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STAAR Review

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 31mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Which of the following will most likely cause a puddle of water to evaporate?
a)
Warm sun
b)
Rain shower
c)
Cold weather
d)
Small rocks
2.
Adding heat to a substance can cause it to change from a -
a)
gas to liquid
b)
gas to solid
c)
liquid to gas
d)
liquid to solid
3.
Students placed a black block and a white block on each side of a balance.
Based on the results, what can the students say about the two blocks?
a)
The white block is wider and taller than the black block.
b)
The white block has more mass than the black block.
c)
The black block has a lower temperature than the white block.
d)
The black block has more mass than the white block.
4.
What is happening at the boiling point?
a)
liquid to gas
b)
gas to liquid
c)
solid to liquid
d)
liquid to solid
5.
What is happening at freezing point?
a)
gas to liquid
b)
solid to liquid
c)
liquid to solid
d)
liquid to gas
6.
Ice melts to form liquid water at this temperature.
a)
0 °C
b)
32 °C
c)
100 °F
d)
212 °F
7.
Which property is least likely to be used to separate this mixture of rocks?
a)
Magnetic
b)
Shape
c)
Size
d)
Color
8.
You walk into class and there is a cup of clear solution on your desk.  Your task is to figure out WHAT the solution is made of. What do you do?
a)
Smell it, taste it, evaporate it
b)
Evaporate the water and examine the properties of the crystals
c)
Smell it, evaporate it, taste the crystals
d)
Hope someone else will do something about it
9.
A fan blowing out air is an example of what type of energy?
a)
sound
b)
thermal
c)
mechanical
d)
light
10.
Would would best complete this circuit?
a)
A wire
b)
A switch
c)
A battery
d)
A light bulb
11.
Work involves all of these except 
a)
force
b)
movement
c)
distance
d)
time
12.
What three things are needed to form fossil fuels?
a)
heat, time, pressure
b)
heat, sun, ice
c)
time, sun, ice
d)
heat, sun, water
13.
This picture shows a 
a)
landform made by depositon
b)
landform made by glacier
c)
landform made by wind
d)
landform made by weathering
14.
Wind energy is caused by the uneven ___ of the atmosphere by the sun.
a)
Heating
b)
Cooling
c)
Distribution
d)
Gravity
15.
4. Which of the following is one of the disadvantages of geothermal energy?
a)
Geothermal energy only works on windy days.
b)
Geothermal energy doesn't work everywhere since you need a volcano nearby.
c)
Geothermal does not work if there are no rivers or moving water nearby.
16.
What are fossils? 
a)
Plants and animals living today
b)
Remains of plants and animals that lived long ago 
17.
How are weather an climate different?
a)
They both describe averages but climate is over years.
b)
Climate describes daily conditions and weather describes averages.
c)
Weather describes daily conditions and climate describes averages over 30 years or more.
18.
Rotation of the earth is what causes
a)
The seasons
b)
Day and night
c)
The tides
d)
A full moon
19.
A system made up of organisms interacting with one another
a)
biology
b)
abiotic
c)
biotic
d)
ecosystem