5-ESS3-1 | Protecting Earth's Resources and Environment · NYS standard · Grade 5 test questions

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Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect Earth’s resources and environment.

Clarification statement: Emphasis should be on how communities use information to sustain resources and the environment locally, regionally, nationally, and/or internationally.

Grade 5 Science Test Questions

Released New York State Grade 5 science test questions that assess 5-ESS3-1 are listed here by test and question cluster. Each link opens the question with its answer key.

Exam	Cluster	Question
Spring 2026 Grade 5 Test	Natural Energy Resources	Question 34
Spring 2024 Grade 5 Test	Important Fish	Question 15
	Important Fish	Question 16
	Important Fish	Question 17

Vocabulary

Terms from the Elementary Science Glossary that come from this standard or from the released Grade 5 Science Test questions that assess it.

From this standard

• community
• Earth's resources
• environment
• evidence
• obtain and combine information
• resource
• science idea

From released test questions

• air pollutant – Spring 2026
• bar graph – Spring 2024
• burning – Spring 2026
• coastal region – Spring 2024
• coastal waters – Spring 2024
• coastline – Spring 2024
• commercial fishery – Spring 2024
• ecosystem – Spring 2024
• electricity – Spring 2026
• energy – Spring 2026
• fertilizer – Spring 2024
• fishery – Spring 2024
• food source – Spring 2024
• fossil fuel – Spring 2026
• graph – Spring 2024
• habitat – Spring 2026
• industrial fishery – Spring 2024
• keystone species – Spring 2024
• map – Spring 2024
• natural resource – Spring 2026
• numerical evidence – Spring 2024
• ocean ecosystem – Spring 2024
• organism – Spring 2024
• pollution – Spring 2026
• population – Spring 2024
• scientific reasoning – Spring 2024
• species – Spring 2024
• starvation – Spring 2024
• vitamin – Spring 2024
• wind – Spring 2026
• wind farm – Spring 2026
• wind turbine – Spring 2026
• windmill – Spring 2026

Performance Level Descriptions

Every Grade 5 Science Test question on 5-ESS3-1 is written to match one of the performance level descriptions (PLDs) below.

Level 1: Identify the information that describes a way an individual community uses a science idea to protect an Earth resource or the environment. Spring 2024 · Q15

Level 2: Interpret given information to provide evidence that describes ways individual communities use science ideas to protect Earth resources or the environment. Spring 2026 · Q34 Spring 2024 · Q16 Spring 2024 · Q17

Level 3: Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect Earth resources and environment.

Level 4: Obtain and combine scientific information to describe ways individual communities use science ideas to protect multiple Earth resources and the environment.

Notice: PLD levels!

Resources

Examples and discussion of resources for the learning, teaching, and assessment of 5-ESS3-1.

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