4th Grade TCAP Practice Science Test

A student sets up the cardboard tube shown. The student holds the tube at an angle. The student drops a ball into each hole, then measures how fast the ball travels when it comes out of the tube.

Dropping the ball into which hole will cause the ball to travel the fastest?

• Hole 1, because the ball will have the most potential energy

• Hole 2, because the ball will have the kinetic energy

• Hole 3, because the ball will have the least potential energy

• Hole 4, because the ball will have the least kinetic energy

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NGSS.MS-PS3-1

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

A student struck the bars shown on this xylophone. The student used the same amount of force to strike each bar. Each note that the student played had the same volume.

Each time the student struck the xylophone, a machine recorded the wave as an image. Which picture shows the most likely wave image recorded when the student struck bar 2 on the xylophone?

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

The graph shows population growth and water usage for the world.

Which statement is correct based on the data shown?

• The amount of water used is not related to the human population.

• The amount of water used is higher when the human population is lower.

• The amount of water is lowest when the human population is highest.

• The amount of water used is higher when the human population is higher.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Which three statements correctly describe materials plants need?

• Plants need sunlight to grow.

• Plants need water to grow.

• Plants need soil to photosynthesize.

• Plants need carbon dioxide to photosynthesize.

• Plants need oxygen to photosynthesize.

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

The table shows typical temperatures in a gray wolf habitat.

Which of these best describes a way that gray wolves adapt to survive the changing temperatures?

• Wolves develop a heavy coat in the fall and shed it in the spring.

• Each wolf's howl sounds different from the others.

• A wolf pack works together to find food in the fall.

• Wolves are most active at sunrise and sunset.

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Students took turns rolling a ball across a classroom floor. A sensor measured the speed of the ball at the one-meter mark. The students recorded the speed in the data table.

Which conclusion is supported by the data?

• The ball had the most energy on roll 1.

• The ball had the least energy on roll 4.

• The ball had less energy on roll 1 than on roll 2.

• The ball had more energy on roll 2 than roll 3.

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NGSS.MS-PS3-1

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

A science quote from an article about land use is shown.

"Science studies show that when people build more roads, parking lots, sidewalks, and rooftops, there is more storm water runoff. This can cause more flooding and erosion."

Which human activity is the author talking about in the quote?

• harvesting crops

• mining minerals

• trading goods

• building cities

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

The diagram shown is a model of the different layers inside Earth.

Which two statements best compare the crust to the rest of the layers?

• The crust surrounds all the other layers and is solid.

• The crust is the innermost layer and is liquid.

• The crust is the thinnest layer and is solid.

• The crust is the outermost layer and is liquid.

• The crust is the thickest layer and is solid.

A simplified food web of a marsh ecosystem is shown.

Which organisms get energy from crickets?

• cattails and grasshoppers

• cattails and frogs

• shrews and frogs

• grasshoppers and shrews

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The diagram shows a V-shaped valley. The valley did not exist thousands of years ago.

This valley is most likely the result of

• sediment being deposited by slow-moving water.

• riverbanks being eroded by fast-moving water.

• earthquakes causing the ground to split open.

• glaciers moving sediment to a new location.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2