Semester 1 Midterm Review

What is the DEPENDENT variable (effect) in this experiment?

"Does eating breakfast improve test score?"

• eating breakfast or not

• the grade you got on the test

• what time you get up in the morning

• how tasty the breakfast is

An experiment is performed on plants to see how different liquids affect plant growth. Each plant in the experiment is given a different liquid; water, apple juice, or milk. Each plant has the same amount of soil, sunlight, and listens to the same music. In this investigation, the independent variable is ...

• The type of plant
• The amount of sunlight
• The type of music
• The type of liquid

A _____ is something in the environment that causes an organism to respond.

• stimulus
• response
• cause
• effect

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Which kind of living things have DNA in their cells?

• producers
• consumers
• decomposers
• Trick question! All living things have DNA in their cells 

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

Your body shivers when you are cold. This is because of the concept of...

• homeostasis
• heredity
• energy metabolism
• cellular organization

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

Smallest living unit of a living organism

• Cells

• Reproduce

• Genetic code

• Homeostasis

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

Fire is living because it has 6 of the 8 characteristics of life. 

• True 
• False

Which of the following contains the genetic code for protein synthesis?

• carbohydrate
• lipid
• protein
• nucleic acid

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-1

NGSS.HS-LS1-6

Which of the following decreases the activation energy necessary to initiate the chemical change within the body?

• nucleotides
• enzymes
• amino acids
• fatty acids

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

What are the building blocks of proteins?

• amino acid
• fatty acid
• nucleotide
• lipid

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-6