Plants
Animals
Our Bodies
Adaptations
Review
100
Why is a plant a producer?
It can make its own food.
100
What type of vertebrate lives part of its life on land and part on water and has smooth, moist skin?
Amphibians
100
This is the control center for the body and helps process information from the sense organs.
What is the brain?
100
A student builds a model of the solar system that includes a sphere representing Earth. The sphere turns in a full circle on its axis. By using a model of Earth that spins on its axis, the student can best demonstrate —
A. the cycle of the four seasons
B. the aging of a star
C. the passing of a year
D. the cycle of day and night
D. the cycle of day and night
100
Rather than seeds, mosses and ferns use ________ to reproduce.
What are spores?
200
Name the three necessary "ingredients" for photosynthesis and the two products that result from the process.
Sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water are the necessary "ingredients"
Sugar and Oxygen are the products
200
Arctic hares are rabbits that are brown in the summer and white in the winter. How does the white fur of an arctic hare in winter help its chances of survival?
White fur makes it harder for predators to find the hares in the snow.
200
What helps us move?
The muscles help with movement.
200
Which of these is an example of a behavioral adaptation?
A. a cow has flat teeth for chewing grass
B. a squirrel buries acorns
C. a fish has scales
D. an owl has soft feathers
B. a squirrel buries acorns-This is something the squirrel is doing.
200
Students design an experiment to determine how much force is needed to move blocks of wood of different masses slowly across a lab table. Which procedure should students include in their design?
A. Conduct five trials, using a different scale to pull each block of wood
B. Conduct five trials, pulling a different side of each block each time
C. Conduct five trials, using a different table for each trial
D. Conduct five trials, pulling each block of wood in the same way for each trial
D. Multiple trials should be conducted to make the results more reliable. (Copy and repeat)
300
A. What part of the plant is responsible for making food?
B. What part of the plant anchors it in the soil and absorbs water and nutrients?
C. What part of the plant transports materials and provides structural support for the plant?
A. leaves
B. roots
C. stem
300
A bright-red male cardinal comes to a school bird feeder every morning. Like other cardinals, this bird makes a sharp chirping sound as it hops around the bird feeder. Which of these is a learned behavior of this bird?
A. having red feathers
B. eating seeds
C. coming to the bird feeder
D. making a chirping sound
C is the learned behavior. The others are inherited behaviors.
300
This provides structural support for our bodies and protects many of our vital organs.
What is the skeleton?
300
Loggerhead sea turtles are large turtles that live in the ocean and nest on the Florida coast. The female loggerhead sea turtle lays more than 100 eggs in the beach sand. How is laying so many eggs an important adaptation that helps these turtles to survive?
The more eggs that are laid, the greater the chance that more turtles will live to become adults.
300
Which mixture can the student separate most easily with the strainer?
A Salt and water
B Gravel and water
C Shampoo and water
D Sugar and water
B Gravel and water-The gravel will stay behind in the strainer and the water will go through. This would not work if the gravel dissolved like salt and sugar will.
400
A. Where are the male and female reproductive parts of the plant housed?
B. Which would be the male portion of the flower that makes pollen/sperm?
C. What is the female portion of the flower that is sticky to allow pollen to be deposited on it by pollinators?
A. In the flower
B. The stamen
C. The pistil
400
Look at the food chain below. Energy from the snake acts as a source of energy for what organism? Indicate whether each organism in the food chain is a producer or consumer.
Energy flows from the snake to the hawk.
Plant=producer; mouse=consumer; snake=consumer; hawk=consumer
400
This organ produces bile to help with digestion.
What is the liver?
400
Aquatic plants have adaptations that help them live in water. For example, the structures needed for making food are located on the tops of floating plant leaves. This adaptation helps the plants —
A. absorb sunlight
B. stay anchored
C. avoid predators
D. capture fish
A. absorb sunlight-Plants need to absorb sunlight to make food.
400
A family takes a group picture in a park where bluebonnets are blooming. The family notices that some of the blooms are white and others are blue. The color of the blooms is most likely determined by
A. air temperature
B. the age of the plant
C. the types of consumers that eat the plant
D. inheritance from parent plants
D. inheritance from parent plants
500
What is it called when a seed begins to grow into a plant?
Germination
500
A young grasshopper looks very much like the adult grasshopper, only smaller. The young ladybird beetle, however, looks very different from the adult ladybird beetle. Based on this information, which insect most likely goes through complete metamorphosis to reach adulthood?
It would be the ladybird beetle. The grasshopper would be incomplete metamorphosis. (See pictures below.)
500
This organ absorbs nutrients from the food we eat.
What is the small intestine?
500
Fertilizers used on farms near the coast can be carried to the ocean when runoff occurs during rain showers. These fertilizers can decrease the populations of fish and shellfish. Which other populations most likely decrease as a result?
A. organisms that eat algae
B. organisms that live on farms
C. organisms that eat fish and shellfish
D. All of these.
C. organisms that eat fish and shellfish-With their food source decreased, consumers that eat fish and shellfish are likely to decrease in numbers.
500
Many desert animals depend on the prickly pear cactus. What role does the prickly pear cactus play in a desert food web?
A It obtains energy from producers.
B It returns nutrients to the soil.
C It preys upon other organisms.
D It provides energy to consumers.
D It provides energy to consumers.-The cactus is a producer. When it is eaten by consumers, it transfers energy to them.
600
One stage in the life cycle of an apple tree is the release of seeds. Which of these animal activities is most like the stage of the life cycle in which seeds are released?
A. a snake shedding its skin
B. a bird laying an egg
C. a swarm of bees leaving a hive
D. a tadpole growing into an adult
B. a bird laying an egg
600
Which feature might allow a rat to better survive in a hot, dry area?
A a larger body that needs more food
B thicker fur to increase body temperature
C darker fur that absorbs more heat from the sun
D a smaller number of sweat glands to reduce water loss
D a smaller number of sweat glands to reduce water loss
In a dry area, it's important the the organism conserve water.
600
This organ has the job of filtering liquid waste from the body.
What is the kidney?
600
A group of students visited a park and collected leaves from many different trees in order to study them. They recorded their observations about the leaves. Which of these observations does NOT describe an inherited trait?
A The leaves vary in shape and size.
B Some leaves have holes made by insects chewing on them.
C Some leaves are smooth on one side and rough on the other.
D The colors of the leaves range from light green to dark green
B Some leaves have holes made by insects chewing on them. -This trait comes from the environment and was not inherited.
600
A student is asked to design a sleeve for a cup that will insulate thermal energy and not feel hot to the touch when the cup is filled with hot liquid. The student has four materials to choose from. Which of these materials is least useful as an insulator?
A. cardboard
B. aluminum
C. rubber
D. plastic
B. aluminum-This is a metal and would conduct heat rather than insulate.