NES Elementary Education

WA State

The impact of a transaction on parties not directly involved in the transaction is known as what?

externality

The smallest functional unit of speech is a:

phoneme

Which of the following characterizations of dialects is the most accurate?

They include standard and nonstandard versions of a language.

Which of the following statements is correct regarding Standard English?

Rules from standard English apply to written language.

The Alphabetic Principle is best defined as the concept that:

The letters of the alphabet represent corresponding phonemes.

When a teacher instructs elementary school students in analyzing phonetically-regular words, which of the following would best represent a sequence from simpler to progressively more complex?

Individual phonemes, blending phonemes, onsets and rimes, short vowels, long vowels, consonant blends, CVC and other common patterns, types of syllables

What judicial system did America borrow from England?

Common law

A country’s currency increases in value on foreign currency exchange markets. What will happen as a result?

I. Exports will drop

II. Imports will rise

III. The balance of payments will rise

If a country’s currency increases in value, foreigners will have to give up more of their own currency to get the original country’s currency in order to buy the original country’s goods and services. This will cause a drop in exports. At the same time, it will be less expensive for people in the original country to exchange their currency for foreign currencies, causing the price of imported goods to drop and the total value of imports to rise.

I and II

The price of oil drops dramatically, saving soda pop manufacturers great amounts of money spent on making soda pop and delivering their product to market. Prices for soda pop, however, stay the same. This is an example of what?

sticky prices-

The phenomenon of “sticky prices” refers to prices that stay the same even though it seems they should change (either increasing or decreasing).

The idea that the purpose of the American colonies was to provide Great Britain with raw materials and a market for its goods is an expression of:

mercantilism

How is a tie broken in the Senate?

The vice president votes

The vice president also serves as the president of the Senate. If a tie occurs in the Senate, the vice president casts his vote to break the tie.

What is the main purpose of the census?

To apportion seats in the House of Representatives

What is a median?

In this example what is the median?
1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4

The median of a data set is the middle element of the set after it is sorted in numerical order; 2

A cylindrical carrot stick is sliced with a knife. Which of the following shapes is NOT a possible cross section?

The cross section of a cylinder will never be a triangle.

Which of the following correctly compares the sets of rational numbers and integers?

The set of integers is a subset of the set of rational numbers.

ie, integers beling to rational numbers

what is a rational number?

any number that can be written as a simple fraction

what is an integer?

a whole number that is positive, negative, or zero

How are igneous rocks formed in the rock cycle?

Magma from a volcanic eruption cools and hardens.

The stream of charged particles that escape the Sun’s gravitational pull is best described by which of the following terms?

solar wind

tropical zones are characterized by

frequent rainfall, especially during the monsoon season, and by moderate temperatures that vary little from season to season or between night and day. Tropical zones do experience frequent rainfall, which leads to abundant vegetation.

What drives weather systems to move west to east in the mid-latitudes?

The prevailing westerlies drive weather systems to move west to east in the mid-latitudes. The direction refers to that which the wind is coming from. The polar easterlies that travel from the northeast occur between 90-60 degrees north latitude. The ones from the southeast are between 90-60 degrees south latitude. The trade winds refer to those occurring near the equator in the tropics moving east. The doldrums are also in the tropics, but they refer to an area of low-pressure where frequently the winds are light and unpredictable.

Which of the following is an example of chemical weathering?

Vinegar fizzing when poured on a rock is an example of chemical weathering. Mechanical and chemical weathering are processes that break down rocks. Mechanical weathering breaks down rocks physically but does not change their chemical composition. Frost and abrasion are examples. Water, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and living organisms can lead to the chemical weathering of rock. Vinegar is a weak acid and will undergo a chemical reaction, evidenced by fizzing, with the rock. Choice A, rain freezing on the roadway, is an example of the phase change of water from a liquid to a solid and may lead to physical weathering. Choice B, ivy growing on the side of a wooden house, is incorrect since the house is not a rock. Choice D, a river carrying sediment downstream, is an example of erosion.

Which of the following statements correctly compares rocks and minerals?

Rocks are classified by their formation and the minerals they contain, while minerals are classified by their chemical composition and physical properties.

According to the theory of evolution, which of the following life forms is thought to have appeared first on Earth?

Prokaryotes, or simple cells that lack a nucleus, are thought to have appeared on Earth approximately 3.8 billion years ago, according to the theory of evolution. Eukaryotes, or complex cells, are thought to have emerged 2 billion years ago, and arthropods are thought to have developed about 570 million years ago. Amphibians are thought to have emerged approximately 360 million years ago.

What is true about erosion on the surface of the Earth?

Erosion causes rock, dirt, and sand to change form and location.

Approximately 96.5% of seawater is composed of:

Hydrogen and oxygen

Which of the following was a unique aspect of classical Greek theatre that set it apart from other genres?

Performances utilized just three actors onstage

federalism

shared power between the state’s and the federal government

who formed the first triumvirate in Ancient Rome?

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Marcus Licinius Crassus, and Gaius Julius Caesar

what is a mode?

the value that appears most in a set. 2, 3, 3, 3, 5, 7. (3 is the mode)