District Benchmark 1 Review

Match each cell part with its description

• Direct cellular activities

• Nucleus

• Jelly-like support for organelles

• Mitochondrion

• Makes food using energy from the sun

• Chloroplast

• Powerhourse that makes energy (ATP)

• Cell Wall

• Makes plant cells rigid

• Cytoplasm

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NGSS.MS-LS1-2

Match each organelle with its function

• Sends and packages proteins

• Vacuole

• Green pigment inside chloroplasts

• Golgi Body /

  Golgi Apparatus

• Allows things to enter & exit the cell

• Chlorophyll

• Makes proteins

• Ribosomes

• Storage for the cell (mostly for water)

• Cell membrane

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NGSS.MS-LS1-2

Which of the following are only found in plant cells?

• nucleus

• cytoplasm

• cell wall

• chloroplast

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NGSS.MS-LS1-2

What is the basic unit of life?

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

All cells look the same and have the same functions.

• True
• False
• Depends on the type of cell
• Not enough information

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NGSS.MS-LS1-2

A ​ (a)   organism has one cell. A ​ (b)   organism has more than one cell.

• unicellular
• multicellular

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

Match the following

• Packs proteins & sends them where needed

• Prokaryotes

• Organisms that have a nucleus

• Endoplasmic Reticulum

• make proteins

• Ribosomes

• Organisms that have no nucleus

• Eukaryotes

• makes & transports molecules

• Golgi Body

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NGSS.MS-LS1-2

Population size _______ dependent on the availability of resources. 

• is

• is not

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Select the points where the population of red squirrels increased compared to the previous year.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Select the points where the population of red squirrels decreased compared to the previous year.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4