ORANGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
OFFICE OF CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION
OFFICE OF SCIENCE
GRADE 5
SCIENCE
Post - Assessment
School Year 2013-2014
Directions for Grade 5 Post-Assessment
The Grade 5 Post-Assessment is made up of multiple choice questions, and constructed
response questions.
Read each question carefully, including diagrams and/or graphs.
Work as rapidly as you can without sacrificing accuracy. Do not spend too much time
puzzling over a question that seems too difficult for you. Answer the easier questions
first; then return to the harder ones. Try to answer every question, even if you have to
guess.
Where necessary, you may use scratch paper for your work. Do not use the margins of
the test booklet to do scratch work.
YOU MUST RECORD YOUR ANSWERS IN THE TEST BOOKLET PROVIDED.
ALL MULTIPLE CHOICE, SHORT CONSTRUCTED RESPONSES AND ESSAY
RESPONSES MUST BE WRITTEN IN YOUR TEST BOOKLET.
Student Name Teacher
Grade 5 – FOSS Date ______
SGO Post-Assessment – Grade 5
Multiple Choice –
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question and write the letter of the correct answer in
the blank provided.
____ 1. Starch and sugar belong to the group of nutrients called
A. fats.
B. carbohydrates.
C. sweets.
D. yeasts.
2. Donny wanted to find out the percentage of fat in ranch salad dressing. He plans to do the fat test on the salad
dressing. Which food should he use as a control?
A. another ranch salad dressing
B. pure Italian dressing
C. pure vinegar
D. pure cooking oil
3. In the sugar test, yeast converts sugar into carbon dioxide. The bubbles released show that yeast is
a(n)____________?
A. chemical
B. animal
C. air
D. indicator
4. Bases taste
A. sweet.
B. sour.
C. salty.
D. bitter.
5. If Maria eats less food (calories) than she uses,
A. her breathing becomes faster.
B. she loses weight.
C. her heart rate increases.
D. the extra food is stored as fat.
______ 6. Which of the following gives us the most energy in calories?
A. Water
B. Fat
C. Carbohydrate
D. Protein
7. The function of a flower in a plant is __________________.
A. Reproduction
B. Water absorption
C. Food Production
D. Anchor plant in ground
Student Name Teacher
Grade 5 – FOSS Date ______
8. Why is it important for plants to transpire?
A. It keeps the plant from drowning.
B. It gets rid of water in the plant.
C. It transports water to every cell in the plant at all times.
D. It helps plants get water from other plants.
9. Which of the following describe a prokaryotic cell?
A. cells without a nucleus
B. multicellular organisms
C. cells that photosynthesize
D. animal cell
10. Fungi in the natural environment are mostly
A. consumers.
B. decomposers.
C. parasites.
D. producers.
11. Veronica used a crowbar to pry a nail out of a board. Which of the following diagrams correctly shows where
the fulcrum, effort, and load are located on the crowbar when it is used this way?
Choose the one response below that appropriate fills in the blanks from top to bottom.
______ 12. 1. A class-3 lever has the ______________ in the middle.
2. A class-2 lever has the ______________ in the middle.
3. A class-1 lever has the ______________ in the middle
A. fulcrum C. load
load effort
effort fulcrum
B. effort D. fulcrum
load effort
fulcrum. load
Student Name Teacher
Grade 5 – FOSS Date ______
13. A paper cutter is a simple machine. The cutting
handle that slices the paper is an example of a ___________
A. pulley
B. screw
C. lever.
D. inclined plane.
14. When a pulley is used to lift a load, as shown in the illustration,
the advantage gained is
A.less friction.
B. less work.
C. mechanical.
D. directional.
15. Joe wanted to find out the relationship between the size of a stone and how far it will travel when thrown.
He did an experiment and collected the data shown below:
Size of Stone Distance
1g 170 cm
10 g 135 cm
25 g 80 cm
40 g 45 cm
50 g 15 cm
Which of the following would best visually represent this data?
A. Bar Graph
B. Line Graph
C. Pie Chart
D. Venn Diagram
Student Name Teacher
Grade 5 – FOSS Date ______
Refer to the picture below to answer question 16.
16. Which pulley system will require the least amount of effort?
A. pulley system A
B. pulley system B
C. pulley system C
D. pulley system D
17. What could you change in the lever system pictured below to make it easier to lift the load?
A. Move the effort toward the fulcrum.
B. Pull up with the effort rather than down.
C. Move the fulcrum so it is just below the effort.
D. Move the fulcrum closer to the load.
Short Answer – Answer each question in the space provided. Study
the graph at the right and answer the following questions.
18. If the load is 17 cm from the fulcrum, how much effort is needed
to lift the load?
19. If it takes an effort of 6.0 N to lift the load, how far would the
effort be from the fulcrum?
20. What is the relationship between the amount of effort required to
lift the load and the distance the load is from the fulcrum?
Student Name Teacher
Grade 5 – FOSS Date ______
21. Directions: WRITE the letter L next to each object listed below that is living.
______ mushroom ______ skateboard ______ cactus
______ robot ______ fire ______ apple seed
______ the Sun ______ beetle ______ lobster
Answer each question in the space provided. Write legibly and in complete sentences taking care to use proper sen-
tence structure. Address each aspect of the question in your answer.
Michael wants to compare the fat in potato chips and in corn chips, but he isn’t sure how.
22. WRITE a procedure Michael can use to compare the fat in potato chips and corn chips.
23. Using only the results from his experiment, EXPLAIN how Michael will know which one, corn chips or potato
chips, has more fat.
Student Name Teacher
Grade 5 – FOSS Date ______
Darnell and Danielle had 5 cookies. They put 5 g of each cookie into a bag with 50 mL of water and 2 spoonfuls of
yeast. They put the 5 bags in warm water. After 20 minutes, they put the 5 bags into measuring tubes. This is what they
observed.
24. Put the cookies in order of least sugar to most sugar.
least most
25. Number the following pictures in the correct order that shows the accurate life cycle of a plant.
__________ __________ __________ _________
Student Name Teacher
Grade 5 – FOSS Date ______
26. Mark an X next to each sentence that describes something you would need to know about an organism if you were
setting up a habitat for it.
_____ What it eats.
_____ What color it is.
_____ How much it rains in its natural habitat.
_____ If it prefers light or dark.
_____ The temperature range in which it can survive
27. To the right is an incomplete drawing of a spring scale.
• Draw a bar (the little metal indicator) on the spring
scale to show a measurement of 2.6 N
28. How much force (effort) does each small, light line
on the spring scale represent?
____________________________________________
