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2024 8th science final

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 45mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who made the first atomic theory?

a)

John Dalton

b)

Niels Bohr

c)

J.J. Thompson

d)

Democritus

2.

Where are the inner transition metals located?

a)

Left

b)

Very bottom

c)

Right

d)

Middle

3.

How are elements arranged on the periodic table?

a)

By increasing the atomic mass

b)

By decreasing atomic mass

c)

By increasing atomic number

d)

By decreasing atomic number

4.

What is the most important thing in an animal cell?

a)

Nucleus

b)

Lysosome

c)

Ribosome

d)

Nucleolus

5.

Which one has a chloroplast?

a)

Animal cell

b)

Plant cell

6.

What is amplitude?

a)

The waves length

b)

The waves height from the rest position

c)

The bottom of a wave

d)

The top of the wave

7.

What is the trough?

a)

The bottom of the wave

b)

The top of the wave

c)

The wave length

d)

The waves frequency

8.

What is a wave?

a)

A disturbance that moves energy from one place to another

b)

A measurement of the amount of energy transferred by a wave

c)

The distance between the crest of the wave

d)

The measurement of the number of times it has repeated

9.

What is frequency?

a)

The bottom of the wave

b)

The number of waves that pass a given point in a set period of time.

c)

The top of the wave

d)

The distance between the crest of the wave

10.

What color is a warm front usually?

a)

orange

b)

green

c)

blue

d)

red

11.

What colors are a stationary front?

a)

Blue and red

b)

Green and red

c)

Blue and orange

d)

Brown and Blue

12.

What biome is the Pacific Ocean?

a)

tundra

b)

desert

c)

Marine

d)

exotic

13.

What's the main ecosystem in central and southern Missouri?

a)

temperate deciduous forest

b)

tropical rainforest

c)

the taiga

d)

temperate rainforest

14.

What is ecology?

a)

The place where we live

b)

The ocean

c)

the study of organisms and how they interact with the environment around them

d)

an area classified according to the species that live in that location

15.

When were wolves reintroduced in Yellowstone?

a)

a) 1995

b)

b) 2006

c)

c) 1982

d)

d) 1997

16.

What is nitrogen?

a)

a) A nonmetallic element that makes up about 78 percent of the atmosphere by volume occurring as a colorless odorless gas

b)

b) An element that takes the solid form of either graphite or diamond

c)

c) A nonmetallic element that is found in the blood, muscles, nerves, bones, and teeth

d)

d) A colorless, odorless, tasteless gas essential to living organisms

17.

What is oxygen?

a)

An element that takes the solid form of either graphite or diamond.

b)

A colorless, odorless, tasteless gas essential to living organisms.

c)

A nonmetallic element that is found in the blood, muscles, nerves, bones, and teeth.

d)

A nonmetallic element that makes up about 78 percent of the atmosphere by volume occurring as a colorless odorless gas.

18.

What is phosphorus?

a)

A colorless, odorless, tasteless gas essential to living organisms.

b)

An element that takes the solid form of either graphite or diamond.

c)

An element that is found in the blood, muscles, nerves, bones, and teeth.

d)

A nonmetallic element that makes up about 78 percent of the atmosphere by volume occurring as a colorless odorless gas.

19.

What is H2O?

a)

A nonmetallic element that makes up about 78 percent of the atmosphere by volume occurring as a colorless odorless gas.

b)

The chemical symbol for water.

c)

A colorless, odorless, tasteless gas essential to living organisms.

d)

An element that takes the solid form of either graphite or diamond.

20.

How do living things adapt to their environment?

a)

Natural selection.

b)

Living somewhere a long time.

c)

By making an effort to change their traits.

d)

Eat prey.

21.

Where do plants get their energy from?

a)

Water

b)

Soil

c)

The sun

d)

Leaves

22.

What is a food web?

a)

A complex network of interconnecting and overlapping food chains showing feeding relationships within a community

b)

A circle of animals eating other animals

c)

A linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another

d)

A line of animals eating each other

23.

What is a food chain?

a)

A line of animals eating each other

b)

A complex network of interconnecting and overlapping food chains showing feeding relationships within a community

c)

A circle of animals eating each other

d)

A linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another

24.

What's an igneous rock?

a)

Formed from pre-existing rocks or pieces of once-living organisms

b)

Formed by earthquakes

c)

Formed by mountains

d)

Formed by the cooling and solidification of a melted rock

25.

Which is NOT the result of plate tectonics?

a)

Causes volcanic eruptions

b)

Cause earthquakes

c)

Causes hurricanes

d)

Causes sea-floor spreading

26.

What is the center of the earth called?

a)

Plates

b)

Center

c)

Crust

d)

Core

27.

What is the first element on the periodic table?

a)

Helium

b)

Hydrogen

c)

Alkali Metals

d)

Transition Metals

28.

What is the first group/family on the periodic table?

a)

Alkali Metals

b)

Alkaline Earth Metals

c)

Transition Metals

d)

Hydrogen

29.

What is the powerhouse of the cell?

a)

Mitochondria

b)

Nucleus

c)

Nucleolus

d)

Chloroplast

30.

What organelle gives plants their color?

a)

Ribosomes

b)

Chloroplast

c)

Cytoplasm

d)

Nucleus

31.

What is the outermost layer of a plant or fungus cell?

a)

Cytoplasm

b)

ER

c)

Cell Wall

d)

Ribosomes

32.

What is inside of the nucleus?

a)

Nothing

b)

Nucleolus

c)

ER

d)

Smooth ER

33.

What is the cell's control center?

a)

Nucleus

b)

Ribosomes

c)

Cell membrane

d)

Cell Wall

34.

What is the highest point of a wave called?

a)

Crest

b)

Trough

c)

Amplitude

d)

Wavelength

35.

What is the lowest point of a wave called?

a)

Crest

b)

Trough

c)

Amplitude

d)

Wavelength

36.

What is the height of a wave called?

a)

Crest

b)

Trough

c)

Amplitude

d)

Wavelength

37.

What is it called from one crest to another crest or from one trough to another trough?

a)

Crest

b)

Trough

c)

Amplitude

d)

Wavelength

38.

The more waves, the higher (a)   .

39.

What is inside of the nucleus?

a)

Nothing

b)

DNA

c)

ER

d)

Smooth ER

40.

What type of front brings violent, stormy weather?

a)

Stationary Front

b)

Cold Front

c)

Warm Front

d)

Occluded Front

41.

What is the effect of low pressure?

a)

Clouds Form

b)

It snows every time

c)

The sun comes out

d)

Tornadoes form

42.

What is the effect of high pressure?

a)

Light winds start

b)

It snows every time

c)

Clear skies

d)

Tornadoes form

43.

What biome is Missouri in?

a)

Tundra

b)

Savanna

c)

Deciduous Forest

d)

Tropical Rainforest

44.

Where are tropical rainforests located?

a)

Near the equator

b)

In Antarctica

c)

Only in Europe

d)

The U.S.

45.

What are biotic factors?

a)

Non-living things

b)

Living Organisms

c)

A human

d)

A frog

46.

What are abiotic factors?

a)

Non-living things

b)

Living Organisms

c)

A human

d)

A frog

47.

Decomposition is part of the carbon cycle.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Only on Tuesday

d)

I don't know

48.

Weathering and erosion takes part in the phosphorus cycle.

a)

Yes

b)

No

c)

Not in Asia

d)

I don't know

49.

The sun plays a factor in the water cycle.

a)

Yes

b)

No

c)

At night

d)

I don't know

50.

What do secondary consumers eat?

a)

Primary consumers

b)

Producers

c)

Apex Predators

d)

Other secondary consumers

51.

What do primary consumers eat?

a)

Apex Predators

b)

Producers

c)

Secondary Consumers

d)

Other primary consumers

52.

What do producers eat?

a)

Other producers

b)

Apex Predators

c)

They don't eat anything because they make their own food

d)

Primary consumers

53.

What is the name of the ultimate consumer in a food web?

a)

Primary consumer

b)

Apex Predator

c)

Secondary Consumer

d)

Producer

54.

Weathering is one of the main steps in the rock cycle.

a)

False

b)

No

c)

True

d)

Sometimes

55.

Weathering and Erosion are the same thing.

a)

False

b)

True

56.

Which one of these rocks is NOT one of the three main rocks in the rock cycle?

a)

Sedimentary

b)

Metamorphic

c)

Igneous

d)

Mineral

57.

Who was the first contributor to the atomic theory that described the atom as "indivisible"?

a)

John Dalton

b)

Ernest Rutherford

c)

JJ Thompson

d)

Democritus

e)

Neils Bohr

58.

What particles are found in the nucleus of an atom?

a)

Protons and Electrons

b)

Neutrons and Electrons

c)

Protons and Neutrons

d)

Electrons only

59.

What is the charge of an electron?

a)

Positive

b)

Negative

c)

Neutral

d)

Variable

60.

What is the atomic number of this atom?

a)

2

b)

4

c)

6

d)

none of the above