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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: 
<ul><li>Explain how animals use food, water and oxygen in relation to energy.</li></ul> 
<ul><li>Members of which kingdom are multi-cellular, eukaryotic, and cannot make their own food?</li></ul>(A) Plant 
(B) Eubacteria 
(C) Animal 
(D) Fungus 
 
<ul><li>Which of these organisms is a member of the Animal Kingdom?</li></ul>(A) Cactus 
(B) Spider 
(C) Mushroom 
(D) Bacteria 
 
<ul><li>In what way does a medusa reproduce?</li></ul>(A) Sexually 
(B) Asexually 
(C) Regeneration 
(D) Spontaneous generation 
 
<ul><li>The internal skeleton of a chordate is the</li></ul>(A) notochord 
(B) cartilage 
(C) gill slit 
(D) endoskeleton 
 
<ul><li>Which group do humans belong to?</li></ul>(A) Monotremes 
(B) Placentals 
(C) Marsupials 
(D) Agnatha 
 
<ul><li>What two characteristics do members of the Porifera phylum have?</li></ul>(A) stinging cells and asymmetrical 
(B) flat and parasitic 
(C) pores and asymmetrical 
(D) hollow body tube and stinging cells 
 
<ul><li>What pairs of animals belong to the Cnidaria phylum?</li></ul>(A) sponges and tapeworms 
(B) sea anemones and sponges 
(C) planarian and spiders 
(D) jellyfish and coral 
 
<ul><li>Having spiny skin, parts in 5's and radial symmetry are characteristics of what phylum?</li></ul>(A) Porifera 
(B) Cnidaria 
(C) Echinodermata 
(D) Annelida 
 
<ul><li>All Arthropods share the trait of having a(n) .</li></ul>(A) Exoskeleton 
(B) Endoskeleton 
(C) Soft Body 
(D) Antennae 
 
<ul><li>In relation to the environment, an endotherms body temperature ....</li></ul>(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. 
 
<ul><li>Organisms that eat other organisms are called</li></ul>(A) Heterotrophs 
(B) Autotrophs 
(C) Producers 
(D) Consumers 
 
<ul><li>There are many more than there are primary consumers.</li></ul>(A) Quanternary consumers 
(B) Tertiary consumers 
(C) Secondary consumers 
(D) Producers 
 
<ul><li>A closed circulatory system in an animal means:</li></ul>(A) The animal is able to breathe underwater. 
(B) The blood moves through vessels. 
(C) The blood &quot;bathes&quot; the internal organs. 
(D) The heart closes up. 
 
<ul><li>The three groups of Mollusks are:</li></ul>(A) cephalopods, jellyfish, hydras 
(B) earthworms, gastropods, roundworms 
(C) segmented worms, flatworms, roundworms 
(D) bivalves, gastropods, cephalopods 
 
<ul><li>Which of these organisms is a member of the Chordata Phylum?</li></ul>(A) jellyfish 
(B) rabbit 
(C) blackwidow spder 
(D) sea star 
 
<ul><li>Which of these is needed by plants but not needed by animals?</li></ul>(A) water 
(B) gases 
(C) shelter 
(D) sunlight 
 
<ul><li>Non living parts of the ecosystem are called</li></ul>(A) populations. 
(B) organisms. 
(C) biotic factors. 
(D) abiotic factors. 
 
<ul><li>All the different populations that live together in an area make up a(n)</li></ul>(A) organisms. 
(B) community. 
(C) species. 
(D) ecosystem. 
 
<ul><li>A relationship benefits one individual and harms its host?</li></ul>(A) niche 
(B) parasitism 
(C) symbiosis 
(D) commensalism 
<ul><li>The physical location where an organism lives</li></ul>(A) carrying capacity 
(B) limiting factors 
(C) habitat 
(D) niche 
 
<ul><li>This symbiotic relationship benefits both species.</li></ul>(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