Competencies 011–014 of the Core Subjects EC–6: Science (904). The competencies TEA lists, how they are tested and practice questions with explanations.
45 questions on the real 55-minute clock, with a score by competency group and an explanation for every answer.
Or start the free Life Science drillSummarized from the TExES Core Subjects EC–6 (391) preparation manual, Section 3: exam framework, Competencies 011–014. The grouping of competencies into drill sets is ours.
Questions cover plant and animal structures, life cycles, inherited traits, adaptations, food chains and webs, and how changes ripple through an ecosystem. TEA lists the competencies without weights, so our practice test spreads its questions evenly across them.
Answer each question, then open the explanation.
Question 1
In a food chain of grass → rabbit → hawk, the rabbit is
Answer: D: a primary consumer.
The rabbit eats the producer (grass), so it is a primary consumer. The hawk, which eats the rabbit, is a secondary consumer.
Question 2
Which of these is a learned behavior?
Answer: A: A dog sitting on command
Sitting on command is learned through training. Web spinning, crying when hungry and migration are inherited (instinctive) behaviors.
Question 3
Which organ of the respiratory system is where oxygen enters the blood?
Answer: A: The lungs
In the lungs, oxygen passes from tiny air sacs into the blood, and carbon dioxide passes out to be exhaled.
Question 4
A population of moths lives on trees whose bark becomes darker from pollution. Over many generations, more dark moths survive. This is an example of
Answer: B: natural selection.
Dark moths are better camouflaged on dark bark, so they survive and reproduce more, increasing the trait in the population: natural selection.
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45 questions on the real 55-minute clock, with a score by competency group and an explanation for every answer.
Or start the free Life Science drillTEA lists the competencies of the TExES 904 without weights or question counts. Our 45-question practice test spreads its questions evenly across the competencies, which gives Life Science 10 questions.
Competency 011: structure and function of living things, life cycles and human body systems; Competency 012: reproduction and heredity, inherited and learned traits; Competency 013: adaptations and change over time; Competency 014: organisms and the environment, food webs and ecosystems.
Questions cover plant and animal structures, life cycles, inherited traits, adaptations, food chains and webs, and how changes ripple through an ecosystem. TEA lists the competencies without weights, so our practice test spreads its questions evenly across them.
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