CSET Subtest 2 (Math and Science)
(Newest 2025/2026 Update) Review
Questions and Verified Answers | Grade A
| 100 Correct.
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Water cycle? -
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Condensation
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Rain drop and gravity- which direction will it fall? -
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slight right direction
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what makes grass green or gives it a green color -
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Chlorophyll (chlorophyll absorbs blue light and red light, but reflects the green light)
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Why is it colder in the central valley in the winter than on the coast in CA? -
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It is warmer at the central coast
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Why does the ocean not freeze as fast as a lake? -
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Sea water freezes at lower temperatures, then something about the ice crystals in the
fresh-water) 6/4 confirm on ice crystals wording
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What would happen if a plant was watered with ocean or salt water -
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, If a plant is watered with saltwater it will wilt, if too much water is lost during osmosis the
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plant will die.
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From the Northern Hemisphere, what place would experience the longest amount of
daylight? Or the question was, where was the longest day experienced or the sun the
longest-June Solstice? -
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Anchorage, Alaska
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What instrument is used to measure air pressure -
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Air pressure, atmospheric pressure-use a barometer
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What are mutations -
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Genetic mutations-variety
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What does mutation do .. Options were all about how mutations give you advantages -
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Retry A change in a gene (DNA), results in a mutation. There are beneficial mutations
that help an organism (think about a white fur gene for a rabbit living in the arctic).
There are also mutations that harm and can kill an organism (think about diseases like
Sickle Cell Anemia). Remember, for evolution to work you need mutations. The white
fur mutation for the rabbit helps it to survive in the snow of the Arctic because it is
camouflaged. answer: They are beneficial to survive or create variations within genes of
populations
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Polaris View -
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North Star, the Earth is pointed directly at it, stars circle around it, it does not move,
northern direction, Earth rotates
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Compared to the waters of the continental shelf, the surface waters of the open ocean
are generally much less productive in because they? -
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Lack nutrients derived from the land or ocean sediment on the seabed
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, Natural selection has to do with variations, overpopulation, competitor and reproduction.
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Adaptations/variations to the environment is crucial for survival, cannot recall the
question but it was multiple choice and the options were animals I believe . -
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A process that causes populations to change over time
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Northern hemisphere and winter, I cannot recall the exact question (Position of Polaris
in the northern hemisphere during the winter solstice -
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SOLSTICES: The days that one of the Earth's poles is most tilted away the sun are
called SOLSTICES.
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Physical Weathering- best example -
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frost
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Function of a cell. A question about what is produced in the nucleus -
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the RNA is replicated by the DNA template
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what does photosynthesis do? Process of photosynthesis -
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glucose (sugar) and oxygen
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Photosynthesis question about what does X represent -
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condensation
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Science question about; if a student created a model of methanol representing an
atomic*** structure what is the model representing? -
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neutrons and protons are in the nucleus
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Question about a little boy making a model of an atom, what would be the most
accurate? -
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having the protons and neutrons in the nucleus (middle)