Praxis 5025 Random Practice

The holophrastic stage refers to the time when

Babies can use a few words and understand many more.

Which statement correctly compares the function of Broca's area and Wernicke's area?

Broca's area is involved with production and Wernicke's area with understanding.

How do you define a cube?

By the lengths of one of its sides A cube is a rectangular prism where all the sides are the same size. A cube is defined by one of its sides and how long it is.

Which of the following is a best practice for selecting an appropriate data visualization technique?

Collect, organize, analyze The correct choice is to collect, organize, and analyze your data points. After the analysis of your data points, you can select the best data visualization technique.

In Macbeth, Lady Macbeth demonstrates that...

Crime never pays

Which of the following is the first step in data collection?

Developing guiding questions that describe what will be learned from the data Guiding questions help teachers know what type of data to collect.

All magnets are:

Dipoles Magnets always have a north pole and a south pole. Magnets are called dipoles, which literally means 'two poles.'

Which of the prefixes listed means opposite?

Dis The prefix 'dis' means 'opposite'. For example, disapprove is the opposite of approve.

In art, students learn about the primary colors. Then, they are asked to paint a picture of a flower using a new color they create on their own from the primary colors. Which of the following would this be an example of?

Discovery learning Students will learn how different colors are created when different colors are mixed together. Instead of being told what colors mix together, students get to discover how different colors are created through experimentation. This type of learning is discovery learning.

Vincent is reading over the paper that he has written. He realizes that he went off on a bit of a tangent, and one of his main points does not line up with his thesis statement. This was discovered while Vincent was _____.

Editing for content Vincent was editing for content which involves making sure your writing is answering the original question asked of you and making sure your main points are in line with your thesis statement.

Mateo is consistently using capital letters while writing, though some are incorrectly formed, and occasionally using the correct letter that corresponds with the initial phoneme of the word he is writing. When I ask him what his paper says, he will "read" the writing back to me.

Emergent Mateo demonstrates many signs of being in the emergent stage. He is using only capital letters, he shows an understanding that words relate to speech, and his letter-phoneme correspondence is minimal.

On a plot timeline, which is the correct order:

Exposition Rising action Climax Falling action Resolution Go in-depth with the plot by creating a timeline charting the exposition (beginning), rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution (end).

In a typical ecosystem, what percentage of the energy produced by the autotrophs then consumed by the primary consumers will be passed along to the secondary consumers?

1%

You have to find the area of a shower floor for new tile. The floor is shaped like two rectangles: the area of the first rectangle is 159 cm2 and the area of the second rectangle is 126 cm2. What is the total area of this irregular polygon?

285 cm squared Using the products for each rectangle, all you have to do is add them: 159 cm squared + 126 cm squared = 285 squared. You also must remember to square the final answer.

A two month old baby repeatedly babbles 'oooohhs' and 'aahhs. This is an example of

A baby's first speech-like sounds

Which of the following is not an abiotic factor?

Amount of tree cover Abiotic factors are nonliving environmental factors like elevation, soil types, sources of water, and climate. The amount of tree cover is NOT an abiotic factor as it is a living environmental factor.

What is a habitat?

An area that is suitable for a particular organism to live in

Which baby displays an active or feisty temperament?

An infant is fussy and they resist a regular schedule An Active or Feisty temperament reveals itself through an infant who is unpredictable, less flexible and often fussy.

A _____ uses a shape divided into equal sections to represent a fraction. In this representation, the denominator is the total number of sections and the numerator is the number of sections that are shaded.

Area model An area model uses a shape divided into sections of equal area to represent a fraction.

Which of the following areas would be most prone to wind erosion?

Areas that lack vegetation Wind erosion is the loss of topsoil due to wind. It is more likely to occur in areas without a lot of vegetation, since it's the vegetation that tends to lock the soil in place.

Meeting with students one-on-one, a teacher asks specific questions that students must provide specific answers for. The teacher makes notes showing whether students fully understand that which is being asked of them. The teacher then coaches students on areas where they lacked understanding of what is being asked of them. Which of the following is the focus of this exercise?

Helping students develop receptive language skills When students develop receptive language, they can understand what is being said to them and asked of them. The teacher is working one-on-one with students to help them hone their receptive language skills by asking specific questions and coaching them if they seem to misinterpret such questions.

John is a second-year freshman. He is having some difficulties in understanding his professor because he did not have enough sleep. Why is this an example of noise?

His fatigue is preventing him from decoding the message Noise is simply anything that can disrupt the decoding of a message. Noise can be physical, semantic or physiological.

An organism's habitat is also called its

Home or environment Habitats are one of the five basic needs of living organisms. A habitat is an organism's home or environment that provides it with shelter and safety.

What is the first step in drawing inferences from an informational text?

Identify the type of text you're reading The first step in drawing inferences is identifying the type of text you're reading. Authors write different kinds of texts for different reasons, so you must try to determine what that reason is before you look for inferences you can draw from it.

What is true about the concept of 'context' in the 'A.C.E.' acronym?

It refers to your context in relation to the primary audience, as well as the context of your topic.

Over the course of several days, an artist carves a sculpture of a horse out of basswood. Basswood was chosen because of its hardness, uniform grain, and color. The finished piece is life-sized, left unpainted, and placed on a pedestal for display. Which of the following elements of art were NOT used in this sculpture? Choose all that apply.

Line Color The artist left the sculpture unpainted, despite mentioning color in the description. There is no mention of linework.

Rendering foreign words by their primary definitions in another language is known as _____.

Literal translation Literal translation, or rendering foreign words by their primary definitions in another language, works as long as we're dealing with straightforward word correlations, such as the Latin corpus to the English body.

Which of the following areas is the last step when using references as part of your writing process?

Make it your own We can't produce a piece of writing made completely of citations from other people. We have to add something unique and new, building upon the information we learned in our research, in order to make it our own.

A historian seeking to explain the movement of a phenomenon over geography would most likely use which of the following?

Map Maps are most useful in explaining events over a geographic area.

How an idea is communicated, such as film, video, poster, or paper, refers to which of the following terms?

Medium A medium refers to the tools and forms used to communicate something. A poster, statue, and pamphlet are all examples of mediums that ideas can be conveyed through. Next Question

What kinds of conditions are typical of areas with temperate deciduous forests?

Mid-latitudes, warm and wet summers, cold winters Temperate deciduous forests are forests in temperate climates that are characterized by broad-leaved deciduous trees. These forests are found at mid-latitudes in areas that get significant rainfall in the warm summer months, and are cold in the winter months.

Students from economically disadvantaged homes:

Might need extra support from the school Though there is no correlation between coming from economic disadvantage and having cognitive or learning troubles, it is the case that students from homes with fewer material resources need teachers to make sure they have their material needs met and have exposure to language and literacy in the school setting.

In the example of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, what would a filmed version add to the nonprint text in comparison to the print text?

Montage A filmed version allows artists to integrate music and play with the structure of the narrative, for example by changing a monologue into a voiceover and compressing events in time through the use of montage sequences.

Cultural norms keep society

Moving in a similar direction Cultural norms keep members of society moving in a similar direction, and they prevent chaos.

13 Carlos' family goes to the Catholic church to worship every Sunday; this is part of their _____ culture.

Nonmaterial Social roles, rules, ethics, and beliefs are examples of nonmaterial culture; therefore, religion, which is a belief system, would be considered a part of nonmaterial culture.

Similarity is

Our ability or desire to exaggerate the similarities between us pr our group and exaggerate the differences between us and other groups

Vowels and consonants are examples of

Phonemes

What do students first need to understand to success with the alphabetic principle?

Phonemes Successful learners have a solid understanding of phonemes, the sounds in spoken words. When they are able to hear individual sounds, students can then identify letters that represent them.

The ability to recognize that words are made up of a variety of sound units is called _____ awareness.

Phonological Phonological awareness is the ability to recognize that words are made up of a variety of sound units. For example, a student who is practicing breaking a word into parts is practicing phonological awareness.

Which of the following is the most appropriate unit for expressing the volume of an average glass of milk?

Pint

Asexual reproduction

Produces offspring that are identical to the parent Asexual reproduction is when organisms produce offspring without gametes. Unlike sexual reproduction where offspring have a different genetic makeup than either parent, asexually-produced offspring are genetically identical to the parent.

Being the building blocks for friendships, ________ give children the chance to ____ from their peers and learn how to be ____with those they meet in the future.

Social skills Learn Considerate Being the building blocks for friendships, social skills give children the chance to learn from their peers and learn how to be considerate with those they meet in the future.

One of Earth's materials, _____, is a mixture of decomposed organic matter and two other types of Earth's materials, _____.

Soil Broken down rocks and minerals

A child can recite numbers in order, but cannot count objects when placed in front of him. Which stage of counting is this child in?

Stable order

Given the example of the WWII propaganda poster, Rosie the Riveter, which of the following would be considered an explicit meaning?

Strong woman On the surface, it's clear to see that Rosie the Riveter (a U.S. World War II propaganda poster) is a strong working woman, based on her posture, muscles, and outfit.

Mrs. Jones very much believes in having arts classes in elementary school. However, her local school district is considering removing these programs in order to include more STEM education. Mrs. Jones feels that arts and STEM can complement each other. What reasons can Mrs. Jones give the school board to encourage them to reconsider this course of action?

Students learn hand-eye coordination, critical thinking and problem-solving, and how to work together as a team While we could argue that all of the above are true, hand-eye coordination, critical thinking and problem solving, and learning to work as a team are all skills that are valuable in STEM education and work.

In third grade, students have been introduced to the concepts of health and wellness. To differentiate between the interpersonal and intellectual dimensions of wellness, what should students recognize?

Students should recognize that the intellectual dimension of wellness is associated with internal growth, and interpersonal wellness is associated with external growth considering relationships. Intellectual wellness is about personal internal growth. Interpersonal wellness is about growth concerning our relationships with others.

In gym class, students are required to stretch before any physical activity. They have just been introduced to ballistic stretching. The students try this out. What will they be doing?

Students will jump up and down and then touch their toes as quickly as they can 10 times in a row With ballistic stretches, people use momentum to move their muscles beyond their natural stretching points. These types of stretches often involve quick, repetitive actions.

Which of the following graphic displays does NOT show relationships between two sets of data?

Tables Tables display exact data rather than proportional data.

Which of the following is NOT an example of a counterculture?

The Peace Corps Counterculture is a type of subculture that strongly opposes one or more elements of the dominant culture. The Peace Corps is NOT an example of counterculture.

Which of the following is an argument against Noam Chomsky's theory of universal language?

The Pirahã people speak a language that doesn't follow usual language rules.

Which of the following would be considered an example of language according to the principle of combinability?

The content of a text message

Which of the following factors support the nativist theory of language development?

The idea of universal grammar The nativist theory is supported by the idea of universal grammar. Universal grammar means that all languages have the same basic structures and are only transformed into different languages by specific rules.

Ocean water is a good example of a mixture because _____

The mixture of water and salt can be physically separated A mixture is material made up of two or more substances that are physically mixed but not chemically combined. Take ocean water as an example. The major components of ocean water are water and salt. They can be separated by allowing the water to evaporate.

A person is holding two bar magnets. The first bar magnet has a red color on one end and blue color on the opposite end. The second bar magnet has a yellow color on one end and a green color on the opposite end. When the red pole of the first magnet is placed near the green pole of the second magnet, they repel each other. What can be said about the two magnets?

The yellow pole and blue poles are like poles If two poles repel each other, that means these two have the same poles. It was not mentioned what the signs of the poles are, but if the red pole and the green pole repel each other, it follows that the blue pole and yellow pole will repel each other as well. Therefore, the yellow pole and the blue pole are like poles.

Thea has a disorder of the lymphatic system that is controlled by medication. When she does not take her medication, which of the following symptoms may be present?

Thea gets sick often and the sickness lasts long The lymphatic system, also called the immune system, is responsible for warding off infections as well as getting rid of dead cells. If Thea has a disorder of this system, she would get sick more often and have a harder time fighting off the illness.

Which of the following is false of systems? 1. They are a collection of parts. 2. The parts are interchangeable. 3. The parts work together. 4. The parts influence each other.

They are interchangeable Each part in a system has its own custom role.

Which of the following BEST explains why the alarm calls made by vervet monkeys should not be considered language?

They can't be combined to produce additional meanings

What place value falls three units to the right of the decimal point in a number?

Thousandths The place value three units to the right of the decimal point in a number is the thousandths place.

Why should you preview an informational text before reading?

To review the main goals and ideas of the writing

Overextending language is when a baby

Uses a single word to mean many different things.

What language might you use to introduce young children to the concept of an average?

What is true about most people in this data set? You can get young children started talking about averages by helping them think of what is usual, typical, or true of most people in a data set.

Kinematics can answer all of the following questions EXCEPT

Why does a baseball drop to the ground down after being thrown? Remember that there is one major limitation to kinematics. This term only applies to the motion of the object. Kinematics doesn't deal with why that object is moving the way it does, such as why a baseball drops to the ground after being thrown.

Why should you NOT rely too much on your sources?

You should always be the voice of your own paper.

A student is currently in the transitional stage of writing development. Which activity would be most appropriate for this student?

Generating lists of family members and favorite places Students in the transitional stage benefit from practice with capital and lower-case letters. This activity requires students to properly capitalize the names of family members and places.

How could you BEST describe the role that grammar plays in language?

Grammar enables complexity of meaning in language

Aspects of a text that can only be measured by a reader (e.g. meaning, purpose, structure, and knowledge demands) are what type of complexity measure?

Qualitative

At which point in the writing process would a student's writing most benefit from peer input?

Revision This is because the student is able to receive corrective feedback and advice from their peers.