2024 STAAR Questions

Match the following

• Nonmetal

• Metal

• Metal

• Metal

• Metalloid

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• Bamboo

• English Elm

• Plum

• Box

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• Object 1, because it travels the greatest distance per unit of time

• Object 1, because it travels the longer amount of time

• Object 2, because it travels the shorter amount of time

• Object 2, because it travels the shorter distance per unit of time

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Which action represents a conversion of chemical energy into mechanical energy?

• Pancakes reheated in a microwave oven

• Soup beginning to boil on a stove

• A grasshopper jumping from predator

• Sunlight melting an icicle

Part A:

Students make plans to construct an ecosystem in a large aquarium. Four ecosystem plans are listed. All plans include soil and water. Which ecosystem is MOST LIKELY to be sustainable?

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Part B:

Based on the answer to the last question, which statement supports the answer to Part A?

• Plants provide ecosystems with energy

• Fish maintain water quality in ecosystems

• Ecosystems with more species are more sustainable

• Ecosystems with fewer species are better able to survive

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Which question is most relevant to an ecosystem beginning primary succession?

• Why is there no soil, grass, or shrubs present in the ecosystem?

• Why are there so many kinds of animals living in the ecosystem?

• What types of hardwood trees are growing in the ecosystem?

• What caused the forest fire that destroyed the previous ecosystem?

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• excrete hormones throughout the body

• defend against infections entering the body

• send signlas back and forth from the brain to the body

• circulate blood, nutrients, and gases throughout the body

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• Animal Cell
• Provides energy for cell functions
• Storage and transport of molecules
• Plant Cell
• Captures energy from sunlight
• Controls cell activities

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