EQT STUDY GUIDE- FIRST QUARTER 2012-2013
1. Which statement correctly describes all living things?
-They are made up of at least one cell and they reproduce.
2. Which characteristic of living things does this best represent? The sun shines on a bush; the bush makes berries that
a bird eats.
-All living things require energy in order to survive.
3. Which characteristic of living things is best described in the figures? Prairie dogs standing around with a bird in
background. The prairie dogs are running into the hole to hide from the bird attacking them.
-Living things respond to stimuli in their environment.
4. Which statement correctly identifies a functionof a chloroplast in a eukaryotic cell?
-It contains green pigment which helps a plant capture energy from sunlight.
5. A scientist wanted to study a cell which lacked the structure that contains the materials needed to provide energy to the
cell. Which structure would be missing?
-mitochondria
6. Which student correctly identified characteristics1hat are specific to animals?
-student 3
Student
1.
2.
3.
4.
Cell Wall
Present
yes
yes
no
no
Conducts
Photosynthesis
yes
no
no
yes
7. Which statement describes the process of growth within an organism?
-A green vine uses energy from the sun to produce more cells
8. Which statement correctly describes a difference between plant cells and animal cells?
-Plant cells have chloroplasts, but animal cells do not.
9. Which statement describes a major reproductive difference between plants and animals?
-Most plants have both male and female structures, while most animals do not
10. Which statement identifies a characteristic of plants but not animals?
-Plants are producer but animals are consumers.
11. Which characteristic common to living things is evidenced by the formation of the egg in the butterfly life cycle?
-The butterflies are producing new offspring
12. Which student correctly identifies the cell structure responsible for letting things in and out and the cell structure
responsible for storing materials in a plant cell?
-student D
Student
Mitochondrion
A
B
X
X
c
D
Chloroplast Membrane
X
Vacuole
X
X
X
X
X
13. Even on a windy day, most plants can remain upright. Which structure plays the greatest role in providing a
plant with this type of support?
-cell wall
14. Which statement correctly describes a difference between coyotes and strawberry plants?
-Coyotes can only reproduce sexually; strawberry plants can reproduce both sexually and asexually
15. What is the female part of a flower that develops into a fruit after fertilization?
-ovary
16. Based on the differences between plant and animal cells, which cell would be from a plant?
-(rectangular) cell wall, large vacuole, chloroplasts
17. How do plants reproduce?
-sex cells and spores
18. What do eukaryotic cells have that prokaryotic cells do not have?
-a nucleus “you do have a…”
19. Butterflies undergo what process?
-complete metamorphosis
20. What would happen to a cell if it lacked a ribosome?
-it could not have the ability to produce proteins
21. What statement describes both the biotic and the abiotic factors in this pond ecosystem?
-there is sand on the bottom and plants on the shore
22. Which organelle provides evidence that this cell can produce its own food from the sunlight?
-organelle 2
23. Which of these best identifies biotic factors in a forest system?
-Producers, consumers, and decomposers (wildflowers, deer, songbirds, mushrooms)
24. Plant X and plant Y are the same species. Plant X is placed on a table. Plant Y s placed inside a cardboard box with
only a hole in the top for light. How will these plants respond to these conditions?
-Plant X will bend towards the window, and plant Y will grow upright
25. Which statement best describes only biotic factors in a forest ecosystem?
- A bird and a squirrel living in a tree
26. Which items correctly identify the abiotic items in a pond?
Items= fish, water, dissolved gases, plants, parasites in fish, and rocks on the bottom
-water, dissolved gases, and rocks on the bottom
27. How do angiosperms reproduce?
-flowers
28. What type of environment do non vascular plants grow in? How do they obtain (get) water?
-moist / they absorb water from the environment using nearby cells
29. An animal with two similar halves that are mirror images of each other would have which type of symmetry?
-bilateral symmetry
30. Which of the following is a biotic part of the ocean?
Parts= salt water, fish, oxygen, and sand
-fish
31. Which statement describes an abiotic factor in the ecosystem?
-the sun shining in the sky
32. Which of the following identifies the process of photosynthesis?
-student C
a. Prokaryotic
light
b. Plant
darkness
c. Plant
light
carbon dioxide
and oxygen
carbon dioxide,
water, and chlorophyll
carbon dioxide,
water, and chlorophyll
d. Animals
darkness
glucose and oxygen
33. A student puts soil in the bottom of a jar, plants a seed, and puts the lid on the jar. The seed sprouts, but the plant
soon dies. Which characteristic of life is most limited by the dosed lid on the jar?
Characteristics= lack of heat, lack of food, gas exchange, absorption of light energy
-exchange of gases
34. What abiotic factors are in an environment?
-rocks, water, sunlight, nutrients, and other nonliving characteristics
35. Technology is created by a process best described as -----?
-Engineering design process
36. What is: define a problem, research, and test? These are the…..
- Engineering design process
37. What is true of the Engineering Design Process?
-test and redesign
38. What process is described in the engineering design process when measuring the role of photosynthesis while
creating bio-fuel?
-researching
ADVANCED ONLY:
39. How do you read the scale?
-224.6 g
40. How do you read the following? What is the correct position?
-B level and to the side
C.
41. What part of the scientific method is being used by the following description?
[1st put the water in the test tube. 2nd put the tube in a beaker of water. 3rd heat the water.]
-Experiment
42. This question has pictures and words concerning water and fertilizing plants. You have to match the words describing
the hypothesis to the picture. They are 4 before and 4 after pictures of the results. (This is the best I can
remember the question- sorry).
Hypothesis= “If I add water to the soil and fertilize the plant, then the plant should grow the best.”