STAAR Review Science

_________ is an objects tendency to resist changes in motion (ex. speeding up, slowing down, stopping)

• Force

• Inertia

• Friction

• Newton

Which of the following statements best describes the movement based on the graph.

• A runner that is accelerating by speeding up.

• A car that is parked

• A car slowing down at a stop sign

• A runner running at a constant speed.

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What phase comes AFTER this one?

• Waning Crescent

• Waning Gibbous

• Waxing Crescent

• Third Quarter

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What happens when the area in which you live tilts away from the sun?

• It is summer.

• It is spring.

• It is winter.

• It is fall.

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Organisms that eat other organisms (heterotroph).

• Producer
  

• Parasite

• Consumer

• Scavenger

Organisms that digest dead producers and consumers such as mold, fungus, bacteria and worms.

• Producer

• Parasite

• Decomposer

• Consumer

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Process by which organisms that are suited to a particular environment are better able to survive and reproduce than other organisms that are not.

• Ecological Succession

• Biodiversity

• Natural Selection

• Producer

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A dichotomous key for insects is given. To what order does an insect with two pairs of scaly wings belong?

• Coleoptera

• Heteroptera

• Diptera

• Lepidoptera

A clear liquid from a flask is poured into another clear liquid in a beaker. Which of the following results of this procedure would indicate a new substance was formed?

• The level of the substance in the beaker is higher after the other liquid is added.

• A yellow solid forms and then settles to the bottom of the beaker.

• Small white crystals are left behind in the flask that held the first liquid.

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Which liquid is the least dense?

• Oil

• Water

• Syrup

• Plastic bottle