Sample questions
10 questions from mixed topics. This public sample does not change when generators update. Ontario curriculum: Science and Technology (2022). This mixed sample does not use one code. Mapped expectations include B2, C2, and E2. A single-topic sheet prints its own code.
- 1.
Why read labels before mixing cleaners?
- Acleaners are never chemicals
- Bmixtures of cleaners never react
- Csome mixtures produce dangerous gases
- Dlabels only list the colour of the bottle
- 2.
In a food web, the arrows point...
- Afrom the predator toward its prey
- Bfrom the decomposers toward the sunlight
- Cfrom the organism being eaten toward the one that eats it
- Din whichever direction the animals travel
- 3.
Two species of birds in the same forest nest in the same holes and eat the same insects. They are most likely...
- Aforming a mutualistic partnership
- Bcompeting for limited resources
- Csharing one ecological niche with no effect
- Dacting as decomposers together
- 4.
Liam notices warm air rising above a 69°C heater while 21°C air sinks nearby. That movement is...
- Aconvection
- Bradiation through solid rock
- Cconduction through solid metal only
- Dcondensation
- 5.
Emma feels warmth from a sunny window without touching the glass, after 2 minutes. That heat arrived mainly by...
- Aconvection through a vacuum
- Bevaporation from the glass
- Cradiation
- Dconduction through empty space
- 6.
What is an adaptation?
- Aa skill learned in one afternoon
- Ba trait that helps a living thing survive in its environment
- Ca change in the weather
- Da fossil found in rock
- 7.
Removing one species can affect others. This is...
- ATrue
- BFalse
- CTrue only in deserts
- DFalse in wetlands
- 8.
What is a compound?
- Aa blend of sand and water
- Ba pure substance made of two or more elements bonded together
- Ca substance made of one kind of atom
- Da mixture you can separate by filtration
- 9.
The fossil record shows that...
- Arocks never contain signs of life
- Blife on Earth has changed over a very long time
- Cevery species alive today was alive at the start
- Dfossils are still growing
- 10.
A metal spoon sits in 58°C soup and the handle warms. Heat moved along the spoon by...
- Aradiation through empty space inside the spoon
- Bconduction
- Cconvection through the metal
- Dcold flowing from the handle into the soup
