Westhill Institute
Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum
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Middle and High School
Subject_________Biology_________ Grade / Group ______7th Grade____
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7th Biology
2nd Semester Exam Study Guide
1. What is evolution?
2. Who was the first to propose that evolution is the result of natural selection?
3. Be able to describe how natural selection works.
4. What is a species?
5. What is a variation?
6. What is an adaptation?
7. Where does most evidence for evolution come from?
8. What is a primate?
9. What are the shared common characteristics that suggest that primates have a
common ancestor?
9. What is a homonid?
10. Where did hominids first evolve?
11. Name the two early human species and tell what happened to each of them.
12. What is a behavioral adaptation?
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Give two examples of a behavioral adaptation and give an example of an
animal that exhibits each behavioral adaptations.
13. What is a physical adaptation?
Give two examples of a physical adaptation and give an example of an animal
that exhibits each physical adaptation.
14. What is an herbivore? Be able to give two examples.
15. What is a carnivore? Be able to give two examples.
16. What is an omnivore? Be able to give two examples.
17. Be able to give at least three common characteristics shared by all animals.
17. What is an invertebrate?
18. What is a vertebrate?
19. What primitive animals are thought to be the transition from unicellular organisms to
multicellular animals?
What type of body symmetry do these animals have?
How do they reproduce?
20. The next level of animal complexity is the cnidarians. Give two examples of these.
What type of body symmetry do cnidarians have?
Describe the two life stages of a cnidarian and their reproduction.
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21. What is bilateral symmetry?
What group of animals were the first to evolve bilateral symmetry?
22. What was the first group of animals to evolve two body openings?
23. Name and describe three common shared characteristics of all mollusks?
24. Be able to identify a diagram of each mollusk group, and give two characteristics of
each group.
25. Describe how a cephalopod propels itself through the water?
26. What are two important uses of mollusks?
27. What is a common name for the annelids?
Why do scientists believe that annelids evolved from mollusks?
28. Name three important types of annelids.
29. Why are leeches now considered important to medicine?
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30. How many species of arthropods have been discovered? Explain two reasons why
arthropods such a successful group of animals.
31. Give four examples of insect species.
32. Be able to identify the stages of incomplete metamorphosis and complete
metamorphosis.
33. Give two characteristics of arachnid species.
Give two examples of arachnids that are predators. How do they kill their prey?
Give two examples of arachnids that are parasites.
34. Describe two differences between centipedes and millipedes.
35. Give four examples of crustacean species.
How are these crustacean species useful to humans?
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36. What is interesting about echinoderm body symmetry and structure?
Name and describe three species of echinoderms.
37.Be able to name and describe four chordate characteristics.
38.Be able to name and describe three characteristics of vertebrates that
distinguish them from chordates.
39. Be able to name the seven groups of vertebrates, list three characteristics of each,
and give two examples of each.
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40.Be able to describe the four stages of frog metamorphosis.
41. What characteristics of the reptiles make them well adapted to live and breed on
land?
42. Be able to explain what characteristics of the birds make them capable of flight.
43. Be able to describe the differences between monotremes, marsupials, and
placental mammals.
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