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Science Test Answers
For several years, I saved up humorous “school stuff” in the hopes of sharing it in a public place like my Web site. I am finally going through these archives and pulling off the material I like best. I hope you enjoy these answers from 5th and 6th graders taken from their Science tests:
The law of gravity says no fair jumping up without coming back down.
You can listen to thunder and tell how close you came to getting hit. If you don’t hear it, you got hit, so never mind.
A vibration is a motion that cannot make up its mind which way it wants to go.
There are 26 vitamins in all, but some of the letters are yet to be discovered.
There is a tremendous weight pushing down on the center of the Earth because so many people are stomping around up there these days.
Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let them know we know they’re there.
I’m not sure how clouds are formed, but clouds know how to do it, and that’s the important thing.
Water vapor gets together in a cloud. When it is big enough to be called a drop, it does.
Rain is saved up in cloud banks.
It is so hot in some places that people have to live in other places.
Mushrooms always grow in damp places, which is why they look like umbrellas.
Momentum is something you give a person when they go away.
A monsoon is a French gentleman.
To keep milk from going sour, keep it in the cow.
Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun, but I have never been able to make out the numbers.
When planets run around and around in circles, we say they are orbiting. When people do it, we say they are crazy.
In some rocks, you can find the fossil footprints of fishes.
For asphyxiation, apply artificial respiration until the patient is dead.
Thunder is a rich source of loudness.
The four seasons are salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar.
The alimentary canal is located in the northern part of Indiana.
One of the main causes of dust is janitors.
The inhabitants of Moscow are called Mosquitoes.
A census taker is a man who goes from house to house increasing the population.
A city purifies its water supply by filtering the water and then forcing it through an aviator.
The spinal column is a long bunch of bones. The head sits at the top, and you sit on the bottom.
One of my very first tests, which I gave as a student teacher in early 1973, was a Science test on a unit on volcanoes. One of the questions asked the kids to explain the how volcanoes, and lava floes in particular, contribute to increasing land mass. One of my students wrote: It piles and piles for miles and miles.
I don’t have much from my early teaching days, but I still have these tests in a file in my office.
Please note: This material was forwarded to me with no attribution to the actual author. If you know who created this list, please let me know so I can attribute it properly. Thanks.
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