NSCAS - Parts I - VII Science Review

A science student was analyzing the properties of a unknown type of matter. The matter was a solid, it is shiny, it is a good conductor of heat and electricity, and it is malleable. What type of matter is this?

• a non-metal

• a metal

• water

• a gas

In the element sodium chloride, sodium donates an electron to chlorine. Which type of bond is this?

• an ionic bond

• a covalent bond

• a metallic bond

• a hydrogen bond

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NGSS.MS-PS1-5

In glucose, the carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen share electrons. What kind of bond is this?

• an ionic bond

• a covalent bond

• a metallic bond

• a hydrogen bond

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NGSS.MS-PS1-1

Structures that are no longer necessary but may have been important at one point in time and provide evidence for evolution - like a pelvis in a snake - are known as ______.

• analogous structures

• homologous structures

• vestigial structures

• none of the options listed

Mass and weight are the same things.

• True

• False

Which states of matter is described here - they have a high amount of kinetic energy, they have an indefinite shape and volume, and they will fill the volume of the container in which they are kept?

• solid

• liquid

• gas

• plasma

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Which state of matter is described here - this state of matter has a definite shape, a definite volume, and the least amount of kinetic energy?

• solid

• liquid

• gas

• plasma

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Which state of matter is described here - it has an indefinite shape, will take the shape of its container, but it has a definite volume.

• solid

• liquid

• gas

• plasma

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Which state of matter has the greatest amount of kinetic energy - so much in fact that electrons are not attached to the nucleus?

• solid

• liquid

• gas

• plasma

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NGSS.MS-PS3-1

Earth rotates on its _________.

• equator

• prime meridian

• axis

• all of the options listed