FORMTIVE MINI SSESSMENTS First Grading Period 2009-10 October 20-23 STUENT NME TE Science Grade 3 Read each question and choose the best answer. e sure to mark all of your answers. opyright 2004, Texas Education gency 1 When entering the science classroom, a student sees a lab setup as shown above. What should the student do next? Turn on the water faucet and fill the beaker. Start cutting the leaves into small pieces. Plug in the hot plate to warm it up. Wait for the teacher to give instructions. SIS 03 Science FM October 2009 Page 1
Items System Not a System microscope wagon diamond rattle drop of water Some Images 2005 JupiterImages orporation 2 Students were asked to identify which items were systems and which were not systems at all. They constructed the chart shown above to display their answers. Which items should the students check off to show that they are systems? Microscope, wagon, rattle Wagon, diamond, water drop iamond, rattle, water drop Microscope, diamond, rattle 3 Why would this wooden toy car be called a system? It has more than one color. It can move forward and backward. It has parts that work together. It does not weigh much. 4 student slides a box across the floor of his bedroom. To do this he will use a pushing force to move the box in front of him pulling force to move the box in front of him lifting force to raise the box up pushing force to hold the box down SIS 03 Science FM October 2009 Page 2
5 glacier is an example of what state of matter? Liquid Gas Mixture Solid lay Sand 6 student decides to go for a swim in the local pool. What state of matter is the water in the pool? Solid Liquid Gas Mixture 7 Which of the resources list below is a renewable resource? Wood Oil oal Minerals 8 Two soil samples shown above were tested to see how much water each could hold. One plastic bottle contained sand and the other contained clay. One cup of water was added to each container of soil. What is most likely to happen? Water will flow through both containers at the same rate. The clay and sand will both hold all of the water. The clay will hold more of the water than the sand. The sand will hold more of the water than the clay. SIS 03 Science FM October 2009 Page 3
9 The surface of the earth changes over time. Some changes are sudden and other changes occur slowly. Which of the following causes a crack in the surface of the Earth in a short period of time? Earthquakes Glaciers Wind Rivers Use the following table to answer question 10. Visible Force Pushing a box car pulling a trailer Invisible Force Gravity causes an apple to fall to the ground from the tree. The north end of a magnet will attract the north end of another magnet. tractor pulling a wagon The north end of a magnet will attract the south end of another magnet. 10 Which of the above statements is incorrect? The north end of a magnet will attract the north end of another magnet car pulling a trailer is a visible force. tractor pulling a wagon is a visible force. The north end of a magnet will attract the south end of another magnet. SIS 03 Science FM October 2009 Page 4
Fossil Fuels Oil Natural Gas lternative Energy Sources Wood Wind? Sun 11 Which of these best completes this chart? Water oal Soil Sand SIS 03 Science FM October 2009 Page 5
Use the following picture and your knowledge of science to answer questions 12, 13 and 14. Model of the Solar System student uses a beach ball to model the Sun. She also uses eight golf balls to model the planets in our solar system. Sun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 12 The Sun is much larger than any of the planets in our solar system. What is another characteristic of the sun that makes it different from the planets? The Sun is made of hard metal. The Sun is made of hot gases. The Sun is very cold at the surface. The Sun is solid on the inside. 13 Which of these changes would make this a better model of the Solar System? Replace the beach ball with a tennis ball. Replace all the golf balls with tennis balls. Paint all the golf balls blue and green. Use different sizes of balls for the planets. 14 What is the name of planet number 7 above? Saturn Uranus Earth Jupiter SIS 03 Science FM October 2009 Page 6
2005 JupiterImages orporation 15 Water is boiling in a pot on the stove. This will cause the matter to change from a liquid to a solid solid to a gas gas to a liquid liquid to a gas SIS 03 Science FM October 2009 Page 7