WorksheetsPlanet Earth, Biomes, and Photosynthesis
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What are two abiotic factors that influence deserts?
Wind and Sun
Animals and Plants
Snow and Rain
Plants and Climate
What does it mean when animals are nocturnal?
Animals do not sleep and are active both day and night.
Animals do not sleep during the day or the night.
Animals sleep at night and are active during the day.
Animals sleep during the day and are active at night.
Why is being nocturnal a helpful survival strategy in the desert?
Animals in the desert can only see at night.
It is hotter during the day than it is at night.
It is hotter at night than it is during the day.
Being nocturnal is not a helpful strategy.
Desert plants have small and waxy leaves, and hollow stems. What are these helpful for?
Surviving against animals.
Surviving against cold nights.
Surviving with little water.
Surviving against intense flooding.
What adaptation would help this plant grow in the desert?
Bigger leaves to catch rain.
Grow spikes to prevent thirsty animals.
Brightly colored flowers for pollination.
If you lived on the west coast of the United States, what natural disaster would you worry about?
Earthquakes from transform boundaries
Volcanoes from convergent boundaries
Both earthquakes and volcanoes
Neither earthquakes or volcanoes
What is created at a divergent boundary?
Mid Atlantic Ridge
Rocky Mountains
Mariana Trench
Which of the following is when one plate slides underneath another.
Sink zone
Divergent zone
Subduction zone
Frozone
Which biome would be best for a green lizard that can blend into vegetation?
Grassland
Desert
Both
None of the above
What adaptations would NOT help animals living in a grasslands biome?
Ability to make burrows to hide underground.
Flat teeth to eat grass.
Running fast to catch prey.
Webbed feet for swimming faster.
Which plant adaptation would help best in the grasslands biome?
Deep roots to collect as much moisture as possible.
Rigid stems to hold them upright.
Spikes to prevent animals from eating them.
Waxy leaves to keep water in.
Gravity causes plant's roots to grow down and stems to grow up. What is this called?
Phototropism
Geotropism
Photosynthesis
Thigmotropism
If geotropism is plants growth based on gravity, what is the cause of growth by phototropism?
A camera.
A speaker.
Light
Touch
What is not needed for photosynthesis to take place?
Oxygen
Water
Carbon Dioxide
Light
Thigmotropism is a directional growth movement which occurs as a response to a ____________ stimulus.
Light
Sound
Gravity
Touch
