Spring ACP Review 22-23

What has a composition similar to a dirty snowball and travels around the Sun in elliptical orbits?

• A. Asteroid
• B. Comet
• C. Meteorite
• D. Meteoroid

A student makes a model of the Sun-Earth system by swinging a ball around her head. Using this model, the student is trying to explain how Earth stays on a path around the sun. The student explain that this path is the result of -

• A. the magnetic attraction between Earth and the sun
• B. potential energy stored in Earth that originated in the sun
• C. the gravitational attraction between the sun and Earth
• D. electromagnetic energy from the sun pulling on Earth

What type of telescope uses lenses to gather and focus light from distant objects?

• A. reflecting telescope
• B. gamma ray telescope
• C. radio telescope
• D. refracting telescope

You are looking through a microscope at some cells. Each of the cells has a different structure. What can you infer about these cells?

• A. They have the same functions
• B. They are from different organisms
• C. They have different functions
• D. They have the same organelles

What is the smallest unit that can perform all life processes?

• A. cell
• B. organelle
• C. mitochondrion
• D. DNA

A group of students used this diagram to classify three organisms into different kingdoms. Which table correctly identifies the three kingdoms?

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Which list of characteristics describes organisms classified as animals?

• A. Unicellular, prokaryotic, autotrophic
• B. Multicellular, eukaryotic, heterotrophic
• C. Unicellular, eukaryotic, heterotrophic
• D. Multicellular, eukaryotic, autrotrophic

A log has decayed in a forest. The log is considered biotic because it -

• A. was once a living organism
• B. occupied space in the forest
• C. stored rainwater for birds to drink
• D. became a habitat for many insects

Section Y in the diagram is a(n) -

• A. community
• B. ecosystem
• C. family
• D. population

A tea kettle is filled with water and placed on a hot stove. The type of energy transfer shown by the arrows is --

• A. conduction
• B. convection
• C. radiation
• D. solar