1-3 Use the picture of microscope.

1. Which letter represents the objective?

2. Which letter represents the coarse adjustment knob?
3. Which letter represents the ocular?
4. To focus a specimen, it is best to start with which objective:
a. high power b. low power c. scanner d. oil immersion
5. A(n) _____________ is all the living and nonliving things in a particular area that interact with one another.
a. Biome b. Community c. Ecosystem d. Population
6. Which of the following is an example of how an abiotic component affects a community?
a. A wet spring leads to an increase in the frog population.
b. A beetle from another continent kills a population of trees.
c. A fungus infects a population of bats and many die.
d. An increase in flies leads to an increase in the swallow population.
7. Water is pumped from a well and used to irrigate a piece of land. What kind of change is this?
a. A change in a biotic factor c. A change in a population
b. A change in an abiotic factor d. A change in a community
8. Plants get nutrients from the soil. Fungi break down dead plants and release nutrients back into the soil. Given this
situation, which of these statements is true?
a. Fungi reduce the population of plants. c. Plants depend on fungi to release nutrients back into the soil.
b. Fungi rob plants of nutrients from the soil. d. Plants reduce fungi population by using nutrients.
9. Which statement about living things and their environment is true?
a. A seed has everything a plant needs to grow and survive.
b. A plant gets the things it needs from its environment.
c. Plants need only water from their environment to survive and grow.
d. Plants make their own food, so they do not need anything from their environment.
10. In an ecosystem, a group of birds eat fruit from a tree. When the birds drop the fruit on the ground, the mice eat the
fruit. Seeds are spread around the area by both the birds and mice and new trees grow. What is this an example of?
a. Community b. Environment c. Organization d. Interdependence
11. What shape are bacteria?
a. rod b. sphere c. spiral d. all of the above
12. A group of cells that work together for a common function would MOST LIKELY be described as
a. tissue b. organ c. organelle d. community
13. Organs work together to make a system or network that performs a specialized function. Plants have only two main
systems. They are the ...
a. stems and leaves b. roots and leaves c. shoots and roots d. leaves and shoots
14. Which of the following is present only in plant cell?
a. Cytoplasm b. Cell membrane c. Chloroplast d. Centrioles
15.What part of the cell contains its genetic information?
a. Chloroplast b. Lysosomes c. Nucleus d. Ribosomes
16.Which of the following exhibits a biotic factor of the ecosystem?
a. Rate of water flow in the river c. Type of climate in a given region
b. Amount of helium gas in the air d. Carnivores that feed on other animals
17.Which of the following is not a herbivore?
a. Cow b. Deer c. Frog d. Goat
18.Which of the following organisms are typical decomposers?
a. Mice and deer b. Lions and tigers c. Grasses and ferns d. Mushrooms and bacteria
19.Which of the following relationships is not correctly matched with the examples?
a. Mutualism- flower and bee c. Parasitism- orchid growing on tree
b. Commensalism- hermit crab and empty shell of snails d. Predation- mantis and butterfly
20.It protects supports and gives the plant cell its shape.
a. Cell membrane b. Cell wall c. Cytoplasm d. Chloroplast
21.It is the production of genetically identical offspring from a single parent cell.
a. Sexual reproduction b. Conjugation c. Fertilization d. Asexual Reproduction
22.What part of the cell has similar functions to the digestive system of the body?
a. Ribosome b. Lysosome c. Mitochondria d. Golgi apparatus
23.It is the basic unit of structure and function in an organism
a. Atom b. Matter c. Cell d. Organ
24. A scientist observes a parent organism with its offspring. The color of the offspring is different from that of the parent.
How do these organisms MOST LIKELY reproduce?
a. budding b. sexual reproduction c. asexual reproduction d. Propagation
25. What kind of reproduction involves only one parent plant?
a. pollination b. Fertilization c. sexual d. Asexual
26. What do we call a stem that grows along the ground or in the air, and forms a new plant at its tip?
a. bud b. tuber c. bulb d. runner
27. What is the process where pollen is carried from the stamen of a flower to the pistil of the same flower or that of
another flower on the same plant?
a. asexual reproduction b. Grafting c. Self pollination d. Cross pollination
28. It is the process that involves union of gametes to produce a zygote.
a. pollination b. Fertilization c. Asexual d. Sexual
29. Growth of a plant from the "eye" of a potato is what kind of reproduction?
a. Bulb b. Tuber c. Runner d. Rhizomes
30. Each part of an organ system plays a specific function. Which of the following structures does not match its function?
a. Eyes : Sight b. Kidneys : Respiration c. Heart : Circulation d. Stomach:Digestion
II. A 1-10 Structure of a Flower B. Microscope