Life Science A
What are the two main groups of animals based on their backbones?
What are vertebrates and invertebrates?
A student is classifying animals by their different characteristics. This question would best help determine if an animal is classified as a fish or a reptile.
What is "Does the animal have gills or lungs?"?
What is the process that wears away rocks and soil, shaping the Earth's surface?
What is erosion?
What kind of change is it when water freezes? (chemical or physical)
What is a physical change?
This vertebrate group lives in water, breathes with gills, and lays eggs.
What are fish?
Which type of plant produces seeds: moss or a tree?
What is a tree?
Scars and pierced ears are examples of these types of traits, which are not passed down from parents.
What are acquired traits?
Name a surface feature caused by a constructive process.
What is a mountain, a volcano, or a delta?
What kind of change produces a new substance, like when wood burns?
What is a chemical change?
Animals like insects, jellyfish, and spiders are classified this way because they do not have a backbone.
What are invertebrates?
Name one characteristic that animals inherit from their parents.
What is eye color?
What is fur color?
What is size?
A baby sea turtle heading straight to the ocean after hatching is an example of this type of behavior.
What is an instinct?
What kind of technology helps predict earthquakes?
What is a seismograph?
Is glass a conductor or an insulator of electricity?
What is an insulator?
Flowering plants and pine trees fall into this group because they reproduce using seeds.
What are seed producers?
What tool do we need to see cells?
What is a microscope?
A dog learning to roll over on command is an example of this kind of behavior.
What is a learned behavior?
How are sand dunes formed?
What is caused by wind?
What type of electricity can you create by rubbing a balloon on your hair?
What is static electricity?
Electricity is _______, made by electrons.
What is energy?
Name one way microorganisms are helpful.
What is making food like yogurt or helping plants grow?
This green structure is found in plant cells but not in animal cells, and helps plants make their own food.
What is a chloroplast?
Name one way humans limit the impact of destructive processes like floods.
What are dams?
What flood barriers (sand bags)?
How does the purpose of a magnet differ from an electromagnet?
A magnet is permanent, while an electromagnet is temporary and can be turned on and off.
Which type of Science is most of the test made up of?
What is Life Science?