Science Reading Quiz

What fictional planet does the writer compare Kepler-16b to?

• Pluto

• Lyra

• Tatooine

• Cygnus 

How is your DNA like your body’s blueprint?

• They are made to create proteins.

• Your genes carry all the information to make you what you are.

• They can identify and address the body’s specific needs

• They describe how specific traits will be displayed as you age.

What are two examples of technology that send information over long distances? 

• the human eye and computers 

• government officials and computers 

• cellphones and the human eye 

• cellphones and computers 

A cellphone sends and receives information in a speedy way invisible to the human eye.

What evidence from the passage supports this statement?

• When a person speaks into a cellphone, his or her voice is broken down and reassembled over a radio link, so the person on the other end instantaneously hears what is said. 

• When computers first showed up around 1941, they were used to transmit sensitive information across geographical spaces by the military because of worries government officials had

• Although people may take for granted the ease with which they can pass along information through computers, many forces are at work to make computer communication more reliable.

• Like cellphones, computers can receive, decode, and convert information, though typically this information is written content rather than someone’s voice.

Advantageous traits are passed on from a finch to its offspring.

What evidence from the passage supports this statement? 

• In his notes, Darwin first referred to the finches on the Galapagos Islands as mockingbirds or wrens. 

• Having advantageous traits increases the chance that a finch will live long enough to produce offspring. 

• The mission of the Beagle was to survey the coastlines of South America in order to make better maps 

• A strong wind may have blown finches flying along South America’s coastline toward the Galapagos Islands. 

What is one way that computer use has changed over time? 

• Computers were first used in homes, schools, and offices to send different kinds of information, but now they are used only by the military to send sensitive information. 

• Computers were first used by the military to send sensitive information, but now they are used in homes, schools, and offices to send different kinds of information. 

• Computers used to send a person’s voice from one place to another, but now they send only written content. 

• Computers used to send a person’s voice from one place to another, but they have been gradually replaced by landline telephones. 

Read this sentence from the passage:

“The planet is about the size of Saturn, but, because it’s gaseous, scientists don’t believe it to be habitable.”

In this sentence, the word habitable means 

• growing in size 

• carefully observed 

• suitable to live on 

• covered with holes 

What is genetics?

• The study of cells

• THe study of rocks

• The study of heredity

• The study of plants

How likely to survive is a finch with disadvantageous traits compared to a finch with advantageous traits?

• A finch with disadvantageous traits is much more likely to survive than a finch with advantageous traits. 

• A finch with one disadvantageous traits is much more likely to survive than a finch with advantageous traits. 

• A finch with disadvantageous traits is less likely to survive than a finch with advantageous traits. 

• Traits are not important for survival

What is this passage mostly about?

• computers, the Internet, and how the military uses technology to protect people

• cellphones, landline telephones, and the reasons people have trouble hearing each other over the phone 

• mobile phone operators, government officials, and companies that work with one another 

• cellphones, computers, and how they send information from one place to another