Force STAAR Review

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Science
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5th Grade
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Hard
+3
Standards-aligned
Lisa Thompson
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15 questions
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Students investigate force. The masses they use begin at rest on the ramp. The setup the students use is shown. Which change will reduce the amount of force needed to move the masses?
Decrease the height of the ramp
Increase the height of the ramp
Add an additional mass
Pull the spring scale with two hands
Tags
NGSS.MS-PS2-1
NGSS.MS-PS2-2
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
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?
Conduct five trials, using a different scale to pull each block of wood
Conduct five trials, pulling a different side of each block each time
Conduct five trials, using a different table for each trial
Conduct five trials, pulling each block of wood in the same way for each trial
Tags
NGSS.MS-PS2-1
NGSS.MS-PS2-2
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The diagrams show two trials of an experiment in which a spring scale was used to measure force. This experiment can be used to determine —
how mass affects the force needed to move objects
how force affects the mass of two objects
how the force used to pull a dictionary affects the mass of a box of marbles
how the mass of a box of marbles affects the mass of a dictionary
Tags
NGSS.MS-PS2-2
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Students drop the same heavy ball onto identical blocks of soft clay from different heights. For each height they measure the depth of the dent the ball makes in the clay. Why is the depth of the dent different in each trial?
The size of the ball changes.
The material of the ball changes.
The mass of the ball when it hits the clay changes.
The force of the ball when it hits the clay changes.
Tags
NGSS.MS-PS2-1
NGSS.MS-PS2-2
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
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, sandpaper, 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?
Tags
NGSS.MS-PS2-2
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Students designed an investigation to determine how far a ball would travel when released at the top of two ramps of different heights. They set up the investigation shown below. What should the lab team do to improve their investigation?
Use Ball A on both ramps.
Use Ramp 2 for both balls.
Use Ramp 1 for both balls.
Place Ball B on Ramp 1 and Ball A on Ramp 2.
Tags
NGSS.MS-PS2-2
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
An engineer wants to test the ability of 3 materials to resist cracking. She drops a heavy metal ball from 1 meter above each test material. She can improve the investigation by—
dropping a different size ball for each material.
using materials that are the same thickness.
testing only one material.
using a feather instead of a metal ball.
Tags
NGSS.MS-ETS1-1
NGSS.MS-ETS1-2
NGSS.MS-ETS1-3
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