Quiz 1 | Scientific Inquiry

Read and Understand the Phenomenon: While exploring a forest trail, you find a strange object stuck to a tree branch. It has a rough, outer shell and inside is a soft, greenish material. Over several days, you notice the shell cracking, and tiny, leaf-like structures emerging. A week later, it is fully open and producing small spores that fall to the ground.
Which characteristic of life is best demonstrated when the object produces spores?

• Energy Usage

• Reproduction
  

• Response to stimuli
  

• Cellular organization

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NGSS.MS-LS1-4

Read and Understand the Phenomenon: While exploring a forest trail, you find a strange object stuck to a tree branch. It has a rough, outer shell and inside is a soft, greenish material. Over several days, you notice the shell cracking, and tiny, leaf-like structures emerging. A week later, it is fully open and producing small spores that fall to the ground.
If you were to determine whether this object is living, which additional evidence would best support your conclusion?

• It is green in color.
  

• It can photosynthesize to produce its own food.
  

• It can be found attached to other living things.
  

• It contains a protective outer covering.

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Read and Understand the Phenomenon: While exploring a forest trail, you find a strange object stuck to a tree branch. It has a rough, outer shell and inside is a soft, greenish material. Over several days, you notice the shell cracking, and tiny, leaf-like structures emerging. A week later, it is fully open and producing small spores that fall to the ground.
Which conclusion best explains how multiple characteristics of life are shown in the scenario?

• The object changes color and size over time.

• The object has a shell and cracks open in the sun.
  

• The object is green and attached to a branch.
  

• The object reproduces by producing spores and grows by emerging from its shell.
  

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

One grape is placed in tap water and another grape is placed in salt water. The change in their mass is measured after a day.
What are the variables?

• IV - mass of grape

  DV - volume of water

• IV - type of water

  DV - size of grape

• IV - mass of grape

  DV - type of water

• IV - type of water

  DV - mass of grape

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

Cockroaches are exposed to a pesticide.  After 3 hours, 95% of the insects are dead. What are the variables?

• DV is the amount of pesticide used; IV is the number of hours the roaches found dead.

• DV is the number of roaches affected by the pesticide and the IV is the pesticide used.

• DV is the 95% insects dead while IV is the Cockroaches.

• DV is the pesticide used while IV is the amount of dead cockroaches.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

An organism is made up of ​ . It is either prokaryotic or eukaryotic.

(a)  

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

Arrange the correct sequence of the levels of biological organization, which is the correct sequence?

• cell -> organ -> tissue -> organ system -> organism

• tissue ->cell -> organ -> organ system -> organism

• cell -> tissue -> organ -> organ system -> organism

• organ -> cell -> tissue -> organ system -> organism

How many seals were present in 2011?

• 25
• 30
• 40
• 50

What is the label on the y-axis in this graph?

• Rainfall in mm

• Day of the month

• Rainfall during the first 9 days of a month

• Number of Days

What is the trend in New York snowfall between January and May?

• It increased

• It decreased

• It stayed the same

• It is constant (the same) from January to May