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Question
1. What is one difference between plant and
animal cells?
2. List one thing that ALL living things have in
common.
3. Which layer of the Earth is the thinnest? (Inner
Core, Outer Core, Mantle Crust)
4. When lava cools or hardens, it forms which type
of rock: Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic?
5. Name the human body system that includes the
heart, veins and arteries.
6. Which organisms are always at the bottom of a
food web?
7. What structure in the nucleus contains the
genetic information?
8. How is information passed from one generation
to the next?
9. Given the genotypes of the parents (Ee x Ee),
what is the probability that the offspring will
show the recessive trait (ee)?
10. When the environment changes, which
organisms will survive?
11. Calculate the average speed of a toy car that
travels 20 meters in 5 seconds. (Speed =
Distance/Time)
12. How would the amount of water in a pan affect
the temperature at which the water boils?
13. What scientific “law” requires us to balance
chemical equations so that the number of atoms
is the same before and after the reaction?
14. Give an example of energy being transferred
from one object to another.
15. Explain why your eyes would never “adjust” to
see in a completely dark room.
16. Why does ‘Cup o’ Noodles’ come in a Styrofoam
cup?
17. Light energy from the sun is converted to what
kind of energy through photosynthesis?
Answer
1. Plant cells have cell walls
2. Reproduction, Respiration (Gas Exchange),
Growth & Development, Waste Production,
Energy Use
3. Crust
4. Igneous
5. Circulatory
6. Producers
7. Chromosome
8. Genetics/DNA
9. 25%
10. The ones organisms that are better adapted
11. 4 m/s
12. No effect. It would boil at 100°C
13. Law of Conservation of Mass
14. Answers will vary (Check with teacher if you
are unsure)
15. You see by light being reflected into your eye.
No light means no reflection
16. Styrofoam is an insulator/poor conductor of
heat
17. Chemical
B
Question
1. What structure are all organisms composed of?
2. What do you call a group of cells that work
together to perform specialized functions?
3. The tectonic plates are floating on which semisolid layer of Earth?
4. At which kind of boundary (convergent,
divergent, transform) do earthquakes usually
occur?
5. Explain the function of the respiratory system.
6. How does the Sun’s energy enter a food web?
7. Why does the arrow in a food web point from
the food to the consumer?
8. Why do organisms that undergo sexual
reproduction have more variation than those
that reproduce asexually?
9. What is the benefit of genetic variation in a
population?
10. How many atoms are in a molecule of CO2?
11. When you add Alka Seltzer to water, carbon
dioxide gas is given off. If you do not capture
that gas (in a balloon) what will happen to the
mass of the system?
12. What happens to the motion of molecules in an
object that is being heated?
13. Give an example of one type of energy changing
into another type.
14. What happens to green light when it hits a red
apple?
15. How does water from the ocean get into the
atmosphere?
16. Which variable must be kept the same in an
investigation?
Answer
1. Cells
2. Tissues
3. The Mantle
4. Convergent
5. Exchange gases with the environment (O2, CO2)
6. Producers/Photosynthesis
7. To show the flow of energy
8. Offspring receive genetic information from both
parents
9. The population can adapt to changes in the
environment
10. Three
11. It will go down because the mass of the gas is
lost to the air.
12. They move faster
13. Answers will vary (Check with teacher if you
are unsure)
14. It will be absorbed
15. Evaporation
16. Controlled
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2.
3.
4.
5.
Question
That cell structure is necessary for
photosynthesis to occur?
What landforms are always found near
subduction zones?
What kind of boundary occurs when two
tectonic plates collide? (Convergent, Divergent,
Transform)
Name one type of evidence that the continents
were once joined together
Name one function of the digestive system
6. What do you call a group of organisms of the
same species living in the same area.
7. What would happen to the population of a prey
species if their predator’s population increased
dramatically?
8. What evidence do we have that life has changed
over time? (The organisms that are alive today
are not the same as those that lived in the past.)
9. Why does a ball rolling across carpet eventually
stop?
10. Is salt water a mixture or a compound?
11. In which state of matter do the molecules
spread in the direction of gravity?
12. Where is the moon, in relation to the Earth and
Sun, during a full moon?
13. Why is a year 365 ¼ days?
14. When air heats up, it rises, creating an area of
low pressure. If there is a nearby area of
higher pressure, what will happen?
15. Give an example of one type of energy changing
into another type.
16. What happens to red light when it hits a red
apple?
17. What do all of the inner planets have in
common?
Answer
1. Chloroplast
2. Volcanoes or trenches
3. Convergent
4. Fossils, shape, glaciers, Landforms
5. Digest food, absorb nutrients, excrete waste,
Ingest food
6. Population
7. Their population would decrease
8. Fossils
9. Friction
10. Mixture (not chemically bonded)
11. Liquid
12. The moon is behind the Earth
13. It takes that long for the Earth to revolve/orbit
around the Sun
14. Air will move (wind) to the area of low pressure
15. Answers will vary (Check with teacher if you
are unsure)
16. It is reflected
17. They all have rocky surfaces or they are
relatively close together/close to the sun
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2.
3.
4.
Question
Name one thing (structure or substance) that is
required for photosynthesis to occur.
The molten rock of the mantle is in constant
motion as the warm rock rises and the
cool/dense rock sinks. What is the name of this
heat transfer?
Explain how an igneous rock becomes a
metamorphic rock.
If an igneous rock has large crystals, did it form
above ground or underground?
Answer
1. Water, CO2, Sunlight, Chorophyll
2. Convection
3. Under heat and pressure
4. Underground with time to cool
5. Give an example of a negative impact of
smoking on the body.
5. Emphysema, Cancer, Bad breath, Yellow teeth,
Wrinkles
6. Name one important abiotic (non-living) factor
in an ecosystem.
7. What kind of organism feeds on waste and dead
organisms?
6. Sun, Water, Soil, Temperature, Air
8. In which direction will this object move:
8. To the left
10 N
X
7. Decomposers
20 N
9. A book is sitting on a table. Are the forces
acting on the book balanced or unbalanced?
10. If an object is less dense than water, will it float
or sink?
11. Name the elements in a molecule of water.
12. Are the molecules in a solid in motion?
13. List three different forms of energy.
14. Explain why light can travel through space, but
sound cannot.
15. Why are solar eclipses less common than lunar
eclipse?
16. Explain why a day is 24 hours.
17. What is the most common gas in the lower
atmosphere?
9. Balanced
10. Float
11. Hydrogen, Oxygen
12. In motion (but slowly)
13. Thermal, electromagnetic (light), gravitational,
kinetic, chemical, sound, electrical
14. Light is an electromagnetic wave and does not
need a medium. Sound is a mechanical wave
that requires the vibration of molecules.
15. The moon’s shadow is very small. The Earth’s
shadow is bigger than the moon.
16. The Earth takes 24 hours to rotate on its axis.
17. Nitrogen