Living Things Test Review

What structure carries food and water through plants?

• flowers

• leaves

• stems

• roots

What gas do leaves give off when they make food?

• oxygen

• carbon dioxide

• nitrogen

• neon

Many invertebrates have a thin, hard covering called ______________.

• a suit of armor

• a backbone

• a casing

• an exoskeleton

How can you classify plants?

• flowering and nonflowering

• seeding and nonseeding

• green and not green

• short and tall

Animals with a backbone are called ________________.

• amphibians

• vertebrates

• invertebrates

• mammals

A frog, an elm tree, and a human are each examples of ______________________.

• cells

• animals

• organisms

• nonliving things

Which living things respond to changes in their environment?

• animals only

• plants only

• only very large plants and animals, not small ones

• all living things

How do animals get the energy they need?

• by making their own food

• by rolling around in the soil

• by eating plants or other animals

• by absorbing energy from the sun

What kind of an invertebrate is a squid?

• mollusk

• jelly

• fish

• amphibian

Roots help plants get water. What else do they do?

• They take in sunlight

• They hold the plant in place

• They turn into weeds

• They only help plants get water