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| Level1 = Identify a question, from those provided, that includes a factor that has caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century. | | Level1 = Identify a question, from those provided, that includes a factor that has caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century. | ||
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Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century.
Clarification statement: Examples of factors could include human activities (such as fossil fuel combustion, cement production, and agricultural activity) and natural processes (such as changes in incoming solar radiation or volcanic activity). Examples of evidence could include tables, graphs, and maps of global and regional temperatures, atmospheric levels of gases such as carbon dioxide and methane, and the rates of human activities. Emphasis is on the major role that human activities play in causing the rise in global temperatures.
Grade 8 Science Test Questions
Released New York State Grade 8 science test questions that assess MS-ESS3-5 are listed here by test and question cluster. Each link opens the question with its answer key.
| Exam | Cluster | Question |
|---|---|---|
| Spring 2025 Grade 8 Test | Mount Lyell and the Lyell Glacier | Question 7 |
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.
- agricultural activity
- agriculture
- atmospheric level of gases
- burning fossil fuels
- carbon dioxide
- cement production
- climate change
- climate science
- combustion
- evidence
- fossil fuel
- fossil fuel combustion
- global temperature
- global warming
- graph
- greenhouse gas
- human activity
- incoming solar radiation
- map
- mean surface temperature
- methane
- natural process
- regional temperature
- rise in global temperature
- solar radiation
- solution
- volcanic activity
- burning of fossil fuels – Spring 2025
- claim – Spring 2025
- glacial ice – Spring 2025
- investigation – Spring 2025
- season – Spring 2025
- greenhouse effect – implied by "the release of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels, are major factors in the current rise in Earth’s mean surface temperature (global warming)"
Performance Level Descriptions
Every Grade 8 Science Test question on MS-ESS3-5 is written to match one of the performance level descriptions (PLDs) below.
Resources
Examples and discussion of resources for the learning, teaching, and assessment of MS-ESS3-5.
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NGSS Dimensions
Performance expectation MS-ESS3-5 was developed using the following elements from the NRC document A Framework for K-12 Science Education:
- Asking Questions and Defining Problems
- Ask questions to identify and clarify evidence of an argument.
- ESS3.D: Global Climate Change
- Human activities, such as the release of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels, are major factors in the current rise in Earth’s mean surface temperature (global warming). Reducing the level of climate change and reducing human vulnerability to whatever climate changes do occur depend on understanding climate science, engineering capabilities, and other kinds of knowledge, such as understanding of human behavior and on applying that knowledge wisely in decisions and activities.
- Stability and Change
- Stability might be disturbed either by sudden events or gradual changes that accumulate over time.