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Basics of life science, animal, plants, cell organelles, and scientists.


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  • 1. 

     Who "thought" there were only two classifications for all organisms, only plant and animals?

    • A.

      Plato

    • B.

      Aristole

    • C.

      Mendel

    • D.

      Robert Hooke

    Correct Answer
    B. Aristole
  • 2. 

    Who was known as the "Father of Genetics" and experimented with the pea plants?

    • A.

      Dalton

    • B.

      Robert Hooke

    • C.

      Mendel

    • D.

      Carolus Linnaeus

    Correct Answer
    C. Mendel
  • 3. 

    Who discovered the "cell theory" when he experimented with cork?

    • A.

      Robert Hooke

    • B.

      Mendel

    • C.

      Bohr

    • D.

      Galileo

    Correct Answer
    A. Robert Hooke
  • 4. 

    Who invented the microscope which was very simple with only one lens?

    • A.

      Mendeleev

    • B.

      Archimedes

    • C.

      Rutherford

    • D.

      Leevwenhook

    Correct Answer
    D. Leevwenhook
  • 5. 

    Which cycle produce about 78% nitrogen in the atmosphere to help build proteins and other chemicals for living orgainisms by plants taking nitrogen compounds from the soil to make their own compounds?

    • A.

      Water cycle

    • B.

      Oxygen and carbon cycle

    • C.

      Life cycle

    • D.

      Nitrogen cycle

    Correct Answer
    D. Nitrogen cycle
  • 6. 

    Which cycle states that three-fouths of the Earth's is covered by water and water circulates between the atmosphere and land?

    • A.

      Water cycle

    • B.

      Nitrogen cycle

    • C.

      Carbon and oxygen cycle

    • D.

      Recycle

    Correct Answer
    A. Water cycle
  • 7. 

    What is the process when water loses water through its leaves?

    • A.

      Respiration

    • B.

      Transpiration

    • C.

      Perspiration

    • D.

      Condensation

    Correct Answer
    B. Transpiration
  • 8. 

    What is the process of water passing in and out of a cell? 

    • A.

      Osmosis

    • B.

      Ion

    • C.

      Respiration

    • D.

      Transpiration

    Correct Answer
    A. Osmosis
  • 9. 

    What is the process of a living orgainism  taking in oxygen in its lungs?

    • A.

      Perspiration

    • B.

      Transpiration

    • C.

      Respiration

    • D.

      Translation

    Correct Answer
    C. Respiration
  • 10. 

    What is a material that has once been living and contains carbon?

    • A.

      Inorganic material

    • B.

      Organic material

    • C.

      Dead material

    • D.

      Living material

    Correct Answer
    B. Organic material
  • 11. 

    What is the light in an organism as a firefly?

    • A.

      DC

    • B.

      AC

    • C.

      Bioluminous

    • D.

      Fire

    Correct Answer
    C. Bioluminous
  • 12. 

    What type of organisms cannot make their own food?

    • A.

      Autotrophs

    • B.

      Producers

    • C.

      Decomposer

    • D.

      Heterotrophs

    Correct Answer
    D. Heterotrophs
  • 13. 

    What type of cell has no membrane around the nucleus (bacteria, moss)?

    • A.

      Eukaryotic cell

    • B.

      Prokaryotic cell

    • C.

      All cellls

    Correct Answer
    B. Prokaryotic cell
  • 14. 

    What organelle supports and protects plants?  Animal cells do not have it.

    • A.

      Cell memebrane

    • B.

      Cell wall

    • C.

      Chloroplast

    • D.

      Nucleus

    Correct Answer
    B. Cell wall
  • 15. 

    What type of organisms make their own food (example: plants)?

    • A.

      Autotrophs

    • B.

      Heterotrophs

    • C.

      Consumers

    • D.

      Mammals

    Correct Answer
    A. Autotrophs
  • 16. 

    Which organelle (part) of the cell allows substances to go in and out of the plant cell and animal cell?

    • A.

      Cell wall

    • B.

      Cell membrane

    • C.

      Sepals

    • D.

      Leaves

    Correct Answer
    B. Cell membrane
  • 17. 

    Which type of cell has a cell wall?

    • A.

      Animal cell

    • B.

      Heterotrophs

    • C.

      Cosumers

    • D.

      Plant cell

    Correct Answer
    D. Plant cell
  • 18. 

    What is used for genetic coding?

    • A.

      RNA

    • B.

      Ribonucleic acid

    • C.

      DNA

    • D.

      Nucleus

    Correct Answer
    C. DNA
  • 19. 

    What is used to read the genetic coding?

    • A.

      DNA

    • B.

      RNA

    • C.

      SONAR

    • D.

      NASA

    Correct Answer
    B. RNA
  • 20. 

    What is the chain that always begins with a producers and shows one string of animals?

    • A.

      Food chain

    • B.

      Food web

    • C.

      Energy pyramid

    • D.

      Water cycle

    Correct Answer
    A. Food chain
  • 21. 

    What is the animal that is being hunted?

    • A.

      Predator

    • B.

      Host

    • C.

      Prey

    • D.

      Decomposer

    Correct Answer
    C. Prey
  • 22. 

    Which type of graph shows the energy levels from greatest to least? 

    • A.

      Food web

    • B.

      Energy pyramid

    • C.

      Food chain

    • D.

      Energy chain

    Correct Answer
    B. Energy pyramid
  • 23. 

    What are animals called that eat producrs?

    • A.

      Consumers

    • B.

      Producers

    • C.

      Autotrophs

    • D.

      Plants

    Correct Answer
    A. Consumers
  • 24. 

    What is first on all food chains and make their own food?

    • A.

      Consumers

    • B.

      Heterotrophs

    • C.

      Producers

    • D.

      Animals

    Correct Answer
    C. Producers
  • 25. 

    What breaks down materials, examples mushroom, fungi?

    • A.

      Producers

    • B.

      Consumers

    • C.

      Decomposer

    • D.

      Biome

    Correct Answer
    C. Decomposer

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