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| Level3 = Develop a model to describe the cycling of water through Earth’s systems driven by energy from the Sun and the force of gravity. | | Level3 = Develop a model to describe the cycling of water through Earth’s systems driven by energy from the Sun and the force of gravity. | ||
| Level2 = Given a model, describe one process in the cycling of water through one or more of Earth’s systems and describe how this process is driven by energy from the Sun or by the force of gravity. | | Level2 = Given a model, describe one process in the cycling of water through one or more of Earth’s systems and describe how this process is driven by energy from the Sun or by the force of gravity. | ||
| − | | Example2 = [[Questions:The Changing Landscape of Niagara Falls#q1|Spring 2026 | + | | Example2 = [[Questions:The Changing Landscape of Niagara Falls#q1|Spring 2026 · Q10]] [[Questions:Death Valley#q4|Spring 2024 · Q36]] |
| Level1 = Given a model, identify one process in the cycling of water that is driven by energy from the Sun or identify one process in the cycling of water that is driven by the force of gravity. | | Level1 = Given a model, identify one process in the cycling of water that is driven by energy from the Sun or identify one process in the cycling of water that is driven by the force of gravity. | ||
| − | | Example1 = [[Questions:Mount Lyell and the Lyell Glacier#q1|Spring 2025 | + | | Example1 = [[Questions:Mount Lyell and the Lyell Glacier#q1|Spring 2025 · Q6]] |
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Revision as of 09:33, 18 October 2026
Develop a model to describe the cycling of water through Earth’s systems driven by energy from the Sun and the force of gravity.
Clarification statement: Emphasis is on the ways water changes its state as it moves through the multiple pathways of the hydrologic cycle. Examples of models could include conceptual or physical models.
Assessment boundary: A quantitative understanding of the latent heats of vaporization and fusion is not assessed.
Grade 8 Science Test Questions
Released New York State Grade 8 science test questions that assess MS-ESS2-4 are listed here by test and question cluster. Each link opens the question with its answer key.
Vocabulary
Terms from the Middle School Science Glossary that come from this standard or from the released Grade 8 Science Test questions that assess it.
From this standard
- atmosphere
- change of state
- conceptual model
- condensation
- cycling of water
- deposition
- Earth's systems
- energy from the Sun
- evaporation
- force of gravity
- gravity
- hydrologic cycle
- infiltration
- latent heat of fusion
- latent heat of vaporization
- model
- ocean
- pathway
- phase change
- physical model
- precipitation
- runoff
- state of water
- sublimation
- sunlight
- transpiration
- water cycle
From released test questions
- arid climate – Spring 2024
- basin – Spring 2024
- climate – Spring 2024
- climate change – Spring 2025
- dissolving – Spring 2024
- elevation – Spring 2026
- energy – Spring 2024
- escarpment – Spring 2026
- flood – Spring 2024
- forest – Spring 2025
- freshwater – Spring 2026
- gas – Spring 2024
- glacier – Spring 2026, Spring 2025
- jet stream – Spring 2026
- lake level – Spring 2026
- melting – Spring 2025
- rain – Spring 2024
- rotation – Spring 2026
- salt deposit – Spring 2024
- salt flat – Spring 2024
- snow – Spring 2025
- snow melt – Spring 2026
- stream – Spring 2024
- temperature – Spring 2024
- tidal current – Spring 2026
- topography – Spring 2026
- water molecule – Spring 2024
- water vapor – Spring 2025, Spring 2024
- wind – Spring 2026
Performance Level Descriptions
Every Grade 8 Science Test question on MS-ESS2-4 is written to match one of the performance level descriptions (PLDs) below.
Level 1: Given a model, identify one process in the cycling of water that is driven by energy from the Sun or identify one process in the cycling of water that is driven by the force of gravity. Spring 2025 · Q6
Level 2: Given a model, describe one process in the cycling of water through one or more of Earth’s systems and describe how this process is driven by energy from the Sun or by the force of gravity. Spring 2026 · Q10 Spring 2024 · Q36
Level 3: Develop a model to describe the cycling of water through Earth’s systems driven by energy from the Sun and the force of gravity.
Level 4: Develop a model to describe the cycling of water, and its phase changes, through all Earth’s systems driven by energy from the Sun and the force of gravity.
Resources
Examples and discussion of resources for the learning, teaching, and assessment of MS-ESS2-4.
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NGSS Dimensions
Performance expectation MS-ESS2-4 was developed using the following elements from the NRC document A Framework for K-12 Science Education:
Science and Engineering Practices
- Developing and Using Models
- Develop a model to describe unobservable mechanisms.
Disciplinary Core Ideas
- ESS2.C: The Roles of Water in Earth's Surface Processes
- (NYSED) Water continually cycles among land, ocean, and atmosphere via transpiration, evaporation, condensation, sublimation, deposition, precipitation, infiltration, and runoff.
- (NYSED) Global movements of water and its changes in form are driven by sunlight and gravity.
Crosscutting Concepts
- Energy and Matter
- Within a natural or designed system, the transfer of energy drives the motion and/or cycling of matter.