Grade 5 science as Ohio's blueprint weighs it: Earth, life and physical science, each answer with its content statement.
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The real test: Ohio's State Test in science, grade 5
Time limit
150 minutes
Parts
Two parts of 75 minutes each, given in the spring.
Points
54 to 56 on a test form. The blueprint counts points and gives no number of questions.
Reporting categories
Earth Science 15 to 17 points (25 to 32%), Life Science 19 to 21 (32 to 40%), Physical Science 19 to 21 (32 to 40%).
Kinds of thinking
Recalling accurate science 25 to 40% of the test, interpreting and communicating science concepts 30 to 50%, demonstrating science knowledge 10 to 25%, designin
Content
Seven grade 5 content statements of Ohio's Learning Standards for Science: 5.ESS.1 to 5.ESS.3, 5.LS.1, 5.LS.2, 5.PS.1 and 5.PS.2.
A chunk of stony matter from space falls through the atmosphere and lands in a field. What is the chunk called once it has reached the ground?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.ESS.1
A rocky body orbits the sun in a nearly circular path, but it is too small to be classified as a planet. What is it?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.ESS.1
A student marks the tip of a stick's shadow every hour on a sunny day. The marks slowly move across the ground. Why?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.ESS.3
An object travels around a planet, and the planet travels around the sun. What is the object?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.ESS.1
Because Earth rotates, the sun, moon and stars appear to move across the sky. In which direction?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.ESS.3
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Earth Science, continued
How many stars are in our solar system?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.ESS.2
Most stars seem to move across the sky during the night. Why does the North Star seem to stay in one place?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.ESS.3
One trip of Earth around the sun is called a revolution. About how long does one revolution take?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.ESS.3
People have long used patterns of stars to find their way at night. What are these star patterns called?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.ESS.2
Suppose the gravitational force between Earth and the moon suddenly stopped. What would the moon do?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.ESS.1
What is the shape of a planet's orbit around the sun?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.ESS.1
Which words describe the sun?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.ESS.2
Why are different constellations seen in the evening sky in January than in July?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.ESS.3
Life Science 15
A bear eats berries, roots, fish and insects. Which kind of consumer is the bear?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.LS.2
A bee drinks nectar from a flower. As it moves on, it carries the flower's pollen to other flowers, which helps the plants make seeds. Which kind of relationship is this?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.LS.1
A food chain reads: grass, mouse, snake, hawk. Which organism gets its energy directly from the producer?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.LS.2
A hawk catches and eats a mouse. In this relationship, what is the hawk?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.LS.1
A plant from another continent is brought into an Ohio wetland. Nothing there eats it, and it spreads quickly. How can it harm the ecosystem?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.LS.2
A producer captures energy from sunlight. What happens to that energy?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.LS.2
A small bird builds its nest in an oak tree. The bird gets a safe home. The tree is neither helped nor harmed. Which kind of relationship is this?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.LS.1
A student draws a food web and puts an arrow from a mouse to an owl. What does the arrow show?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.LS.2
A tick attaches to a deer and feeds on its blood. The tick gets food, and the deer is harmed. Which kind of relationship is this?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.LS.1
In a pond, frogs eat insects and herons eat frogs. A disease kills most of the frogs. What is most likely to happen next?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.LS.2
Mushrooms grow on a rotting log and take their food from the dead wood. What role do the mushrooms play in the forest?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.LS.1
Plants are producers. Which other living things can be producers?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.LS.1
What does a food web show that a single food chain does not?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.LS.1
What is the process by which producers use energy from the sun to make food?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.LS.1
Why are decomposers counted as consumers?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.LS.1
Physical Science 16
A black shirt and a white shirt lie in the same sunlight. After an hour the black shirt is warmer. What is the best explanation?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.PS.2
A box sits on the floor. Mia pushes it to the right with a strong push. At the same time Sam pushes it to the left with a weaker push. What does the box do?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.PS.1
A cart travels 2 meters in the first second, 2 meters in the next second and 2 meters in the third second. How is the cart moving?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.PS.1
A cyclist is coasting forward and squeezes the brakes. The braking force acts opposite to the bike's motion. What happens to the bike's speed?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.PS.1
A guitar player tightens a string so that it vibrates faster. What happens to the sound?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.PS.2
A pencil leaning in a glass of water looks broken at the water line. Why?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.PS.2
A runner moves at a constant speed of 5 meters per second. How far does the runner go in 9 seconds?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.PS.1
A skateboard rolls in a straight line at a constant speed. What must be true of the forces acting on it?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.PS.1
A sled travels 1 meter in the first second, 3 meters in the next second and 5 meters in the third second. How is the sled moving?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.PS.1
A student gives the same push to an empty cart and to a cart loaded with books. She wants the loaded cart to speed up as much as the empty one did. What must she do?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.PS.1
A toy car rolls 24 meters in 8 seconds. What is its speed?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.PS.1
During a storm you see a flash of lightning, and the thunder arrives a few seconds later. Why?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.PS.2
The moon gives off no light of its own. Why can we see it at night?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.PS.2
Two teams pull on a rope in opposite directions with equal strength. The rope was not moving before they pulled. What does the rope do?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.PS.1
What does a prism do to white light?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.PS.2
Which of these can sound travel through?Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (2018), grade 5 content statement 5.PS.2
How this list was compiled: Outline: Grade 5 Science Test Blueprint (updated 6/30/2020), https://oh-ost.portal.cambiumast.com/content/contentresources/en/Ohio_Sci_G5_Blueprint.pdf, listed under Science Test Blueprints on the Ohio's State Tests portal of the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce, https://oh-ost.portal.cambiumast.com/resources/general-resources/blueprints, read 2026-10-09. Each question names the grade 5 content statement it practices in Ohio's Learning Standards and Model Curriculum for Science (adopted 2018), linked from https://education.ohio.gov/Topics/Learning-in-Ohio/Science/Ohios-Learning-Standards-and-MC, read 2026-10-09; the fact in an answer is one that the content statement or its content elaboration gives, or is worked out from the numbers in the question. Licence: Own work. Questions, answer choices and explanations were written for this site. Nothing is copied or reworded from an Ohio's State Test, a released item, a practice or sample item of the state or another practice test.
How it works
An unofficial Ohio 5th grade science practice test, in the three categories of the state's blueprint. Every question was written for this site, and none is a state item. Not affiliated with the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce.
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What Ohio's grade 5 science test covers
Earth science is 25 to 32 percent of the test: the solar system, the sun among the stars, and the cycles of day, night and year. Life science is 32 to 40 percent: producers, consumers and decomposers, symbiosis, and energy moving through a food web. Physical science is 32 to 40 percent: speed, balanced and unbalanced forces, light and sound.
Where each answer comes from
Under every answer is the content statement it practices, such as 5.PS.1, in Ohio's Learning Standards for Science. The fact was read in the text of that statement, and each speed was worked out twice.
Recall is at most 40 percent of the real test. Up to half is interpreting science concepts, so read each description before the choices.
Questions and answers
Is this the ODE 5th grade student science practice test?
No. This page is unofficial and its questions are our own, written from the grade 5 content statements of Ohio's Learning Standards for Science.
What does ODE mean on a 5th grade science test?
ODE is short for the Ohio Department of Education, the earlier name of the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce. The department gives Ohio's State Tests, with science in grade 5.
How long is the grade 5 science Ohio State Test?
150 minutes, in two parts of 75 minutes each. The blueprint counts points, 54 to 56 on a form, and gives no number of questions.
Is there a science practice test for 5th grade from the Ohio Department of Education?
Yes, the department's own: its portal for Ohio's State Tests invites students and families to take a practice test there, and the button under the questions opens it. The 44 questions on this page are separate.