FTCE PREK 3 SCIENCE COMPREHENSIVE
STUDY GUIDE 2026 SOLVED QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
●● Scientific Knowledge.
Answer: Empirical
●● Robert Hooke.
Answer: Developed the principal of elasticity that is still used today
●● Utilitarianism.
Answer: A theory of ethics that prescribes the quantitative maximization
of good consequences for a population.
Is a form of consequentialism.
●● Kantianism.
Answer: Theory by Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher who lived
from 1724-1804, which ascribes intrinsic value to rational beings & is
the philosophical foundation of contemporary human rights.
●● Social contract theory.
,Answer: View of the ancient Greeks that states that a person's moral
&/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement
among people to form society.
●● Venus.
Answer: Planet with retrograde rotation
●● Earth.
Answer: Considered a water planet, with 70% of its surface covered by
water.
●● Mercury.
Answer: The closest planet to the Sun. Its surface has craters & rocks.
●● The law of Momentum Conservation.
Answer: states that when 2 objects collide in an isolated system, the total
momentum of the 2 objects before the collision is equal to the total
momentum of the 2 objects after the collision.
●● The law of Conservation of Energy.
Answer: states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed.
●● Jupiter.
, Answer: Largest planet in the solar system
●● Uranus.
Answer: 3rd largest planet in the solar system. It has retrograde
revolution.
●● Saturn.
Answer: 2nd largest planet in the solar system. It has rings of ice, rock,
& duct particles circling it.
●● Meteoroids.
Answer: Composed of particles of rock & metal of various sizes.
●● Meteorites.
Answer: are meteors that strike Earth's surface.
●● Nonrenewable resource.
Answer: Replaced on a timescale that is very long relative to human
lifespans.
●● Gas.
Answer: Type of matter, extremely light & does not have any weight.
STUDY GUIDE 2026 SOLVED QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
●● Scientific Knowledge.
Answer: Empirical
●● Robert Hooke.
Answer: Developed the principal of elasticity that is still used today
●● Utilitarianism.
Answer: A theory of ethics that prescribes the quantitative maximization
of good consequences for a population.
Is a form of consequentialism.
●● Kantianism.
Answer: Theory by Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher who lived
from 1724-1804, which ascribes intrinsic value to rational beings & is
the philosophical foundation of contemporary human rights.
●● Social contract theory.
,Answer: View of the ancient Greeks that states that a person's moral
&/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement
among people to form society.
●● Venus.
Answer: Planet with retrograde rotation
●● Earth.
Answer: Considered a water planet, with 70% of its surface covered by
water.
●● Mercury.
Answer: The closest planet to the Sun. Its surface has craters & rocks.
●● The law of Momentum Conservation.
Answer: states that when 2 objects collide in an isolated system, the total
momentum of the 2 objects before the collision is equal to the total
momentum of the 2 objects after the collision.
●● The law of Conservation of Energy.
Answer: states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed.
●● Jupiter.
, Answer: Largest planet in the solar system
●● Uranus.
Answer: 3rd largest planet in the solar system. It has retrograde
revolution.
●● Saturn.
Answer: 2nd largest planet in the solar system. It has rings of ice, rock,
& duct particles circling it.
●● Meteoroids.
Answer: Composed of particles of rock & metal of various sizes.
●● Meteorites.
Answer: are meteors that strike Earth's surface.
●● Nonrenewable resource.
Answer: Replaced on a timescale that is very long relative to human
lifespans.
●● Gas.
Answer: Type of matter, extremely light & does not have any weight.
