These OHIO tests have been created in accordance with testing standards approved by the OHIO Department of Education.
The ninth grade test in Science has 20 questions. This test is appropriate for those in the final
months of ninth grade and in tenth and eleventh grade.
- Devise a classification system for a set of objects or a group of organisms.
Use common characteristics to group items.
- Distinguish between observation and inference given a representation of a scientific situation.
Tell the difference between facts and assumptions.
- Identify and apply science safety procedures.
Identify the safety precautions needed when doing an experiment.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the use of measuring devices and report data in appropriate units.
Choose an instrument to make a certain measurement.
- Describe the results of earth-changing processes.
Describe changes taking place in the earth's surface.
- Apply concepts of the Earth's rotation, tilt and revolution to an understanding of time and season.
Explain how seasons change.
- Describe interactions of matter and energy throughout the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere.
Explain materials cycles (water, carbon, nitrogen), currents, and weather on the land, in the water, and in the air.
- Apply the use of simple machines to practical situations.
Describe how a lever or pulley can make a task easier.
- Apply the concept of force and mass to predict the motion of objects.
Describe the motion of a thrown ball.
- Apply the concept of force and mass to predict the motion of objects.
Describe the motion of a thrown ball.
- Apply the concepts of energy transformations in electrical and mechanical systems.
Describe how the energy in a flashlight battery is transformed into heat and light.
- Apply concepts of sound and light waves to everyday situations.
Describe how light and sound travel through different materials.
- Describe chemical and/or physical interactions of matter.
Describe how a cube of sugar dissolves in water, how metals rust, and how things burn.
- Trace the flow of energy and/or interrelationships of organisms in an ecosystem.
Identify the food chain in a lake.
- Compare and contrast the characteristics of plants and animals.
Tell how plants and animals are alike and different.
- Explain biological diversity in terms of the transmission of genetic characteristics.
Explain why there are different breeds of dogs or kinds of plants.
- Describe how organisms accomplish basic life functions at various levels of organization and structures.
Describe a life function like digestion complete with the appropriate anatomy.
- Describe the ways scientific ideas have changed using historical contexts.
Describe how explanations of eclipses have changed over time.
- Compare renewable and nonrenewable resources and strategies for managing them.
Compare oil and sunlight as sources of energy.
- Describe the relationship between technology and science.
How do science and inventions affect each other.
- Describe how a given environmental change affects an ecosystem
Describe how a flood or drought affects plant and animal life.
