STAAR REVIEW - SCIENCE

Which of the following best illustrates the direction of energy flow through the food web above?

• Spider to Grasshopper to Grass

• Hognose snake to toad to grasshopper

• Grass to rabbit to hawk

• mouse to spider to toad

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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

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Which statement describes how fossil fuels are made?

• Oil from Earth's core slowly rises to the Earth's surface and forms ponds

• Lava within some volcanoes becomes so hot that it transforms into fossil fuels

• Dead and decomposing organisms are exposed to extreme heat and pressure transforms them into fossil fuels

• When mountains form on top of coal, the pressure liquefies the coal creating fossil fuels

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Sedimentary rocks form from

• Compaction and Cementation

• Melting and Solidifcation

• Weathering and Erosion

• Heat and Pressure

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this circuit is .....?

• open
• parallel
• closed
• The cutest little circuit evah!

the process by which dissolved minerals in the water glue particles of sediment together into one rock.

• fossils

• compaction

• cementation

• weathering

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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When the switch is closed in the illustration above, the bulb will glow. This is because the battery sends what kind of energy through the wire?

• Mechanical

• Electrical

• Sound

• Thermal

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carrying away of sediments

• weathering

• compaction

• erosion

• cementation

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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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