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MS Intergrated Science Assessment

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Multiple Choice

1. At a family reunion, Alice notices a common inherited characteristic among the people there. Which is most likely the trait that Alice notices?

• A. Most people have brown hair.

• B. Most people wear tennis shoes.

• C. Most people live in the same state.

• D. Most people speak the same language.

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2. Which is an example of an inherited characteristic?

• scar

• weight

• eye color

• personality

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3. Which is an example of an inherited characteristic?

• A. love of music

• B. fear of spiders

• C. ability to hit a ball

• D. presence of dimples

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4. Mark is tall and a good basketball player. He has a good attitude, practices basketball all year, and listens to his coaches. Which characteristic has he most likely inherited?

• A. his height

• B. his attitude

• C. his willingness to listen

• D. his willingness to practice

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5. Nancy is the only person in her family who cannot swim. Which best explains why she is different?

• A. The ability to swim is transferable from one person to another.

• B. The ability to swim is based on height and weight.

• C. The ability to swim is inherited.

• D. The ability to swim is learned.

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6. Which is a characteristic offspring inherit from parents?

• A. blood type

• B. intelligence

• C. personality

• D. weight

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7. Wesley practices hitting and throwing daily to prepare for baseball try-outs. Why is he most likely disappointed to learn the coach is only taking the tallest and fastest players?

• A. He cannot learn to throw farther.

• B. He cannot learn to hit harder.

• C. He cannot learn to run faster.

• D. He cannot learn to be taller.

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8. Which best describes an inherited trait?

• A. a characteristic one chooses to express

• B. a characteristic one receives from the food they eat

• C. a characteristic that is passed on from one’s parents

• D. a characteristic that is influenced by one’s surroundings

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9. Bob is a tall, slender young man with red hair and blue eyes. Which couple would most likely be Bob’s parents?

• A. a slender, red-haired father and a tall, blue-eyed mother

• B. a tall green-eyed father with long brown hair and a short, brown-haired mother

• C. a short, green-eyed, black-haired father and a tall, brown haired, brown-eyed mother

• D. a short, plump brown-haired father with freckles and a short, blue-eyed red-haired mother

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10. Which is an example of an inherited characteristic in dogs?

• A. coming when called

• B. walking on four legs

• C. waiting to eat on command

• D. barking when asked to speak

Evolution results from a process called natural selection.

Natural Selection!

Natural selection is a process in which organisms better suited to their environment are able to survive and reproduce more offspring

These favorable traits and characteristics are then passed on to their babies through a process called inheritance.

Multiple Choice

Evolution is the result of a process called ____________

• Natural Selection

• Artificial Selection

• Survival of the Weakest

• Supernatural Selection

Multiple Choice

According to natural selection, organisms more suited to their environment are better able to

• Sleep

• Survive

• Perish

• Migrate

Multiple Choice

The process of passing down favorable traits to one's offspring is called

• Artificial Selection

• Mutations

• Evolution

• Inheritance

The process of natural selection happens when an individual’s genes become different in some way from the genes of others of its kind.

Differences in genes cause differences in an individual’s traits—such as how it looks or its behavior.

Multiple Choice

Natural selection happens when an individual's genes ______________ from the genes of other members of its species.

• Become different

• Stay the same

• Become separated

Multiple Choice

Differences in genes can cause differences in __________ (Choose the best answer).

• Mutations

• RNA

• Appearance

Changes in genetic material are called mutations.

Mutations can occur at any time during an organism’s life span.

Mutations can be inherited or happen randomly. They can also be caused by environmental factors such as too much sunlight.

Multiple Choice

Changes in genetic material are called _____________

• Mutations

• RNA

• Genes

Multiple Choice

Mutations can be inherited or be

• Chosen by the individual organism

• Caused by environmental factors

• Refused at any time

Most changes in genes either harm the individual or do not matter much.

But some changes help an individual to survive and reproduce.

For example, an animal may have better vision or faster legs. These traits may help it find food and avoid its enemies.

Multiple Choice

Some changes in genes can help organisms _____

• Survive

• Mutate

• Rest

The Sun, Earth, and Moon

The Sun, Earth, and Moon are all in sync with each other.

Vocabulary

• Limitations – a restriction or weakness

• Model – a picture, idea, or object that represents an object, a system, or process that is used to help with understanding; models have advantages and limitations

• Moon – a natural object that orbits a planet; Earth’s Moon is the only natural satellite and Earth’s nearest neighbor in space

• Orbit – the path that one object in space takes around another object in space

• Planet – a large object that orbits a star; the Earth (a planet) orbits the Sun (star)

• Revolution (revolve) – one complete circle made by a planet or satellite around another object

• Solar system – the Sun and all of the objects that move around it

• Sun – a star composed of gases; provides Earth with most of its light and heat energy

Size of the Sun

The sun is the center of our solar system. The sun is a star composed of gases.

About one million Earths could fit inside the sun.

The Earth

Earth, our home, is the third planet from the sun.

Water covers roughly 71 % of Earth's surface, and most of that is in the oceans.

Earth has 2 jobs. It orbits the Sun, and at the same time it rotates.

It takes the Earth 365 days to orbit the sun and 24 hours to complete one rotation.

 

The Moon

The Moon orbits the Earth like the Earth orbits the sun.

It is a quarter the size of the Earth. So, it is smaller than the Earth.

Multiple Choice

How long does it take for the Earth to rotate one complete time?

• 24 hours

• 28 days

• 1 month

• 365 days

Multiple Choice

The moon revolves around

• sun

• itself

• nothing

• earth

Multiple Choice

What is earth's curved path around the sun called?

• rotation

• orbit

• revolve

• year

Multiple Choice

All of our ______ comes from the sun.

• knowledge

• time

• food

• energy

Multiple Choice

Our sun is a

• moon

• comet

• planet

• star

Multiple Choice

Earth's spinning causes______?

• dizziness

• earthquakes

• day and night

• the moon light up

Multiple Choice

An ______ is an imaginary line that Earth spins on.

• equator

• axis

• line

• orbit

Multiple Choice

Earths complete orbit around the sun gives us

• a year

• a headache

• an hour

• a day