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7th Grade Life Science
FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Living Organisms
1) What are the characteristics of living things?
2) What is the difference between growth and development?
3) What is the difference between sexual and asexual reproduction?
4) What is a heterotroph? Autotroph?
5) What do the animals in Phylum Chordata have in common with each other?
6) What two levels of classification make up the scientific names for living things?
7) What are the characteristics of domain Eukarya and what organisms belong to it?
8) What two gasses exit the plant through the stomata?
9) What are the functions of roots, stems, and leaves?
10) How does pollination occur in flowers?
11) What is the job of the stamen?
12) What is a zygote?
13) What are the two stages in a plants life cycle?
14) What is transpiration?
15) What are the reproductive part of a gymnosperm?
16) What are the reproductive part of an angiosperm?
17) How does fertilization occur in an angiosperm and a gymnosperm?
18) In an angiosperm, what does the ovary develop into?
19) What is budding?
20) How does a jellyfish reproduce? (Polyp and medusa)
21) What is the difference between external and internal fertilization?
22) What is the function of the placenta?
23) Which type of growth and development occurs in mosquitos?
24) What type of animals provide parental care for their young?
25) How do reptiles care for their young?
Ecology
1) What factors determine a biome?
2) How much rain does a desert get per year?
3) How are temperate and tropical rain forests similar?
4) What kinds of trees are found in the boreal forest? What kind of adaptation do they have?
5) How do grassland and tundra biomes differ?
6) What does a habitat provide for an organism/
7) What are the levels of an ecosystem?
8) What is the difference between biotic and abiotic factors?
9) What is ecology?
10) What is the difference between predator and prey?
11) What are examples of decomposers?
12) What is mutualism? Give an example.
13) What is commensalism? Give an example.
14) What is parasitism? Give an example.
15) How is energy transferred through a food web?
16) What happens to the amount of energy as it moves up each level on an energy pyramid?
17) What factor most likely limits a desert’s carrying capacity for plant life?
18) What is the difference between immigration and emigration?
19) What is a behavioral adaptation? Give an example.
20) What is a structural adaptations? Give an example.
21) What is natural selection?
22) Why is carbon dioxide building up in the Earth’s atmosphere?
23) Why are the nodules found on certain plant roots important to plants and animals?
24) How does natural selection result in variations in a population?
25) What cycle do cellular respiration and photosynthesis play a significant part in?
Body Systems
1) How do the circulatory system and respiratory system work together?
2) What is the function of the digestive system?
3) What is the difference between skeletal muscles, cardiac muscles, and smooth muscles?
4) What body system is in charge of growth and development?
5) What body system makes red blood cells and white blood cells?
6) Why is the immune system important?
7) What organs make up the digestive system?
8) How do the muscular system and the skeletal system work together?
9) Why is the nervous system important to all body systems?
10) What body systems make up the excretory system?
Constructed Response Questions
1) Compare and contrast complete and incomplete metamorphosis.
2) Explain how the circulatory and respiratory systems work together.
3) How does energy move through a food web? Make sure to include producers, consumers, and
decomposers in your answer.
4) Describe the three types of symbiosis and give an example of each.
5) How are ecosystems organized?
6) Describe how technology affects the environment and give an example of each.