ENDof Year Review
1. What plant cell organelle changes carbon dioxide, water and sunlight into glucose?
A.Chloroplasts
B.Mitochondria
C.Vacuole
D.Nucleus
2. Which statement best explains the reason muscle cells have moremitochondria than brain cells? Muscle cells:
A.Have fewer proteins than brain cells
B.Have a smaller nucleus than brain cells
C.Use more energy than brain cells
D.Have more excess water than brain cells
3. The function of a cell wall is to:
A.Give the cell energy
B.Let things go in and out of the cell
C.Store genetic material
D.Provide structural support
4. Melanin is the pigment that gives humans skin color. What is the pigment makes plants green?
A.Cytoplasm
B.Chlorophyll
C.Carotene
D.Phycobilin
5. Which cell organelle allows things to pass in and out of a cell?
A.Cell wall
B.Cell membrane
C.Nucleus
D.Vacuole
6. You want to compare the shapes of different bacterial cells. What tool can you use to observe the shapes of the cells?
A.Telescope
B.Petri dish
C.Microscope
D.Hand lens
7. This illustration of a cell has a label. If there were no label, how could you tell that this is a plant cell and not an animal cell?
A.The cell has a nucleus.
B.The cell is surrounded by a cell membrane.
C.The cell is surrounded by a cell wall.
D.The cell contains cytoplasm.
8. Which structure in this cell contains the genes that control inheritance?
A.Nucleus
B.Cell membrane
C.Mitochondrion
D.Nuclear membrane
9. Vacuoles store water and nutrients and are found in plant and animal cells. In plant cells, vacuoles are larger and also:
A.Are the site of photosynthesis
B.Help maintain turgor pressure
C.Control the functions of the cell
D.Provide energy for the cell
10. In the cell above, what organelle is the arrow pointing to?
A.Vacuole
B.Nucleus
C.Chloroplast
D.Cytoplasm
11. A stray dog was taken to a veterinarian. What cell organelle would help the veterinarian determine the breed of the dog?
A.Vacuole
B.Chloroplast
C.Cytoplasm
D.Nucleus
12. Cell theory states that all organisms:
A.Are composed of cells
B.Reproduce asexually
C.Reproduce sexually
D.Have a cell wall
13. Organelle X in the animal and plant cells above have a similar structure. What can you conclude about the function of these organelles? They perform:
A.Respiration
B.Photosynthesis
C.The same functions
D.Different functions
14. What would happen if the population of rabbits were removed from Community A?
A. All of the owls would either die or migrate.
B. All of the snakes in the forest would die.
C. The owls would begin to eat grass instead.
D. There would be no visible change in the community.
15. Every organic compound contains which element?
A.Water
B.Carbon Dioxide
C.Nitrogen
D.Carbon
16. Trees in the rainforest that grow rapidly are more likely to survive. Which interaction best supports this observation?
A. Large trees are more successful predators than smaller trees.
B. Strong competition exists between tress for sunlight.
C. Trees cooperate and share biotic and abiotic resources.
D. Fast growing tress have a parasitic relationship with smaller tree
Some students are studying the relationships between organisms in a food web.
17. Based on the food web above, what kind of relationship exists between the Great-horned owls and the Raccoons?
A. Predator/Prey Relationship
B. Producer/Consumer Relationship
C. Parasite/Host Relationship
D. Parasite/Producer Relationship
18. What is the relationship between the owl and the fox in this food web?
A. The fox eats the owl.
B. The owl eats the fox.
C. Both animals are prey.
D. Both animals compete for the same prey.
19. A pond is polluted with chemicals and a few frogs in the next generation are born with shorter legs. The short-legged frogs are less able to leap and catch frogs. What will MOST likely happen to the small amount of frogs that have short legs?
A. They will less likely to pass on their genes. C. They will adapt their diets to start eating plants that do not move.
B. They will evolve over time to have much longer legs. D. The other members of the frog population in the pond will provide them with food.
20. All animals in a food web get energy directly from or indirectly from which type of organism?
A. Producers
B. Prey
C. Predators
D. Consumer
21.Hannah’s group is designing a model town. They want to place a large number of hotels near a beach. What would be one potential impact of their construction on the physical environment?
A.overfishingC. traffic
B. sinkholesD. beach erosion
22. Which of the following best describes a predator/prey relationship in a terrestrial ecosystem?
A. Grasses produce their own food energy.
B. Coyotes hunt sheep and other farm animals to eat.
C. Ticks attach to white-tailed deer to aid in their reproduction.
D. Rabbits consume grass for energy.
23. One of the most common forms of runoff occurs when fertilizer from agricultural fields is washed into rivers and ponds. What effect does this have on aquatic ecosystems?
A. It causes vegetables to grow underwater, which makes fish sick.
B. It makes the water muddy, which makes it difficult for fish to see and find food.
C. It causes erosion which changes the types of life forms that rivers and lakes can contain.
D. It causes an overgrowth of aquatic plant life, which harms the other organisms
24. Look at the picture of the giraffes above. The picture on the left shows how they used to look and the one on the right shows how they look today.
A. All the shorter-neck giraffes all evolved over their lifetimes to have longer necks.
B. The giraffes’ necks grew longer from stretching.
C. As their food source moved higher, giraffes with longer necks were able to pass on their genes more frequently.
D. Shorter neck giraffes all evolved over their lifetimes to have longer neck.