Biology Released EOC

Natural selection only works on...

• phenotypes

• genotypes

• alleles

• genes

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

What do you call similar structures that related species have inherited from a common ancestor?

• Natural Selection

• Analogous Structure

• Vestigial Structure

• Homologous Structure

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

What is the term for a feature that allows an organism to survive better in an environment?

• variation

• adaptation

• selection

• overproduction

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

An organism that produces its own food supply from the sun is called...

• Autotroph

• Heterotroph

• Consumer

• Mutualist

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

What is the term used to describe the movement of alleles between populations?

• Genetic drift

• Gene flow

• Natural selection

• Mutation

What do you call the plant at the beginning of every food chain?

• producer

• consumer

• heterotroph

• predator

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The number of organism that an environment can support over time is called...

• limiting factor

• limiting number

• exponential growth

• carrying capacity

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Which is an example of primary succession?

• Hawaii covered in lava rock after a volcanic explosion.

• Louisiana after a flood.

• California after a wildfire.

• California after a drought.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

When one organism captures and feed on another.

• predation

• symbiosis

• Producer

• mutualism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

10% is the amount of energy that transfers from one trophic level to the next.

Most of it is ______

• lost as heat

• used in respiration

• excreted

• all of these

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3