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WorksheetsScience, Chapter 1
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
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Class
Date
1.
What is the smallest unit of a living thing?
a)
cell
b)
virus
c)
tissue
d)
organ
2.
How are plant and animal cells similar?
a)
Both have a cell wall.
b)
Both form blood vessels.
c)
Both contain chloroplasts.
d)
Both have a cell membrane.
3.
What is the job of the nucleus?
a)
controls the cell's activities
b)
traps the Sun's energy for the cell
c)
separates the cell from its environment
d)
controls what goes in and out of the cell
4.
Which statement is true of cells?
a)
Another name for cells is organ system.
b)
Each cell in a plant or animal works by itself.
c)
Cells that look similar can have different jobs.
d)
Plant and animal cells have all the same parts.
5.
Why would you use a microscope?
a)
to treat an illness
b)
to study the small details of a cell
c)
to count the bones in an animal's body
d)
to understand how an organ system works
6.
Which kingdom lives on land and absorbs its food from other living or nonliving things?
a)
fungi
b)
plants
c)
protists
d)
animals
7.
Which word best describes liverworts?
a)
conifer
b)
vascular
c)
vertebrate
d)
nonvascular
8.
Which is true about how pine trees produce?
a)
They make spores inside of pine cones.
b)
They make seeds but do not have flowers.
c)
They make spores like ferns and mosses.
d)
They make flowers with seeds like fruit trees.
9.
Why would a scientist classify an animal as vertebrate?
a)
It has a mouth.
b)
It can breathe air.
c)
It has a backbone.
d)
It can live on the land.
10.
Which is an example of an arthropod?
a)
clam
b)
squid
c)
spider
d)
octopus
11.
Which of these is an inherited trait of an animal?
a)
having brown fur
b)
hibernating in the winter
c)
knowing when to migrate
d)
staying away from predators
12.
Which describes migration?
a)
behavior animals are born knowing
b)
behaviors animals learn from their parents
c)
behavior animals learn from other young animals
d)
behavior animals learn from experience
13.
Which is behavior a bear must learn from its parents?
a)
how to migrate
b)
how to catch fish
c)
how to hibernate in winter
d)
how to grow longer fur in the winter
14.
A marking on a butterfly scares away predators. What is this an example of?
a)
instinct
b)
migration
c)
adaptation
d)
hibernation
15.
Vertebrates that usually are covered in scales, live in water, and breathe with gills.
a)
birds
b)
mammals
c)
reptiles
d)
fish
16.
Vertebrates that have fur, are warm-blooded, and breathe with lungs.
a)
birds
b)
mammals
c)
reptiles
d)
amphibians
17.
Vertebrates that are covered in feathers, lay eggs, and are warm-blooded.
a)
birds
b)
reptiles
c)
amphibians
d)
fish
18.
Vertebrates that are covered with smooth skin, can live on both land and water, and are cold-blooded.
a)
birds
b)
mammals
c)
reptiles
d)
amphibians
19.
Vertebrates that are covered with scales, use lungs to breathe, and are cold-blooded.
a)
birds
b)
mammals
c)
reptiles
d)
amphibians
20.
Which are examples of vascular plants?
a)
bamboo and trees
b)
moss and liverworts
c)
bamboo and moss
d)
trees and liverworts
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