FTCE - K-6 - Science

Teaching students to design and do simple experiments.

Mrs. Arton wants her students to learn to think scientifically. Which of the following is most likely to result in the deepest scientific understanding?

B. an arrowhead found in North America.

All of the following are examples of fossils EXCEPT

A. an insect in a piece of amber found in South America.

B. an arrowhead found in North America.

C. a dinosaur bone found in Europe

D. a leaf imprint in coal found in China.

B. partnering his students with fourth grade students who learned about the human skeleton last year

Mr. Kwan wants to apply Vygotsky's theory of the Zone of Proximal Development in his third grade classroom in terms of learning about the human skeleton. Which activity would achieve this goal?

A. showing students a video about bone growth and development

B. partnering his students with fourth grade students who learned about the human skeleton last year

C. asking a nurse to visit the class and answer questions about health and the human body

D. playing an online drill-and-practice review of names of bones

B. Ms. Carter: Cooperative learning includes positive interdependence and structured group interactions whereas collaborative learning is loosely organized small groups.

Mr. Alder wants to know the difference between cooperative and collaborative learning. Which colleague has the answer?

A. Mr. Bell: Cooperative learning is another name for collaborative learning.

B. Ms. Carter: Cooperative learning includes positive interdependence and structured group interactions whereas collaborative learning is loosely organized small groups.

C. Mrs. Skelton: Collaborative learning utilizes scientific inquiry to make sense of authentic problems whereas cooperative learning is really the same as learning partners.

D. Mr. Griffith: Collaborative learning is highly structured and everyone has a contribution to the total project and cooperative learning is a kind of peer-tutoring approach.

A. scaffolding.

Mr. Carrier wants to teach his second-grade class about the process of observation. He divided his students into groups and gave each group 4 worksheets divided into five sections: taste, touch, smell, see, listen. He also included pictures (e.g., eyes for see; ears for listen) to help cue the words so students will remember what to do. He has given the students a piece of lemon, a piece of apple, a piece of celery, and a small carrot. The groups are to complete the worksheet by recording their observations for each item. This activity exemplifies

A. scaffolding.

B. problem-solving.

C. modeling.

D. simulation.

A. observation

Ms. Kendrick is teaching first grade and she wants her students to learn about the scientific method. In terms of developmental skills, what would be the best activity to teach first?

A. observation

B. classification

C. hypothesizing

D. analysis

C. It exemplifies universal design for learning.

Which of the following is true about differentiation of instruction?

A. It is in intervention strategy that targets struggling students.

B. It is used to help students with disabilities.

C. It exemplifies universal design for learning.

D. It is a whole group strategy designed to maximize test scores.

C. an anemometer

Mrs. Proctor's fourth-grade students are investigating wind speed. What science tool would be best to use?

A. a weather vane

B. a barometer

C. an anemometer

D. a stopwatch

C. exteroceptors

A student dropped a book on his toe and said, "Ouch! That hurt!" This is a result of which aspect of the nervous system?

A. striated muscles

B. autonomic responses

C. exteroceptors

D. antibody molecules

A. technology

Which of the following is the application of science for the benefit of mankind?

A. technology

B. STEM

C. experimentation

D. investigation

B. survey of a class's food preferences in terms of calories

Which of the following could be best used to collect data for analysis?

A. scale model of the solar system

B. survey of a class's food preferences in terms of calories

C. demonstration of ways to graph an equation

D. creating a testable hypothesis

C. mountains

Mr. Carpenter wrote the following words on the board: folded, fault-block, domes, volcanic. What geological feature is most likely to be the topic of his lesson?

A. plateaus

B. plains

C. mountains

D. canyons

B. Logan: aquaculture

Mrs. Donovan asked her students to identify something that has a positive effect on the environment. Which student has the correct answer?

A. Gerald: clear cutting a forest

B. Logan: aquaculture

C. Rachel: using fossil fuels

D. Nova: algae bloom

C. Scientific laws describe and scientific theories explain.

How do scientific laws differ from scientific theories?

A. There is no difference; they are synonyms.

B. Scientific laws apply to inorganic matter in the universe whereas scientific theories apply to organic materials.

C. Scientific laws describe and scientific theories explain.

D. Scientific laws are not subject to change; however, scientific theories change continually.

D. gravity

Which of the following exemplifies potential energy?

A. music

B. an electric heater

C. sunlight

D. gravity

B. mantle

In terms of the composition of Earth, in what layer would you find semi-molten rock?

A. crust

B. mantle

C. outer core

D. inner core

A. on the Sun

As a state of matter, where would plasma most likely be found?

A. on the Sun

B. under the ocean

C. in the Earth's core

D. in the winds of a tornado

B. If an atom has more electrons than protons, the atom has a negative charge.

Which of the following statements about atoms is true?

A. A neutral atom has an equal number of protons and neutrons.

B. If an atom has more electrons than protons, the atom has a negative charge.

C. If an atom has fewer electrons than neutrons, the atom has a positive charge.

D. Protons and electrons are in the nucleus of an atom.

C. Scientific knowledge is durable.

What characterizes the world view of science?

A. The world is unpredictable.

B. Scientific ideas, laws, and theories, once proven, do not change.

C. Scientific knowledge is durable.

D. Science completely answers all questions.

D. Phil: The metabolic process of a cell is most important because that's how life is sustained.

Mr. Carter's class is learning about cells. He asked his students to identify the most important thing they learned about cells and why it was important. The information some students gave was factually incorrect. Who provided the correct information and rationale?

A. William: The cell wall is most important because it make rocks and minerals strong.

B. Clarissa: DNA is most important because it is used to help the cell maintain homeostasis

C. Tonya: Cell division is important because pre-existing cells are gained through osmosis.

D. Phil: The metabolic process of a cell is most important because that's how life is sustained.

A. irritability.

Jasmine notices that the pupils of her cat's eyes get larger in the dark and smaller in the light. This is an example of

A. irritability.

B. homeostasis.

C. metamorphosis.

D. phototropism.

Research-based teaching

This focuses on student-centered learning and inquiry in the context of social interaction. When a class focuses on inquiry in terms of observation, experimentation, explanation, and social interaction. It is not content-driven and does involve meaningful inquiry or group interaction.

STEM-based classrooms

This focuses on solving real-life problems and improved solutions. It integrates subjects in authentic problem-solving contexts.

Sublimation

Occurs when a solid changes to gas through addition of heat.

Melting

Occurs when a solid changes to liquid through addition of heat

Evaporation

Occurs when a liquid becomes a gas through addition of heat.

Freezing

Occurs when a liquid changes to a solid through subtraction of heat.

Cryosphere

The frozen part of the Earth, which includes glaciers and polar ice caps.

An Apple Tree:

What is an example of an autotroph?

A. An apple tree

B. A goldfish

C. A dog

D. A mushroom

Autotrophs

Producers (plants) and make their own food.

Potential energy

A toy car is stationary at the top of an inclined ramp. What type of energy is demonstrated?

Electrical

Potential

Solar

Kinetic

Density

An object's ability to float depends on its ______?

Size

Temperature

Insulation

Density

Earth rotates

Which statement explains why the sun appears to rise and set each day?

Earth rotates

Sun rotates

Sun revolves around the Earth

Earth revolves around the Sun

Matter

Everything in our world is made up of _____?

Matter

Cells

Grams

Molecules

Chemical Change

Dr. O. was baking a cake. She noticed that the ingredients that she was using were being turned into different substances. This is an example of a _____?

Physical property

Chemical property

Physical change

Chemical change

Conductors

Materials through which electric charges easily flow are ________?

Conductors

Insulators

Neutrons

Ions

Before data is collected

When is a hypothesis formed?

Before data is collected

After data is collected

After data is analyzed

After the results are described

Organelle, Cell, Tissue, Organ, System, Organism

Identify the correct sequence of organization of living things from lower to higher order:

Cell, Organelle, Organ, Tissue, System, Organism

Cell, Tissue, Organ, Organelle, System, Organism

Organelle, Cell, Tissue, Organ, System, Organism

Organelle, Tissue, Cell, Organ, System, Organism

Unit Exam

Which of the following is not an appropriate formative assessment for evaluating student performance in an activity?

Unit exam

Journal entry

Student presentation

Student video

C. Skepticism

All the characteristics listed below are attributes of the nature of science except for

a. Durability

b. Tentativeness

c. Skepticism

c. Replication

c. Reliance on evidence

b. Scientific knowledge is based on inference.

Which statement is more accurate?

a. Scientific knowledge is based on facts.

b. Scientific knowledge is based on inference.

c. Scientific knowledge is based on facts

Which of the following terms provides an example of durability?

a. Scientific knowledge is based on facts.

b. Scientific knowledge is based on facts.

c. Scientific knowledge is based on facts.

a. The ability to devise a hypothesis

Which phrase below does not refer to scientific imagination?

a. The ability to devise a hypothesis

b. The ability to visualize natural processes

c. The ability to see patterns and relationships

False

The qualities of scientific thinking can best be developed when students reach the upper elementary grades.

True or False

c. Observation, communication, classification, measurement, inference, prediction

What are the six basic science process skills?

a. Observation, description, classification, revision, measurement, invention

b. Classification, extension, prediction, communication, observation, inference

c. Observation, communication, classification, measurement, inference, prediction

d. Numeracy, accuracy, measurement, observation, prediction, communication

b. Multi-stage classification

Classifying vertebrates into classes, orders, families, genera, and species is an example of

a. Serial ordering

b. Multi-stage classification

b. false

Inferences can be proved using our senses.

a. True

b. False

b. false

It is a good idea to investigate more than one manipulated variable and one responding variable at a time.

a. True

b. False

b. They demonstrate key points of science quickly

Visuals and graphics are used in science because

a. They are more attractive than written or oral formats

b. They demonstrate key points of science quickly

b. They are more concise than other methods of communication

c. This will help them draw conclusions.

Charts for elementary school students include graphics because

a. This will help them pay attention.

b. This will help them attach concepts to pictures.

c. This will help them draw conclusions.

a. Line graph

The type of graph most often used to display results of a science experiment is a

a. Line graph

b. Bar graph

b. Pie graph

b. protists

Which of these groups contains eukaryotic single-celled organisms?

a. bacteria

b. protists

c. viruses

c. plastids

Which of these organelles is only found in plant cells?

a. golgi apparatus

b. mitochondria

c. plastids

d. vesicles

c. photosynthesis

Which physiological process contains the Calvin Cycle?

a. cellular respiration

b. digestion

c. photosynthesis

d. transpiration

b. oxygen

Which of the following is not a by-product of cellular respiration?

a. carbon dioxide

b. oxygen

c. water

a. oviparous

Animals that reproduce by laying eggs that develop and hatch outside the mother's body are called:

a. oviparous

b. ovoviviparous

c. viviparous

c. cardiovascular and lymphatic systems

Which two organ systems work together to form the circulatory system?

a. cardiovascular and respiratory systems

b. cardiovascular and excretory systems

c. cardiovascular and lymphatic systems

d. cardiovascular and endocrine systems

a. Natural selection

The rate at which offspring are produced in every species is greater than the rate at which the environment can provide food, shelter, and other needs. Plants and animals that carry the advantageous traits will come to outnumber those without them, causing a shift in the common characteristics of the species over time. This is a description of:

a. Natural selection

b. Adaptation

c. Evolution

d. Heredity

c. Heredity

When traits or characteristics are passed from ancestors to descendents, it is called

a. Evolution

b. Natural selection

c. Heredity

d. A and B

d. Theory

Which of the following best describes plate tectonics, also called continental drift? It's a

a. Homeostasis

b. Hypothesis

c. Evolution

d. Theory

c. Nested

The complete Linnaean taxonomic system is

a. Serial

b. Descending

c. Nested

d. Ascending

Non-Renewable

Coal

Minerals

Natural Gas

Oil

Renewable

Fisheries

Forest

Sun

Water

Wind

d. water

Which of the following is an abiotic limiting factor?

a. disease-causing organisms

b. food

c. predators

d. water

d. high, rocky with sharp, jagged peaks

Young mountains have which characteristics?

a. low, domed mountains with sharp peaks

b. high, rocky with lots of vegetation

c. low, rocky with lots of vegetation

d. high, rocky with sharp, jagged peaks

d. A high-level flat surface made of rock layers

Which description best fits a plateau?

a. A relatively low, rounded mountain

b. A relatively low, flat-surfaced mountain made of lava

c. A continental shelf

d. A high-level flat surface made of rock layers

c. Gravity

Glaciers move due to

a. Energy transfer

b. Ice melt

c. Gravity

d. Friction

b. False

Karst topography is characterized by an even surface.

a. True

b. False

a. True

The elements that make up rocks are neither created nor destroyed.

a. True

b. False

a. True

Tectonic plate movement was responsible for the geologic structure of Florida.

a. True

b. False

b. Sedimentary

______ rocks often contain embedded fossils.

a. Igneous

b. Sedimentary

c. Metamorphic

d. igneous

Rocks in which rock category begin as magma, crystallize, and with heat and pressure becomes part of metamorphic rock?

a. sedimentary

b. metamorphic

c. granite

d. igneous

b. rock cycle

Which describes this process: Rocks are constantly being formed, worn down and then formed again?

a. crystallization

b. rock cycle

c. magma to lava

d. weathering

a. sedimentary

Which of the following the rock types is most likely to be weathered in the shortest time?

a. sedimentary

b. igneous

c. metamorphic

b. condensation

The transformation of water vapor to liquid water droplets in the air, producing clouds, is called ____________.

a. transpiration

b. condensation

c. evaporation

d. precipitation

d. infiltration

The flow of water on the ground surface into the ground is called ____________.

a. a reservoir

b. groundwater

c. run-off

d. infiltration

b. Radiant energy transfers heat energy from molecule to molecule.

Choose the answer that is false.

a. Radiant energy is not heat. It is only heat when it's absorbed in an object.

b. Radiant energy transfers heat energy from molecule to molecule.

c. The sun and other glowing bodies give off radiant energy.

d. Radiant energy travels from the sun through space in the form of invisible waves.

a. True

Earth's topography is a factor in allowing evaporation of water to take place.

a. True

b. False

d. 5 layers

Earth's atmosphere is divided into

a. 2 layers

b. 3 layers

c. 4 layers

d. 5 layers

b. False

Approximately half the air in an air mass has the same relative temperature and humidity.

a. True

b. False

b. percolation

What best describes soil absorption?

a. evapotranspiration

b. percolation

c. take in water

d. infiltration

c. light from the sun reflects off the Moon in different ways, showing different shapes.

Which of the following responses accurately states the cause(s) for the phases of the moon?

a. Clouds cover the part of the moon we do not see in the night sky.

b. Earth's shadow covers different parts of the moon as it orbits.

c. light from the sun reflects off the Moon in different ways, showing different shapes.

d. The moon gets less light from the sun at different times.

a. 29.5 days

What is the average time between one full moon to the next full moon?

a. 29.5 days

b. 27.3 days

a. 28 days

a. A planet's year is the time it takes to make one complete orbit.

Which of the following is a true statement?

a. A planet's year is the time it takes to make one complete orbit.

b. A planet's year is the time it takes to make one complete rotation.

c. A planet's year doesn't relate to its orbit or rotation.

a. A comet has an elongated elliptical orbit.

b. A comet's head is made up of rocks, dust and frozen gases.

d. A comet's tail flies in a direction away from the sun as the comet curves around the sun.

Which of the following is/are not true about comets?

a. A comet has an elongated elliptical orbit.

b. A comet's head is made up of rocks, dust and frozen gases.

c. A comet has a very long tail as it orbits through the solar system and around the sun.

d. A comet's tail flies in a direction away from the sun as the comet curves around the sun.

b. False

The Mercury was a probe that obtained close-ups of the Moon's surface.

a. True

b. False

a. To study our universe.

Which is the main purpose of the Hubble Space Telescope?

a. To study our universe.

b. To study our solar system.

c. To study galaxies.

d. To study Earth.

c. International Space Station

58. Which manned mission, begun in 2000 has led us to new advances in space technology, the testing of new theories and experimentation completed in near zero gravity?

a. Deep Space

b. Viking

c. International Space Station

d. Mir

d. the work done in lifting it.

the amount of potential energy possessed by an elevated object is equal to:

a. the force needed to lift it.

b. the distance it is lifted.

c. the power used to lift it.

d. the work done in lifting it.

e. the value of the acceleration due to gravity.

c.energy transferred between objects because of a temperature difference.

2. Heat is the:

a. total amount of energy contained in an object.

b. average amount of energy-per-molecule contained in an object.

c.energy transferred between objects because of a temperature difference.

d. amount of energy all the molecules have.

a. Newton's Third Law (Action-Reaction)

3. Pushing against a wall demonstrates:

a. Newton's Third Law (Action-Reaction)

b. Newton's Universal Law of Friction

c. Newton's 1st Law of Contact Forces

c. Four

4. There are ___ invisible forces.

a. Two

b. Three

c. Four

d. Five

b. The squeezed loaf

Which has more density, a loaf of bread just after it comes out of the oven or the same loaf that has been squeezed into a small volume?

a. The fresh loaf

b. The squeezed loaf

c. They both have the same density.

b.false

The Doppler Effect applies only to sound waves.

a. True

b. false

b. Interference

_________ occurs when two or more waves overlap.

a. Resistance

b. Interference

c. Coherence

d. Sublimation

a. Recall and think about what they have learned

When combined with linguistic learning, nonlinguistic learning helps students

a. Recall and think about what they have learned

b. Connect visual imagery to what they have read

c. Memorize scientific concepts

a.true

Numeracy includes the science skill of recognizing patterns.

a. True

b. False

Word processor

A computer based program to facilitate the preparation, manipulation, modification, and arrangement of electronically developed text, tables, and images for reports and documents is called a?

Alan Shepard

Who was the first American to be launched into space?

hypothesis

In an experiment, students are starting to write about the relationship among the variables that they intend to study. They are most likely involved with developing their?