Fall Semester Exam Review 2025

The ​ (a)   variable is found on the X-axis on a graph and the ​ (b)   variable is found on the Y-axis.

• independent
• dependent

What is the last step of the scientific method?

• state a problem

• test the hypothesis

• form a conclusion

• repeat

What do you do after you form a hypothesis?

• state a problem

• test the hypothesis

• form a conclusion

• repeat

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NGSS.HS-PS1-3

Which of the following are characteristics of all living things (as we discussed during class)? ** Multiple answers**

• Lives on land

• Made of cells

• Responds to its environment

• Moves

• Maintaining internal balance

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NGSS.HS-LS1-3

The process of maintaining a relatively constant internal environment despite changes in the external environment is called:

• regulation

• homeostasis

• simulation

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NGSS.HS-LS1-3

What absorbs water and nutrients and anchor the plant to the ground?

• Stems

• Leaves

• Roots

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

Which 2 systems work together to move water from the ground up into the leaves of a plant?

• Reproductive System

• Root System

• Shoot System

Match the words with their correct description.

• Transports sugars and other nutrients

• xylem

• Transports water from roots to stems

• Fibrous root

• single, large central root

• phloem

• clump of short thread-like roots

• Taproot

Match the type of tropism with the correct definition -

• Phototropism

• Plants response to gravity

• Thigmotropism

• Plants response to touch

• Geotropism

• Plants response to light

Match the words with their correct descriptions.

• guard cells

• cells on each side of the stomata that control its opening and closing

• transpiration

• pores or holes in the epidermis of the leaf that allow gas exchange

• stomata

• when water is lost out of the stomata

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NGSS.HS-LS1-5

NGSS.HS-LS2-5