Science Standardized Test

What is the simplest level of organization in the body?

• cell

• tissue

• organ

• organ system

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

At which point is potential energy greatest?

• W

• X

• Y

• Z

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NGSS.MS-PS3-2

A starting substance that is part of a chemical reaction?

• property

• product

• reactant

• atoms

What is kinetic energy?

• energy of work

• energy of motion

• energy of gravity

• energy of power

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NGSS.MS-PS3-1

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

Which change will produce a new substance

• making coffee

• making cookies

• making boiling water for tea

• making snowflakes from paper

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS1-5

The convergence of two CONTINENTAL plates will produce ___.

• island arcs

• rift valleys

• folded mountains

• trenches

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The BEST evidence that continents were once connected is that they have matching ___.

• weather, fossils, and rock types

• rock types, fossils, and coastlines

• coastlines, weather, and rock types

• fossils, coastlines, and weather

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

If the African Plate continues to move toward the Eurasian plate, what will eventually happen?

• Volcanoes will form and erupt at the plate boundary.

• The African plate will break the Eurasian plate into pieces.

• The Mediterranean Sea will shrink and mountains will form.

• The Mediterranean Sea will become larger and earthquakes will happen.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What happens when more dense, oceanic crust collides with less dense, continental crust?

• oceanic crust sinks below continental crust

• oceanic crust rides above the continental crust

• continental crust sinks below the oceanic crust

• continental crust becomes thinner than oceanic crust

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What conclusion can a scientist make as a result of finding different fossils in a rock layer?

• the fossils are made up of cooled lava

• the fossils formed after heat and pressure changed the type of rock

• the fossils are made of the same material as the organisms that formed them

• the fossils formed at about the same time as the rock layer they were found in

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4