Life Science GMAS Review

A drawing of an earthworm is shown.

An Earthworm belongs to which category?

• land vertebrate

• sea vertebrate

• sea invertebrate

• land invertebrate

What is the function of the cell wall?

• giving shape to plant cells

• producing food from sunlight

• containing the cell's nuclear material

• surrounding the nucleus of a cell and containing most of the cell's internal parts

Which of the following is true?

• A worm is a vertebrate

• A snake is an invertebrate

• A turtle is a vertebrate

• A coral is a nonvascular sea plant

Which of the following types of plant produces seeds inside of a productive cone?

• flowering plants

• mosses

• conifers

• ferns

The cell membrane

• controls the activities of the cell

• produces energy for the cell

• produces nutrients for the cell

• controls what enters and leaves the cell

Which of the following has an exoskeleton?

• flying squirrel

• honeybee

• rattlesnake

• robin

Flowering plants use flowers, which produce pollen and eggs, to reproduce. Many non-flowering plants, such as ferns and mosses

• also use flowers to reproduce

• use cones to reproduce

• use spores to reproduce

• use fruit to reproduce

Jenny sees the animal shown in a pond by her house.

This animal has moist skin with no scales and lives in the water. It has lungs but not gills. Using the classification key, what kind of animal did Jenny see?

• amphibian

• reptile

• fish

• mammal

People naturally know how to do some things. People must be taught how to do other things. Which picture below shows a person who is doing something he or she naturally knows how to do?

• X

• W

• Y

• Z

A learned behavior

• is a new or changed behavior resulting from experience.

• is an unexplainable action that a species may perform.

• is passed on through genes.

• is a natural instinct.