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Backyard BIO 18-19

Total questions: 90

Worksheet time: 1hrs 3mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the function of a root? 
a)
To provide minerals and water for the plant to grow.
b)
Only to anchor the plant. 
c)
Photosynthesis 
d)
Defense against animals
2.
What is the function of a leaf? 
a)
To provide minerals and water for the plant to grow.
b)
Only to anchor the plant. 
c)
Photosynthesis 
d)
Defense against animals
3.
What is the function of a stem? 
a)
To provide minerals and water for the plant to grow.
b)
Only to anchor the plant. 
c)
Photosynthesis 
d)
Support and transport
4.
What is gravitropism? 
a)
Plant's growth response to gravity.
b)
Plant's growth response to light.
c)
Plant’s movement towards or away from touch.
d)
The movement of a plant organ in response to the stimulus of water.
5.
What is phototropism? 
a)
Plant's growth response to gravity.
b)
Plant's growth response to light.
c)
Plant’s movement towards or away from touch.
d)
The movement of a plant organ in response to the stimulus of water.
6.
What is hydrotropism? 
a)
Plant's growth response to gravity.
b)
Plant's growth response to light.
c)
Plant’s movement towards or away from touch.
d)
The movement of a plant organ in response to the stimulus of water.
7.
What is thigmotropism? 
a)
Plant's growth response to gravity.
b)
Plant's growth response to light.
c)
Plant’s movement towards or away from touch.
d)
The movement of a plant organ in response to the stimulus of water.
8.
In the life cycle of seed plants what comes before pollination? 
a)
Seeds
b)
Germination
c)
Flowering
d)
Leaves
9.
Identify this picture. 
a)
Long leaf pine
b)
Loblolly Pine
10.
What is the source of energy for photosynthesis?
a)
carbohydrates-chemical
b)
sunlight-radiant
c)
heat-thermal
d)
television-electrical
11.
What are the reactants (what's needed) for photosynthesis?
a)
glucose and oxygen
b)
light, water, and carbon dioxide
12.
What gas is released by plants during photosynthesis?
a)
sulfur
b)
carbon dioxide
c)
oxygen
d)
hydrogen
13.
What is the purpose of photosynthesis?
a)
make glucose
b)
make ATP
c)
make light
d)
release carbon dioxide
14.
What are the products (what's made) during photosynthesis?
a)
glucose and oxygen
b)
water, light, and carbon dioxide
15.
What type of organism uses photosynthesis?
a)
plants
b)
bacteria
c)
animals
d)
both plants and bacteria
16.
What is the energy conversion during photosynthesis?
a)
chemical --> chemical
b)
thermal --> electrical
c)
chemical --> electrical 
d)
radiant --> chemical
17.
In which organelle (part of the cell) does photosynthesis take place?
a)
mitochondria
b)
chloroplast
c)
nucleus
d)
cell membrane
18.
What is the gas we breath out that plants use for photosynthesis?
a)
sulfur
b)
carbon dioxide
c)
oxygen
d)
hydrogen
19.
Identify this picture. 
a)
Dogwood
b)
Red Oak
c)
Cottonwood
d)
American Beech
20.
What anchors the plant to the ground?
a)
roots
b)
stems
c)
leaves
21.
What holds soil in place an prevent erosion?
a)
roots
b)
stems
c)
leaves
22.
What provides support for the plant body?
a)
roots
b)
stems
c)
leaves
23.
What carries nutrients throughout the plant?
a)
roots
b)
stems
c)
leaves
24.
What is a defense system to protect against predators and infection?
a)
roots
b)
stems
c)
leaves
25.
What is the main photosynthetic system?
a)
roots
b)
stems
c)
leaves
26.
What is the site of oxygen release and carbon dioxide intake?
a)
roots
b)
stems
c)
leaves
27.
What is the first stage of the life cycle of a seed plant?
a)
seed
b)
seedling
c)
tree
d)
fruit
28.
What is the second stage in the life cycle of a seed plant?
a)
seed
b)
seed with leaves
c)
seedling
d)
fruit
29.
What is the fourth stage in the life cycle of a seed plant?
a)
seedling
b)
small tree
c)
growing tree
d)
mature tree with fruit
30.
What comes after a small tree in the life cycle of seed plants?
a)
seedling
b)
seed 
c)
growing tree
d)
mature tree with fruit
31.
What happens before a seed falls to the ground?
a)
seedling
b)
mature tree with fruit
c)
seed with leaves
d)
small tree
32.
What is the state flower?
a)
Carolina Lily
b)
Flowering Dogwood
c)
Rose
d)
Tulip
33.
What is the state fruit?
a)
Strawberry
b)
Blueberry
c)
Scuppernong Grape
d)
Apple
34.
What is our state red berry?
a)
Blueberry
b)
Strawberry
c)
Cherry
d)
Raspberry
35.
NC state tree is the 
a)
oak
b)
pine
c)
maple
d)
dogwood
36.
NC state flower is the ____. 
a)
rose
b)
pine cone
c)
dogwood 
d)
honeysuckle
37.
State Fruit
a)
Oranges
b)
Pineapples
c)
Pink Lady Apples
d)
Scuppernong Grapes
38.
State Insect
a)
Bumblebee
b)
Honeybee
c)
Gray Squirrel
d)
Opossum 
39.
State Tree
a)
Pine Tree
b)
Fraser Fur
c)
Blue Cypress
d)
Cedar Tree
40.
State Carnivorous Plant
a)
Dogwood
b)
Venus Fly Trap
c)
Roses
d)
Geraniums
41.
What part of the tree:
Supports the crown of the tree and gives the tree shape and strength.
a)
Branches
b)
Leaves
c)
Trunk
42.
You can tell how old a tree is by how many rings/layers it has inside its trunk.
a)
True
b)
False
43.
What does the OUTER BARK do for a tree?
a)
protects the tree from insects and disease 
b)
protects the tree from humans and machines
44.
What does the INNER BARK do for a tree?
a)
Moves sugar and nutrients from the leaves to the rest of the tree.
b)
Moves insects and disease to the roots
45.
What do deciduous (en francais: feuillus)  trees do before the cold season?
a)
Shed their needles
b)
Shed their leaves
c)
Their leaves stay all year long
d)
Are cone bearing trees
46.
Is this leaf compound, single or double compound?
a)
Compound
b)
Single
c)
Double compound
47.
What type of leaf arrangement is this? 
a)
Simple
b)
Compound
c)
Double Compound
48.
What type of leaf arrangement is this? 
a)
Simple
b)
Compound
c)
Double Compound
49.
What kind of trees shed their leaves?
a)
coniferous
b)
decidious
50.
What is special about coniferous trees?
a)
have tiny green leaves
b)
thin bark
c)
are green year round
d)
grow fast
51.
What is NOT a type of coniferous tree?
a)
Fir
b)
Pine
c)
Poplar
d)
Spruce
52.
What structure(s) do conifers use to help with reproduction?
a)
Fruit
b)
Flowers
c)
Cones
d)
Both fruit and flowers
53.
What does defoliation mean?
a)
A method of controlling the outbreak of a disease
b)
Destruction caused by a fungus where the roots rot
c)
Destruction caused by a pest where leaves fall off
d)
A method of controlling Webworms
54.
Transpiration helps the plant
a)
make more sugars at night
b)
move water from the roots to the stem and leaves
c)
move sugars from the leaf to be stored in the stem & roots
d)
make more chloroplasts
55.
What are three main body parts of an insect? 
a)
Head, chest, tail
b)
Head, antenna, abdomen
c)
Thorax, antenna, heart
d)
Head, thorax, abdomen
56.
What is one way insects are helpful?
a)
They eat other insects.
b)
They eat wood that can destroy houses.
c)
They spread diseases.
d)
They can destroy crops.
57.

What type of cockroach is this

a)

German

b)

American

c)

Smokey brown

d)

Oriental

58.
Complete metamorphosis has four stages, and incomplete metamorphosis has three stages.
a)
True
b)
False
59.
What is the job of the male drone honeybee?
a)
to lay the eggs
b)
to guard the nest
c)
to collect nectar
d)
to mate with the queen
60.

What is one way insects are harmful?

a)

They can spread diseases.

b)

They eat other insects.

c)

They make honey, beeswax, and silk.

d)

They are food for other animals.

61.
What part of an insect's body help it smell and feel?
a)
legs
b)
antennae
c)
thorax
d)
abdomen
62.

Which insect is AMPHIBEOUS, meaning it can go underwater by storing air in sacs called spiracles?

a)

Fire ant

b)

Giant water bug

c)

Earwig

d)

Silverfish

63.

Which of these insects has six legs as a larva, but grows extra legs and has eight legs as an adult?

a)

Brown marmorated stink bug

b)

Firefly

c)

Tick

d)

Antlion

64.

Which insect lays eggs like this?

a)

American cockroach

b)

Stink bug

c)

Katydid

d)

Carolina locust

65.

What is something POSITIVE the black & yellow mud dauber does for the environment?

a)

Eats poisonous spiders

b)

Destroys houses

c)

Sting people

d)

Aerates the soil

66.

True or false: The common pillbug is NOT a true insect due to having more than six legs

a)

true

b)

false

67.
a)

Viceroy

b)

Monarch

c)

Red admiral

d)

American Lady

e)

None of the above

68.
a)

American cockroach

b)

Field cricket

c)

Aphid

d)

Boxelder bug

e)

Stink bug

69.
a)

Mayfly

b)

Eboney jewelwing

c)

Antlion

d)

Green lacewing

e)

Katydid

70.
a)

Carpenter ant

b)

Fire ant

c)

Sugar ant

d)

Termite

e)

None of the above

71.
a)

Field cricket

b)

Periodical cicada

c)

Katydid

d)

Robinson's annual cicada

e)

Green lacewing

72.
a)

Honey bee

b)

Bumble bee

c)

Yellow jacket

d)

Bald-faced hornet

e)

Sweat bee

73.
a)

Asian multicolored lady beetle

b)

Japanese beetle

c)

Stag beetle

d)

Spotted cucumber beetle

e)

Stink bug

74.
What carries nutrients throughout the plant?
a)
roots
b)
stems
c)
leaves
75.
What part of an insect's body help it smell and feel?
a)
legs
b)
antennae
c)
thorax
d)
abdomen
76.

What leaf is this?

a)

Laurel Oak

b)

Sweet Gum

c)

Maple

d)

Loblolly Pine

e)

Blackjack Oak

77.

What leaf is this?

a)

Ginko

b)

Willow Oak

c)

Magnolia

d)

Yellow Poplar

e)

Chestnut Oak

78.

What leaf is this?

a)

Ginko

b)

Willow Oak

c)

Magnolia

d)

Tulip Poplar

e)

Chestnut Oak

79.
What is the common name for this tree?
a)
Southern Magnolia 
b)
Live Oak
c)
Southern grandiflora
d)
Magnolia grandiflora 
80.

What tree is this?

a)

Laurel Oak

b)

White Oak

c)

Post Oak

d)

Shumard Oak

e)

Water Oak

81.

What tree has a leaf like this?

a)

Water Oak

b)

White Oak

c)

Florida Maple

d)

Shumard Oak

82.
a)
white oak
b)
sugar maple
c)
hickory
d)
red oak
83.

What tree does this leaf belong to:

a)

White ash

b)

bigtooth aspen

c)

american beech

d)

elm

84.

What tree does this leaf belong to:

a)

bitternut hickory

b)

bigtooth aspen

c)

american chestnut

d)

Balsam fir

85.
Which of the four stages of complete metamorphosis is in the correct order?
a)
egg, adult, pupa, larva
b)
egg, larva, adult, pupa
c)
egg, larva, pupa, adult
d)
pupa, egg, larva, adult
86.
What are three main body parts of an insect? 
a)
Head, chest, tail
b)
Head, antenna, abdomen
c)
Thorax, antenna, heart
d)
Head, thorax, abdomen
87.

Why do insects molt?

a)

They don't like their exoskeleton.

b)

They grow bigger so they need to shed their exoskeleton.

c)

They take off their exoskeleton to protect themselves from enemies.

d)

They need to breathe.

88.
Which of the following is NOT an insect?
a)
fly
b)
beatle
c)
dragonfly
d)
spider
89.
How many legs does an insect have?
a)
2 
b)
6 
c)
4 
d)
8 
90.

What is the word for the "pincers" on this insect?

a)

antennae

b)

cerci

c)

claws

d)

teeth

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