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MTTC Integrated Science Elementary Practice Test

Unofficial practice for MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary), field 093: inquiry, life, earth and space, and physical science in equal parts.

Where in the human lungs do oxygen and carbon dioxide pass between the air and the blood?

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Foundations of scientific inquiry 12

  • A class tests whether fertilizer makes bean plants grow taller. Twenty plants get fertilizer and twenty get none; all get the same light, soil and water. What is the role of the twenty plants with no fertilizer? Wikipedia, "Treatment and control groups". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 001
  • A newspaper debate concerns genetically modified foods. What makes a food “genetically modified”? Wikipedia, "Genetically modified food". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 004
  • A room warms past its set point, so the thermostat switches the furnace off; the room cools, and the furnace comes back on. Which systems idea, used across science and technology, does this show? Wikipedia, "Negative feedback". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 005
  • A student must measure out 35 mL of water as exactly as the classroom equipment allows. Which piece of equipment is the best choice? Wikipedia, "Graduated cylinder". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 001
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Foundations of scientific inquiry, continued

  • A student raises one end of a ramp to three different heights and measures how far a toy car rolls each time. Which is the dependent (responding) variable? Wikipedia, "Dependent and independent variables". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 001
  • Acid rain has damaged lakes and forests downwind of power plants and heavy industry. Emissions of which two pollutants are its main cause? Wikipedia, "Acid rain". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 004
  • Before a class uses a new chemical in an investigation, which document should the teacher read for its hazards and safe handling and storage? Wikipedia, "Safety data sheet". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 002
  • Guidelines for the humane use of animals in science are often summed up as the “three Rs.” What are they? Wikipedia, "Three Rs (animal research)". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 002
  • In the 1500s Nicolaus Copernicus published a model of the heavens that broke with the Earth-centered view. What did his model place near the center? Wikipedia, "Copernican heliocentrism". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 003
  • Philosophers of science call a statement falsifiable when which of these is true? Wikipedia, "Falsifiability". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 003
  • Science seeks to explain the natural world. Which phrase best describes technology? Wikipedia, "Technology". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 004
  • Which principle links a burning candle, a growing plant and a falling rock, and is used in physical, life and earth science alike? Wikipedia, "Conservation of energy". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 005

Life science 12

  • A bat’s wing, a whale’s front flipper and a primate’s arm are built on the same pattern of bones. What are such structures called, and what do they suggest? Wikipedia, "Homology (biology)". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 009
  • A diploid cell with 8 chromosomes divides by meiosis. What is the result? Wikipedia, "Meiosis". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 006
  • A glacier retreats and leaves bare rock with no soil. Lichens arrive first, then mosses and grasses as soil builds. What is this process called? Wikipedia, "Primary succession". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 010
  • A tall pea plant with genotype Tt is crossed with a short pea plant with genotype tt. Tall (T) is dominant over short (t). What fraction of the offspring is expected to be tall? Wikipedia, "Punnett square". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 008
  • DNA profiling (“DNA fingerprinting”) can tell individuals apart. What does it compare? Wikipedia, "DNA profiling". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 008
  • Grass, grasshoppers, frogs and hawks form a food chain. About how much of the energy at one trophic level is stored as biomass at the next level up? Wikipedia, "Ecological pyramid". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 010
  • In a beetle population, birds eat green beetles more often than brown ones, and color is inherited. After many generations most beetles are brown. Which process explains the change? Wikipedia, "Natural selection". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 009
  • In aerobic cellular respiration a cell breaks down glucose to release energy. Which gas does the process use, and which does it give off? Wikipedia, "Cellular respiration". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 007
  • In the scientific name Homo sapiens, what do the two words identify? Wikipedia, "Binomial nomenclature". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 007
  • Where in the human lungs do oxygen and carbon dioxide pass between the air and the blood? Wikipedia, "Pulmonary alveolus". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 011
  • Which blood vessels carry blood out from the heart to the body's tissues? Wikipedia, "Artery". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 011
  • Which statement is a tenet of cell theory? Wikipedia, "Cell theory". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 006

Earth and space science 12

  • A total solar eclipse is forecast for next spring. Which phase must the Moon be in on that day? Wikipedia, "Solar eclipse". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 015
  • A town pumps its drinking water from an underground layer of permeable rock, sand and gravel that holds water. What is such a layer called? Wikipedia, "Aquifer". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 013
  • Deep in the crust, heat and pressure change an existing rock, without melting it, into a new rock such as marble or slate. Which class of rock is formed? Wikipedia, "Metamorphic rock". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 012
  • In the water cycle, by which process does water move through a plant and evaporate from its leaves into the air? Wikipedia, "Transpiration". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 013
  • Michigan has warm summers and cold winters. What causes this yearly cycle of seasons on Earth? Wikipedia, "Season". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 015
  • New oceanic crust forms where two plates move apart, as along a mid-ocean ridge. What kind of plate boundary is this? Wikipedia, "Divergent boundary". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 012
  • On a weather map of the Great Lakes region, in which direction do winds circulate around a low-pressure area? Wikipedia, "Low-pressure area". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 014
  • The ozone layer takes up most of the ultraviolet radiation from the Sun. In which layer of the atmosphere is it found? Wikipedia, "Ozone layer". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 014
  • Which instrument at a school weather station measures wind speed? Wikipedia, "Anemometer". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 014
  • Which layer of Earth is fluid, made mostly of iron and nickel, and lies between the mantle and the solid inner core? Wikipedia, "Earth's outer core". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 012
  • Which observation do Big Bang models of the universe explain? Wikipedia, "Big Bang". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 015
  • Which of the Great Lakes lies entirely inside the United States? Wikipedia, "Lake Michigan". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 013

Physical science 12

  • A 5 kg cart accelerates at 3 m/s². What is the net force on the cart? Wikipedia, "Newton's laws of motion". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 020
  • A 6-ohm resistor is wired across a 9-volt battery. What current flows in the circuit? Wikipedia, "Ohm's law". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 021
  • A bowling ball is taken from Earth to the Moon. What happens to its mass and its weight? Wikipedia, "Mass versus weight". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 018
  • A sealed sample of gas has a volume of 6.0 L at a pressure of 100 kPa. The temperature is held constant while the pressure is raised to 300 kPa. What is the new volume? Wikipedia, "Boyle's law". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 019
  • A siren sounds higher in pitch as an ambulance approaches a listener and lower as it moves away. What is this effect called? Wikipedia, "Doppler effect". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 023
  • A solid block has a mass of 54 g and a volume of 20 cm³. Water has a density of 1.0 g/cm³. What is the block’s density, and what does the block do in water? Wikipedia, "Density". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 018
  • An atom of sodium has atomic number 11 and mass number 23. How many neutrons does it have? Wikipedia, "Mass number". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 016
  • Energy from the Sun crosses the vacuum of space to warm Earth. By which method of heat transfer does it travel? Wikipedia, "Thermal radiation". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 022
  • Solution A has a pH of 3 and solution B has a pH of 5. How do their hydrogen ion concentrations compare? Wikipedia, "pH". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 017
  • Which list names only classical simple machines? Wikipedia, "Simple machine". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 020
  • Which of these substances is a compound? Wikipedia, "Sodium chloride". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 016
  • Which set of coefficients balances the equation __ Fe + __ O₂ → __ Fe₂O₃? Wikipedia, "Chemical equation". Outline: MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) (093) test objectives, objective 017

How this list was compiled: Our own questions, written to the test objectives of MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary), field 093, as the Michigan Test for Teacher Certification site prints them (https://www.mttc.nesinc.com/Content/STUDYGUIDE/MI_SG_OBJ_093.htm; test page https://www.mttc.nesinc.com/TestView.aspx?f=HTML_FRAG/MI093_TestPage.html), read 2026-10-09: 100 multiple-choice questions in 2 hours 30 minutes, passing score 220; four subareas of 25% each: I Foundations of Scientific Inquiry (objectives 001 to 005), II Life Science (006 to 011), III Earth/Space Science (012 to 015), IV Physical Science (016 to 023). This bank holds 12 for each subarea, with every one of the 23 objectives covered. Every fact was read on 2026-10-09 in the Wikipedia article named under its question (48 articles); the eight questions with a calculation were each worked a second time. The sample questions of the study guide were not opened. Licence: Questions, choices and explanations are original work of this site.

How it works

This MTTC Integrated Science Elementary practice test asks 48 questions of our own on field 093, with a source under every answer. It is unofficial, and this site has no tie to the Michigan Department of Education or Pearson.

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MTTC Integrated Science study guide: four equal subareas

On the test objectives, read October 9, 2026, each subarea is 25% of the questions: foundations of scientific inquiry, life science, earth and space science, and physical science. This bank gives 12 questions to each and touches all 23 objectives.

Where the weight hides

Physical science spreads its quarter of the test over eight objectives, from atoms and chemical change to gas laws, mechanics, electricity, energy and waves. Earth and space science has only four objectives for the same share.

Timing

One hundred multiple-choice questions in 2 hours 30 minutes is a minute and a half each. Exam mode asks the 48 here in 72 minutes.

  • The test page says an on-screen periodic table is provided, so learn to read one quickly instead of memorizing atomic numbers.
  • The hydrosphere objective names the Great Lakes among the waters to know, beside oceans, streams and ground water.

Questions and answers

How many questions are on the MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) test?

One hundred multiple-choice questions, taken on a computer. The appointment lasts 2 hours 45 minutes because a 15-minute tutorial and nondisclosure agreement come before the testing time.

What score do you need to pass MTTC 093?

The test page lists a passing score of 220. Some questions on a form may be there for evaluation and not affect a score, so a count of right answers on this page stands for nothing on that scale.

Is the MTTC Integrated Science (Elementary) test still offered?

Yes. On October 9, 2026 the test list carried Integrated Science (Elementary), field 093, with endorsement codes DI and IP and no last administration date on its page. The same list also carries Science (5–9) and Science (7–12) tests.

Are these questions from the real MTTC test?

No. Each was written here to one objective of field 093 from the Wikipedia article its explanation names. The official sample questions and the paid practice tests were not used.

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