Fossils & Changing Environments
Life Cycles
Heredity, Survival, & Selection
Weather & Climate
Forces, Motion, & Magnets
100
A fossil is _______________________.
A)a body part of a living organisms
B) the preserved remains of an ancient organism
C) a model of an organism made by humans
B) the preserved remains of an ancient organism
100
Below is a diagram of a butterfly life cycle.
What happens in the second stage of a butterfly’s life cycle?
A) In the second stage, a butterfly is born and hatches from an egg.
B) In the second stage, a butterfly mates with other butterflies in order to reproduce.
C) In the second stage, a butterfly dies.
D) In the second stage, a butterfly eats in order to grow.
D) In the second stage, a butterfly eats in order to grow.
100
What is an adaptation?
A trait that helps an organism survive in its environment
100
An area’s typical weather conditions and the extent to which those conditions vary over a long period of time is known as?
Climate
100
A _____ moves an object closer to you.
Pull
200
A fossil shows the footprint of a three-toed bird. What can scientists learn from this fossil?
A What the bird looked like while flying.
B That birds never lived in that area.
C That a bird once walked on soft ground there.
D How old the Earth is.
C That a bird once walked on soft ground there.
200
What does pollen allow most plants to make?
Seed
200
When the environment changes, that doesn't mean that organisms can decide to change their traits to survive.
True or False
True
200
What is evaporation ?
liquid water turning to water vapor
200
A car is rolling on a level street. What can make the car stop moving?
A force that pushes the opposite of the direction that the car is moving.
300
When paleontologists (scientists who study fossils) find a fossil, they look at its skull and teeth to decide what type of food the animal ate when it was alive. This fossil has mostly sharp teeth.
What type of food do you think this animal ate?
A plants
B fruit
C meat
D cheese
C meat
300
There is a kind of flower that is only found on one hill in the world. A building company buys the hill and destroys all the flowers except one. What do you predict will happen next?
A The flower will die soon because it cannot reproduce.
B The flower will make new seeds soon. Those seeds will grow into new flowers.
C The flower will reproduce slowly. After many years, the hill will have flowers again.
D The flower cannot reproduce by itself. The species will be gone forever when the flower dies.
d
300
Which is a correct match between organism and adaptation reason?
A Owl — thick stems to store water
B Cactus — silent flight for night hunting
C Polar bear — insulation against cold from fur and blubber
D Fish schooling — division of labor in a hive
c
300
What is the water cycle?
the movement of water through the atmosphere, to Earth, and back again.
300
A material that can attract iron and steel
Magnet
400
Scientists think Tennessee was once covered by a shallow sea. Which fossil most likely led scientists to this conclusion?
A
B
C
D
B
400
The life cycles of three organisms are shown.
Which statements about the life cycles are correct?
Select TWO correct answers.
A) The tomato plant should have a pupa stage.
B) Part of the mosquito life cycle occurs in water.
C) In all the life cycles, the young organisms look like the adult organisms.
D) The seed of the tomato plant is like the egg of the ladybug and the mosquito.
E) An adult is not needed in the plant life cycle, because plants come from seeds.
B & D
400
Use the information to answer the questions.
Gulf Birds
There are many different types of birds that live near or along the Gulf of Mexico. Below are four types of birds that are commonly found in the area. These birds have different physical characteristics and features.
*Wading birds-walk through water in search of food
In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill released about 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The oil spill harmed birds and habitats along the Gulf of Mexico.
Snowy Egret
- Live in marshes
- Nest in thick vegetation
- Eat fish, frogs, worms, and insects
- Use feet to paddle in water or mud
- Bird is about 2 feet tall
- Wading bird
- Live in coastal areas
- Nest in colonies on isolated islands away from land predators
- Feeds by plunging into the water
- Eat small fish
- Short legs with webbed feet
- Bird is about 6 to 8 feet tall
- Light brown crown, white head, and white body
- Waterbird
Least Bittern Heron
- Live in marshes with tall dense vegetation
- Climb on the stems of plants
- Eat small fish and insects
- Narrow-body
- Bird is about 1 to 2 feet tall
- Long toes
- Wading bird
Blue Heron
- Live in marshes, rivers, lakes, saltwater shores, and ponds
- Nest mainly in trees
- Eat frogs, fish, snakes, shrimp, insects, and small mammals like mice
- Long legs
- Bird is about 3 to 4 feet tall
- Blue-gray feathers
- Wading bird
In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill released about 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The oil spill harmed birds and habitats along the Gulf of Mexico.
Brown Pelican
400
The table below shows the temperature and precipitation in four different cities on the same day.
Which of the following cities was the warmest on this day?
Dallas
400
Match the vocabulary word to the correct definition.
1) the science term for how much matter an object has.
2) the stuff that everything in the world is made up of, including you and the air.
3) the patterns of how forces work
4) is a force that acts between two objects and pulls them toward each other.
5) these forces act between objects that are electrically charged
6) this is a force that can exert a pull on magnetic objects
Drag & Drop the answer
mass
laws of motion
matter
magnetism
gravity
electricity
1- Mass
2- Matter
3_ law of motion
4- gravity
5- electricity
6- magnetism
500
Scientists search for fossils in Antarctica. Antarctica has the coldest climate on Earth. The diagram shows a large rock with fossils that was found in Antarctica. The scientists use the key to identify the fossils in the rock.
Which conclusion should the scientists make based on these fossils?
A) Antarctica was once covered with water.
B) Antarctica is now covered with sandy soil.
C) Antarctica had a warmer climate at one time.
D) Antarctica now has many trees covering the landscape.
C) Antarctica had a warmer climate at one time.
500
Below is a diagram of a chicken life cycle.
In what stage does the most growth occur?
When the chick becomes an adult.
500
Students are studying plants. They put four different kinds of plants in pots with soil and place them in the sun. They want to see which plant would grow and survive the best in a desert, so they give each plant the same low amount of water. Their test is conducted for several weeks. The results are recorded in the table below.
Which plant will the students most likely decide would survive in the desert the best?
Plant c
500
Label the diagram of the water cycle by placing the correct word next to its number.
1
2
3
4
Drag & Drop the answer
collection condensation precipitation evaporation
1 evaporation
2 condensation
3 precipitation
4 collection
500
Two balloons are charged with static electricity. The charges of each balloon are shown in the image below.
What will most likely happen to the balloons if they are held near each other?
The opposite charges will cause the balloons to pull toward each other.