Statewide Science Assessment

Rebuilding an ecosystem after a catastrophic event has occurred and soil is present.

• Primary Succession

• Secondary Succession

• Natural Selection

• Adaptations

The trait that is always expressed.  It will hide or mask the other trait.

• Recessive

• Dominant

• Natural Selection

• Homeostasis

Behavior patterns, or internal and external structures which allow an organism to survive and reproduce in their environment successfully.

• Adaptations

• Homeostasis

• Recessive traits

• Natural Selection

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Organisms who make their own energy by taking in light or chemicals.

• Heterotroph

• Phototropism

• Autotroph

• Heterotroph

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

The trait that is hidden or masked by the other trait. 

• Dominant

• Eukaryotic

• Recessive 

• Homeostasis

Successful traits are passed onto offspring through natural circumstances. 

• Natural Selection

• Primary Succession

• Secondary Succession

• Dominant

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

This type of organism feeds on a host organism, causing harm to the host. 

• Decomposer

• Parasite

• Heterotroph

• Carnivore

The organism's ability to maintain equilibrium in their body.

• Homeostasis

• Heterotroph

• Prokaryotic

• Autotrophic

Some resources are renewable and will not run out.  Some are finite and can't be renewed.  Which of these resources is non-renewable?

• solar

• hydroelectric

• wind

• oil

Suppose you find fossils of dinosaurs on an island but no fossils of bird or mammal fossils found on the continent it broke off from  This information provides evidence of _________________.

• global warming

• seafloor spreading

• mountain building

• continental drift

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3