Electrical energy is transferred to _____ Energy.

Solar energy is transferred to _____ energy.

Electrical energy is transferred to _____ energy.

When you eat pizza, chemical energy is transferred to _____ energy in your body.

Chemical energy in the car is transferred to _____ energy in the car.

Is the energy in a battery, chemical or electrical (Not connected to any devices)?

A bright-red male cardinal comes to a school bird feeder every morning. Like other cardinals, this bird makes a sharp chirping sound as it hops around the bird feeder.

A partial wetland food web is shown. (Refer to the diagram of the food web with hawks, shrews, snakes, frogs, marsh grasses, grasshoppers, crickets, and cattails.) Which statement correctly describes the transfer of energy in a food chain in this wetland?

Which of these describes one or more living organisms that depend on another living organism to survive?

A student places 250 g samples of clay, sand, gravel, and silt in separate flower pots. The pots are set on a wire rack, and dishes are placed beneath the pots so that water can drip through holes and collect. The student then pours 100 mL of water over the sample in each pot. The student measures the time it takes for water to begin dripping from the bottom of each pot.

Which soil retains the most water?

Which soil type will retain the most water?

If 100 mL is poured through each weathered rock, which retained the most water?

Which type of soil retains water the best?

What does this sponge have to make it soak up water?

Rain will infiltrate the ground if the soil is

During a heavy rainstorm, soil samples A and B both became saturated with water. However, 10 minutes after the storm ended, the soils appeared as shown.

Which statement best explains the observed change in the water content of the soil samples?

These containers have the same volume of beads which are representing soil particles. What is the relative porosity and permeability of each?

The diagram shows layers deposited under a body of water. This layering continued for millions of years. What most likely happened to the dead plants and animals?

The pictures show layers deposited on dead plants and animals. If millions of years past, what will most likely happen to the dead plants and animals?

How can plant from a pond form fossil fuels?

The model below shows layers of sediment on the floor of an ocean. Which of the following best explains how these layers can become rock over many years?

A student creates a model of the formation of fossil fuels by first placing a layer of leaves, representing organic matter, in the bottom of a cup. What step will come next in making the model?

What needs to be present in the peat for fossil fuels to form?

The picture shows an athlete hitting a ball with a tennis racquet. What is the athlete demonstrating in the picture?

This experiment can be best used to determine....

When looking at image 2, is working being done?

When looking at image 4, is working being done?

A group of students is performing an investigation to measure how much liquid water is produced from a 10 L sample of snow. What must occur in order for the students to perform this investigation?

After a trip to an aquarium, some students compared the tail fin of sharks with the tail fin of bony fish. The students made a chart listing characteristics of each type of tail fin. Based on this information, what is most likely an advantage of the bony fish tail fin over the shark tail fin?

Based on their properties, which of the objects is most likely a metal?

The ability of a substance to allow the flow of energy or electricity.

________ conductivity is how well an electrical current can move through a substance.

A teacher asks students to explain what they see in this picture. Four student explanations are shown in the box. Which of the students gave a correct explanation?

The diagram shows the sun at different places in the sky during the summer.

Where is the most likely location of the sun at 7:00 a.m.?

Where will the tree's shadow be?

This circuit has five light-emitting diode, or LED, lights. It also has one battery and one switch. Which LEDs produce light when the switch is in the position shown?

Students are investigating properties of objects. They observe four objects and record observations for each object in the table. Properties of Four Objects | Object Label | Is a Liquid? | Is Attracted to a Magnet? | Is Soluble in Water? | |--------------|-------------|--------------------------|---------------------| | K | Yes | No | No | | L | No | Yes | No | | M | No | No | Yes | | N | No | No | No | Based on the students’ observations, which of these tables properly identifies the objects?

Which organisms have a life cycle that is most like that of abalones?

What stage comes before the given picture?

Legs begin to grow and lungs form during __________.

Which animal is born with gills but grows lungs when it gets older?

The Grand Canyon is more than 400 km long and in some places almost 2 km deep. Which model best represents the main process that formed the Grand Canyon?

Students design an experiment to determine how much force is needed to move blocks of wood of different masses slowly across a lab table. Which procedure should students include in their design?

A ball moves from X to Y on the floor. Which best explains the change in the ball? The ball-

Units of force are...

One type of fuel was used for thousands of years before other fuels were commonly used. Which fuel is an alternative resource that was most likely the first fuel used by humans?

Some students are feeding a crab in an aquarium. They use tongs to place the food directly in front of the crab. The students look through the side of the aquarium. They notice that the image of the tongs appears to break as the tongs enter the water. Which property of light are the students observing in this situation?

Students on a field trip observed a valley and wondered how it was formed. The three major characteristics of the valley were recorded. Characteristics of a Valley: • Round-bottom floor • Nearly vertical sides • Small hills containing sediments of many sizes This valley was most likely formed by —

The diagram shows a landform on Earth. How did the movement of Earth’s plates form the landform?

Which student correctly identified the geologic process that formed the Himalayan mountains?

This landform is formed by

A deep gorge in the surface of Earth formed by the erosion of moving water and sand.

Water is found in many places on Earth. Consider the rivers, streams, and ocean in the illustration.

What landform will be created when sediments carried by the river are deposited near the river’s mouth?

When a continental plates collide what may be formed?

Students constructed a model using a cardboard box, clay, and numbers on spikes, What are the students trying to demonstrate with this model?

When a divergent boundary occurs under a continent what is formed?

When plates collide we get ________.

The leaves of two types of plants that live in different environments are shown in the pictures. The leaves of both plants have different structures. What differences in the structure of the leaves of these plants likely help them survive in their environments?

Which type of plant leaf loses the least amount of water?

What function is served by plant structures such as stinging hairs, thorns, and briars?

Pine needles are covered by a thick coat of wax. What benefit does the wax coating provide?

The diagram below shows a food web in an ecosystem. Select TWO parts of the ecosystem that would be affected if the lizard population died off due to a disease.

What is the primary role of chlorophyll in plants?

What adaptation helps cacti survive in arid environments?

Leaves on the surface of water plants are ________.

Water lilies live in lakes and ponds. The lilies have very long stems. The picture above shows a water lily in a pond. How do long stems help water lilies live in ponds?

An adaptation that helps a cactus live in the desert is its

Many plants have bright, sweet smelling flowers. How would this adaptation help the plant?

Desert plants have a coat of wax on their leaves to

Which plant structure is the arrow pointing to? What is the function?

The circuit below does not work. Which procedure would most likely allow the bulbs to light?

Which statement best explains how the sun and the ocean interact to form a cumulonimbus cloud?

A student conducts an investigation by shining a flashlight toward a flat mirror. The student changes the angle of the mirror and observes the path of the reflected light. As the mirror changes direction, the light reaching the mirror can reach the ceiling because the light —

A student measured out 10 mL of four clear liquids and added one drop of a different-colored dye to each liquid. One of the liquids was water. The student then carefully poured each liquid into a graduated cylinder and let the mixture settle for 30 minutes. The student observed that the liquids had separated into layers, as shown in the diagram. Which of these procedures would help the student identify the layer of water?

Woody plants have many different kinds of leaves. Some leaves have very smooth edges, while other leaves have jagged edges, as shown in the diagram. The characteristics of plant leaves vary with the climate in which the plant naturally grows. Some scientists discovered an area with many fossilized leaves of woody plants. The scientists used data from samples of 100 leaf fossils to compare the number with smooth-edged leaves and the number with jagged-edged leaves. A smooth leaf edge is more common in hot climates. A jagged leaf edge is more common in cold climates. The scientists concluded that the plants had grown in a hot climate. Which graph most likely represents the data from the investigation?

A family takes a group picture in a park where bluebonnets are blooming. The family notices that some of the blooms are white and others are blue. The color of the blooms is most likely determined by —

A family was vacationing in the mountains in a cabin that had no electrical power. They needed boiling water in order to prepare dried soup mix. With no electrical energy available, which method would most likely provide enough thermal energy to quickly heat the water to boiling?

A beaker with 115 mL of solution has a temperature of 21°C. The solution contains 5 g of salt and 115 mL of water. Students added two ice cubes to the solution and stirred the solution with a stirring rod. Which properties of the solution changed as the ice cubes melted?

A science class has an aquarium in which fish and aquatic plants are growing. How is carbon dioxide directly involved in the survival of organisms in the aquarium?

How many types of organisms in this food web obtain energy directly from producers?

Aquatic plants have adaptations that help them live in water. For example, the structures needed for making food are located on the tops of floating plant leaves. This adaptation helps the plants —

Which statement best describes the processes of weathering and erosion?

A student stirs 15 grams of each substance listed below into 200 milliliters of water to form four different mixtures. The student then tries to separate the water from each mixture by pouring the mixture through a kitchen tea strainer. Which mixture can the student separate most easily with the strainer?

This simple diagram shows a system used to heat a house. Water is pumped from the house through a series of pipes underground, where the water is warmed. The warmed water returns to the house to supply heat on cold winter days.

The table lists the characteristics of four types of animals. Type of Animal | Characteristics Muskrat | Small mammal; body that is about 32 cm long; long, scaly tail; back feet that are partially webbed Mallard | Migratory bird; flat, webbed feet; males and females have different colored feathers Mink | Small mammal; about 61 cm long; thick fur; eats small mammals, birds, and fish Western grebe | Migratory bird; black and white feathers; hunts by diving and spearing fish What features do the ecosystems in which these animals live most likely have in common?