4/7 Science Assessment Questions

1. Which statement explains why, in a food chain plants are called producers and animals are called consumers?

a. plants make oxygen, and animals use it.

b. Plants use carbon dioxide, and animals give it off.

c. plants make their own food, and animals eat other organisms.

d. plants use energy from the soil, and animals make their own food.

2. Which statement identifies a characterisitic of plants, but not animals?

a. they are producers

b. they need mitochondria

c. they conduct cellulat respiration

d. they have internal vasular structures

3. Which statement describes a major reproductive difference between plants and animals?

a. plants are producers and animals are consumers.

b. most plants are dormant in winter; most animamls are not.

c. plants have special cell structures that animals do not have.

d. most plants have both male and female structures; most animasl do not.

4. Plants and animal cells share many processes, but there are major differences in their cell structures. Which cell structures exist in plant cells, but not in animal cells?

a. vacuoles and cell wall

b. cell wall and chloroplasts

c. chloroplasts and vacuoles

d. cell membrane and mitochondria

5. Which statement correctly describes a difference between prairie dogs and strawberry plants?

a. praire dogs can reproduce sexually and asexually, strawberry plants can only reproduce sexually.

b. Prairie dongs can reproduce sexually and asexually; strawberry plants can only reproduce asexually.

c. Prairie dogs can only reproduce asexually; strawberry plants can reproduce both sexually and asexually.

d.  Prairie dogs can only reproduce sexually; strawberry plants can reproduce both sexually and asexually.

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