WorksheetsBiology EOC review
Total questions: 61
Worksheet time: 45mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What are the goals of science?
a)
to provide natural explanations in the natural world
b)
to explain what scientists theories
2.
What are organisms that consume producers called?
a)
decomposers
b)
herbivores
c)
primary consumers
d)
secondary consumers
3.
Who is considered the "Father of Genetics"?
a)
George Washington
b)
Carl Linnaeus
c)
Charles Darwin
d)
Gregor Mendel
4.
At which trophic level are tertiary consumers located?
a)
2
b)
3
c)
4
d)
5
5.
Which cell does not have a nucleus?
a)
Animal Cell
b)
Eukaryotic Cell
c)
Plant Cell
d)
Bacterial Cell
6.
What is the cell that is needed by a virus in order to reproduce called?
a)
Host Cell
b)
Bacterial Cell
c)
Prison Cell
d)
Home Cell
7.
Which level of organization is a community of living and non-living things that interact with each other?
a)
Population
b)
Ecosystem
c)
Community
d)
Biosphere
8.
What is a biotic factor?
a)
living factor
b)
positive factor
c)
non-living factor
d)
medical factor
9.
All living and non-living things are made up of cells.
a)
True
b)
False
10.
What is the maintenance of constant internal conditions in an organism called?
a)
perspiration
b)
photosynthesis
c)
homeostasis
d)
metabolism
11.
As a primary consumer, how much energy is passed on to the next trophic level?
a)
50%
b)
30%
c)
75%
d)
10%
12.
Which symbiotic relationship occurs when both organisms benefit from each other?
a)
Commensalism
b)
Mutualism
c)
Parasitism
d)
Symbiotism
13.
What is the science of naming and classifying organisms?
a)
Taxonomy
b)
Biology
c)
Ontology
d)
Chemistry
14.
If an organism has a cell wall made of cellulose, and is autotrophic, which Kingdom does it belong to?
a)
Animalia
b)
Archaebacteria
c)
Protista
d)
Plantae
15.
What is not an example of evidence supporting the Evolutionary Theory?
a)
Homologies
b)
Fossil Records
c)
Biogeography
d)
Evolutionary Records
16.
What are pioneer organisms?
a)
first organisms to live in an area
b)
last organsims to leave an area
c)
organisms that reproduce the fastest
d)
most physically-fit organisms
17.
What characteristic is present in a living thing?
a)
contains DNA
b)
needs an energy source
c)
able to grow
d)
all of the above
18.
What is the probability of having a boy or a girl from a single birth?
a)
50%
b)
25%
c)
75%
d)
10%
19.
Organisms that feed on a living host are known as
a)
decomposer
b)
saprophyte
c)
parasite
d)
producer
20.
A cell with membrane-bounded organelles is known as
a)
eukaryotic cell
b)
prokaryotic cell
c)
bacteria
d)
virus
21.
Organisms that eat both plants and animals are
a)
omnivores
b)
carnivores
c)
herbivores
d)
vertebrates
22.
A organic molecule will always contain this element along with other elements
a)
carbon
b)
hydrogen
c)
oxygen
d)
nitrogen
23.
The tendency of a solvent to travel across a semipermeable membrane to areas of higher solute concentration
a)
diffusion
b)
osmosis
c)
physical change
d)
cohesion tension
24.
The powerhouse of the cell is the
a)
mitochondria
b)
nucleus
c)
lysosomes
d)
cytoplasm
25.
The process of asexual reproduction in eukaryotic cells is
a)
meiosis
b)
mitosis
c)
conjugation
d)
mutation
26.
Which is the last phase of mitosis?
a)
telophase
b)
metaphase
c)
anaphase
d)
interphase
27.
A diploid cell
a)
is 2n
b)
has twice the chromosomes of a haploid cell
c)
results at the end of mitosis
d)
All of the above
28.
Cells used in sexual reproduction are
a)
somatic cells
b)
gametes
c)
zygotes
d)
meiosis
29.
Human gametes are produced by
a)
mitosis
b)
osmosis
c)
meiosis
d)
viruses
30.
Which is the "resting" phase of mitosis?
a)
prophase
b)
anaphase
c)
metaphase
d)
interphase
31.
A flatworm, like a human, has this kind of symmetry.
a)
spherical
b)
radial
c)
bilateral
d)
anterior
32.
An organism that can maintain its own body heat is
a)
ectothermic
b)
endothermic
c)
exothermic
d)
perennial
33.
If a diploid cell has 46 chromosomes, how many chromosomes will be present in the cells that result from meiosis
a)
46
b)
23
c)
92
d)
varies
34.
If a snake eats a mouse that ate grain. The snake would be a
a)
tertiary consumer
b)
primary consumer
c)
secondary consumer
d)
producer
35.
If an animal eats only other carnivores would always be a
a)
producer
b)
tertiary consumer
c)
secondary consumer
d)
primary consumer
36.
In order or a recessive trait to be seen, the following must be true
a)
two recessive alleles must be present
b)
one recessive allele must be present
c)
one dominant allele must be present
d)
It must be sex-linked
37.
This carries oxygenated blood away from the heart
a)
veins
b)
capillaries
c)
arteries
d)
nerves
38.
This make a leaf green
a)
chloroplast
b)
chlorophyll
c)
mesophyll
d)
all of the above
39.
Major difference in plant cells and animal cells
a)
nucleus
b)
mitrochondria
c)
cell wall (plants have/animals don't)
d)
plasma membrane
40.
To follow a drop of water in its journey from rain to the ocean you would study
a)
the watershed
b)
the water cycle
c)
the geological column
d)
the carbon cycle
41.
This scientist worked with genetics
a)
Dalton
b)
Mendel
c)
Darwin
d)
Frazier
42.
Most cellular respiration takes place in the
a)
nucleus
b)
mitochondria
c)
cytoplasm
d)
Krebs cycle
43.
What is the main function of a selectively permeable membrane?
a)
storage of water
b)
storage of chemicals
c)
breaks down molecules within the cell
d)
regulates what enters and leaves the cell
44.
In an experiment testing how plant water intake affects a plant's growth, what would be the independent variable?
a)
Glucose production
b)
Plant growth
c)
Amount of water
d)
Sunlight
45.
In an experiment testing how plant water intake affects a plant's growth, what would be the dependent variable?
a)
Glucose production
b)
Plant growth
c)
Amount of water
d)
Sunlight
46.
Special proteins called enzymes are biological catalysts. This means that they:
a)
Speed up the rate of chemical reactions in biological processes
b)
Reduce the activation energy required to start a chemical reaction
c)
All of the above
d)
None of the above
47.
Which nucleotides compose DNA?
a)
Adenine, guanine, cytosine, uracil
b)
Adenine, guanine, cytosine
c)
Adenine, uracil, thymine
d)
Adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine
48.
Which nucleotides compose RNA?
a)
Adenine, guanine, cytosine, uracil
b)
Adenine, guanine, cytosine
c)
Adenine, uracil, thymine
d)
Adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine
49.
DNA code is transferred to mRNA in the ____ through a process called ____.
a)
Cytoplasm, translation
b)
Nucleus, transcription
c)
Nucleus, translation
d)
Ribosome, transcription
50.
"All cells arise from pre-existing cells."
This would be one major component of which scientific principle?
This would be one major component of which scientific principle?
a)
Darwin's theory of natural selection
b)
The cell theory
c)
Heisenberg's formula
d)
Newton's laws of motion
51.
The idea that evolution seems to occur in spurts of time.
a)
stabilizing selection
b)
directional selection
c)
disruptive selection
d)
puntuated equilibrium
52.
A population moving from on place to another.
a)
speciation
b)
geographic isolation
c)
genetic drift
d)
migration
53.
Physical separation of a population, leading to speciation.
a)
reproductive isolation
b)
geographic isolation
c)
speciation
d)
gene pool
54.
Which of the following ideas proposed by Lamarck was later found to be incorrect?
a)
Acquired characteristics can be inherited
b)
All species are descended from other species
c)
Living things change over time
d)
There is a relationship between an organism and its environment
55.
What type of genetic drift occurs when the population size is greatly decreased?
a)
Founder's Effect
b)
Bottleneck Effect
c)
Intrasexual Selection
d)
Intersexual Selection
56.
What type of genetic drift occurs when the population size is greatly decreased?
a)
Founder's Effect
b)
Bottleneck Effect
c)
Intrasexual Selection
d)
Intersexual Selection
57.
According to Lyell, how are geographical features formed?
a)
Slowly, forces such as erosion have accumulated over time
b)
They appeared in a matter of hours
c)
They appeared in a matter of a few years
d)
Differently than they were created in the past
58.
How would you describe this evolution?
a)
Homologous structure
b)
Analogous structure
c)
Structural adaption
d)
Functional adaption
59.
What type of genetic drift occurs when the population size is greatly decreased?
a)
Founder's Effect
b)
Bottleneck Effect
c)
Intrasexual Selection
d)
Intersexual Selection
60.
a bird that can easily outcompete other birds for food and that can produce many eggs has a high
a)
life expectancy
b)
mutation rate
c)
fitness
d)
adaptability
61.
what did Charles Darwin observe in finch populations of the Galapagos Islands off the coast of South America?
a)
different species on different islands
b)
all species on one of the islands
c)
identical species on all the islands
d)
the same species as North America
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