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Question: Mark an X next to each of the following that can cause more erosion in a streamtable experiment. (Use a water source with a bigger hole.) Use a water source with a smaller hole.  Make the slope flatter. (Make the slope steeper.) Explain why your choices cause more erosion.
Reference answer: A bigger hole puts more water in the stream. Increased flow moves more earth materials, increasing erosion. A steeper slope makes the water flow faster. Faster flow moves more earth materials, increasing erosion.

Student answer: Because if you used a slope steeper it will destroy the earth material.

Student answer: I chose these choices because if there is a bigger hole then more water will flow through causing greater erosion. If the slope is steeper then the water will flow faster causing greater erosion..

Student answer: If the water source has a bigger hole it would let out more water at one time, more water more erosion. If we make a steeper slope the water will have more momentum making it stronger to carry more earth materials.

Student answer: Because more water would come out at once.
Question: What is the relationship between the amount of effort required to lift the load and its distance from the fulcrum?
Reference answer: If the effort is applied farther from the fulcrum, less effort will lift the load.

Student answer: They both start off with 0. And they both have effort in it.

Student answer: If the effort is farther from the fulcrum, it takes less effort to lift it.

Student answer: The farther the effort is applied from the fulcrum the effort decreases.

Student answer: If the effort is closer to the fulcrum then it is easier but if the effort is farther from the fulcrum then it is harder.
Question: Look at the illustration of the pulley system at the right to answer the questions. What additional disadvantages might there be to this system compared to a single fixed pulley system?
Reference answer: You have to pull up in this system.  In the single fixed pulley system, you get a directional advantage.

Student answer: A single fixed single movable has 2 more ropes than a single fixed. A single fixed system has one rope that separates the effort.

Student answer: A single fixed does not change anything but a single fixed or single movable effort is 3 times the distance.

Student answer: Another disadvantage would be that the system would be more time consuming.

Student answer: The disadvantage would again be distance. On the single fixed, if you wanted to lift something 4 foot, you would have to lift it 4 foot. On a single fixed or single movable upward effort, you would have to lift it 12 foot.
Question: How can you use a magnet to find out if the key is iron or aluminum?
Reference answer: If the key sticks, the key is iron; if the key does not stick the key is aluminum.

Student answer: You will know because if it sticks it is iron if it does not it is aluminum.

Student answer: If it attracts, it is iron. If it does not, it is aluminum.

Student answer: If it is iron it will stick to a magnet if it is aluminum it will not.

Student answer: Iron will stick. Aluminum will not stick.
Question: Look at the picture on the right. Label the poles on each magnet. (The bottom 2 magnets are stuck together, the others are not.) What is the rule that explains why you labeled the poles the way you did?
Reference answer: Like poles repel and opposite poles attract.

Student answer: The reason why the rings do not touch is because the magnetic force of the magnet are the same.

Student answer: They are not touching each other because the same poles are facing towards each other making them repel.

Student answer: It is not touching because it is the other way around.

Student answer: The reason the magnets on the pencil are not touching because of magnetic force.
Question: Sometimes a red stoplight changes to green only when a car stops at the light. A type of magnet hidden under the surface of the road triggers the light to turn green. What is it about the car that could trigger a magnet to send a signal to the light?
Reference answer: A car is made of a lot of iron or steel.

Student answer: When you stop Do not you see a white line. I think this has a magnet under it.

Student answer: That is because a car is made of metal and the magnet attract to metal.

Student answer: There is a magnet that turns the color of the signal light that makes it turn red, yellow, green.

Student answer: The light turn red will repel, if the light green.
Question: Anne is investigating which objects stick to magnets. She recorded this in her notebook. I was surprised! A nail was stuck to the magnet. When I accidentally touched the nail to a paperclip, the paperclip stuck to the nail. If Anne touched the nail to a brass ring, what do you think would happen and why?
Reference answer: The brass ring would not stick to the nail because the ring is not iron. The nail is a temporary magnet, but brass cannot become a temporary magnet and thus does not stick to magnets.

Student answer: It would not become a temporary magnet because it is not iron or metal it is brass.

Student answer: If Anne attached the nail to a brass ring nothing would happen because the magnetic force would not be strong enough.

Student answer: I think that the nail will fall. Because the brass ring is too much weight on the nail and magnet.

Student answer: Probably not it depends on how heavy it is and if it is made of iron.
Question: Look at the circuit in the picture. The gap between the D-cell and the switch needs to be connected. Can you use a piece of string to make the connection? Why or why not?
Reference answer: No, string is an insulator, so the pathway would not be completed.

Student answer: The string does not have iron in it to make it work.

Student answer: Because it is not going in a circle so it will not work.

Student answer: You can use string because it will hook and make it work.

Student answer: Why it does work, because if the string is together the motor will run.
Question: Look at the circuit in the picture. The gap between the D-cell and the switch needs to be connected. Can you use a piece of aluminum foil to make the connection? Why or why not?
Reference answer: Yes, aluminum foil is a metal and all metals conduct. The aluminum foil would complete the circuit.

Student answer: Yes because it is aluminum.

Student answer: Yes, it has metal in it.

Student answer: No because it is not wires.

Student answer: No, because it cannot attract electricity or get power.
Question: Look at the diagram of a circuit at the right. Will the motor run? Why?
Reference answer: The circuit is not complete. The electrical pathway is broken.

Student answer: I choose no because the wires are not connecting.

Student answer: It does not make a complete circuit.

Student answer: I chose this answer because they are missing a wire.

Student answer: The circuit is open.
Question: Only one circuit below will light the bulb. Which one will work? Why is that the only circuit that will work?
Reference answer: That circuit is the only circuit that uses all of the correct contact points.

Student answer: One wire needs to be touching the bottom and you can put another wire or battery on the side or the other way around. In this picture a wire is touching the bottom and the D-cell is touching the side.

Student answer: It is because the wire is touching the right part of the bulb. The electricity is flowing.

Student answer: The only circuit that will work is A.

Student answer: The wire is on the D-cell are on the light bulb.
Question: Lee has an object he wants to test to see if it is an insulator or a conductor. He is going to use the circuit you see in the picture. Explain how he can use the circuit to test the object.
Reference answer: Lee should put one of the loose wires on one part of the object and the other loose wire on another part of the object and see if the object completes the circuit.

Student answer: He need to connect the wires to the object and see if the motor runs.

Student answer: He will put one part of the wire one side and the other on the other side.

Student answer: He can put the bends of the wire on the material.

Student answer: Connect the object to the wires that do not connect to each other and turn the switch on.
Question: Lee has an object he wants to test to see if it is an insulator or a conductor. He is going to use the circuit you see in the picture. How will he know if the object is a conductor?
Reference answer: If the motor runs, the object is a conductor.

Student answer: He will know if the motor will run if it is a conductor it will not if it is a isolator.

Student answer: The conductor will make it go.

Student answer: He will know that if it works.

Student answer: He could know if it works, motor.
Question: Denise made a circuit to light a bulb or run a motor. She used a special switch. Below is the schematic diagram of her circuit. The switch is inside the dotted box. What will happen when she moves the switch to the left?
Reference answer: The bulb will light.

Student answer: The light bulb will turn on.

Student answer: The light bulb will light up.

Student answer: When she moves the switch to the left the bulb will light.

Student answer: It might lose power.
Question: Denise made a circuit to light a bulb or run a motor off a D-cell battery. She used a special switch. Below is the schematic diagram of her circuit. The switch is inside the dotted box. Why will the bulb light when she moves the switch to the left?
Reference answer: There is a complete circuit connecting the bulb to the D-cell battery.

Student answer: That will happen because it is a complete circuit.

Student answer: Because when you turn it left the circuit is open which means it goes off.

Student answer: Because she only has one switch.

Student answer: Moving the switch the light bulb will make it light up.
Question: Denise made a circuit to light a bulb or run a motor. She used a special switch. Below is the schematic diagram of her circuit. The switch is inside the dotted box. What will happen when she moves the switch to the right?
Reference answer: The motor will run.

Student answer: It will work.

Student answer: The motor will turn on.

Student answer: The motor will run.

Student answer: The bulb will still light.
Question:  Denise made a circuit to light a bulb or run a motor off a D-cell battery. She used a special switch. Below is the schematic diagram of her circuit. The switch is inside the dotted box. Why will the motor run when she moves the switch to the right?
Reference answer: There is a complete circuit connecting the motor to the D-cell battery.

Student answer: Because the battery is hooked to the switch.

Student answer: Because Right is to turn off and Left is to turn on.

Student answer: Because she used the special switch.

Student answer: Because if you already had a series circuit then it has to be a parallel circuit.
Question: Denise made a circuit to light a bulb or run a motor. She used a special switch. Below is the schematic diagram of her circuit. The switch is inside the dotted box. Can she run both the light and the motor at the same time? Why or why not?
Reference answer: No. Only one circuit can be complete at a time.

Student answer: No because the switch is hooked in the middle.

Student answer: Yes if it go in a circle.

Student answer: She can too because it will be in a It will be a closed circuit.

Student answer: No she cannot, because the battery D-cell cannot hold that much energy.
Question: Trace over the complete circuit with your pencil to show where it is. Even though there is a complete circuit, the bulb will not light. Why not?
Reference answer: The circuit does not include both contact points on the bulb holder, so the electricity can not go through the bulb.

Student answer: Because the hook needs the wire to move so one is on each side.

Student answer: The wire on the negative side of the light needs to be hooked to the motor's clip it should look like this?

Student answer: It is not a complete circuit.

Student answer: The bulb will not light because there is a closed circuit.
Question: The motors shown at the right with the D-cell batteries will NOT run. Explain why.
Reference answer: The negative terminals of the D-cell batteries are facing each other, so there is no flow of electricity.

Student answer: They will not run because electricity flows from negative to positive and on here it is negative to negative.

Student answer: They will not run because the batteries have to be facing the same direction, negative to positive.

Student answer: They will not run because negative is pointing to negative.

Student answer: The motors will not run because they do not have negative they only have positives.
Question: Look at the picture of the circuit to the right. What will happen to the motor if the light bulb burns out?
Reference answer: The motor will continue to run because the motor still has a pathway to the D-cell.

Student answer: The motor will burn out also.

Student answer: The motor will also burn out with the light bulb because it is in parallel circuit.

Student answer: The motor will keep running.

Student answer: The motor will stop working because it is in a series.
Question: Kurt was investigating which objects stick to magnets. He made an entry in his science notebook and drew a picture to help explain what he did. Look what I did! I picked up a paperclip with a magnet. Then that paperclip picked up another one, and then another one. And they weren't hooked together either. All they had to do was touch each other. Explain to Kurt why he was able to pick up all those paperclips, even though the magnet was only touching the first one.
Reference answer: When a paperclip sticks to a magnet, the paperclip turns into a temporary magnet, so the paperclip can stick to other paperclips and other things made of iron.

Student answer: The magnet has more power so it is able to hold more.

Student answer: Because the magnetism is flowing.

Student answer: Dear Kurt, that paperclip became a temporary magnet that is why you could pick up 3 magnets.

Student answer: It is an induced magnetism.
Question: Look at the schematic diagram. What will happen to the other 2 bulbs if the middle bulb burns out?
Reference answer: If the middle bulb burns out the other 2 bulbs will stay lit.

Student answer: Nothing will happen.

Student answer: The others will not work.

Student answer: The other bulbs will burn out too.

Student answer: The bulb will go off.
Question: Look at the schematic diagram including a D-cell battery and 3 bulbs. Why do the other 2 bulbs stay lit if the middle bulb burns out?
Reference answer: The circuit is parallel, so each bulb has its own pathway to the D-cell battery, so the bulbs that do not burn out continue to shine.

Student answer: It is a parallel that is why just that one will go out.

Student answer: It is a parallel circuit and each light bulb has its own path to the D-Cell or power supply.

Student answer: It will happen because it is a parallel circuit.

Student answer: I chose this answer because it is a series.
Question: A magnet attracted another magnet even when a foam block was placed between them (see box A below). What do you think would happen if 2 foam blocks were placed between the 2 magnets (see box B). A. The magnets will stick. B. The magnets will not stick. (C. It might stick, but it might not.) Explain why you chose that answer.
Reference answer: You can not tell because we do not know the strength of the magnets. If the magnets are weak, the second piece of foam might put too much distance between the 2 magnets for the interaction to hold the magnets in place. If the magnets are strong the magnets might stay in place.

Student answer: There has to be a more fatter thing.

Student answer: The magnets might be strong enough to get through the foam blocks or they are not strong enough to get through the foam blocks.

Student answer: I chose that answer because the magnets might go through the foam blocks but it might not go through.

Student answer: I chose that answer because I am not sure.
Question: Wendy is making an electromagnet. She wrapped a long, insulated wire around an iron nail. What should Wendy do next to complete the electromagnet?
Reference answer: Wendy should hook one end of the wire to the negative side of a D-cell battery and the other end to the positive side of the D-cell battery.

Student answer: She would hook the wires up to the D-cell.

Student answer: Connect the 2 end of the wires to the D-cell.

Student answer: She needs a battery onto then, attach the wire to the battery.

Student answer: Connect the wire tips to a D-cell.
Question: Greta used her hand to measure the length of the whiteboard in her classroom. She found that it was 14 hands long. Andre measured the whiteboard and found that it was 16 hands long. Explain why Greta and Andre got different measurements.
Reference answer: Greta and Andre have different sized hands.

Student answer: Greta's hand is probably longer than Andre's hand.

Student answer: Because Greta's hands are small. And Andre's hands are big.

Student answer: Because they are older than the other and their hand have different hands, or one of them opened their finger and the other did not.

Student answer: I think different hands size.
Question: 2 groups used marbles to weigh the same apple. Jin's group found the apple weighed 35 marbles and Bee's group found the same apple weighed 60 marbles. Both groups used the correct procedure. Since they weighed the same apple, what do you think happened to make the results different?
Reference answer: The marbles used by the 2 groups were probably different masses.

Student answer: Because Jin's group has less marbles and Bee's group had more marbles.

Student answer: I think you put 34 marbles to put the same sizes.

Student answer: He could get a different apple.

Student answer: They forgot to do some things before they balance.
Question: 2 groups used marbles to weigh the same apple. Jin's group found the apple weighed 35 marbles and Bee's group found the same apple weighed 60 marbles. Both groups used the correct procedure. What should the groups do to make their results more useful?
Reference answer: Use a standard unit of mass like grams.

Student answer: They should zero their balances.

Student answer: Get the same marbles.

Student answer: They should zero it out before they put the apple in.

Student answer: Use grams.
Question: Why is it important to use a standard unit when making a measurement?
Reference answer: So people know exactly what the measurement means. A standard is necessary so everyone measures using the same unit and everyone gets the same measurement.

Student answer: Because you could not make measurement without a standard unit.

Student answer: If you have a standard measurement you can get the correct answer and you do not have the wrong answer.

Student answer: We use a standard unit so we do not get the measurement wrong.

Student answer: Because it is a standard unit.
Question: Jen was talking on the phone with her Uncle Bill who lives in Canada. When she asked him how the weather was, he said it was nice and warm, about 28 degrees. What unit is Uncle Bill using to report the temperature?
Reference answer: Bill must have been using degrees Celsius if 28 is a warm temperature.

Student answer: A mass.

Student answer: He is using a Celsius.

Student answer: Thermometer.

Student answer: Celsius.
Question: Look at the picture below [which shows a balance tipped down on the side containing a ball; the right cup has 20 grams and 10 grams mass pieces]. The mass of the ball is one of the following. It must be A. 20 grams. B. 30 grams. (C. 40 grams.) Explain why you chose the answer that you did.
Reference answer: There is 30 grams (20 grams plus 10 grams) in the right cup. The balance is tipped down on the ball side which means the ball weighs more than 30 grams. 40 grams is the only weight heavier than 30 grams.

Student answer: Because 10 grams plus 20 grams is 30 grams.

Student answer: I chose that answer because left side is heavy than the right side I think that is the answer.

Student answer: I chose it because 20 grams plus 10 grams equals 30 grams and the ball is heavier that is why I chose it.

Student answer: Because it is not 30 because they already show you so it must be 40.
Question: Mary told her friend Sharice that she had a rug to sell. Sharice asked if the rug would fit perfectly, wall to wall, in her bedroom. Mary went home and measured the rug. She put her feet heel-to-toe and counted the number of shoe lengths it took to measure the rug. She found the rug was 18 shoes long and 12 shoes wide. Sharice did the same thing in her room to measure the space for the rug. Her floor was 18 shoes long and 12 shoes wide. A perfect fit! Sharice bought the rug and took it home. To her dismay, she found it was too short and too narrow for her bedroom! What could Mary and Sharice do to better measure the size of the rug?
Reference answer: Use a standard unit of measurement such as centimeters or meters.

Student answer: They could use a meter tape to measure or feet.

Student answer: They should use a standard.

Student answer: That they have different hands that are big and small.

Student answer: They could use a tape meter so they could measure both the rug and the floor.
Question: Gerry used a paper filter to separate a mixture of sand, salt, and water. Think about particle size and answer this question: Why did the salt go through the filter while the sand got caught?
Reference answer: The dissolved salt particles are small enough to go through the holes in the filter paper, but the sand particles are too large.

Student answer: I think it is because the salt was small enough and the sand was too big for it. The salt had gone away dissolved. Sand particles was too big.

Student answer: Because the salt fit through the holes in the filter.

Student answer: The salt is a smaller grain. The sand is more chunky and thicker so it not easy for it to go through.

Student answer: Because the salt was a smaller particle than the sand.
Question: A solution is a type of mixture. What makes it different from other mixtures?
Reference answer: A solution is a mixture formed when a solid dissolves in a liquid.

Student answer: Because a solution is something you use in a everyday life, and mixture is something we do not always use.

Student answer: A solution is a mixture that cannot be taken apart.

Student answer: Different items.

Student answer: A mixture is 2 thing put together, a solution is one thing that disperses into the so that the first material cannot be seen.
Question: How do you know when a solid and a liquid form a solution?
Reference answer: The solid dissolves (seems to disappear) and the liquid remains clear.

Student answer: Because you can see through it, and the mixture will dissolve into it.

Student answer: You can not see the solid no more because it is going and you cannot see the solution.

Student answer: You know when the solid cannot be seen.

Student answer: When the solid dissolves into the liquid.
Question: Emily put 20 milliliters of a mystery solution in an evaporation dish. When all the water was gone, she drew the picture of the dish you see here.  Using the crystal-shape key below, what chemical do you think was dissolved in the solution? A. Epsom salt B. Sodium thiosulfate (C. Alum) D. None of the above. Explain why you chose that answer.
Reference answer: Emily's crystals are the same shape as the alum crystals shown on the key.

Student answer: The crystals are the same shape and they look the same.

Student answer: Because in the key, alum is the exact same pattern as the one above.

Student answer: I think that the Epsom salt because it look like salt crystal. It is sodium hyposulfite or alum.

Student answer: Because below the alum picture looks just like the one above.