Science STAAR Questions

If a person is describing the daily changes in temperature and perception, they are referring to an area's--

• weather

• climate

• geography

• geology

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Over a period of 40 years, the amount of rain that fell in the central Texas area was measured and recorded. Monitoring and tracking rainfall over a long period gives the most accurate information about--

• amount of humidity

• weather

• climate

• high temperature

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What is one difference between weather and climate?

• weather describes conditions near the ground, but climate does not.

• Climate describes energy from the sun, but weather does not.

• weather includes precipitation, but climate does not.

• Climate describes long-term conditions over an entire region, but weather does not.

In the water cycle, the Sun's energy is directly responsible for causing the process at location---

• A

• B

• C

• D

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Which factor most likely does NOT affect the Pine Squirrel's survival in the temperate forest biome?

• sunlight

• bacteria

• temperature

• soil

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A student helped his father prepare soup for dinner. His father asked him to use a wooden spoon to stir the soup as it heated. Why would the student's father ask him to use a wooden spoon?

• The wooden spoon is able to float in the soup

• the wooden spoon is able to sink in the soup

• the wooden spoon is a good conductor of thermal energy

• The wooden spoon is a good insulator of thermal energy

The organelle in charge of transforming the energy of the sunlight into chemical energy (glucose)?

• Mitochondria

• Golgi bodies

• Chloroplast

• Nucleus

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Red-billed oxpeckers are birds that feed on parasites found on an impala. The impala gets rid of parasites and the red-billed oxpeckers get a yummy dinner. What is the type of symbiosis and why?

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Which is the structure that we can't find in animal cells?

• Mitochondria

• Nucleus

• Cell membrane

• Cell wall

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Which are the main structures of every cell? Remember you must select more than one option.

• Cell membrane

• Cell wall

• Nucleus

• DNA

• Cytoplasm

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