes between short and long periods of time
Line graph
Which of the following locations is the proper place to store hydrochloric acid?
Locked in a corrosive storage cabinet in a chemical storage room
Six grade students in Miss Jones class are working on a small group to replicate erosion of soil by the movement of water. Why do you believe miss Chung chose to design a lesson one of the students would conduct an experiment were the results were very greatly between groups.
Miss Chung, what students to notice the variance in results and develop explanations for the variance analyze errors in the experimental design
If a species studies develops in a trait, such as blue eyes and humans, what is the most likely cause of this change
Mutation
Crickets, how haven't always been a little chirping species overtime the males of chart flowers attract more females, and have more offspring, causing the following generations to have ladder choppers than the previous this change the time is an example of
Natural selection
Which of the following process girls is an example of developmentally appropriate task for kindergarten students to be able to do when performing a scientific investigation
Observe support group in order objects by one or two attributes
Fourth grade students are investigating the different properties of soil. They complete an investigation by using hand lenses to look at each type of soil, as well as a smear test where the they took small amounts of each soil type it's made across an index card, which of the two properties of soil are being tested by using these procedures.
Particle size and texture
Diagram of carbon cycle below illustrates the carbon cycle cycle through the biosphere, geosphere hydrosphere and atmosphere carbon is taken away from the atmosphere into it, which of the following choices describes one of the ways carbon is taken from the atmosphere
Plants perform the process of photosynthesis in Chinese carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into covert carbohydrates for a fuel/energy
How does the use of fertilizer demonstrate that system can be described in terms of time, energy, and matter
Plants use fertilizer, which is matter to grow faster if they use the suns energy to grow and take up more space
A six grade teacher wants to teach students about the transfer of energy within a roller coaster, which method would be developmentally appropriate for 11 to 12-olds
Pose a testable question and a half student build foam roller coasters, using Phone piping type in a marble to test the question
What is the following correctly identifies the difference between the offspring a prokaryotic cells versus eukaryotic cells
Prokaryotic cells have genetically identical offspring from the parent
Which of the following instrument measures the amount of liquid precipitation over a certain length of time
Rain gauge
When I approach is an object in its path, it behaves in very predictable patterns on a light wave approaches a boundary. It may change direction and speed up or slow down, changing into a wave with a large or shorter wavelength. The process above describe the property of light called.
Refraction
Hey, six grade science teacher is setting up for an investigation. All of the following are examples of how the teacher should communicate safety concerns for any investigation, except
Review the safety guidelines in relevant safety information only at the beginning of the year
During the environmental unit in science class, the students learn that metal can be recycled, however sorting the metal at the trash dump is a huge task that requires machinery not all metal is magnetic, so how is the metal separated from the regular trash?
Running electricity through metal creates a magnetic field middles like aluminum become magnetic while electricity flows through large magnets, can pick up all metals and separate them from the trash
What role does science play in government policies?
Science researches the cause and mechanisms of how things work and presents the data to policy makers to make an informed decision
Click the evidence in the passage that clearly supports the conclusion that humans influence trigger the change in the populations of peppered moth
Search killed the population sensitive Lyttons expose dark tree
What type of rock is formed when soil subjected to intense pressure
Sedimentary rock
Which of the following to natural processes does not affect the rock cycle
Sedimentation an expansion
Miss Molina's six grade students will be tested inside from the upcoming star test. She fears of the students will be tested over information. She has not had time to teach her busy school year was too much remaining before the star test which of the following is the best approach for use of the remaining time.
Select the objectives from the remaining curriculum that students are struggling with, and teach those and objectives with activities, design to the deep in student understanding
Miss porters lesson is a well-designed inquiry, science lesson in his effectively and teaching students about the concept of density primarily because
She effectively scaffold them from their initial confusing about the discrepant event to testing their own ideas about why I want a sink, and the other floated
A light source shines on a solar cells connected in a closed circuit, containing a buzzer complete the energy diagram below by identifying source and receivers types of interactions in energy transformation takes place in the event
Source equals light source Interaction equals light interaction Energy transferred equals light energy Receiver, equal, solar cell Type of interaction equals electric circuit interaction Energy transformed equals electrical energy Receiver equals buzzer
A scientist studying the different dietary habits of birds table listed below. The favorite died of several types of birds, based on the information in the table, which two birds do not compete for food.
Sparrows and warblers
How does reviewing how to use equipment and make observations help Foster inquiry and support the learning environment in the classroom?
Students are not experts and reviewing the basic skills will reduce the chaos in the room
How has technology and medication change the population growth and how has this impacted the issue society faces today?
Technology medicine have decreased death rates which is cause increase water in fuel usage
Six graders in Miss Miller's science class have been learned Minh about an instrument used to measure acceleration forces, the accelerometer at the end of class when the students have just finished experimenting with the cello Martin meters they built in class teacher asked him as a homework assignment to go to the Internet to learn more and write a short paragraph listing one application of the accelerometer in their daily lives at the start of the next class. The status report back the result of the research, which of the following results represents a correct understanding of the concept taught in class.
The accelerometer can't protect the hard drive in my tablet from damage if I accidentally dropped it while using it The accelerometer can save my mom's life by deploying the airbags if she got into an accident Hey accelerometer, then my dad, smart phone helps him stay tall,aligned,, straight, and flat on the floor The accelerometer in my sisters tablet is what changes the display from portrait to landscape and vice versa The accelerometer in the gadget, my mom wears her wrist. Tell her how long with this as she walked in even how much steps she's taken.
A student completed a drawing that models the movements of Earth moon, and sun system. Use your mouse click on the box that represents the movement that causes day and night on earth.
The air closest to earth shows Earth rotating in spinning
For the eggs thinking lab Miss Porter. Does this activity using these activities and type a question strategies demonstrates that Miss Porter understand that
The curriculum must be adapted to meet the interest needs experiences in abilities of her students
Look at the food web down below what would be the most likely outcome of the snake population triple
The most population decrease, cause an increase competition between snakes hawks in owls
Damage below shows the energy transformations in a food web why are fire organize it on the top tertiary level of an energy pyramid, then on the lower level, such as the producers, or the primary consumer levels
The number of organisms that can be supported on any level is determined by the amount of energy within that level 90% of the energy is lost to the environment and only 10% is transferred to the next level. The top levels have 0.01% of the total original energy that enters the ecosystem of the producers level
Groups of students are given assignment to test this question shown below for a reliability purposes each group was given identical equipment, and connect at three Charles for certain each circuit. Each group of students arrived at the same answer, which of the following is a likely purpose of this type of assignment.
The purpose of this assignment is intended to show that the repeated trials, and Pierre collaboration increase the reliability of an investigation
A student is asked to record the length of the pencil using the most precise measurement. As shown below, the student did not record the correct answer. Which of the following accurately identifies the student's error?
The unit of measure is incorrect. The student should have used centimeters instead of millimiters
Compounds are composed of two or more atoms that are chemically bonded together when atoms are chemically bonded together
The valence electrons in each atom interact
Miss Porter is utilizing a discrepant event with her fourth grade students to introduce the concept of density. She places one raw egg into a jar with plain distilled water and another into a jar with salt water. The egg is in plain water sinks to the bottom of the jar, while the egg and the salt water flips the students work in small groups to formulate questions. They will ask Miss Porter about the egg activity to help them solve the puzzle about eggs. All the students questions must be in the form that they can answer yes or no by the teacher during these questions and answer. Miss Porter stops to discussion frequently and ask the group to discuss what I know at the completion of the questions and answer. Small groups, formulate ideas and are encouraged to test their ideas using selected materials on a supply table. What is the likely outcome of using these types of activities is strategie with students?
These types of activities are likely to encourage students to develop higher order, thinking skills to confront common misconceptions. They have about science concepts in every day life
Alternate to assessment, such an oral presentation laboratory practical exam story written portfolios Compiled work, constructing a concert, my creating drawing for models in developing a porque. Shaun answered questions in a demonstration of concept/strategies can provide a better view. Students performance, science. What are these assessment practices effective?
They are student centered on going and collected as part of daily instruction They were car that students create a response to a question or task They use activities that reveal what students can't do, emphasizing their strengths instead of their weaknesses
Which of the following is a similarity between a hurricane and a tornado
They both have strong winds
A group of cells working together to carry out a particular job is called_____. A group of these working together to carry out a particular job or call____. A group of these working together to do a particular job are called an___. A group of these working together to do a particular job make up an___.
Tissue, organ system organism
What instrument do scientist use to accurately measure the mass of an object?
Triple beam balance
The atmosphere has five layers which layer is the closest to the surface of earth, contains all weather in all living things
Troposphere
This checklist would be most useful for helping the teacher assess an individual students
Understanding and use of the process of inquiry
Which of the following assessment specifically states what students who need to do you know about the performance on an insect lifecycle investigation
Use a rubric that specifically the notes what students are expected to do to learn appropriate credit at each level
What is the best method when measuring the volume of an irregular shaped object?
Use water displacement
Which of the following scenarios explains the proper use of a science tool
Using a spring scale to test the amount of force used to move an object
Consider the relationship of boat, speed, velocity, and acceleration. It's like the statements that correctly describe these contacts
Velocity is the speed of the boat in a given direction The celebration of the boat refers to how it is changing its speed and/or it's direction of motion
Which of the following repeatedly moves water from earths hydrosphere in earths atmosphere and back again
Water cycle
The following image shows the volume in the graduated cylinder rising from 30 to 40 mL. How is this method used to measure the physical property of a rock
Water displacement is used to measure the volume of the rock
A teacher asked this class why water cannot be located on the periodic table of elements. What is the answer that the teachers looking for?
Water is a molecule made of two elements in the periodic table only has individual elements
Teachers tell me a story about how in 1993 freak snow and ice storm coded. The east coast, an ice that shut down economy for three days which of the following atmospheric phenomena is she referring to in her story
Weather because of the storm is not the normal pattern
One early simple model of the atom is very similar to the model of the solar system, described below a planetary model of a system, such as the model of the solar system in the atom discussed here is it appropriate, whenever the components of the system, and the nature of the forces between them have certain properties, which of the following might be some of these properties
What are the components is much more massive than the other and exerts an attractive force on each of the following components
Six grade students are working in groups to deep in their understanding about the motion of objects using examples from every day situations and previous lessons. I've studied the concept of force displacement and work. What should students already understand about the concept of work?
Work is done if a force acts on an object in causes displacement of the object
The diagram below shows to incline planes, X and Y,, which statement correctly describes a force needed to push the same load up each of the incline planes
X will require less force over a longer distance
A teacher has students working in groups to analyze scenarios. What's scenario ask the students should do when they are about to leave the house in the temperature drops in the wind begins to blow the teachers looking for the students to say that the possibility of rain is increased as low pressure system arrived, and they should grab an umbrella on their way out of the door. What is the teacher attempting to do in the scenario?
Yeah science to make informed decisions
Sarah looked at some pond water with a microscope. She used the low-power objective lens to look at some green algae. The picture below shows what Sarah saw through the microscope. If Sarah switched the lens from low power to high power, what would she see in the field of view?
fewer cells than with the low-power view, but in greater detail
Prior to every laboratory investigation the teacher should review the ________ for the activity or experiment.
safety precautions
