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Living Things

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Multiple Choice

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

__C__ 1. Which structures carry food and water through plants?

a. / flowers / c. / stems
b. / leaves / d. / roots

__A__ 2. What gas do leaves give off when they make food?

a. / oxygen / c. / nitrogen
b. / carbon dioxide / d. / neon

__D__ 3. Many invertebrates have a thin, hard covering called _____.

a. / a suit of armor / c. / a casing
b. / a backbone / d. / an exoskeleton

__A__ 4. How can you classify plants?

a. / flowering and non-flowering / c. / green and not green
b. / seeding and non-seeding / d. / short and tall

__B__ 5. Animals with backbones are called _____.

a. / amphibians / c. / invertebrates
b. / vertebrates / d. / mammals

__C__ 6. A frog, an elm tree, and a human are each examples of _____.

a. / cells / c. / organisms
b. / animals / d. / nonliving things

_D___ 7. Which living things respond to changes in their environment?

a. / animals only
b. / plants only
c. / only very large plants and animals, not small ones
d. / all living things

__C__ 9. How do animals get the energy they need?

a. / by making their own food / c. / by eating plants or other animals
b. / by rolling around in the soil / d. / by absorbing energy from the Sun

_A___ 10. What kind of invertebrate is a squid?

a. / mollusk / c. / fish
b. / jelly / d. / amphibian

__B__ 11. Roots help plants get water. What else do they do?

a. / They take in sunlight / c. / They turn into weeds
b. / They hold the plant in place / d. / They only help plants get water

_D___ 12. Why do animals move?

a. / to find food
b. / to find water
c. / to find food and water
d. / to find food, water, and escape danger

__A__ 13. These break down dead organisms in order to get food.

a. / decomposers / c. / producers
b. / prey / d. / predators

Matching

a. / predator / c. / decomposers
b. / prey / d. / producers

__A__ 14. Hunt other animals

_D__ 15. Makes their own food

_B___ 16. Are hunted by other animals

_C__ 17. Break down dead organisms

Short Answer

18. Fish take in oxygen from the water by using __GILLS___.

19. What do female mammals feed their young? MILK

20. All living things are called __ORGANISMS______.

21. This means to make more of one’s own kind. ___REPRODUCE______

22. All of the living and nonliving things that surround an organism is called an __ENVIRONMENT_____.

23. The place where an organism lives is called a ____HABITAT_______.

24. This type of animal hunts other animals for food. _____PREDATOR______

25. _PREY__ is an animal that is hunted by another animal.

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Answer Section

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. ANS: C PTS: 1 NAT: C-1.1 STA: S3L1

2. ANS: A PTS: 1 NAT: C-1.2

3. ANS: D PTS: 1 NAT: C-1.2

4. ANS: A PTS: 1 NAT: C-1.2

5. ANS: B PTS: 1 NAT: C-1.2

6. ANS: C PTS: 1 NAT: C-1.1

7. ANS: D PTS: 1 NAT: C-3.2 STA: S3L1

8. ANS: A PTS: 1 NAT: C-1.1 STA: S3L1

9. ANS: C PTS: 1 NAT: C-1.1 STA: S3L1

10. ANS: A PTS: 1 NAT: C-1.2

11. ANS: B PTS: 1 NAT: C-1.2 STA: S3L1

12. ANS: D PTS: 1 NAT: C-3.2

13. ANS: A PTS: 1

MATCHING

14. ANS: A PTS: 1

15. ANS: D PTS: 1

16. ANS: B PTS: 1

17. ANS: C PTS: 1

SHORT ANSWER

18. ANS:

Gills

PTS: 1 NAT: C-1.2 STA: S3L1

19. ANS:

Milk

PTS: 1 NAT: C-2.1

20. ANS:

Organisms

PTS: 1

21. ANS:

Reproduce

PTS: 1

22. ANS:

Environment

PTS: 1

23. ANS:

Habitat

PTS: 1

24. ANS:

Predator

PTS: 1

25. ANS:

Prey

PTS: 1