Night School Pretest 2025

What is the chemical symbol of the element, Mercury?

Which of the following is a correctly worded hypothesis?

• If a plant is exposed to sunlight, then it will go through photosynthesis, because sunlight is all a plant needs.
• If a plant has no access to carbon dioxide, then it will not go through photosynthesis.
• All plants require carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight to go through photosynthesis.
• My lab results indicate that the plants exposed to the most direct sunlight grew the most in height.

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Which of these steps should be completed before conducting an experiment?

• Form a hypothesis
• Write out initial procedures.
• Design your experiment and write out all variables.
• Do some background research.
• Analyze the data

Which variable is the one that is tested or manipulated during an experiment?

• Independent Variable
• Dependent Variable
• Control
• Constant

Which variable is the one that is measured and may change during an experiment?

• Independent Variable
• Dependent Variable
• Control
• Constant

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

Which variable is used as a standard of comparison? It does not receive the experimental factor.

• Independent Variable
• Dependent Variable
• Control
• Constant

Which variable is held the same for all experimental groups?

• Independent Variable
• Dependent Variable
• Control
• Constant

What is this tool called?

• Beaker
• Graduated Cylinder
• Erlenmeyer Flask
• Test Tube

What is this tool called?

• Graph
• Chart

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NGSS.MS-PS3-1

What is the smallest unit of matter?

• A cell
• A molecule
• An atom
• All of the above

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NGSS.MS-PS1-1

NGSS.MS-PS1-5