8th Grade End of the Year Review

____________ is anything that has mass and takes up space.

• matter
• compound
• particle
• subatomic

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What Is natural selection?

• living things adapt to their environment to survive and produce more offspring

• Living things eat and hunt lesser creatures so they are not the one eaten

• The way natural works on its own

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Changes in physical structure, function, or behavior that allow an organism to survive

• Adaptation

• Mutation

• Camouflage

• Interdependence

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Coloring of markings that help or organism blend in with its surroundings

• Adaptation

• Trait

• Camouflage

• Mutation

Why does the Earth orbit the Sun and not a planet in the solar system?

• The Sun is more massive than the planets so it's mass causes the gravitational pull.
• It just happened that way.
• The Earth pulls the Sun toward it  because it is so massive.
• The Earth is closer than the other planets so the distance causes the gravitational pull.

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Some objects like the Sun produce their own light.  Others don't.  Why can we see objects that don't produce light?

• They absorb the light.
• They reflect the light.
• They transmit the light.
• They bounce the light around until it strikes our eyes.

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Some resources are renewable and will not run out.  Some are finite and can't be renewed.  Which of these resources is non-renewable?

• solar
• hydroelectric
• wind
• oil

Which technology would be useful for studying moon phases

• Spectroscope
• Space Probe
• Telescope
• The international Space Station

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In order to be an index fossil the fossil must

• exist for a short period of time over a large area.
• exist for a long period of time over a small area.
• exist in spotty areas around the world.
• exist, die out,  and come back into existence.

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Which is an example of erosion?

• water sitting in a well
• magma rising in a volcano
• wind blowing sand on a beach
• heat melting rock underground

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