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Answer Key Science Grade 5 Public Release Items - 2009

MSA Item Number Answer Grade Objectives Assessed
1 D 4 2.B.2.c Identify what an animal or plant fossil is able to tell about the environment in which it lived.
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2 D 5 6.B.2.c Identify and describe that an environmental issue affects individual people and groups of people differently.
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3 B 4 5.C.3.a Investigate and describe the effect that two magnets have on each other.
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4 A 4 4.A.1.d Cite evidence that supports the statement, "All matter takes up space and contains a certain amount of material."
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5 B 5 4.D.1.a Investigate and describe what happens to the properties of materials when several materials are combined to make a mixture, such as table salt and pepper; various kinds of nuts, chocolate pieces, and coconut; sugar dissolved in milk
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6 A 5 4.B.1.c Describe the relationship between the masses of whole objects to the sum of the mass of their parts using appropriate tools to gather supporting data.
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7 D 5 1.B.1.a Develop explanations using knowledge possessed and evidence from observations, reliable print resources, and investigations.
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8 B 5 1.A.1.f Identify possible reasons for differences in results from investigations including unexpected differences in the methods used or in the circumstances in which the investigation is carried out, and sometimes just because of uncertainties in observations.
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9 5 1.C.1.d Construct and share reasonable explanations for questions asked.
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10 A 4 3.D.1.b Explain that the characteristics of an organism affect its ability to survive and reproduce.
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11 D 5 3.A.1.b Based on information about the features and behaviors of animals and plants from very different environments describe reasons that they might not survive if their environment changed or if they were moved from one environment to another.
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12 C 5 1.C.1.a Make use of and analyze models, such as tables and graphs to summarize and interpret data.
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13 B 4 5.C.2.c Describe and compare the path of electricity (circuit) within this system that caused the light to light or the buzzer to sound to those that do not affect the light or buzzer.
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14 5 4.B.1.b Use evidence from investigations with a variety of materials, such as water to describe how matter can change from one form to another without the loss of any mass.
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15 B 4 2.D.1.e Recognize that the pattern of stars in the sky stays the same although their locations in the sky appear to change with the seasons.
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16 D 5 2.D.2.b Recognize and describe that the rotation of planet Earth produces observable effects
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17 C 5 4.D.1.a Investigate and describe what happens to the properties of materials when several materials are combined to make a mixture, such as table salt and pepper; various kinds of nuts, chocolate pieces, and coconut; sugar dissolved in milk
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18 A 4 3.A.1.d Describe what classifying tells us about the relatedness among the animals or plants placed within any group.
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19 C 5 6.A.1.b Describe how humans use renewable natural resources, such as plants, soil, water, animals.
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20 B 5 6.A.1.c Describe how humans use nonrenewable natural resources, such as oil, coal, natural gas, minerals, including metals
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21 B 5 6.B.2.a Explain how human activities may have positive consequences on the natural environment.
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22 C 5 5.A.1.b Use measurements to describe the distance traveled as the change in position.
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23 B 4 5.C.3.a Investigate and describe the effect that two magnets have on each other.
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24 A 4 2.B.2.a Recognize and explain that the remains or imprints of plants or animals can become fossils.
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25 B 5 4.B.1.b Use evidence from investigations with a variety of materials, such as water to describe how matter can change from one form to another without the loss of any mass.
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26 C 5 6.A.1.a Identify and compare Maryland's renewable resources and nonrenewable resources.
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27 B 5 6.A.1.b Describe how humans use renewable natural resources, such as plants, soil, water, animals.
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28 D 5 1.A.1.b Select and use appropriate tools hand lens or microscope (magnifiers), centimeter ruler (length), spring scale (weight), balance (mass), Celsius thermometer (temperature), graduated cylinder (liquid volume), and stopwatch (elapsed time) to augment observations of objects, events, and processes.
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29 B 5 1.C.1.a Make use of and analyze models, such as tables and graphs to summarize and interpret data.
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30 A 4 2.D.1.e Recognize that the pattern of stars in the sky stays the same although their locations in the sky appear to change with the seasons.
/toolkit/vsc/assessment_items/msa_science_4_034.xml
31 A 4 5.C.2.c Describe and compare the path of electricity (circuit) within this system that caused the light to light or the buzzer to sound to those that do not affect the light or buzzer.
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32 5 3.B.2.c Select information gathered from readings that provides evidence that some organisms' cells vary greatly in appearance and perform very different roles in the organism .
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33 A 5 5.A.1.b Use measurements to describe the distance traveled as the change in position.
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34 B 4 3.F.1.b Explain that changes in an organism's habitat are sometimes beneficial to it and sometimes harmful.
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35 B 4 5.C.2.b Investigate and describe (orally or with diagrams) how to light a light bulb or sound a buzzer given a battery, wires, and light bulb or buzzer.
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36 A 4 2.B.2.c Identify what an animal or plant fossil is able to tell about the environment in which it lived.
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37 C 4 2.A.2.b Cite evidence to show that erosion shapes and reshapes the earth's surface as it moves from one location to another.
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38 D 5 2.A.3.b Identify and compare the properties of rocks that are composed of a single mineral with those of other rocks made of several minerals using their physical properties.
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39 C 5 6.A.1.c Describe how humans use nonrenewable natural resources, such as oil, coal, natural gas, minerals, including metals
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40 A 5 6.B.2.c Identify and describe that an environmental issue affects individual people and groups of people differently.
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41 D 5 4.C.1.a Observe and describe the changes heating and cooling cause to the different states in which water exists.
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42 C 5 4.B.1.b Use evidence from investigations with a variety of materials, such as water to describe how matter can change from one form to another without the loss of any mass.
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43 A 4 4.A.1.b Describe and compare the physical properties of samples of matter.
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44 D 4 5.C.2.d Observe, describe and compare materials that readily conduct electricity and those that do not conduct electricity.
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45 B 5 3.A.1.b Based on information about the features and behaviors of animals and plants from very different environments describe reasons that they might not survive if their environment changed or if they were moved from one environment to another.
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46 D 5 1.A.1.g Judge whether measurements and computations of quantities are reasonable in a familiar context by comparing them to typical values when measured to the nearest:
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