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1. This magnifying lens is often used in a science room.
Which task would it do best?
comparing the value of large objects
identifying small insects in soil
growing plants under different lights
seeing how fast mice can run
2. Picture two is one stage in the life of a frog.
picture 1
picture 2
picture 3
picture 4
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What is the name for this stage in the frog's life?
Egg
Tadpole
Toadlet
Froglet
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3. In the animal kingdom, there are many animals that have adaptive characteristics. Which of the
following characteristics is an adaptive characteristic of a frog?
building
warm-blooded
cold-blooded
burbling
4. Each animal has a different kind of defense.
Butterfly
Fish
Clam
Frog
Crab
Snail
Which animal is most likely to use claws to defend itself?
clam
crab
fish
butterfly
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5.
Adaptive Characteristics
Snail
Shell
Foot
Toes
Crab
Frog
What characteristic is shared by the crab and the snail that allows them to survive?
Foot
Shell
Claws
Toes
6. Frogs, crabs and snails all begin their life cycle as
an egg.
a larvae.
a pupa.
an adult.
7. Which of the following environmental elements is most critical to survival for frogs, crabs, and snails?
Sound
Light
Water
Dirt
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8. This is a fossil from an earlier time. It looks a little like a bug. It lived in the ocean.
What animal is most like this fossil?
a crab
a shark
a fish
an eel
9. One summer there was a stream running through the woods. The next summer there was a pile of
brush stopping the flow of the stream. What animal may have caused this to occur?
a rabbit
a beaver
a crab
a snail
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10. There was once an ancient animal like a cat. Descendents of this ancient animal are our modern cats.
Today, there are cats everywhere. Why do cats live on? They
eat only plants.
fit their environment.
eat only mice.
are all brown.
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11. The food chain below represents a wetland in the United States about 100 years ago. If all the insects
died which animal would most likely starve?
Crayfish
Frogs
Insects
Green Plants
Green plants
Frogs
Crayfish
Crabs
12. Animals are characterized by movement, response to light and a need for
life span.
symmetry.
balance.
food.
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13.
A
B
C
D
Which line shows the symmetry of the butterfly?
Line A
Line B
Line C
Line D
14. Beavers and frogs have webbed feet in order to swim. Webbed feet are
inherited differences.
learned characteristics.
inherited traits.
learned differences.
15. Everyday a frog is fed from a white spoon. After many feedings from the white spoon, the frog
swims toward the spoon. A frog responding to a white spoon is an example of a characteristic that is
species.
inherited.
aquatic.
learned.
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16. A student is experimenting with animal skin coverings. She covers the outside of three jars, one with
snail shells, one with frog skin and one with beaver fur. The student then puts hot soup in each jar. The
student found out that the soup stayed warm the longest in the jar covered with fur.
What did the student learn?
Animals with fur can't eat soup.
Animals with fur can keep warm best.
Skin doesn't protect animals from enemies.
Shells are good insulators.
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Read the passage “Panda” to answer questions 17, 18, 19, and 20.
Photo by Jodi Cobb
Panda
Text by Catherine D. Hughes
High in dense bamboo forests in the misty, rainy mountains of
southwestern China lives one of the world's rarest mammals: the giant
panda, also called the panda. Only about 1,000 of these black-and-white
relatives of bears survive in the wild.
Pandas eat almost nothing but bamboo shoots and leaves. Occasionally
they eat other vegetation, fish, or small animals, but bamboo accounts for
99 percent of their diets.
Pandas eat fast, and they eat a lot. They spend about 12 hours a day
eating. The reason is that they digest only about a fifth of what they eat.
Overall, bamboo is not very nutritious. The shoots and leaves are the most
valuable parts of the plants, so that's what a well-fed panda concentrates
on eating. To stay healthy, they have to eat a lot, so they eat fast.
Pandas' molars are very broad and flat. The shape of these teeth helps the
animals crush the bamboo shoots, leaves, and stems they eat. To get the
bamboo to their mouths, they hold the stems with their front paws, which
have enlarged wrist bones that act as thumbs for gripping.
There are many species of bamboo. Only a few of these grow at the high
altitudes where pandas live today. A panda should have at least two
bamboo species where it lives. If not, it will starve.
Giant pandas used to be able to move quite easily from one mountaintop
to another in search of food. Now the valleys are mostly inhabited by
people. Pandas are shy. They don't wander into areas where people live.
This restricts pandas to very limited areas. As people continue to farm, log,
and develop land higher and higher up the mountain slopes, the pandas'
habitat continues to shrink. - National Geographic.com
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Read the passage “Panda” to answer questions 17, 18, 19, and 20.
17. The shape of the Panda's teeth help the Panda
crush the bamboo stems and leaves.
get the bamboo to their mouth.
hold the stems with their wrists.
grip the leaves with their paws.
18. Which of the following statements is a fact?
Pandas live in southeastern China.
Pandas eat only bamboo.
Pandas eat fast.
Pandas never starve.
19. Which of the following characteristics describes the Panda?
A rare amphibian
A big bear
A carnivore
A rare mammal
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Read the passage “Panda” to answer questions 17, 18, 19, and 20.
20.
Cause
Effect
Starving
Pandas
According to this article, what is the cause for Pandas starving?
Pandas starve because they are shy.
Pandas starve because their habitat is shrinking.
Pandas starve because they are aggressive.
Pandas starve because their molars are broad.
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