Abeka Grade 10 Biology (Nine-Weeks Exam) Test 9

Front 1

What heat-sensitive organ that allows some viperids to "see" warm objects in absolute darkness?

Back 1

pit organs

Front 2

In what region of an egg yolk where the embryo develops?

Back 2

germinal spot

Front 3

What is the stiff quill of a feather?

Back 3

rachis

Front 4

What is the belief that livings things can arise from nonliving things?

Back 4

spontaneous generation

Front 5

British naturalist that was primarily responsible for popularizing the idea that all life evolved from a common ancestor

Back 5

Charles Darwin

Front 6

What is the principle that animals or plants well suited to their environment are more likely to survive than organisms poorly suited to their environment?

Back 6

natural selection

Front 7

What is NOT one of the three main groups into which mammals are divided based on how they reproduce?

Back 7

pholidotans

Front 8

What is the sudden outburst of living things of great variety in the fossil record, showing no evidence of evolution?

Back 8

Cambrian explosion

Front 9

What is a large geographic region identified by its climax vegetation and distinctive animal life?

Back 9

biome

Front 10

How many chambers does an amphibian heart have?

Back 10

three

Front 11

What group of mammals that includes dogs, cats, weasels, and seals?

Back 11

carnivores

Front 12

What fully human "human ancestor" was named after the cave where the fossils were first found?

Back 12

Cro-Magnon man

Front 13

What principle that states that all organisms are composed of cells or cell products and that all cells come from preexisting cells?

Back 13

cell theory

Front 14

What odd-toed hoofed mammal that resembles a pig with a long snout or short trunk?

Back 14

tapir

Front 15

What term refers to "occupation" or function of an organism in an ecosystem?

Back 15

niche

Front 16

French scientist that conclusively demonstrated that not even the simplest organisms can develop from nonliving matter

Back 16

Louis Pasteur

Front 17

Why is natural selection unable to produce new kinds?

Back 17

variety within kinds has definite limits

natural selection acts to preserve existing kinds

transitional forms would be unfit to survive

Front 18

What is NOT a characteristic common to all vertebrates?

Back 18

four appendages

Front 19

What slender, burrowing, wormlike amphibians that lack legs and are seldom seen by man?

Back 19

caecilians

Front 20

Unlearned knowledge that an animal possesses from birth is an ____.

Back 20

instinct

Front 21

The voice box of a bird is the ____.

Back 21

syrinx

Front 22

The place where an organism lives is its ____.

Back 22

habitat

Front 23

A snake venom that primarily affects the blood is a ____.

Back 23

hemotoxin

Front 24

The soft, fluffy ____ feathers are close to a bird's body and serve as lightweight insulation.

Back 24

down

Front 25

Annually moving to a different region is called ____.

Back 25

migration

Front 26

The two species of rare, lizard-like reptiles found only in New Zealand and the surrounding islands are the ____.

Back 26

tuatara

Front 27

Living factors in the environment are ____ factors.

Back 27

biotic

Front 28

includes songbirds

Back 28

perching birds

Front 29

includes ostriches, emus, and kiwis

Back 29

flightless birds

Front 30

includes eagles, hawks, falcons, and vultures

Back 30

birds of prey

Front 31

includes ducks, geese, herons, and storks

Back 31

water birds

Front 32

includes pheasants, grouse, and turkeys

Back 32

game birds

Front 33

Which primate has a tail?

Back 33

lemur

Front 34

What ant-eating mammal that is covered with protective plates made of fused hair bundles?

Back 34

pangolin

Front 35

What is the longest venemous snake?

Back 35

king cobra

Front 36

Mammals exhibit what kind of symmetry known as ____.

Back 36

bilateral symmetry

Front 37

An animal that regulates its temperature by external factors so that its temperature fluctuates with its surroundings, is ____.

Back 37

poikilothermic

Front 38

the area between the highest and lowest tides along the coast is the ____ zone.

Back 38

intertidal

Front 39

Mammals feed their young milk produced by _____ glands made of specialized epithelial cells.

Back 39

mammary

Front 40

Pigment cells in the skin of an amphibian are ___.

Back 40

chromatophores

Front 41

The upper shell of a turtle is the ____.

Back 41

carapace

Front 42

Organisms that feed on decaying organic matter but cannot break it down into soil components are ___.

Back 42

detritivores

Front 43

Animals that bring forth live young from eggs hatched within the mother's body are ____.

Back 43

ovoviviparous

Front 44

The largest living turtles are ____.

Back 44

sea turtles

Front 45

The largest living amphibian is the ___.

Back 45

Chinese giant salamander

Front 46

Gnawing mammals with two pairs of sharp, chisel-like incisors are ___.

Back 46

rodents

Front 47

The philosophy that promotes the idea that the universe consists of nothing but matter and energy and has no spirit or supernatural aspects is ____.

Back 47

materialism

Front 48

The classification used to describe one organism's feeding relationship to other organisms in its ecosystem is its ___.

Back 48

trophic level

Front 49

The heart of a bird has how many chambers?

Back 49

four

Front 50

In a controlled environment, all factors are identical except the one being tested, which is the ____.

Back 50

variable

Front 51

Father of Anatomy who wrote a monumental book known as the Fabrica

Back 51

Andreas Vesalius

Front 52

The type of snake locomotion in which a snake moves the front part of its body forward, coils it slightly to anchor it, and then pulls the back part forward is _____.

Back 52

concertina movement

Front 53

A tentative, untested solution to a scientific problem is the ____.

Back 53

hypothesis

Front 54

The simple-to-complex sequence that evolution predicts should appear in the fossil record is the ____.

Back 54

geologic column

Front 55

The biome characterized by long, harsh winters, fairly long summers, and little or no permafrost is the ____.

Back 55

northern coniferous forest

Front 56

Even-toed ungulates (deer, sheep, cattle) are ____.

Back 56

perissodactyls

Front 57

The aquatic forms of various members of the family Salamandridae are ____.

Back 57

newts

Front 58

The process in which bird eggs are kept warm (usually by an adult bird sitting on them) so that the young birds will develop properly in the eggs is _____.

Back 58

incubation

Front 59

Routes that migrating birds follow year after year are ____.

Back 59

flyways

Front 60

An animal that is able to run or swim almost immediately after hatching is ______.

Back 60

precocial

Front 61

The transparent "third eyelid" that allows a bird or reptile to "blink" and moisten its cornea without obstructing its vision is the ____ membrane.

Back 61

nictitating

Front 62

Some hoofed mammals have _____, hollow head structures made of bone covered in a thin layer of epidermal cells.

Back 62

horns

Front 63

The ____ is a lobe-finned fish that evolutionists considered a transitional form between fish and amphibians until live specimens were discovered in the 1930's.

Back 63

coelacanth

Front 64

The process by which an immature larva transforms into an adult is ____.

Back 64

metamorphosis

Front 65

large, thick-skinned, long-tailed aquatic reptiles

Back 65

crocodilians

Front 66

includes iguanas, geckos, Komodo dragons, and chameleons

Back 66

lizards

Front 67

group of snakes that includes boas, anacondas, and pythons

Back 67

boids

Front 68

venomous snakes with immovable fangs in the front of the upper jaw

Back 68

elapids

Front 69

venomous snakes with long fangs that fold against the roof of the mouth when not in use

Back 69

viperids

Front 70

Dutch naturalist who devoted his life to microscopy

Back 70

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

Front 71

What BEST explains why territoriality is important to birds?

Back 71

territoriality allows birds to feed and reproduce with minimal interference

Front 72

What sense of a snake would be most strongly affected by an injury that damaged the Jacobson's organ?

Back 72

smell

Front 73

How are birds described based on the way in which their young are nourished and brought forth?

Back 73

oviparous

Front 74

What BEST explains why a bird needs a gizzard?

Back 74

birds do not have teeth for chewing food

Front 75

What statement is also true of the bird reparatory system?

Back 75

exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide occur in the lungs

Front 76

Adult mudpuppies (a type of salamander) live in the water and breathe with gills. what is this condition called?

Back 76

pedomorphosis

Front 77

In some parts of South America, ants of the genus "Azteca" and wasps of the genus "Polybia" often nest together. the ants protect the wasp nests from attacks by other species of ants, and the wasps protect the ants from birds. what type of relationship do the wasps have?

Back 77

mutualism