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Characteristics of Life
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Jennifer Gaffney
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This quiz comprehensively covers the fundamental characteristics that define life, making it perfectly suited for middle school biology students at the 7th-8th grade level. The questions systematically address all eight essential properties of living organisms: cellular organization, reproduction, metabolism, homeostasis, heredity, response to stimuli, growth and development, and adaptation through time. Students need to understand the distinction between living and non-living things, grasp the concept that all life is cellular (whether unicellular or multicellular), and recognize how organisms maintain internal balance while responding to environmental changes. The quiz requires students to differentiate between sexual and asexual reproduction, identify the role of DNA as the universal genetic code, and understand how organisms obtain and use energy through metabolic processes like photosynthesis in plants. Created by Jennifer Gaffney, a Biology teacher in the US who teaches grades 7 and 10. This quiz serves as an excellent foundational assessment tool that can be deployed as a diagnostic pre-assessment to gauge student understanding before diving deeper into biological concepts, or as a comprehensive review following instruction on life's characteristics. Teachers can utilize this as a formative assessment during the unit to identify misconceptions, assign it as independent practice homework to reinforce key vocabulary and concepts, or implement it as a warm-up activity to activate prior knowledge before exploring more complex biological systems. The quiz effectively addresses NGSS standards 5-LS1-1 and MS-LS1-5, which focus on supporting arguments that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction, while also requiring students to construct scientific explanations based on evidence for how environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A _____ is something in the environment that causes an organism to respond.
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NGSS.MS-LS1-8
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which of these is not true about all organisms?
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NGSS.MS-LS1-1
NGSS.MS-LS1-8
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What is another way of saying organism?
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NGSS.HS-LS1-1
NGSS.HS-LS1-2
NGSS.HS-LS1-4
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which of these statements is true about plants?
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NGSS.MS-LS1-6
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which of these statements is true about animals?
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NGSS.4-LS1-1
NGSS.5-LS2-1
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Most single-celled organisms...
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NGSS.MS-LS1-1
NGSS.MS-LS3-2
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
When a baby kitten becomes an adult cat, this is an example of...
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NGSS.MS-LS1-5
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