Plant Parts & Functions
Which part of a plant makes food?
A. Root
B. Stem
C. Leaf
D. Flower
✅ Answer: C. Leaf
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Which organelle controls all the activities of the cell?
A. Vacuole
B. Chloroplast
C. Nucleus
D. Cell Wall
✅ Answer: C. Nucleus
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Which gas do plants release during photosynthesis?
A. Carbon dioxide
B. Oxygen
C. Nitrogen
D. Hydrogen
✅ Answer: B. Oxygen
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Which animal is an amphibian?
A. Eagle
B. Frog
C. Snake
D. Shark
✅ Answer: B. Frog
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Which tool is used to see microorganisms such as bacteria?
A. Telescope
B. Microscope
C. Magnifying Glass
D. Binoculars
✅ Answer: B. Microscope
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Which answer is NOT a characteristic of a plant cell?
A. Has a cell wall
B. Has chloroplasts
C. Has a nucleus
D. Has feathers
✅ Answer: D. Has feathers
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Which plant part carries water and minerals from the roots to the leaves?
✅ Answer: Stem
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Name TWO parts that are found only in a plant cell.
✅ Answer:
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Plants need three important things to make food.
Name all three.
✅ Answer:
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Name the FIVE groups of vertebrates.
✅ Answer
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Why do scientists classify living things?
✅ Answer
To make living things easier to identify, study, and understand.
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Complete the food-making process.
Plants use:
________ + ________ + ________
to make food and release ________.
✅ Answer
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A plant has healthy roots and leaves, but it has no flowers.
What important job will the plant have difficulty doing?
✅ Answer:
Reproducing (making seeds and fruits)
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Which organelle stores water and food inside a plant cell?
✅ Answer:
Vacuole
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Complete the sentence.
Plants make ________ during photosynthesis and release ________ into the air.
✅ Answer:
Food (Glucose)
Oxygen
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A scientist found an animal with these characteristics:
Which group does it belong to?
✅ Answer
Arthropod
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A scientist found a tiny living thing that can only be seen with a microscope.
What is it called?
✅ Answer
A microorganism
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A scientist found an organism with these characteristics:
What vertebrate group does it belong to?
✅ Answer
Bird
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A student says,
"Roots make food because they are underground."
Do you agree? Explain your answer.
✅ Answer:
No.
Roots absorb water and minerals.
Leaves make food through photosynthesis.
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Look at these clues.
This cell has:
Question
Is it a plant cell or an animal cell?
Explain THREE reasons why.
✅ Answer
It is a plant cell because:
Animal cells do not have a cell wall or chloroplasts.
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A student places two identical plants near a window.
Plant A
Plant B
Question
Which plant can make food? Explain your answer.
✅ Answer
Plant A
Because photosynthesis needs sunlight.
Plant B cannot make food because it does not receive sunlight.
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Four students classified a penguin.
Student A:
"It's a mammal because it is warm-blooded."
Student B:
"It's a fish because it can swim."
Student C:
"It's a bird because it has feathers."
Student D:
"It's an amphibian because it lives near water."
Question
Who is correct? Explain why the other students are wrong.
✅ Answer
Student C is correct.
A penguin is a bird because it has feathers and lays eggs.
Student A ❌
Penguins are not mammals because they do not feed babies milk.
Student B ❌
Swimming does not make an animal a fish.
Student D ❌
Penguins are birds, not amphibians.
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A student says:
"Anything that is too small to see is not a living thing."
Do you agree? Explain your answer.
✅ Answer
No.
Many microorganisms are living things.
They are too small to see with our eyes, but they grow, reproduce, and need food and water.
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A student says:
"Plants only need water to stay alive because they can get everything else from the soil."
Do you agree? Explain your answer.
✅ Answer
No.
Plants also need:
Without sunlight and carbon dioxide, they cannot make food through photosynthesis.
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A scientist grows three identical plants.
Plant A
Plant B
Plant C
Question
Which plant can make food? Explain your answer.
✅ Answer:
None of the plants can make food.
Every plant is missing one essential requirement.
Plants need all three:
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A scientist found an unknown cell.
The cell has:
But it does NOT have:
Question
1. What type of cell is it?
2. Explain how you know using ALL the information above.
✅ Answer
It is an animal cell.
Explanation:
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A scientist carried out four experiments.
PlantSunlightWaterCarbon DioxideA✔✔✔B✔✘✔C✘✔✔D✔✔✘
Question
Which plant will successfully make food?
Explain why the other three plants cannot.
✅ Answer
Plant A will make food because it has all three requirements.
Plant B → No water.
Plant C → No sunlight.
Plant D → No carbon dioxide.
Photosynthesis cannot happen if any one of these three is missing.
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A scientist discovered four unknown animals.
Animal A
Animal B
Animal C
Animal D
Question
Identify the correct group for EACH animal and explain your answers.
✅ Answer
Animal A → Bird
Because it has feathers and lays eggs.
Animal B → Amphibian
Because it has moist skin and lives on land and in water.
Animal C → Arthropod (Invertebrate)
Because it has no backbone, an exoskeleton, and eight legs.
Animal D → Mammal
Because it has hair and feeds babies milk.
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A scientist collected four samples.
Sample A
Can be seen with your eyes.
Sample B
Can only be seen with a microscope.
Sample C
Has no backbone and can move.
Sample D
Has chloroplasts and makes its own food.
Question
Which sample is most likely a microorganism? Explain your answer.
✅ Answer
Sample B
Because microorganisms are so small that they usually can only be seen with a microscope.
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A scientist found an unknown living thing.
It has these characteristics:
Question 1
What type of organism is it?
Question 2
Give FOUR pieces of evidence to support your answer.
Question 3
Explain why it cannot be an animal.
✅ Answer
Question 1
It is a plant.
Question 2
Evidence:
Question 3
Animals:
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