Living Environment Life Functions Review
Biology
9th - 10th Grade
21 Questions
NGSS covered
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This Living Environment quiz comprehensively covers the eight fundamental life functions that characterize all living organisms, making it perfectly suited for high school biology students in grades 9-10. The questions systematically assess student understanding of metabolism, regulation, transport, excretion, nutrition, synthesis, growth, and reproduction, requiring students to distinguish between these interconnected processes and recognize how they maintain life. Students must demonstrate mastery of key biological vocabulary, understand the relationship between structure and function in living systems, and apply their knowledge of homeostasis to real-world examples like paramecium transport and plant synthesis of chemical compounds. The quiz demands that students move beyond simple memorization to analyze scenarios and classify biological processes, such as differentiating between ingestion and digestion, or understanding why reproduction is essential for species survival but not individual survival. This quiz was created by a classroom teacher who designed it for students studying high school biology in grades 9-10. This comprehensive review serves multiple instructional purposes throughout a unit on life functions, functioning effectively as a diagnostic pre-assessment to gauge prior knowledge, formative assessment during instruction, or summative review before major examinations. Teachers can deploy this quiz as a warm-up activity to activate student thinking about biological processes, assign it for homework to reinforce classroom learning, or use it as a study guide for state assessments. The content directly aligns with NGSS standards HS-LS1-2 (developing models to illustrate hierarchical organization of interacting systems) and HS-LS1-3 (planning investigations to provide evidence that feedback mechanisms maintain homeostasis), while supporting Common Core literacy standards in science through precise vocabulary usage and evidence-based reasoning about biological processes.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The process by which organisms maintain homeostasis is known as
Tags
NGSS.HS-LS1-3
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Small molecules are combined to form larger molecules by the life function of
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NGSS.MS-LS1-7
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which term includes ALL of the activities needed to keep an organism alive?
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NGSS.MS-LS1-7
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A characteristic of all known living organisms is that they
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A paramecium absorbs materials from its environment and circulates these materials through its cytoplasm. Which life function is described by this statement?
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NGSS.MS-LS1-7
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The life process of transport involves which of the following activities
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NGSS.MS-LS1-3
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which life process prevents the accumulation of wastes?
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