5/6 Math
Rich's fish tank is a right rectangular prism. It has length 6 ft, width 2 ft, and height 4 ft. Its volume is this.
What is 48 cubic feet?
A cook removes a package of food from the freezer to defrost. If the temperature starts at -15 oF and ends at 35 oF, what is the change in temperature?
What is 50 oF?
Day and night are caused by this movement of the Earth.
What is rotation?
Temperature measures this property of the particles of matter.
What is average kinetic energy?
On vocabulary items, you need to examine this in order to determine the correct answer.
What is the context?
Some words have multiple meanings, and you need to pick the one that matches the use in the reading.
The least common multiple of 4 and 10 is this.
What is 20?
The equation y=4.3x can be used to determine the cost, y, of x pounds of apples. The number 4.3 in the equation represents this.
What is the unit price?
Also acceptable: cost per pound, constant of proportionality, slope
Identify at least two differences between a solid and a gas.
Answers may vary. Solids have fixed shape and fixed size; gases don't. Particles in gases move freely, while in solids they are arranged in a lattice.
Identify at least one type of diagram that models the inheritance of particular traits.
(Arguments can be made for other models such as cladograms)
When taking your writing test, it is often best to write your response in this format.
What is a 5-paragraph essay?
Note that the essay format won't work for some prompts, but you MUST have multiple paragraphs and at least as much length as a 5-paragraph essay.
Mr. Morris built a fence to enclose his yard. On Monday, he put up 3/4 of the whole fence. On Tuesday, he built 1/6 of the total fence. He finished on Wednesday by building this much.
What is 1/12 of the fence?
3/4 is the same as 9/12, 1/6 is 2/12, and they add to 11/12, which is 1/12 less than a whole.
1/6 is equivalent to this decimal representation.
What is 0.1666666...?
During a full moon, the positions of the Sun, Earth, and Moon relate in this manner.
The Moon is on the side of the Earth opposite from the Sun.
Identify at two pieces of evidence that can show that a chemical reaction has occurred.
Answers may vary. Possibilities include color change, precipitates, bubbles, etc.
These are the two types of passages that will be given to you in the reading test.
What are literary and informational?
You will get two reading passages of each type. One of the four readings will consist of a set containing multiple sources, which may include multimedia.
A science teacher has 0.4 liters of seawater in a jar. Each of her 22 students takes one spoonful out with a 5 mL spoon to do an experiment. How much is left in the jar after they finish?
What is 290 mL?
The jar starts with 400 mL, and 22 * 5 = 110 mL are taken out.
The expression (7x - 5) - (3x - 2) simplifies to this.
What is 4x - 3?
Identify the roles of producers, consumers, and decomposers in the food web.
Producers make food.
Consumers get food from other organisms.
Decomposers consume waste products such as feces and dead things.
In a sample of rock strata, the oldest layer of rock is found where?
At the bottom
Your writing task will be one of three possible types: Informational/Explanatory, Opinion/Argumentative, or this.
What is narrative?
A grocery store sells a bag of 5 lemons for $2.00. The unit cost of each lemon is this.
What is $0.40?
A family of 2 adults and 2 children goes to a fair. Admission costs $11 per adult and $5 per child. Rides cost $1.25 each. If the family spent $52.00 in total, how many rides did they pay for?
What is 16?
After a cooler full of ice melts, Max notices that the level of the water is much lower than the level of the ice had been before. Identify two reasons why this happened.
Ice is less dense than water; water expands when freezing.
Liquid water takes the shape of the container, while the solid cubes leave gaps.
Briefly summarize Newton's 3 Laws of Motion
1. Inertia
2. F=ma
3. Action-reaction
This style of writing prompt was common on the old NJSLA, but will not appear on this year's test.
"Compare and Contrast" OR "Research Simulation Task" OR "Literary Analysis Task"