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Life Science Semester Review Part 2
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26. Eglin AFB will soon be testing one of its newest airplanes. They will do this through models. The reason
for using models is to _____.
a. save time, money and lives,
b. test predictions
c. communicate
27. The correct hierarchy (order) for living things is _____.
a. atoms, compounds, cells, organs, elements, tissues, organ systems, molecules, organisms
b. atoms, elements, compounds, tissues, molecules, cells, organs, organ systems, organisms
c. atoms, elements, molecules, compounds, cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, organisms
28. Scientist in Germany, Japan, Canada, Africa and North America all use the metric system. Why? (Best
Answer)
a. to compare answers and avoid confusion
b. to help each other
c. replication
29. When animal cells move oxygen and nutrients into cells and remove waste from cells they do so with a
process called cellular _____. This process is what provides energy for the cell to live and function.
a. photosynthesis
b. processing
c. respiration
30. Which of the following is not a function of ALL cells?
a. provide organisms with energy
b. undergoing photosynthesis
c. getting rid of wastes
d. reproduction
31. Maggie knows that chlorophyll is important to the process of photosynthesis. Which of the following
best explains why chlorophyll is so important to plants?
a. It helps plants absorb water from the soil.
b. It helps plants absorb energy from the Sun.
c. It allows plants to release oxygen into the atmosphere.
32. Cellular Respiration and Photosynthesis are related because _____.
a. they use different things (reactants) to make oxygen.
b. the oxygen made from one is used to provide fuel for the other.
c. they use the same things (reactants) to make oxygen.
33. Which of the following correctly matches an organelle with its function?
a. vacuole to storage
b. mitochondrion to photosynthesis,
c. nucleus to cellular respiration
34. A plant cell is not producing glucose and oxygen. What organelle is not functioning?
a. Vacuole
b. Lysosome
c. Mitochondria
d. Chloroplast
35. Sexual reproduction in animals allows traits to be passed to offspring. Genetic information is stored in
an animal's
a. Cell membrane.
b. Chromosomes.
c. Cytoplasm.
36. Which of the following correctly matches an organelle with its “Cell City” function?
a. Golgi Apparatus to Post office
b. Cell wall to Mayer
c. Mitochondria to solar panel
37. How are plant cells different from animal cells?
a. Plant cells have cell walls.
b. Animal cells have cell membranes.
c. Plant cells have vacuoles.
38. Which of the following is a true stamen about Mitosis?
a. The two cells at completion are genetically different
b. The two cells at completion are genetically identical
c. The four cells at completion are genetically identical
39. If an egg cell contains 12 chromosomes, it comes from an animal that has ______ chromosomes.
a. 12
b. 24
c. 6
40. During which stages of meiosis does crossing over occur?
a. Prophase I
b. Metaphase I
c. Anaphase II
41. Johnny has broken his arm. What will most likely work to repair the broken bone?
a. Tissues
b. organs
c. cells
42. What is the importance of crossing-over?
a. It increases the likelihood that daughter cells contain different genetic material.
b. It provides extra genetic material for the daughter cells.
c. It produces the proteins that are associated with DNA in chromosomes.
43. What does NOT occur in meiosis?
a. Two nuclear divisions
b. Formation of homologous chromosome pairs
c. Two daughter cells at completion
44. Amy observes a unicellular organism under a microscope. Then she reexams the organism 30
minutes later and there are now two unicellular organisms on the microscope slide. How did the
single celled organism divide?
a. Mitosis
b. Meiosis
45. Later that same day Amy observes more cells under a different microscope and observes
homologous pairs of chromosomes aligned on the cells midline. What cell division is she
witnessing?
a. Mitosis
b. Meiosis
46. In number 20 what phase is Amy observing?
a. Prophase I
b. Metaphase I
c. Anaphase I
d. Telophase I
47. Andrew bought a gold fish and brine shrimp to feed the fish from the pet story. According to the cell
theory which items dealing with the gold fish are composed of cells?
a. Gold fish, brine shrimp fish bowl
b. Gold fish, brine shrimp water
c. Gold fish and brine shrimp
48. More sea floor is added to the Atlantic Ocean each year due to sea floor spreading. What type of plate
boundary is causing this the sea floor to spread and lava come to the surface and create new land?
a. Convergent
b. Divergent
c. Transform
49. The theory that each was once one supercontinent is the Theory of ___________________.
a. Plate Tectonics
b. Continental Drift
c. Pangea
50. Greenhouse gases rise into the ___________________ and affect the global temperatures.
a. Biosphere
b. Hydrosphere
c. Cryosphere
d. Atmosphere