GACE Elementary Education Exam
Questions with All Correct
Answers
What type of moon is located between the Earth and sun and is described as the dark
side of the moon being turned toward Earth? - Answer-new moon
What type of moon is semi-circular and can be seen from Earth? - Answer-Crescent
moon
What type of moon occurs when one week after the semi-circular moon appears, almost
one-half of the moon is visible? - Answer-Half moon (first quarter)
Your science class is analyzing conservation methods. You set up a demonstration in
which you place three plants in the sun. One is watered with clear water. One is
watered with polluted water, water containing chemicals. The third is not watered. What
conservation method are you attempting to demonstrate? - Answer-Interdependence
What type of reproduction requires no exchange of genetic information, takes place
without the occurrence of sex? - Answer-asexual
What type of portfolio is a compilation of particular items collected at each grade level
for all children at consistent times during the year, that is passed from grade to grade,
year after year, along with the child? - Answer-An instructional portfolio
What is another name for an instructional portfolio? - Answer-student permanent
records
What is the purpose of a summative assessment? - Answer-To assess mastery of
content after instruction, sums up learning
Which planet has shorter years than those of Earth? - Answer-Venus
here are several activities that living things must engage in. What does it mean when a
living thing "excretes"? - Answer-Eliminates waste
, What is taught under the "Matter and energy" category of the National Science
Education Standards? - Answer-machines
What is the term used when both a teacher and student are at fault in a situation? -
Answer-Comparative negligence
On a standard color wheel what are the primary colors that are used to make other color
combinations? - Answer-blue, yellow, red
What are secondary colors? - Answer-A color combination made from two primary
colors
Name he most popular secondary colors. - Answer-green, orange and purple
In 2011, the USDA adopted Myplate to replace the Food Pyramid. What color indicates
protein? - Answer-purple
Name the colors in the food pyramid - Answer-Blue = Milk and dairy products, Purple =
Proteins, Brown = Grains, Red = Fruit, Green = Vegetables
According to Lemlech & Kaplan's Collegial Development Stages and Characteristics,
what is the sixth stage of relationship between student teachers? - Answer-Collegiality
A teacher assesses a child using a running record. She notes that the student's prosody
need to improve. What is prosody? - Answer-Cadence and expression
What refers to how a student reads in phrases or whole thoughts? - Answer-cadence
A typical child will have narrowed his or her utterances from the range of all possible
sounds to those relevant in his or her language at which of the following ages? -
Answer-1 year
According to Ehri, which of the following is true during the partial alphabetic stage of
literacy development? - Answer-Children are incapable of segmenting sounds
Your students love to sit in the "Author's Chair" in your language arts center. Which
stage of writing would your children be in when using the "Author's Chair?" - Answer-
publishing
What is the final step of the writing process? - Answer-publishing
According to Gentry,what is true of a child's written communication in the transitional
stage? - Answer-Vowels will appear in every word
Questions with All Correct
Answers
What type of moon is located between the Earth and sun and is described as the dark
side of the moon being turned toward Earth? - Answer-new moon
What type of moon is semi-circular and can be seen from Earth? - Answer-Crescent
moon
What type of moon occurs when one week after the semi-circular moon appears, almost
one-half of the moon is visible? - Answer-Half moon (first quarter)
Your science class is analyzing conservation methods. You set up a demonstration in
which you place three plants in the sun. One is watered with clear water. One is
watered with polluted water, water containing chemicals. The third is not watered. What
conservation method are you attempting to demonstrate? - Answer-Interdependence
What type of reproduction requires no exchange of genetic information, takes place
without the occurrence of sex? - Answer-asexual
What type of portfolio is a compilation of particular items collected at each grade level
for all children at consistent times during the year, that is passed from grade to grade,
year after year, along with the child? - Answer-An instructional portfolio
What is another name for an instructional portfolio? - Answer-student permanent
records
What is the purpose of a summative assessment? - Answer-To assess mastery of
content after instruction, sums up learning
Which planet has shorter years than those of Earth? - Answer-Venus
here are several activities that living things must engage in. What does it mean when a
living thing "excretes"? - Answer-Eliminates waste
, What is taught under the "Matter and energy" category of the National Science
Education Standards? - Answer-machines
What is the term used when both a teacher and student are at fault in a situation? -
Answer-Comparative negligence
On a standard color wheel what are the primary colors that are used to make other color
combinations? - Answer-blue, yellow, red
What are secondary colors? - Answer-A color combination made from two primary
colors
Name he most popular secondary colors. - Answer-green, orange and purple
In 2011, the USDA adopted Myplate to replace the Food Pyramid. What color indicates
protein? - Answer-purple
Name the colors in the food pyramid - Answer-Blue = Milk and dairy products, Purple =
Proteins, Brown = Grains, Red = Fruit, Green = Vegetables
According to Lemlech & Kaplan's Collegial Development Stages and Characteristics,
what is the sixth stage of relationship between student teachers? - Answer-Collegiality
A teacher assesses a child using a running record. She notes that the student's prosody
need to improve. What is prosody? - Answer-Cadence and expression
What refers to how a student reads in phrases or whole thoughts? - Answer-cadence
A typical child will have narrowed his or her utterances from the range of all possible
sounds to those relevant in his or her language at which of the following ages? -
Answer-1 year
According to Ehri, which of the following is true during the partial alphabetic stage of
literacy development? - Answer-Children are incapable of segmenting sounds
Your students love to sit in the "Author's Chair" in your language arts center. Which
stage of writing would your children be in when using the "Author's Chair?" - Answer-
publishing
What is the final step of the writing process? - Answer-publishing
According to Gentry,what is true of a child's written communication in the transitional
stage? - Answer-Vowels will appear in every word
