Science MAP Test Review

The basic unit of structure and function in all living things.

• chloroplast
• nucleus
• cell
• cell membrane

Plants perform photosynthesis through this organelle.  It captures energy from the sun and uses it to produce food for the cell.

• Chlorophyll
• Chloroplasts
• Mitochondria
• Golgi Apparatus

a physical law stating that an object tends to stay at rest and an object moving in a straight line at a constant speed tends to continue moving that way

• Newton's 1st Law
• Newton's 2nd Law
• Newton's 3rd Law

A student claims that unbalanced forces acting on an object in motion can cause all of the following results: • The object could stop moving • The object could speed up • The object could change directions The best evaluation of this student’s claims is that -

• none of the claims is true.
• one of the claims is true.
• two of the claims are true.
• all of the claims are true.

Located at the leading edge of a temperature drop off. Bring heavy thunderstorms, rain, and hail. Cool, fair weather is likely to follow.  

• Warm Front
• Cold Front
• Occluded Front
• Stationary Front 

______ is a lens that is thicker on its edges and makes an object appear smaller?

• mirror
• convex lens
• concave lens
• prism

Galileo proposed that our galaxy is heliocentric. What does this mean?

• the sun is the outermost edge of our galaxy
• the Earth is the center of our galaxy
• the sun is the center of our galaxy
• the Earth is the outermost edge of our galaxy

Why are there global winds?

• because the cold air sinks from the poles to the equator
• because the earth is rotating from east to west
• because the sun heats the air at the equator more than anywhere else on earth

__________ is stored energy. 

• Potential
• Kinetic
• None of the above 
• All of the above 

Energy due to motion is ____________ energy. 

• Potential 
• Energy
• Kinetic
• Friction