LIA 3 Review

​This model of the eyeball helps ophthalmology students learn how to practice surgery before they operate on patients.

Think about why models
are important in science.

Multiple Choice

You have just discovered that a ball with a greater mass will roll down a hill faster. What objects should you use to model this concept?

• 2 golf balls

• a bowling ball and a tennis ball

• a football and a baseball

• a marble and a coin

Multiple Choice

Which example describes superposition?

• fossils burried nerar the surface or deep can both be new or old

• fossils buried the deepest are recent organisms

• fossils near the surface are more recent organisms

• f

Multiple Choice

A wave transfers ____.

• energy
• light
• sound
• matter

Multiple Choice

How many parts are there to the cell theory?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 5

Multiple Choice

Which choice shows levels of organization from SMALLEST to LARGEST?

• cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism

• organism, organ system, organ, tissue, cell

• atom, cell, organelle, tissue, organ

• cell, tissue, organ system, organism, organ

Multiple Choice

A group of tissues that have the same function:

• cell

• organ

• organ system

• organism

Multiple Choice

The type of relationship between a flea and a dog:

• mutualism

• commensalism

• parasitism

A good science experiment can be replicated AND have repetition.

The 6th graders replicated the 8th grade gummy worm experiment.


Repetition is when you conduct several trials of you experiment for more accurate data.

Multiple Choice

Woody wants to see what type of shoe bottom has the most friction. He wears dress shoes and times himself running down the court. He does the same with Crocs and tennis shoes. What repetition would make his experiment valid?

• He runs 5 times with each type of shoe and finds the average speed

• He gets Keenan to copy his experiment

• He tries one type of shoe several times

• His experiment cannot be improved

Multiple Choice

Which statement supports the data shown?

• crickets chirp faster at lower temperatures

• crickets chirp faster when it is cooler

• crickets chirp faster in higher temperatures

• temperature does not affect how crickets chirp

Multiple Choice

If organism A and B are in the same Class (purple) and organism X and Y are in the same Genus (light orange), which relationship is true?

• X and Y are the closest related

• A and X are the closest related

• A and B are the closest related

• B and Y are the closest related

Multiple Select

Which classification group is more specific than "Family" (green bar)?

• genus

• domain

• species

• order

Multiple Choice

A scientists discovers that there are more dinosaur fossils in California than any other U.S. state. What type of scientist finds the information most useful?

• a physicist

• a chemist

• a botanist

• an archaeologist

• a zoologist

Multiple Choice

Which type of data is best to show changes in temperature as you reach deeper parts of the ocean?

• a bar graph

• a line graph

• a table

• a drawing

• a pie chart

Multiple Choice

Energy is not created or destroyed, but _____ from one form to the next.

• transformed

• removed

• reduced

• produced