Worksheets5th Science STAAR Review
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 35mins
The picture below shows a pulley system that can be used to lift a box.
Which of these should a person do to lift the box?
Tie the end of the rope to the box
Tie the end of the rope to the ceiling hook
Pull the end of the rope downward
Allow the end of the rope to move upward
Four students volunteered to help a teacher move boxes of science materials to another room. The table shows what each student did. Based on this information, which student helper did not do any work on a box?
Helper W
Helper X
Helper Y
Helper Z
Four students stand facing a box. The diagram below shows an overhead view of the box. The numbered circles represent the positions of the students. What do the students need to do to slide the box to the northeast?
Students 1 and 2 push, and Students 3 and 4 pull.
Students 1 and 4 push, and Students 2 and 3 pull.
Students 2 and 3 push, and Students 1 and 4 pull.
Students 3 and 4 push, and Students 1 and 2 pull.
Two students are playing on a swing set. Student 1 is leaning back and extending her legs as she moves upward. Student 2 is sitting on the swing with his feet on the ground. Which statement describes how position and work are related in this picture?
Both students are doing work even if only one student is changing
position.
Student 1 is changing position because work is being done on the
swing.
Work done by Earth’s gravity prevents Student 2 from changing
position.
Work is being done on both students by the swings because one swing is changing position.
The diagram below shows a view of a ball from above a table. The ball is rolling across the table. A student lightly taps the rolling ball in the direction shown below. In which direction does the ball most likely move after the student taps the ball?
A rubber ball was dropped from the same height onto five different surfaces. The height of the first bounce was measured and recorded. The graph shows the data. Based on the data, which of the following is the best conclusion?
Rubber balls bounce higher on harder surfaces.
All balls bounce higher indoors than they do outdoors.
Tennis balls bounce higher than basketballs on all surfaces.
Large balls do not bounce as high as small balls.
A student designed an experiment to test how the slope of a ramp affects the distance a toy vehicle rolls after being released. The student set up the experiment as shown below. What should the student do to improve this experiment?
Use the same ramp in both trials
Use the same vehicle in both trials
Use more than two kinds of vehicles
Use ramps with different surfaces
A student designs an experiment to test the force of a spring using a spring launcher and four sphere with the same diameter but with different masses. What other piece of equipment would be most useful for this experiment?
A graduated cylinder to measure the volume of each sphere before the sphere is launched
A beaker to collect the spheres after they are launched
A stopwatch to measure how long it takes to load each sphere on the spring
A meterstick to measure the height each sphere reaches after the
sphere is launched
A student observes that the craters on the moon are different sizes. The student designs an experiment to study of the formation of craters. The materials for the experiment are marbles and a pan of flour. The student makes a hypothesis that the size of the craters made on the surface of the flour will depend on the height from which the marble is dropped. Some of the steps in the student’s experiment are described below. Which of these is most likely Step 3 in the student’s experiment?
Drop the same marble from different heights into the pan of flour.
Drop marbles of different masses from the same height into the pan of flour.
Drop marbles of different sizes from different heights into the pan of
flour.
Drop a single marble one time into the pan of flour.
A student uses a spring scale to pull a 50-gram block horizontally across a wood desk. Then the student pulls the block the same distance across surfaces of carpet, and paper, and glass. Which question is this investigation most likely designed to answer?
How do blocks of different sizes react to force?
How do different surfaces affect the amount of force needed to move a block?
How do blocks affect spring scales?
How does the mass of a block change when it is pulled across a desk?
In which of these ways can volcanoes help build up new land?
By adding heat to Earth’s surface
By adding gases to the atmosphere
By adding lava to Earth’s surface
By adding water vapor to the atmosphere
The pictures below show the same mountain before 1980 and after 1980. What most likely caused the rapid change in the mountain’s appearance?
Rain
Wind
Volcanic eruption
Glacier movement
The picture below shows a rock that is broken in a specific way. What caused the break in this rock?
A flood
A landslide
An earthquake
A volcanic eruption
Some students wanted to investigate causes of rapid changes to Earth’s surface. In a container, they built a model landscape with mountains and valleys out of dirt and rocks.
When they completed the model, they took pictures and wrote down observations about the model. Then they quickly shook the model from side to side. They took more pictures and wrote down their new observations. This investigation was designed to learn about what problem in the natural world?
volcanic eruptions
earthquakes
hurricanes
river flooding
The pictures below show the same location on two different days. What probably caused the rapid change to this landform?
Wind
Glacier movement
Landslide
Volcanic eruption
Which of these best shows the relationship between Earth, the moon, and the sun?
Which of the following happens in our solar system?
Earth revolves around the Sun once per day.
The moon revolves around Earth once per day.
Earth revolves around the Sun once per year.
The moon revolves around Earth once per year.
The model below shows a part of the solar system. In this model, X most likely is--
a meteor
a planet
a moon
a star
A student created the model below to show the relationships between the Earth, moon and sun. How could this model be improved?
Have the Earth revolve around the moon.
Have the sun revolve around the moon.
Have the Earth revolve around the sun.
Have the moon revolve around the sun.
Which of the following drawings BEST represents the motion of a planet and its moon
around the Sun?
A diagram of the stages in the water cycle is shown below. Which of these observations would most likely be seen at Stage N?
Water flowing downhill
Fog forming along a highway
The water level of a lake decreasing
Dark clouds forming in the sky
The diagram above shows the water cycle. Which process is happening at point W?
Condensation
Precipitation
Evaporation
Respiration
After lake water flows through a dam, which processes help replace the water in the lake?
Rainfall and runoff
Erosion and weathering
Refraction and reflection
Separating and evaporating
Every two hours a student drew pictures of the shadow made by a flagpole. Based on this data, which drawing do you predict would be drawn at 2 PM?
Some students had the assignment to measure the length of the shadow of a flagpole every hour during the day and create a graph from their data. They forgot to take a measurement at 10 AM and 11 AM so their graph is incomplete as shown below. What most likely happened to the shadow from 10 AM to 11 AM?
The length of the shadow decreased.
The length of the shadow increased.
The length of the shadow decreased and then increased.
The length of the shadow stayed the same.
The pictures below show the sequence of tree shadows beginning in the early morning. Which answer choice best shows what the next tree shadow will look like?
A student wants to build a dog house that will keep his dog warm in winter. Which of these materials is least useful for insulating the dog house to keep in thermal energy?
Foam
Wood
Metal
Plastic
A teacher puts her cup of hot coffee on a coaster made of cork instead of directly on her desk. Why is the coaster helpful?
The coaster creates thermal energy.
The coaster increases thermal energy.
The coaster conducts thermal energy.
The coaster insulates thermal energy.
A science class tested two properties of different materials. The results are shown in the table below. Based on the table, which material would be best for making gloves?
Wood
Cork
Wool cloth
Aluminum foil
The chart shows some objects that conduct thermal energy and some that do not conduct thermal. Which of these would complete the column of objects that do not conduct thermal energy?
Silver spoon
Horseshoe magnet
Plastic spoon
Aluminum pan
