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Milestones Mania Mix 18

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 32mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is an example of a nonflowering plant?

a)

Pinecone

b)

Rose

c)

Pine tree

d)

Strawberry

2.

Nonflowering plants put their seeds in _______ and _________

a)

Fruit and leaves

b)

Leaves and stem

c)

Stem and roots

d)

Spores and cones

3.

Angiosperms (flowering plants) produce both a seed and a ______________ to nourish the seed.

a)

nut

b)

spore

c)

fruit

d)

cone

4.

Conifers are called conifers because they produce _______________ ?

a)

flowers

b)

cones

c)

spores

d)

fruit

5.

A student develops a model for grouping animals that she observes in a park.

What are MOST LIKELY the names of the animal groups?

a)

fish and reptiles

b)

reptiles and birds

c)

fish and mammals

d)

reptiles and amphibians

6.

A student draws three animals.

Which characteristics can the student use to classify the animals?

a)

no backbone, live in water, lay eggs

b)

backbone, live on land, breathe with lungs

c)

no backbone, scales on skin, breathe with gills

d)

backbone, smooth skin, breathe with gills and lungs

7.

A student sorts animals into groups. He draws the animals in one group.

Which animal should the student remove from this group?

a)

fox

b)

bear

c)

hawk

d)

mouse

8.

How are reptiles and fish alike?

a)

neither has scales

b)

both breathe with gills

c)

neither has a backbone

d)

both have body temperatures that change with their surroundings

9.

The picture shows a unique animal called a pangolin. The pangolin has scales, is warm-blooded, gives live birth and nurses its young. What group of animals is the pangolin mostlike?

a)

reptiles, except it has scales

b)

mammals, except it has scales

c)

birds, because it nurses its young

d)

amphibians, because they are warm-blooded

10.

Tulips and oak tree are both plants that look different. However, they both belong to the classification of plants that make

a)

leaves

b)

pine cones

c)

spores

d)

seeds

11.

Ms. Daley takes her class on a field trip to a pond. The class sees a bald eagle and a salamander near the pond. How are these two animals alike?

a)

They both have offspring that is very different from the adults.

b)

They both lay eggs.

c)

They both are warm-blooded.

d)

They both are able to breathe through their skin.

12.

Based on the chart above, which of the following would be classified as a vertebrate?

a)

Grasshopper

b)

Iguana

c)

Jellyfish

d)

Spider

13.

The organism in the photo would be best classified as

a)

a vascular plant

b)

a nonvascular plant

c)

an invertebrate

d)

a vertebrate

14.
What was the result of the Brown versus Board of Education court case in 1954?
a)
Segregation of public schools became illegal
b)
African Americans began to play professional sports
c)
Martin Luther King led the March on Washington
d)
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus
15.
Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court Justice, first became famous for which of the following:
a)
Organizing the March on Washington
b)
Not giving us his bus seat
c)
Winning the court case of Brown versus Board of Education
d)
Giving African Americans the right to vote
16.
What was the purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
a)
It gave black women the right to vote
b)
It made literacy tests in order to vote illegal
c)
It made Jim Crow Laws illegal
d)
It gave all blacks the right to vote
17.
The March on Washington was most famous because . . .
a)
it caused race riots in the nation's Capital
b)
200,000 people worked together to help blacks get the right to vote
c)
the KKK became an illegal organization because of the march
d)
Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his "I have a Dream: speech, which inspired hundreds of thousands to help the Civil Rights Movement
18.
Which of the following best describes the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
a)
Segregation on buses became illegal a few days after Rosa Parks began the protest
b)
Thousands of blacks blocked the streets so that buses could not finish their routes
c)
Martin Luther King was arrested for not giving up his seat to a white person
d)
Segregation of buses became illegal after many months of protesting
19.
Why was President JFK very popular with African Americans?
a)
He helped organize the March on Washington
b)
He made poll taxes and literacy tests illegal
c)
He wasn't popular with African Americans
d)
He was very involved in Civil Rights and introduced the Civil Rights Bill
20.
What are Civil Rights?
a)
Rights that only some citizens get
b)
Rights that all citizens get
c)
 Rights that are civil
d)
Rights that are controlled by the president
21.
 Martin Luther King Jr believed in
a)
Violent protests
b)
Really loud protests
c)
Non-violent protests
d)
Violence  when needed protests
22.

Farm worker, labor leader, and civil-rights activist who helped form the National Farm Workers Association, later the United Farm Workers.

a)

MLK

b)

Thurgood Marshall

c)

Cesar Chavez

d)

JFK

23.
Why did the United States begin to send advisers and troops to Vietnam in the 1950s?
a)
to prepare for the United States invasion of Laos
b)
to defend American bases in the Gulf of Tonkin
c)
to help the South Vietnamese revolt against the French
d)
to prevent the spread of communism into South Vietnam
24.
Who was responsible for the Cuban Missile Crisis?
a)
JFK
b)
FDR
c)
Nikita Khrushchev
d)
Joseph Stalin
25.

The outermost layer of a plant cell and animal cell is...

a)

Plant cell - cell membrane, animal cell - cell wall

b)

Plant cell - cell wall; animal cell - cell membrane

c)

Plant and animal cell - cell wall

d)

Plant and animal cell - cell membrane