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100

Which is an example of a non-inherited trait:

 shape of face

 hair color

 preference of food

rolling tongue ?

What is preference of food.

100

A runner measured the time he ran 2 miles.  What can he calculate from measuring time and distance?

Speed

100
This causes a wagon to pick up speed when rolling down a hill.

What is gravity.

100

A food chain in an ecosystem includes cherry trees,   birds and cats.  Birds eat cherry and cats eat birds. If the population of cats decrease, how will this affect the population of cherry trees?

Cherry trees will decrease because there will be more birds to eat them.

100

What would happen if all producers in an area disappeared? 

  Consumer populations would increase because more sunlight could get through

decomposer populations would increase because more sunlight can get through

consumer populations would decrease because producers provide them with water

Consumer populations would decrease because producers provide them with energy.

Consumer populations would decrease because populations provide them with energy.

200

A wagon is pushed in a straight line.  If it suddenly hit a patch of sand, what would happen to the movement of the wagon?

Friction would cause it to slow down.

200

A mother rabbit has a litter of babies.  One of the babies is born with one long ear and one short ear.  What is the most likely reason this one rabbit was born with different length ears?

A mutation ocurred during the development of the one rabbit.

200

Which best describes the relationship between the nervous and muscular systems: 

 the nervous system controls the muscular system

 the muscular system controls the nervous system

 the nervous system provides nutrients to the muscular system

the muscular system provides nutrients to the nervous system.

The nervous system controls the muscular system.

200

A piece of iron turns from shiny to rusty. This change occurs because of:  

chemical reaction,

 heat reaction, 

cold reaction,

 physical reaction.

Chemical reaction

200

What is the best example of heat transfer by radiation?

  water boiling

 ice melting

 hot air balloon rising

a lightbulb glowing

A lightbulb glowing.

300

What would most be affected if all the decomposers were removed from an ecosystem: 

 the spread of disease

 the lack of water

the quality of soil

 the distribution of organisms

The quality of soil.

300

What would most likely cause a decrease in the population of herbivores:  

an increase in the number of producers

 an increase in the number of decomposers

an increase in the number of plants

 an increase in the number of carnivores?

A decrease in the number of carnivores.

300

When the sun warms the water, which resulting process occurs? 

Evaporation.

300

If a car is moving backwards, can its speed be measured?  Why or why not?

Yes  - because it travels a distance in a certain amount of time.

300

A huge rock is rolling down a hill.  Which of the following  do you need to know to determine the average speed of the rock? :

 the size and mass of the rock

the distance the rock is from the bottom of the hill

the direction the rock is moving

how far it has moved in 12 hours


How far the rock has moved in 12 hours

400

This is how plants return water back to the into the environment.

What is transpiration.

400

Why does a bicycle slow down when the brakes are applied?

The brakes cause fictional force on the bicycle's tires.

400

A ball is kicked across a level field.  What most likely caused the ball to stop: 

 air

gravity

mass

friction

Friction

400

A bowling ball is moving across the floor at 3 feet per second. If you wanted to figure our how far the ball traveled, what else would you need to know to figure out the distance the balled traveled?

You would need to know how long or the time the ball traveled.

400

Which is most likely the reason children look like their parents?   

They live in the same town.

They have similar genetic characteristics.

They were born in similar environment.

They have the same blood type.

They have similar genetic characteristics.

500

Which is the BEST example of an inherited trait: 

 short hair

 long fingernails

pierced ears

eye color?

Eye color

500

What is an example of an inherited trait: 

 dimples

intelligence

weight

favorite color.

Dimples

500

Water droplets form on the outside of a glass of water on a hot day.  What part of the water cycle causes this to happen?  

Condensation

500

Some people have "hitchhiker's thumb" which allows them to bend their thumb farther than most people.  Most likely how do people get "hitchhiker's thumb?"

They inherit from their parents.

500
Mouse eats seeds and insects.  Which of the following best describes the mouse's role in the food chain?  

consumer

decomposer

herbivore

producer

Consumer