Download Name Answers MOD _____ Living Environment Benchmark Review

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Living Environment Benchmark Review: Part 1
Use your notes in your Science notebook to answer the questions below. Then use the
information to study for you Benchmark test on Tuesday, December 6, 2011.
1. All organisms share the 4 main characteristics of life. List them below.
A. Energy Use
B. Response to Surroundings
C. Reproduction
D. Growth and Development
2. What is the main difference between plants and animals, NOT cells?
Plants
autotroph – makes its own food
Animals
heterotroph – captures food
3. Fungi are not considered plants because of many characteristics. List the main
characteristic that separates fungus from a plant.
Fungi are heterotrophs and plants are autotrophs
4. Circle the plants below. Place a box around the fungus.
wheat
rose
mushrooms
pumpkins
tree
5. One day you decide to grow some yeast. You start with 4 yeast and the next day
you have 8 yeast. What happened?
reproduction
6. As you observe the yeast, you notice bubbles and a funny smell coming from the
container. What life process is the yeast going through to make the bubbles and
smell?
Removal of waste – carbon dioxide/cellular respiration
7. Circle the smallest level of organization below. They are NOT in order.
tissues
organ systems
cells
organs
8. List the 2 structures that a plant cell contains and an animal cell doesn’t contain.
A. cell wall
B. chloroplasts
9. Just like organisms, what must cells do to survive? (refer back to #1)
A. Energy Use
B. Response to Surroundings
C. Reproduction
D. Growth and Development
10. Plants make sugar during photosynthesis using energy from sunlight. List the 2
other ingredients needed for a plant to complete photosynthesis.
A. carbon dioxide
B. water
11. Circle the systems below that humans use to exercise. Explain your answer.
muscular
skeletal
respiratory
circulatory
nervous
All of the systems are used and necessary for humans to exercise and
complete all activities in order for the body to function properly and sustain
life.
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11. Many cells working together to perform a job is called a tissue.
12. The main purpose of the vascular system in a plant is to …
Transport necessary materials (nutrients and water) throughout the plant
13. Which system in an animal is most closely related to the vascular system in a
plant? circulatory
14. Mitosis allows organisms (plants and animals) to complete what 2 life
processes?
A. reproduction
B. growth and development (repair tissues)
15. There are many parts of a microscope. Which part is changed when you want
to make things look bigger? objective
16. In the picture below there is more carbon dioxide inside the cell than
outside. Draw arrows to show which direction the carbon dioxide molecules would
move. Explain your answer.
Key:
= animal cell membrane
= carbon dioxide molecule
FIGURE 1
Molecules move from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower
concentration (balance).
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17. What are the processes that allow cells to obtain nutrients and remove wastes?
(Keeper of the Cell)
A. diffusion
B. osmosis
18. Cells have many organelles/cell structures that allow them to complete life
functions. Which organelle acts as a gatekeeper, letting materials in and out of the
cell?
Cell membrane
19. What 3 things do scientists use to classify organisms in order to determine their
degree of relatedness? (Six Kingdoms Here We Come)
A. cell type (prokaryote/eukaryote)
B. number of cells (multicellular, unicellular)
C. how the organism obtains food (heterotroph, autotroph)
20. List the type of symmetry of each organism below.
Organism 1
Organism 2
Organism 1: bilateral
Organism 2: radial
Organism 3: bilateral
Organism 4: asymmetrical
Organism 3
Organism 4
21. List the 2 types of plants.
A. Vascular (celery – roots, tube like structures, tall and/or wide)
B. non-vascular (moss – no root structure, tiny)
22. List 2 reasons why grasshoppers and sharks are part of the animal kingdom.
A. multicellular
B. heterotrophs
23. What organelle is the control center of a cell? nucleus
25. The systems listed below are found only in ...
circulatory
reproductive
_____ A. Plants
nervous
______ B. Animals
26. Describe the function/purpose of the systems below.
System
Circulatory
Digestive
Respiratory
Nervous
Function/Purpose
Transports necessary materials, like oxygen
throughout the body
Breaks down food into molecules that can be
transported throughout the body, removes
wastes
Brings in oxygen and removes carbon dioxide
Sends electrical messages from the brain
throughout the body
27. In order for a species to survive, what system must function successfully?
ALL OF THEM (Be Careful!)
28. List the levels of organization in order starting with the smallest unit.
CELLS
TISSUES
ORGANS
ORGAN SYSTEMS
29. True or False: The purpose of the digestive system in a lizard is the same as in
a human being. TRUE
30. If a cell from the root of an onion is in the process of dividing to make a new cell,
what is the purpose of cell division?
For the onion root to grow
31. Use the diagrams below to answer the following question.
Diagram A-Animal
Circulatory
Diagram B-Plant
Vascular
Both internal systems are from two different organisms. Both internal
systems transport nutrients within the organism. Although both organisms
have different systems, what is each organism successful in completing?
Necessary processes for the function of life
32. Based on external features only, circle the 2 organisms most closely
related.
SKIP THIS QUESTION – WRONG PICTURE!
33.
FIGURE 1: CIRCULATORY SYSTEMS OF DIFFERENT ORGANISMS
a. Frog
b. Human
Images from Prentice Hall: Science Explorer, Animals
Complete the T-Chart below to compare the circulatory system of a frog and human in
the diagram above.
Frog
3 ventricles
Same
Ventricles and
atria
Circulatory
system
Human
4 ventricles
List the function of the two systems above. To transport necessary materials
throughout the organism
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DESCRIPTION
Organism A
Organism B
Organism C
Organism D
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CHARACTERISTICS
HOW IT OBTAINS FOOD
Has 4 legs
Has a gray coat of fur
Has flat/grinding teeth
Green
Has leaves
Has roots
Has purple star-shaped
flowers
Has wings
Has a sharp/strong beak
Has green feathers
Is green
Rectangular shaped
Has a Flagella (whip-like
tail)
CELLULAR
COMPOSITION
Eats grasses and leaves
Multicellular
Produces glucose from
sunlight
Multicellular
Eats small birds, mice, and
other small mammals
Multicellular
Produces glucose from
sunlight
Unicellular
Circle the organisms that are in the same kingdom.
List the 2 characteristics that classify those two organisms into the same kingdom.
a. Heterotrophs (eat other organisms)
b. multicellular
A multicellular, autotrophic organism was just discovered. Which organism in the chart
above would be in the same kingdom as the new organism? Organism B