Did you study for Test tomorrow, Friday 04/17/2020

• Yes, I'm stoked

• No, what a bummer

• A little

• Never

Corrine is studying the theory of evolution. She asks her teacher if will ever become the law of evolution. Her teacher tells her that it will not. Why can a scientific theory not become a scientific law?

• Laws are proven and theories are unproven

• Laws are generally accepted rules about phenomena and theories are explanations of observation

• Laws are educated guess, while theories are yet to be tested

• Laws are always true and theories are sometime true

Which of the following are the three main classification domains?

• Fungus, Plants and Animals

• Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya

• Protists, Fungus and Plants

• Bacteria, Virus and Eukarya

Which of the following correctly describes the three domain classification?

• Archaea, Protista, Eukarya

• Animalae, Bacteria, Eukarya

• Archaea, Bacteria, Eubacteria

• Archaea, Bacteria, Eukarya

In the modern classification system, what category has the most organisms?

• Family

• Order

• Kingdom

• Phylum

The Glyptodon is a giant, armadillo-like animal that once lived on Earth and weighed over 2000 kg and live exclusively in warm, coastal regions. In many ways it resembled the 4 kg armadillo that lives today. From the information given, what is the probable reason the Glyptodon is not alive today?

• Predators hunted the animal for food to the point of extinction

• The animal could not adapt to environmental changes

• The animal ate too much food

• The Glyptodon had genetic variation

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When paleontologists study fossils, which is true of the fossil record that they find?

• The fossil record shows that organisms have changed very little over time

• The fossil record is inconsistent with the scientific theory of evolution

• The fossil record is very limited and offers little knowledge about the history of life

• The fossil record shows how different groups of organism have changed over time

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Which of the following is an example of parasitism?

• bees and flowers

• a tick and a dog

• barnacles attached to a whale

• a wolf and a rabbit

Sadie knows that bacteria can make people sick. He teacher told her that bacteria are also necessary in any ecosystem. What positive role do bacteria play in an ecosystem?

• Bacteria help in the transfer of oxygen between cells in multi-cellular organisms

• Bacteria break down organic material and return nutrients to the surrounding environment

• Bacteria use photosynthesis to create a major food source for animals in an ecosystem

• Bacteria release large amounts of oxygen into the atmosphere

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Fossil Fuels such as natural gas and petroleum (oil) contain carbon. How did the carbon get into the fossil fuels?

• It migrated into them from the rocks in which the fossil fuels are found

• It seeped out of coal buried near fossil fuel deposits underground

• It was in the air that was trapped underground when the fossil fuels formed

• It was once part of organisms from which the fossil fuels formed

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