End of Year Review

What does photosynthesis produce?

• carbon dioxide and water

• oxygen and water

• carbon dioxide and sugars

• oxygen and sugars

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What does a Punnet square show?

• all the possible outcomes of a genetic cross

• only the dominant alleles in a genetic cross

• only the recessive alleles in a genetic cross

• all of Mendel’s discoveries about genetic crosses

Factors that control traits are called

• genes.

• purebreds.

• recessives.

• parents.

What is a pedigree?

• a chart that tracks which members of a family have a particular trait

• a geneticist who studies the inheritance of traits in humans

• a picture of all of the chromosomes in a cell

• an allele passed from parent to child on a sex chromosome

Which organelle is the control center of a cell?

• mitochondrion

• ribosome

• nucleus

• chloroplast

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How does natural selection lead to evolution?

• stronger offspring kill weaker members of the species

• individuals that are better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce

• competition for resources keeps the weaker species alive

• environmental changes allow weaker members to survive

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An organism that can make its own food is called a

• consumer.

• decomposer.

• producer.

• scavenger.

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The many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem make up a(n)

• food web.

• niche.

• energy pyramid.

• feeding level.

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Fossil fuels are considered nonrenewable resources because they

• burn so quickly.

• are in such high demand.

• take hundreds of millions of years to form.

• pollute the air.

The process of reclaiming products such as metal, glass, paper, and plastic and reusing them to create new products is called

• incineration.

• composting.

• mining.

• recycling.

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