1. White Board Pretest: 20 Questions
Diversity of Life
White Board Pretest:
20 Questions

2. Which of the following is NOT a property of life?
Movement
Organization
Growth
Reproduction

3. Which of the following is not a need of a living thing:
Water
Homeostasis
Food
Oxygen

4. These organisms can make their own food
Consumers
Producers
Autotrophs
Heterotrophs

5. An organism with more than one cell would be called:
Manycellular
Multicellular
Unicellular
Unocellular

6. A plant grows towards the sun. This shows this property of life…
Growth and Development
Movement
Reacting to Surroundings
Energy Use

7. A computer is not alive because it is not/does not…
Respond to stimulus
Made of Cells
Use Energy
Develop

8. If an organism reproduces asexually, how much of its DNA will be the same as the parent?
50%
75%
25%
100% 32 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32

9. If an organism is produced by sexual reproduction, how many parents does it have?1 2 3 4

10. What is the term we use for an organism’s ability to maintain a stable internal environment?
Development
Cytokinesis
Homeostasis
Cellular Organization

11. Organisms are grouped and organized based on…
Degree of Relatedness
Similar characteristics
Body Plan
All of the above

12. Which of the following is the broadest level of organization?
Kingdom
Species
Class
Domain

13. Which of the following levels of classification is the most specific?
Kingdom
Domain
Species
Taxa

14. This group of organisms have no backbone.
Vertebrates
Invertebrates
Animals
Arthropods

15. What is a name for an organism whose genetic material is not contained in a nucleus?
Eukaryote
Prokaryote
Nokaryote
Autotroph
Heterotroph

16. What types of animals are warm blooded, feed on milk from their mothers when they are young, and have fur?
Birds
Arthropods
Mammals
Vertebrates

17. What domains include prokaryotes?
Bacteria and Archaea
Bacteria only
Archaea only
Protists

18. In this kind of circulatory system blood travels through a network of tubes called blood vessels:
Open circulatory system
Radial circulatory system
Bilateral circulatory system
Closed circulatory system

19. Nonvascular plants differ from vascular plants in the way that they…
Obtain food
Are made of cells
Transport materials
Use energy

20. How do fish take in oxygen?
Lungs
Scales
Swim bladder
Gills