Science Final Exam

Question 1

How would an increase in the mass of a planet affect the orbital speed of its moon?

Answer 1

It would increase the orbital speed

Question 2

What are the physical property’s of a comet??

Answer 2

Small objects made of ice, dust and gas (develops a tale when close to sun)

Question 3

List the planets in order from the sun

Answer 3

mercury, venus, earth, mars, Jupiter, Satern, Uranus, Neptune

Question 4

The gravitational force of attraction between 2 objects _________ if the masses increase

Answer 4

Increase

Question 5

The gravitational force of attraction between 2 objects ________ if the distance between the increase

Answer 5

decrease

Question 6

Whats would happen to the moon’s orbit if there were no more gravitational forces acting on it

Answer 6

It would travel in a straight line at a constant velocity

Question 7

What planets are in the habitable zone in the solar system?

Answer 7

Mars and Earth

Question 8

Where is a meteoroid located?

Answer 8

In space

Question 9

Whats a meteorite?

Answer 9

a rocky object thats hit earths surface

Question 10

What is a meteor??

Answer 10

a rocky object burning up as it travels through the atmosphere

Question 11

Whats Goldilocks zone???

Answer 11

An area in the solar system that suitable for life

Question 12

Whats are three abiotic factors that allow life on earth?

Answer 12

oxygen, liquid water, and proximity to sun

Question 13

Whats a watershed???

Answer 13

an area of land where water collects in a common place

Question 14

Whats some examples of how humans pollute surface water?

Answer 14

Waste, pesticides, trash, and fertilizers

Question 15

How do pollutants reach the groundwater?

Answer 15

runofff carries fertilizers and pesticides through the soil into groundwater

Question 16

What is land subsidence?

Answer 16

the weakling/sinking of top layers of earth due to the removal of water

Question 17

Whats surface water?

Answer 17

water located on earths surface

Question 18

Whats groundwater??

Answer 18

water located beneath earths surface/ in the ground

Question 19

Define a CELL

Answer 19

the basic unit of function and structure

Question 20

Define ORGANISM

Answer 20

most complex level of biological organization; made of organ systems

Question 21

Define ORGAN

Answer 21

made of tissue (stomache, liver, heart, intestines)

Question 22

Define TISSUE

Answer 22

Made up of specialized eggs doing the same function

Question 23

Define ORGAN SYSTEM

Answer 23

made up of organs working together

Question 24

What system waterproofs, regulates body temp, protects, sensory organs

Answer 24

integumentary system

Question 25

What system sends and receives messages from stimulus usuing 5 senses; includes brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves

Answer 25

nervous system

Question 26

What system provides heat, movement, strength, and balance,

Answer 26

muscular system

Question 27

What system takes in oxygen and removes carbon dioxide

Answer 27

Respiratory system

Question 28

What system breaks down large molecules and food into smaller to allow nutrients to be absorbed.

Answer 28

digestive system

Question 29

What system produces chemicals called hormones that regulate cell activity

Answer 29

endocrine system

Question 30

What system reproduced offspring

Answer 30

reproductive system

Question 31

What system delivers oxygen and nutrients and picks up carbon dioxide/waste

Answer 31

circulatory

Question 32

What system produces blood, provides protection, support and structure

Answer 32

skeletal system

Question 33

What system filters waste from the blood

Answer 33

Urinary system

Question 34

Which system detects and attacks harmful pathogens that enters the body

Answer 34

immune system

Question 35

Which organisms of the digestive system include chemical digestion?

Answer 35

mouth, stomache, and small intestine

Question 36

Define natural selection

Answer 36

Organisms with traits that favor survival and reproduce/ evolve over time

Question 37

Define selective breeding

Answer 37

intentional reproduction of organisms for desired traits

Question 38

What is budding

Answer 38

when offspring grow off the parent And then separate when they mature

Question 39

What type of reproduction results in genetic diversity?

Answer 39

sexual reproduction

Question 40

Which type of reproduction results in identical offspring

Answer 40

asexual reproduction

Question 41

What is found inside the nucleus

Answer 41

DNA

Question 42

What is a eukaryotic cell?

Answer 42

cells with a nucleus with DNA

Question 43

Whats a prokaryotic cell?

Answer 43

cells without a nucleus but have DNA

Question 44

What is the broadest taxonomic group for classifying living organisms

Answer 44

Domain

Question 45

What do scientist use to classify organisms

Answer 45

charcteristics

Question 46

What makes up the scientific name of organisms

Answer 46

genus and species

Question 47

What do plants take in, in photosynthesis?

Answer 47

Carbon dioxide, water, sunlight

Question 48

What do plants release during photosynthesis

Answer 48

oxygen and glucose

Question 49

Whats an abiotic factor?

Answer 49

a factor that has never been living ; not made of cells

Question 50

Whats a biotic factor

Answer 50

a living or once living part of an ecosystem; made of cells

Question 51

What happens to energy as it’s transferred up the pyramid

Answer 51

it decreases