Earth Science CBE — Practice Tests & Mock Exams

NY Regents Earth Science prep. Astronomy, meteorology, minerals and rocks, plate tectonics, and Earth's surface processes.

Semester A

50 questions · 180 min · 80% to pass

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Semester B

50 questions · 180 min · 80% to pass

Free Practice (10)
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Cramming right before the test feels productive but hides your real gaps. A full-length mock now diagnoses which TEKS categories you're weakest in — so you can focus your study only where it counts. Learning science is clear: retrieval practice and spaced study beat last-minute cramming. Starting earlier is the higher-scoring path.

Learn the Concepts

Visual lessons that build Earth Science from first principles — diagrams, worked examples, embedded practice.

Concept Lesson · 10 min · TEKS 1A,2A,3A,7A,8A
Earth Science — Essential Concepts

Astronomy, mapping, weather, minerals and rocks, plate tectonics, and surface processes — every Earth Science Regents essential on one page.

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Concept Lesson · 9 min · TEKS 2A
Measuring Earth: Maps, Coordinates & Topographic Profiles

Latitude and longitude, contour lines, gradient, and how to read a topographic map and build an elevation profile.

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Concept Lesson · 9 min · TEKS 1A
Earth's Motions: Rotation, Revolution & the Seasons

Why we have day and night, why seasons happen (the tilt, not distance), and the evidence that Earth rotates and revolves.

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Concept Lesson · 9 min · TEKS 1A
The Solar System & the Universe

Orbits and eccentricity, moon phases and eclipses, tides, and the evidence for an expanding universe.

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Concept Lesson · 8 min · TEKS 7A
Minerals: Properties & Identification

What makes something a mineral, and how to identify one using hardness, cleavage, luster, streak, and other physical properties.

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Concept Lesson · 9 min · TEKS 7A
Rocks & the Rock Cycle

The three rock families — igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic — how to tell them apart, and how the rock cycle recycles them.

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What's on the Earth Science CBE

Every TEKS standard the official exam covers — and the exact topics our practice questions target.

SEMESTER A TEKS 1A–6E
  • 1A-1F Astronomy & Earth's Motions
  • 2A-2F Mapping & Earth's Dimensions
  • 3A-3F Meteorology & Weather
SEMESTER B TEKS 7A–11D
  • 7A-7F Minerals, Rocks & Plate Tectonics
  • 8A-8F Surface Processes & Landscapes

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