Life Cycles Review

Multiple Choice

What is a living thing known as?

• Inherit

• Organism

• Trait

• Variation

Multiple Choice

What is a characteristic of an organism?

• Inherit

• Organism

• Variation

• Trait

Multiple Choice

What is a difference in organisms with the same parents?

• Inherit

• Organism

• Variation

• Trait

Multiple Choice

Which statement best describes why blue jays have blue feathers?

• The color makes it easier for predators to see them.

• Blue feathers are the best looking.

• They need blue feathers to fly.

• Their parents had blue feathers.

Multiple Choice

Which of these is an example of how the environment influences a trait .

• 1. Unlike dogs, the claws of cats can be pulled back inside the paw.

• A squirrel visits the same bird feeder each day to look for food.

• In a year with very little rain, a fruit tree produces fruit that is smaller than normal.

• A chameleon changes color to match the color of its surroundings.

Multiple Choice

I want to model the life cycle of a mammal. Which choice shows how he should build the model?

• 1. Construct a pyramid showing what the animal eats throughout its life. 

• Construct a timeline showing only birth and death.

• 1. Construct a circular diagram starting with birth and ending with  death.

• Construct a venn diagram showing how a mammal’s life is similar to another organism.

Multiple Select

In which two ways are ALL life cycles the same?

• The organism grows and develops.

• The organism reproduces

• The organism creates fruit.

• The organism lives forever.

Multiple Choice

What is one difference between plant and animal life cycles

• Only the plant life cycle has an adult organism.

• Only the animal life cycle has a young organism.

• Only the plant life cycle reproduces as a seed.

• Only the animal life cycle has an adult organism.

Multiple Choice

How can the environment affect the height of a tree?

• It can't

• The more rain, the taller a tree gets

• The more rain, the shorter a tree is

• Less rain, the tree gets taller.

Multiple Choice

Read the sentence below and decide if the environment is influencing the trait or not.

A young plant looks exactly like the parent plant.

• Influenced by the environment

• Not influenced by the environment

Multiple Choice

Read the sentence below and decide if the environment is influencing the trait or not.

A hydrangea flower is blue or pink depending on the soil it is grown in.

• Influenced by the environment

• Not influenced by the environment

Multiple Choice

Read the sentence below and decide if the environment is influencing the trait or not.

All the corn kernels on an ear of corn are exactly alike.

• Influenced by the environment

• Not influenced by the environment

Multiple Choice

Read the sentence below and decide if the environment is influencing the trait or not.

A cactus grows more branches when there is more water.

• Influenced by the environment

• Not influenced by the environment

Multiple Choice

Read the sentence below and decide if the environment is influencing the trait or not.

A cactus grows more branches when there is more water.

• Influenced by the environment

• Not influenced by the environment

Multiple Choice

The dog and cow start their life cycles when they are born. After they grow they will:

• die

•  reproduce

•  look for shelter

Multiple Choice

The life cycle ends when the organisms

• reproduce

• reach adulthood

• die

Multiple Choice

A dog breeder breeds a long-eared female dog with a short-eared male dog. The results are shown in the table.

Which of the puppies shows a variation in ear length from its parents?

• puppy #1

• puppy #2

• puppy #3

• puppy #4

Multiple Choice

Peas can be found in two shapes and two colors. The table shows the number of each kind of pea in a farmer’s field. All the plants came from the same parents.

Who did the peas inherit their shapes and colors from?

• From the mother plant only.

• From both the mother and father plants.

• From the father plant only.

• From the plants brought in from another field.

Multiple Choice

Peas can be found in two shapes and two colors. The table shows the number of each kind of pea in a farmer’s field. All the plants came from the same parents.

The fact that not all of the peas are exactly alike shows us that _________________.

• Lack of sun caused the round peas to get wrinkled.

• Each pea came from different parents.

• Peas have different traits.

• Peas all have the same traits.