FSSA Practice V

Hannah’s mother wants to plant a garden in the spring and needs to know how deep to plant the pea seeds. To help her mother, Hannah designed an experiment. She layered small stones and soil in an aquarium. Then she planted four pea seeds at four different depths. She placed the seeds at 1cm, 2cm, 4cm and 6 cm below the surface of the soil. She watered the seeds and placed the aquarium in a sunny location. What should Hannah do next to have useful information for her mother?

• Record when the seeds sprout and begin to grow.

• Make sure the seeds have enough sunlight.

• Predict which seed will sprout.

• Plant more seeds.

1. Daren is trying to draw a conclusion based on the information provided in the investigation picture. Which conclusion is based on the information in the picture?

• Candles cause fire

• Corks put out fire

• Fire warms glass

• Fire needs air

A star named Sirius appears as the brightest star in the nighttime sky, even though a star named Pollux actually gives off more light. Which of the following best explains why Sirius appears brighter than Pollux in our nighttime sky?

• Sirius has a different color than Pollux.

• Sirius has different gases than Pollux.

• Sirius is closer to Earth than Pollux.

• Sirius is larger than Pollux.

Which is an example of the use of a renewable resource?

• Coal furnace heating a home

• Windmill pumping water on a farm

• Oil lamp lighting a room

• Diesel truck traveling along a road

Which of the following supplies the energy that drives the water cycle?

• The ocean

• The Sun

• The planets

• The moon

It is a hot sunny morning and Sandra noticed that there were puddles on the playground pavement as she walked to school left from the rain that fell overnight. When she walked home for lunch, the puddles were gone. What is the most likely reason the puddles were gone?

• The water evaporated

• The water condensed

• The water precipitaed

• The water moved to another location through runoff

The organ that controls sugar levels in your blood and releases chemicals that break down food in your small intestine is the

• liver

• pancreas

• stomach

• large intestine

George wants to teach his friends what he learned in school about different groups of animals. He tells them about an animal that has scales and must live in water. This animal also breathes through gills. What group does this animal belong to?

• Amphibian

• Bird

• Fish

• Reptile

Nicole’s teacher asked her to make a diagram of a food chain. Nicole made the diagram shown below. What do the arrows in the diagram represent?

• How energy flows between organisms

• How energy increases along a food chain

• How energy transfers from consumer to producer

• How energy remains constant along a food chain

The brown fur of the arctic hare turns white in winter. How does this color change most likely help the arctic hare?

• It helps the animal save water.

• It helps the animal hide from predators.

• It helps keep the animal cool.

• It helps protect the animal from disease.