Test Prep

Which of the following is produced when sugar is digested in an animal cell?

• carbon dioxide
• chlorophyll
• oxygen
• sunlight

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NGSS.MS-LS1-7

A group of students are building a model of an ecosystem.  Which of the following organisms should the students select to act as a decomposer?

• turtle
• flower
• mushroom
• spider

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Decomposers are important in the food chain because they

• produce their own food using light from the sun
• stop the flow of energy from one organism to another
• break down dead organisms and recycle nutrients into the soil.
• are microscopic and other organisms cannot consume them.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Salt concentration, water temperature, plankton, and the whale shark might all be used in a description of an ocean?

• climate
• food web
• ecosystem
• population

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What object is opaque?

• glass window
• ice cube
• sun glass lens
  
• wooden door

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

What object is opaque?

• glass window
• ice cube
• sun glass lens
  
• wooden door

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

What is another word for protective coloration?

• camouflage
• habitat
• hibernation
• migration

Which describes a change that takes place when a chocolate bar melts?

• A solid becomes a gas
• A liquid becomes  a gas
• A solid becomes a liquid
• A liquid becomes a solid

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Which shows an effect of humans on an environment?

• a nest made of dead branches
• a river eroding away from a river bank
• a trail built by cutting down trees
• a group of butterflies landing on flowers

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

A farmer notices that the leaves on some sunflower plants have holes caused by insects. The seeds of these sunflowers are planted. How many of the new sunflower plants will inherit leaves with holes?

• all
• none
• one-half
• three-fourths

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5