WorksheetsLife Science Quiz Bowl 2020
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 20mins
EASY ROUND: A species is __________ when it is facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.
Vulnerable
Threatened
Endangered
Extinct
Specific organelle in plants that function for the production of energy from sunlight.
Chloroplast
Mitochondria
Plastids
Glyoxysome
Where is the deepest point on Earth?
Marianas Trench
Philippine Deep
Bermuda Triangle
Challenger Deep
Zoology is the study of ____ life:
Mammalian
Animal
Plant
Love
These people study the interrelationships between organisms and their environments.
Microbiologist
Marine Biologist
Paleontologist
Ecologist
What is the vascular tissue found in plants that is used for water transport?
Esophagus
Phloem
Xylem
Stem
Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins.
True
False
It is the study of the function, biodiversity, and ecology of animals and plants in the ocean.
Environmental Science
Marine Biology
Oceanography
Marine Geology
Which part of the plant functions for the entry and exit of gasses through the leaves?
Epidermis
Lenticels
Gate 3
Stomata
The Biosphere encompasses all the ecosystems on Earth.
True
False
Which plant group contains the most number of species?
Mosses
Ferns
Mushrooms
Flowering Plants
The following organelles contain DNA except __________
Chloroplast
Mitochondria
Golgi Apparatus
Nucleus
Which of the following is the largest whale species?
Sperm Whale
Humpback Whale
Wishing Whale
Blue Whale
Carnivores eat both vegetation and other animals.
True
False
Pollution is any undesirable change in the air, water and land that can harmfully affect the ecosystem as a whole.
True
False
The most abundant enzyme in the plant body that functions in the conversion of carbon dioxide to sugar.
RuBisCo
ATP Synthase
Carboxylase
Oxidoreductase
What is the “control center” of the cell?
mitochondria
cytoplasm
vacuole
nucleus
What kind of organism are corals?
Fungi
Animals
Fence
Mollusks
What is the longest bony fish in the world?
Pygmy goby
Marlin
Oarfish
Mola mola
Mitosis begins with what phase?
Metaphase
Prophase
Cytokinesis
Telophase
INTERMEDIATE ROUND:
These are the kind of plants that have a life cycle that lasts for more than 2 years.
Annual
Biennial
Multiennial
Perennial
This is referred to as any change in the DNA sequence.
Transformation Jutsu
Mutation
Speciation
Alternation of Generation
The virus causing the current pandemic belongs to the family Coronavirus.
True
False
What are inert macromolecules outside of a cell capable of replication once they are able to inflect a cell?
Extremophiles
Viruses
Bacteria
Yeast
Sponges and Corals belong to the same Class.
True
False
Which is the main pigment in plants that functions for the absorption of energy from the sun?
Green Plant Pigment
Chlorophyll
Carotenoids
Green Algae
What is the end product of glycolysis?
Sugar
Glucose
Pyruvate
Lactate
Carrageenan is found in the cells walls of which group of algae?
red algae
green algae
dinoflagellates
yellow-green algae
A long-term biological interaction in which members of one species gain benefits while those of the other species neither benefit nor are harmed:
Mutualism
Friendship
Symbiosis
Commensalism
The sharks are classified as:
osteichthyes
chondrichthyes
friends
cetacea
Large-scale, long-term shift in the planet’s weather patterns
Global Warming
Climate Change
Greenhouse Effect
All of the above
Which kind of terrestrial habitat contains the most diverse ecosystem?
Coral Reefs
Pine Forest
USC
Tropical Rainforest
Group of individuals of the same species that live together in a region.
Biomes
Ecosystem
Community
Population
Cells that shrink in hypertonic solutions such as salt water is responding to ________ pressure.
academic
osmotic
hydrostatic
atmospheric
Whose voyage is often referred to as the birth of oceanography?
Sir Charles Wyville Thomson
Captain Hook
Charles Darwin
Edward Forbes
Around how many percent of the ocean remains unexplored?
95%
90%
5%
10%
Which of these animals does not possess a nervous system
jellyfish
sponges
helminths
sea slugs
______________ is a symbiotic relationship between members of two different species in which both members of the association benefited.
Coexistence
Mutualism
Commensalism
Trade-off
Which of the following is considered a true moss?
Spanish Moss
Firmosses
Sphagnum Moss
Clubmosses
What is considered as the biggest extant fish in the world?
Sperm Whale
Orca
Great White Shark
Whale Shark
DIFFICULT ROUND:
What do you call the study of inheritable characteristics and/or variations that DO NOT involve alterations in the DNA sequence.
Epigenetics
Peer Pressure
Genomics
Cytogenetics
What makes mosses very distinct from other plants?
They don't have xylem and phloem.
They are very small.
They live in moist environments.
They don't have flowers.
This specific species has not undergone evolutionary change in the last 135 million years.
Galapagos Tortoise
Horseshoe crab
Hermit crab
Angler Fish
Medulla oblongata is the ________.
dura mater
vital knot
nerve center
pia mater
Which of the following organisms can change gender during the course of their lives?
Turtles
Box Jellyfish
Clownfish
Sea Urchin
True or False: CAM Photosynthesis is found only in the family Crassulaceae.
True, it can only be found in this specific plant family.
False, it can also be found on your phone.
True, it only be found in angiosperms.
False, it can be found in other plants aside from angiosperms.
This is the name of the bacteria that caused the Plague.
Escherichia coli
Bacillus anthracis
Yersinia pestis
Lactobacillus protectus
Plasmodium falciparum, the cause of malaria reproduce asexually through what special type of reproduction?
binary fission
schizogony
budding
conjugation
What do you call the cells of a jellyfish that is responsible for injecting venom causing immobilization to its prey?
Cnidocil
Pseudopodium
Barbs
Nematocysts
Select the sentences which are factual about sexual dimorphism (2 answers)
The systematic difference in form between individuals of different sex in the same species.
It only occurs in plants.
It only occurs in animals.
The condition occurs in many animals and some plants.
The hydrosphere includes only the liquid form of water of the Earth.
True, it only includes liquid in bodies of water.
False, it includes the liquid rock beneath the crust.
True, it is made up mostly of the tears shed by students due to the midterms week.
False, it includes all forms of water (gas, liquid, and solid)
Which is not an adaptation mechanism for plants that live in dry and hot areas?
CAM Photosynthesis
Deeper roots
C4 Photosynthesis
Broad leaves
Nucleotide sequences which have the same sequence when read forward or backward are called what?
transposons
exons
introns
palindromes
What has been used to replace bone grafts in helping human bone to heal quickly and cleanly?
Zooxanthellae
Coral
Sea urchin spines
Algae
What is the other term for Down Syndrome?
Trisomy 18
Trisomy 13
Trisomy 21
Trisomy 12
Biological process whereby organic wastes are biologically degraded under specific conditions.
Bioaugmentation
Composting
Bioventing
All of the above
What is the process of the switching of sex throughout an organism's life called?
Sexualization
Sequential hermaphroditism
Sexual Differentiation
Munchausen syndrome
What is the current concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere?
310 ppm
350 ppm
410 ppm
390 ppm
What do you call the surface layer or the sunlight zone of the ocean?
Benthic
Epipelagic
Bathypelagic
Mesopelagic
How many shark species are known to exist and how many have been documented in biting humans?
500+ species, 30-35 of which have bitten humans
800+ species, 120-150 of which have bitten humans
350+ species, 50-60 of which have bitten humans
150+ species, 20-30 of which have bitten humans
