7.11a

An illustration and a dichotomous key are given. What is the correct classification for this organism?

• Class Insecta

• Order Amblygygi

• Order Araneae

• Order Scorpiones

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

A giraffe has a long neck in order to better reach leaves to eat. This is an example of _____.

• an adaptation

• environment

• response

• stimulus

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Which feature helps an animal hide from other animals?

• looking like a dangerous animal

• being the same color as the place it lives (camoflauge)

• having sharp claws or a strong shel

• having only a few young and caring for them

Which of the following is an inherited trait?

• swimming

• eye color

• skateboarding

• callused fingers

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Predict which moth would increase in population

• light 

• dark

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Over time, the food supply for birds on an isolated island has changed. The supply of insects, small tender seeds, and vegetation has shrunk. The supply of tough, large, hard seeds has remained unchanged. Over several generations, changes in genetic traits of birds' beaks have occurred. Which beak is most likely to improve the survival rate of the birds?

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

the passing of genetic traits from parent to offspring.

• heredity

• trait

• gene

• allele

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

Scientific study of how traits are passed to offspring through genes

• Heredity

• Genetics

• Inheritance

• Allele

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

Complex molecule that carries genetic information that defines an organism's traits. It is stored in the nucleus.

• DNA

• protein

• RNA

• glucose nucleic acid (GNA)

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NGSS.HS-LS1-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

Heredity is the passing of traits from _____________________ to _____________________

• predators to prey

• water to rain

• parents to offspring

• fungi to protists

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2