Science Checkpoint 4 Review

Students read a book about animals from Australia and recorded notes in a table. The animals listed eat eucalyptus leaves in tall trees.

How are the animals adapted for getting food?

• All three animals have fur that protect them from the bark of the eucalyptus trees.

• All three animals use their tails like a leg to climb up to the eucalyptus leaves.

• All three animals use their sharp claws to climb up to the eucalyptus leaves.

• None of the animals can climb a tree to get to the eucalyptus leaves they eat.

A class studied the life cycle of a frog and studied the life cycle of a bean plant. They compared the life cycles in a Venn Diagram.

Choose as many of the following steps which are part of the life cycles of all living things?

• All living things develop in a life cycle

• All living things hatch from eggs

• All living things die

• All living things form flowers

• All living things mature into adults

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Which structure helps the tree live in an environment where it only rains sometimes?

• Branches, because they hold the leaves up to the light

• Leaves, because they use sunlight to make food

• Roots, because they take water from the ground

• Fruit, because seeds are carried away to make new trees

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Which foot would most likely belong to a bird that lives in a pond environment?

• A

• B

• C

• D

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Which of these organisms is best suited for the terrarium?

• Blue jay

• Lobster

• Snail

• Water lily

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Heavy rains flooded the area in the picture above. How might the floods affect the organisms that live there?

• More water will cause animals to grow faster.

• All of the organisms will perish in the wet conditions.

• The flood will not affect the organisms that live in the area.

• Some organisms will leave the area to find a dry environment.

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There has been reduced rainfall in the area. A drought occurs at the pond.

What is the most likely way the drought will affect the animals in the above ecosystem?

• The frogs will move.

• The dragonflies will thrive.

• The fish will die.

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Which organism in this food chain is the producer?

• seaweed

• clam

• starfish

• seagull

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The roadrunner is a desert bird that eats fruits and seeds. It also eats insects, spiders, scorpions, and rattlesnakes. What would likely happen if the roadrunner population disappeared from its ecosystem?

• There would be no more fruits or seeds

• There would a decrease in spider populations.

• There would be an increase in scorpion populations.

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In the food chain, from where does the energy originate?

• grass

• sun

• grasshopper

• owl

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