Celestial Objects
Which set of characteristics are unique to the inner planets?
a. small, gaseous
b. terrestrial, rocky
c. cool, humid
b. terrestrial, rocky
Which scientific tool allows humans to see better and further into space?
a. microscope
b. telescope
c. stethoscope
b. telescope
What is one characteristic that all living things have in common?
a. they all eat food for energy
b. they are all made up of cells
c. they all have a nucleus
b. they are all made up of cells
Which of the following characteristic can be used to classify organisms into domains?
a. mode of reproduction
b. presence of a nucleus
c. being unicellular or multicellular
b. presence of a nucleus
Which of the following correctly lists the levels of organization from least complex to most complex?
a. community, organism, population, ecosystem
b. organism, population, community, ecosystem
c. population, community, ecosystem, organism
b. organism, population, community, ecosystem
Most of the asteroids in our solar system are between which two objects?
a. jupiter and mars
b. venus and earth
c. earth and the moon
a. jupiter and mars
A small spacecraft used to transport people and supplies to and from the space station-
a. probe
b. shuttle
c. rocket
b. shuttle
Where is the genetic material of a eukaryotic cell stored?
a. cytoplasm
b. ribosomes
c. nucleus
c. nucleus
Humans are members of which kingdom?
a. animalia
b. plantae
c. eubacteria
a. animalia
What is an abiotic factor?
a. a living thing in an ecosystem
b. a nonliving thing in an ecosystem
b. a nonliving thing in an ecosystem
Which celestial body is made of ice and dust?
a. comet
b. meteor
c. asteroid
a. comet
An unmanned spacecraft that is used to collect information about objects in space-
a. probe
b. satellite
c. telescope
a. probe
The cell is the basic unit of-
a. life
b. heredity
c. functions
a. life
All members of the kingdom Protista have which of the following characteristics?
a. reproduce sexually
b. produce their own food
c. have an enclosed nucleus
c. have an enclosed nucleus
Which of the following would be considered an abiotic factor?
a. dead tree
b. deer
c. river
c. river
All movements and interactions in space are influenced by the force of ________.
a. mass
b. electricity
c. gravity
c. gravity
The ___________ is a place where scientists can live in space for a period of time.
a. moon
b. space house
c. space station
c. space station
Organisms with more than one cell are called-
a. multicellular
b. unicellular
a. multicellular
Which of the following kingdoms includes organisms that are single-celled eukaryotes that can either be heterotrophic or autotrophic?
a. fungi
b. plantae
c. protista
c. protista
Which organizational level of the ecosystem does a pack of wolves represent?
a. population
b. community
c. ecosystem
a. population
The four outer planets are called _________ giants.
gas
Four of Jupiter's moons are named after-
a. famous scientists
b. einstein
c. galileo
c. galileo
Which type of cells do humans have?
eukaryotic
What does multicellular mean?
made up of more than one cell
An _________ is an environment that contains both living and nonliving things working together.
a. community
b. population
c. ecosystem
c. ecosystem