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FTCE Subject Area - Elementary
Education K-6: Science Questions
And Answers 2025
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Mr. Jackson takes his students outside to the sidewalk
where a puddle of water has just evaporated. He asks a
student to place her hand where the puddle was and the
other hand where there was no puddle of water. The
sidewalk will feel: - ANSWER-cooler where the puddle
was than where there was no puddle
Mr. Lopez is teaching a unit on seasons. He explains why
summer days are longer and winter days are shorter. What
should Mr. Lopez emphasize regarding the Earth when
explaining this phenomenon? - ANSWER-Earth's tilt on
its axis
A river flows through a canyon and picks up a bunch of
slit. That sediment and slit runs downstream and deposits
where the river ends. When that material gets to the
beach, it sits there. Over millions of years,
_______________________ form. - ANSWER-
sedimentary rocks
The sun appears bigger than other stars because of:
- ANSWER-the distance the Earth is from the Sun
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The ___________ affects the ocean tides - ANSWER-
Moon
What keeps the earth from falling into the Sun? -
ANSWER-- fairly constant gravitational force between
the sun and earth keeping the earth in its orbit
- Kepler's law and Newton's laws
- earth is not moving fast enough to escape the sun's
gravity and leave the solar system, but too fast to be
pulled into the sun
The best way for a student to understand the sexual
reproductive organs of a flower is to: - ANSWERdissect a
flower and examine its reproductive organs
As random genetic mutations occur within an organism's
genetic code, the beneficial mutations are preserved
because they aid survival. This is called: - ANSWER-
natural selection
Evolution occurs in: - ANSWER-populations
FTCE Subject Area - Elementary
Education K-6: Science Questions
And Answers 2025
,2|Page
Mr. Jackson takes his students outside to the sidewalk
where a puddle of water has just evaporated. He asks a
student to place her hand where the puddle was and the
other hand where there was no puddle of water. The
sidewalk will feel: - ANSWER-cooler where the puddle
was than where there was no puddle
Mr. Lopez is teaching a unit on seasons. He explains why
summer days are longer and winter days are shorter. What
should Mr. Lopez emphasize regarding the Earth when
explaining this phenomenon? - ANSWER-Earth's tilt on
its axis
A river flows through a canyon and picks up a bunch of
slit. That sediment and slit runs downstream and deposits
where the river ends. When that material gets to the
beach, it sits there. Over millions of years,
_______________________ form. - ANSWER-
sedimentary rocks
The sun appears bigger than other stars because of:
- ANSWER-the distance the Earth is from the Sun
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The ___________ affects the ocean tides - ANSWER-
Moon
What keeps the earth from falling into the Sun? -
ANSWER-- fairly constant gravitational force between
the sun and earth keeping the earth in its orbit
- Kepler's law and Newton's laws
- earth is not moving fast enough to escape the sun's
gravity and leave the solar system, but too fast to be
pulled into the sun
The best way for a student to understand the sexual
reproductive organs of a flower is to: - ANSWERdissect a
flower and examine its reproductive organs
As random genetic mutations occur within an organism's
genetic code, the beneficial mutations are preserved
because they aid survival. This is called: - ANSWER-
natural selection
Evolution occurs in: - ANSWER-populations
