IQWST 6th Grade EOC

Directions: Use Figure 1 to answer the following question.

At which point in the diagram is the amount of deposition more than the amount of erosion?

Which of the following landform regions found in Florida has the lowest elevation?

Sue wants to measure the average energy of motion of the air molecules outside. Which instrument should she use?

The water cycle is driven by ____________________.

Where does most metamorphic rock form?

Fertile soil is an important resource for humans because _________________.

There are fewer than 100 Florida panthers left in the world today. Human activities such as building have changed the panther’s environment. What could ultimately happen to the panther as a result?

Directions: Use Figure 2 to answer the following question.

What role does the caterpillar play in the food web?

Directions: Use Figure 3 to answer the following question.

What interaction does the graph represent between the wolf and the deer?

Directions: Use Figure 4 to answer the following question.

In an ecosystem containing the food web shown, what might happen if the weasels disappear?

Which of the following is true of the Celsius scale?

What part of a scientific experiment is the hypothesis?

Directions: Use Figure 5 to answer the following question.

Jose studies the effect of temperature on the amount of oxygen in fresh water. The table above contains the data he collected in a recent experiment. What should be the next step in Jose’s experiment?

Why should you keep accurate experimental notes?

Which of the following is the best way to determine the types of clouds in the sky on a particular day?

Which of these scientists is performing an experiment?

Two student groups get different results after doing the same experiment. Which of the following would be the best way for them to proceed?

Directions: Use Figure 6 to answer the following question.

Which would be the best unit of measurement for expressing the height of this candle?

Which of the following is always true of a chemist, a geneticist, and an astronomer?

When humans are used as subjects for a controlled experiment, scientists

Gretchen’s portable music player always skips when someone bumps into her desk. She sees that the reason it skips is it slides too easily on smooth surfaces. What could Gretchen do to solve the sliding problem?

Which describes the relationship between scientific opinion and evidence?

Which of the following is most likely to change scientific knowledge?

Which of the following questions can be answered with a scientific law rather than a scientific theory?

Given that scientific evidence either supports or does not support a hypothesis, what can you infer from the following statement?

A hypothesis can never be proved.

A scientific law ____________________________.

A glass is filled with ice and a liquid beverage at room temperature. In which direction does heat flow in the system described?

Sharmila wants to do a science project on paper towels. Which question best lends itself to scientific methods of investigation?

Directions: Use Figure 7 to answer the following question.

Carrie wants to find out if Raul, Mark, or Tony is the fastest runner. They ran five races on a track, and Carrie recorded their average times in the table above. Carrie later learned that Tony’s lane on the track, the inside line, is shorter than the other two lanes. Which of the following likely affected the results?

Tamara uses sticks and balloons to show how bones and muscles move. She is using a _______________.

Directions: Use Figure 8 to answer the following question.

For which of the following purposes would the energy pyramid shown above be least useful?

Which of these is true about electromagnetic waves from the sun?

Which of the following is caused by an effect that is similar to light passing through a prism?

Which of the following correctly shows the temperature at absolute zero?

Which of the following produces regular reflection?

Which of the following is a measure of the average kinetic energy of the molecules of a substance?