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*This wiki will provide you with assessment questions for the 7th grade Life Science Units being taught in Hampton City Schools.*

QUESTIONS:

• Explain how animals use food, water and oxygen in relation to energy.

• Members of which kingdom are multi-cellular, eukaryotic, and cannot make their own food?

(A) Plant
(B) Eubacteria
(C) Animal
(D) Fungus

• Which of these organisms is a member of the Animal Kingdom?

(A) Cactus
(B) Spider
(C) Mushroom
(D) Bacteria

• In what way does a medusa reproduce?

(A) Sexually
(B) Asexually
(C) Regeneration
(D) Spontaneous generation

• The internal skeleton of a chordate is the

(A) notochord
(B) cartilage
(C) gill slit
(D) endoskeleton

• Which group do humans belong to?

(A) Monotremes
(B) Placentals
(C) Marsupials
(D) Agnatha

• What two characteristics do members of the Porifera phylum have?

(A) stinging cells and asymmetrical
(B) flat and parasitic
(C) pores and asymmetrical
(D) hollow body tube and stinging cells

• What pairs of animals belong to the Cnidaria phylum?

(A) sponges and tapeworms
(B) sea anemones and sponges
(C) planarian and spiders
(D) jellyfish and coral

• Having spiny skin, parts in 5's and radial symmetry are characteristics of what phylum?

(A) Porifera
(B) Cnidaria
(C) Echinodermata
(D) Annelida

• All Arthropods share the trait of having a(n) .

(A) Exoskeleton
(B) Endoskeleton
(C) Soft Body
(D) Antennae

• In relation to the environment, an endotherms body temperature ....

(A) will remain the same.
(B) will change with the environment.
(C) will change only with the sun.
(D) will remain the same until the organism eats.

• Organisms that eat other organisms are called

(A) Heterotrophs
(B) Autotrophs
(C) Producers
(D) Consumers

• There are many more than there are primary consumers.

(A) Quanternary consumers
(B) Tertiary consumers
(C) Secondary consumers
(D) Producers

• A closed circulatory system in an animal means:

(A) The animal is able to breathe underwater.
(B) The blood moves through vessels.
(C) The blood "bathes" the internal organs.
(D) The heart closes up.

• The three groups of Mollusks are:

(A) cephalopods, jellyfish, hydras
(B) earthworms, gastropods, roundworms
(C) segmented worms, flatworms, roundworms
(D) bivalves, gastropods, cephalopods

• Which of these organisms is a member of the Chordata Phylum?

(A) jellyfish
(B) rabbit
(C) blackwidow spder
(D) sea star

• Which of these is needed by plants but not needed by animals?

(A) water
(B) gases
(C) shelter
(D) sunlight

• Non living parts of the ecosystem are called

(A) populations.
(B) organisms.
(C) biotic factors.
(D) abiotic factors.

• All the different populations that live together in an area make up a(n)

(A) organisms.
(B) community.
(C) species.
(D) ecosystem.

• A relationship benefits one individual and harms its host?

(A) niche
(B) parasitism
(C) symbiosis
(D) commensalism

• The physical location where an organism lives

(A) carrying capacity
(B) limiting factors
(C) habitat
(D) niche

• This symbiotic relationship benefits both species.

(A) mutualism
(B) parasitism
(C) commensalism
(D) predation

*What type of consumer eats only plants?
(A) omnivore
(B) scavenger
(C) herbivore
(D) carnivore

*Which of the following is not recycled in an ecosystem?
(A) energy
(B) nitrogen
(C) carbon
(D) water

*What is the largest land biome of the World?
(A) tropical rain forest
(B) tundra
(C) boreal or taiga
(D) grassland

*What land biome is made up of coniferous trees?
(A) temperate deciduous forest
(B) tropical rain forest
(C) tundra
(D) boreal or taiga