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STAAR Science Grade 5 2022 - Past Paper
Quiz by Grade 5 Science - Texas Education Agency
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​Which circuit shown will produce light when the switch is closed?
Which circuit shown will produce light when the switch is closed?
Which statement best explains why the sun appears to move across the sky during the day?
A student is looking directly at a lit nightlight through two different cardboard tubes as shown.
Through which tube, if any, will the light be seen and why?
A student places objects in a bucket of water to determine if they will float.
Which set of items is less dense than water?
A food chain is shown.
Which role do the grasses have in the food chain?
A diagram of different sections of land is shown.
Which action is most likely happening in Section Y in the diagram?
A student uses the setup shown to investigate ways to speed up evaporation.
Which forms of energy are being compared in the student’s investigation?
A gardener plants seeds in the garden. After the flower stage, the fruits and vegetables grow. A table of how many days are needed for some plants to be ready for harvest is shown.
Which statement is supported by the data shown in the table?
Students make a solar system model on the playground. The school building represents the sun. They label round objects for each planet. Which planet should they place at the greatest distance from the school building?
Students observe a gerbil in a cage. They write their observations as shown.
Which of these observations is most likely a learned behavior?
A student plans to make a chart that describes each process in the water cycle. Which sentence should the student use to describe the process of condensation?
Students study barracudas. They gather some observations of barracudas. A barracuda is shown.
Which observation describes barracudas interacting with the living elements of their ecosystem?
Examples of objects that use different types of energy to perform their functions are shown.
Which examples use mechanical energy to perform their functions?
A picture of a rock is shown.
Which process most likely caused the crack in the rock?
The foot of a hawk and the foot of a chicken are shown.
The difference between the shapes of their feet is most likely associated with the —
A student is classifying objects. Answering which question will provide the best evidence that an object is a metal?
Two box turtles live in an area in a zoo’s reptile house. Zoo visitors made a list of observations of the turtles. The list is shown.
1. Sliding into a small pond
2. Eating a strawberry
3. Digging a hole in the sandy soil
4. Climbing onto a flat rock
5. Holding an earthworm in its mouth
6. Walking across the area
Which observations best describe how box turtles interact with living parts of their environment?
A student pours 14 grams of sugar into a jar filled with 500 milliliters of water. The student thoroughly stirs the sugar and water to make a solution.
Which change most likely occurs to the sugar when it is added to the water?
The student is observing part of a plant with a microscope.
Which statement describes a behavior of light in the microscope?
A student lists resources that can be used to produce electricity. The list is shown.
Which of the resources are renewable resources?
Butterflies have very long, tubelike tongues. Hummingbirds have very long tongues.
Which statement best describes why butterflies and hummingbirds both have long tongues?
A food web of a grassland ecosystem is shown.
Which organisms rely on the same food source?
Students conduct an investigation with breakfast cereal. The first four steps of the students’ investigation are in the table shown.
The students are trying to determine the presence of which substance in the cereal?
A group of students is building the circuit represented in the diagram.
What object can be used at Position X for the buzzer to sound when Switch K is closed?
Some characteristics of the tundra are described.
• Long winters with temperatures at − 34 °C
• Less than 25 centimeters of precipitation each year
• Thin layer of topsoil covers the frozen ground
• Some types of plants found there are mosses, grasses, small shrubs, and trees
Based on this description, which pair of animals is LEAST likely to live in the tundra?
A student makes the model shown with objects representing the sun, Earth, and the moon to use in a class demonstration.
Which action should the student do with the objects to demonstrate a complete day-night cycle of Earth?
Scientists have uncovered palm plant fossils in Alaska, the northern-most state of the United States. Modern-day palm plants grow in tropical climates. A picture of a palm fossil that measures almost one meter across is shown.
This discovery suggests to scientists that this area in Alaska once was —
Which Texas land formation is correctly paired with the force that made the land formation?
A group of students at a park used a collecting net to capture several insects. The teacher transferred the insects to small terrariums that allowed the students to observe the insects before releasing them outside.
Each of the following characteristics is likely an inherited trait EXCEPT —
A group of students wants to build a desert garden at school. They need soil that allows water to drain away easily for the desert plants in this garden. The students test different soils to determine how much water passes through and how much water remains in each soil as shown in the table.
Based on the table, which types of soils are best to use to build the garden?
A student poured equal amounts of water and cooking oil into a jar. The student placed a lid on the jar and shook the mixture for five seconds and then let the jar sit for ten minutes. The results of this investigation are shown.
Which conclusion best compares a property of cooking oil and water shown in this investigation?
Many of America’s large oil fields are found underground at the Permian Basin in West Texas. An area of the Permian Basin is shown.
How did these oil fields form?
Students build a balloon-rocket car using a balloon, a straw, a water bottle, and some tape. When the straw is released by a student, the air from the balloon comes out. A diagram of the car is shown.
Which statement best describes the motion of the car when the straw is released?
Students observe some objects on a lab tray. The students will classify the objects based on physical properties common to all of the objects.
Based on their common properties, how should these objects be classified?
Crested floating heart is a non-native plant that now grows in Texas. This plant grows very fast and can spread over the entire surface of a pond or lake.
Which effect will most likely occur when crested floating heart covers a lake?
Students conduct experiments to investigate friction. Which experiment will best test the effect of friction on objects?
