Advance Questions

Multiple ChoiceIdentify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

____ 1. Which of these best describes the function of the Golgi apparatus in a cell?a. converting oxygen and nutrients into energy for the cellb. modifying proteins and fats and preparing them to be moved out of the cellc. breaking down cellular waste products and moving them to the cytoplasmd. regulating the passage of molecules in and out of the cell

____ 2. Which of these correctly identifies a cell organelle and its function?a. The nucleus temporarily stores materials. b. The ribosome makes proteins.c. The vacuole performs cellular respiration.d. The Golgi complex converts light energy into chemical energy.

____ 3. The chart shows structures that work together in an organism.

What do the structures as a whole represent?a. an organ system c. a tissueb. an organ d. a cell

____ 4. Which organ system is correctly matched with its main function?a. The excretory system defends the body from disease-causing organisms.b. The nervous system controls body responses to the environment.c. The skeletal system distributes energy throughout the body.d. The digestive system removes waste products from the body.

____ 5. An organ system is represented by the diagram below. This system carries nutrients andwastes throughout the body.

What organ system is represented?a. excretory c. skeletalb. nervous d. circulatory

____ 6. The diagrams below represent three stages of plant cell division.

What occurs in the next stage of plant cell division?a. Sister chromatids become visible.b. A cell plate forms in the middle of the cell.c. The chromosomes move to the middle of the cell.d. Sister chromatids seperate.

____ 7. Which cell parts are found in pairs and move toward the opposite ends of the nucleus during cell division?a. centrioles c. ribosomesb. vacuoles d. Golgi bodies

____ 8. A teacher set up a lab investigation using a semipermeable membrane. Water can pass freely across the membrane but solute cannot.

How will the setup most likely appear after one hour if left undisturbed?a. c.

b. d.

____ 9. After a living cell is placed in pure water, the cell willa. enlarge when water diffuses across the membrane into the cytoplasm.b. shrink when large molecules are transported into the cytoplasm.c. enlarge when water from inside the cell is carried out across the membrane.d. shrink when sugars diffuse out of the cell across the membrane.

____ 10. Cellular respiration is a process that allows animals to use energy stored in glucose. What is one of the products of cellular respiration?a. oxygen c. waterb. light d. carbon

____ 11. Which chemical compounds are the reactants of photosynthesis and products of cellular respiration?a. water (H2O) and glucose (C6H12O6)b. oxygen (O2) and carbon dioxide (CO2)c. glucose (C6H12O6) and oxygen (O2) d. carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O)

____ 12. The diagrams represent the way that three different organisms reproduce.

Which of these classifies the reproduction method of all organisms shown above?a. segmentation c. asexual reproductionb. budding d. sexual reproduction

____ 13. A flower is shown in the diagram.

What is the main function of the flower part indicated by the arrow?a. attracting pollinators c. protecting the ovuleb. producing pollen d. supporting the pistil

____ 14. The diagram shows parts of a flower.

Which number on the diagram represents the part of the flower that guides pollen to theovary? a. 1 c. 3b. 2 d. 4

____ 15. Two siblings express different eye colors. The brother has borwn eyes but the sister has blue eyes. Which statement explains why the siblings express different eye color?a. The siblings inherited a different number of chromosomes for eye color.b. The brother received traits only from his father, and the sister received traits only from her

mother.c. The siblings each received a different combination of genetic information from their

parents.d. The brother received fewer genes from his mother than his sister received.

____ 16. The table below shows four traits that occur in guinea pigs.

Two parent guinea pigs that both express recessive traits are crossed. Which trait will most likely be expressed in the offspring?a. rough coat textureb. short furc. black coat colord. white spots

____ 17. In some breeds of dogs, wire hair texture is dominant to smooth hair texture. Two parents with wire hair produce an offspring with smooth hair. To express smooth hair, the offspring would have to have inheriteda. the same chromosomes from each parent.b. an allele for smooth hair from each parent.c. two of the same type of chromosomes from one of its parents.d. an allele for wire hair from one parent and an allele for smooth hair from the other.

____ 18. In watermelons, a solid green color (G) is dominant to green stripes (g). Two solid green watermelons are crossed, as shown in the Punnett square below.

Which type of watermelon has the greatest chance of being produced by this cross?a. homozygous solid c. homozygous stripedb. heterozygous solid d. heterozygous striped

____ 19. A student has an unidentified mineral. The student wants to identify the mineral using information from the Mohs hardness scale, shown below. The student has a mineral identification kit that includes a piece of plastic, a copper coin, a glass plate and a steel file.

Based on these hardness values, which result could identify the mineral as apatite?a. The mineral can be scratched by both a fingernail and a piece of plastic.b. The mineral can be scratched by a glass plate, but not by a copper coin.c. The mineral can be scratched by a steel file, but not by a glass plate.d. The mineral can be scratched by both a copper coin and a glass plate.

____ 20. Different locations are labeled on the diagram of the volcano.

Where would the most metamorphic rocks likely be located?a. 1 c. 3b. 2 d. 4

____ 21. Which layer of Earth is composed mostly of liquid water and different types of rock crystals such as quartz?a. crust c. inner coreb. mantle d. outer core

____ 22. A cross section of earth is shown below.

Which layer of Earth is made mostly of liquid metal?a. 1 c. 3b. 2 d. 4

____ 23. Geologists placed posts on opposite sides of divergent plates to determine the rate of platemovement. How far apart will the posts most likely have moved after 10 years?a. 50 centimeters c. 50 metersb. 5 meters d. 5 kilometers

____ 24. Which is the best description of where earthquakes are likely to occur?a. in the middle of a continent c. along two plate boundariesb. along a coastline d. in the middle of an ocean

____ 25. The Andes Mountains of South America were gradually formed when the Nazca and South American tectonic plates collided. Which of these caused this collision?a. convection currents in Earth’s mantleb. volcanic activity in Earth’s crustc. movement of material within Earth’s cored. changes in Earth’s magnetic field

____ 26. Which is the most likely effect of a rise in global temperatures caused by human activities?a. rising sea levels c. fewer tropical stormsb. more earthquakes d. increased soil erosion

____ 27. When water vapor, methane, and carbon dioxide are released into the atmosphere, trappedheat is reradiated back to Earth. Which of these will most likely occur when heat is reradiatedback to Earth? a. Acid percipitation will form.b. Soil contamination will increase.c. Surface temperatures will increase globally.d. The ozone will become thinner and break down.

____ 28. A student needs to move a heavy object across 50 meters of level ground. Which simple machine will most help the student move the object?a. lever c. inclined planeb. screw d. wheel and axle

____ 29. A screw is an example of a simple machine that would be most useful fora. cutting a sandwich c. opening a corked bottleb. hammering a nail d. lifting a rock

____ 30. Work is performed by a lever when a load (L) of 5 newtons is applied at one end, as shown below.

Using the formula, what force (F) is required to make the lever balanced?a. 5 newtons c. 20 newtonsb. 10 newtons d. 40 newtons

____ 31. A car is traveling forward at an initial velocity of 10 meters per second. The car then accelerates forward at a rate of 1/2 meter per second2 for 20 seconds.

What is the final velocity of the car?a. 10 meters per second c. 25 meters per secondb. 20 meters per second d. 30 meters per second

____ 32. Use the equation below to solve the problem.

A student rode a bicycle 15 miles in 1.5 hours. What was the student’s average speed?a. 10.0 miles per hour c. 16.5 miles per hourb. 13.5 miles per hour d. 22.5 miles per hour

____ 33. A student throws a ball against the wall as shown in the picture below.

Which statement best explains what is happening in the picture?

a. The energy of the ball is destroyed as it strikes the wall.

b. The energy of the ball becomes negative as it strikes the wall.

c. The force from the wall on the ball is equal and opposite to the force from the ball on the wall.

d. The force exerted by the wall on the ball is greater than the force exerted by the ball on the wall.

____ 34. Object X has twice the mass of Object Y. Both objects are accelerating at the same rate. Which statement best describes the motions of Object X and Object Y?

a. Object X is traveling at twice the speed as Object Y.

b. Object X is traveling at half the speed as Object Y.

c. Object X requires twice the force to accelerate at the same rate as object Y.

d. Object X requires half the force to accelerate at the same rate as object Y.

____ 35. Two objects are connected by a rope over a pulley.

According to Newton’s second law of motion, the masses will start to move if thea. acceleration of Object 1 is greater than the acceleration of Object 2.b. acceleration of Object 2 is greater than the acceleration of Object 1.c. mass of Object 1 is greater than the mass of Object 2.d. mass of Object 2 is greater than the mass of Object 1.

____ 36. The diagram below shows a transverse wave.

Which equation applies to this transverse wave?

a. R = Q + S c. Q = S + Tb. R = Q - T d. Q = R - T

____ 37. As a wavelength decreases, the crests of the wavea. become wider. c. get closer together.b. become shorter. d. get farther apart.

____ 38. Scientists measured the amplitude of ocean waves during a storm.

Which part of the diagram shows the amplitude of a wave?a. 1 c. 3b. 2 d. 4

____ 39. All of these are transverse waves except?a. radio waves c. ultraviolet wavesb. x-ray waves d. sound waves

____ 40. Which statement correctly identifies a sound wave?a. A sound wave is a transverse wave.

b. A sound wave is a longitudinal wave.

c. A sound wave can travel through a vacuum.

d. A sound wave can produce a magnetic field.

____ 41. In the diagrams below, the circle represents a particle in a wave. Which diagram bestdemonstrates a particle moving in a transverse wave? a. c.

b. d.

____ 42. Students investigated four different brands of disinfectant wipes. The students rubbed each brand of wipe on a different desk. They collected a bacteria sample from each wiped desk with a cotton swab, then transferred the bacteria to a petri dish. The students also took bacteria from an unwiped desk. After three days, the students compared the amount of bacterial growth in all five petri dishes. Which of these was the experimental control?a. the sample with the greatest amount of bacterial growthb. the sample from the unwiped deskc. the length of time the bacteria was allowed to growd. the number of brands of disinfectant wipes tested

____ 43. Four students read a total of 25 books over the summer, as shown in the table below.

Which of these best displays the data from the table?a. c.

b. d.

____ 44. The chart below shows the speed of a toy car over a 5-second period.

Which graph best represents the data contained in the chart?a. c.

b. d.

____ 45. A student took a field trip on a bus. The student recorded the distance traveled by the bus every 10 minutes for one hour. The student’s data are shown below.

Which line best represents the data?

a. c.

b. d.

____ 46. The chart below shows the speed of a 1-kilogram object moving across a smooth horizontal surfaces over a 10-second period.

Which of these is a conclusion that can be made about the motion of the object based on these data?a. The object changed direction after 5 seconds.b. The object will travel faster after 10 seconds.c. Gravity will cause the object to accelerate.d. A force caused the object to slow.

____ 47. Students investigated pendulums. The students plotted a graph to show the relationship between different lengths of the string and the time it took the pendulum to complete one full swing.

Which conclusion is best supported by the graph?a. The shorter the string, the fewer times the pendulum swings.b. The time it takes the pendulum to swing back and forth decreases over a period of time.c. The time it takes the pendulum to swing back and forth is unpredictable based on the

length of the string.d. As the length of the string increases, the pendulum takes longer to swing back and forth

each time.

____ 48. A student wanted to find out if salt affects the time it takes ice to melt. The student set up the investigation shown in the chart below.

Which is one source of error in this investigation?a. using a balance to measure massb. applying salt to only one of the ice blocksc. placing the ice blocks at the same locationd. melting the ice blocks at different times of day

____ 49. Engineers built a prototype of a new pulley system. They wanted to determine the maximum weight the pulley can lift safely.

Which is the best way for the engineers to test the weight limits of the pulley system?a. hang objects with different volumes from the pulleys

b. hang objects with different shapes from the pulleys

c. raise objects with increasing densities on the pulleys

d. raise objects with increasing masses on the pulleys

____ 50. Engineers plan on developing a new drill for use on oil rigs. What should the engineers do first in order to develop the new drill?a. conduct research on features for a new drillb. build a prototype of the new drillc. determine the materials needed to build the new drilld. design a computer model of the new drill

____ 51. Some researchers are developing a new fertilizer designed to improve the growth of plants in hot, dry climates. The fertilizer was applied to one hundred desert plants in a greenhouse. The average daytime temperature in the greenhouse was 90°F, and the humidity levels were low. Which is best for the researchers to do next?

a. compare plants that received fertilizer to similar plants that received none

b. begin selling the fertilizer to gardens living in hot, dry climates

c. change the conditions in the greenhouse and retest the fertilizer

d. test the fertilizer on plants that are adapted to cooler climates

____ 52. Which is the best example of an adaptive bioengineered product?a. sugar cane that is processed to make fuelb. mules that are bread from horses and donkeys for farm workc. ladybugs that are raised to eat garden pestsd. eyeglasses that are used to correct near-sighted vision