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Pre-Assessment- Cells and Characteristics of Life

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What determines if something is alive or not?

a)

it can sing a song

b)

it must be made of one or more cells

c)

it can move

d)

it must drink water

2.

What is a cell?

a)

A process that happens in the body

b)

A mobile device

c)

Makes up all non living things

d)

The smallest structure of life that makes up all living things

3.

What is an organelle?

a)

A part of a cell that has a specific function

b)

Many cells that do the same thing

c)

a tiny organ in the human body

d)

One celled organism

4.

Which organelles are found ONLY in plants?

a)

Cell membrane, chloroplast, large vacuole

b)

Cell wall, chloroplast, ribosomes

c)

Cell wall, chloroplast, large vacuole

d)

Cell wall, mitochondria, nucleus

5.

Animals are living things but plants are not. True or false?

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Water is made of cells therefore it is alive. True or false?

a)

True

b)

False

7.

What’s common among ALL living things?

a)

They all can reproduce somehow

b)

They all have hearts

c)

They all have brains

d)

They are all made up of at least 100 cells

8.

What does the nucleus do?

a)

Holds DNA, controls cell

b)

Makes proteins

c)

Makes sugar

d)

Makes energy

9.

Why do plants have a cell wall, but not animal cells?

a)

no reason, totally random but cool!

b)

The cell wall does photosynthesis

c)

Plant cells have to hold a lot more water while not bursting

d)

cell wall holds DNA for the plant

10.

The chloroplast carries out or does (a)   (one word)

11.

Ribosomes are in all living things and do which of the following:

a)

Make sugar

b)

Make proteins

c)

Make DNA

d)

Make water

12.

Mitochondria are called the powerhouse of the cell because...

a)

They make sugar

b)

They workout a lot

c)

They make energy from sugar we eat

d)

They make muscles

13.

Which of the following is the correct order, from smallest (in size) to largest?

a)

cell < water molecule < heart < brain

b)

water molecule < nucleus < cell< organ

c)

ribosome < tissue < cell < organ

d)

organ < cell< nucleus < water molecule

14.

Which of the following is true?

a)

Cells are made of organelles

b)

Cells are made of organs

c)

Organelles are made of cells

d)

Organelles are made of water