COLEGIO ANGLO COLOMBIA

NIVELES: PRE ESCOLAR-BASICA PRIMARIA-BACHILLERATO

MODALIDAD ACADEMICA BILINGÜE
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Resolución de aprobación: No. 00968 de Marzo 1 de 2010
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5TH GRADE TERMS A-B SCIENCE EXAM

NAME:____________________________ DATE:____________

PART 1. READING AND WRITING SKILLS: Read the following text and answer the
questions.

1. Who is Angelique Corthals?

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2. Where does Angelique work?

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3. What does Angelique do in her workplace? What is her job?

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NIVELES: PRE ESCOLAR-BASICA PRIMARIA-BACHILLERATO
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4. Why is it important to study the frozen cells of organisms?

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5. WRITING! If you also worked in the American Museum of Natural History, and you were
to study cells, which kind of organism’s cell would you prefer to study? Why?

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PART 2. CONTENT BASED QUESTIONS: Choose the correct answer and answer the next
questions.

6. Which cell structure is found in b. A snail

plant cells, but not in animal cells? c. An insect
a. Cell membrane d. A worm
b. Nucleus
c. Chloroplast 10. Which kind of plant produces fruit?
d. Vacuole a. Angiosperm
b. Nonvascular
7. Which cell structure is the cell’s c. Seedless
control center? d. Gymnosperm
a. Cytoplasm
b. Nucleus 11. Which animal group has the least
c. Cell membrane organized body plan?
d. Vacuole a. Flatworms
b. Mollusk
8. Which kingdom contains some c. Porifera
organisms that resemble plants and d. Reptiles
others that resemble animals?
a. Plants 12. Which system removes wastes
b. Protists from the body?
c. Fungi a. Circulatory system
d. Archaea b. Excretory system
c. Nervous system
9. Which is classified as a vertebrate? d. Endocrine system
a. A bird
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13. Which organism has an b. They are a group of

exoskeleton? mammals called
a. Rabbit monotremes
b. Dog c. They are invertebrates
c. Grasshopper d. They have lungs and gills
d. Jellyfish
20. When partially digested food leaves
14. What do plants and fungi have in the stomach, it enters which organ?
common? a. The liver
a. The ability to move b. The esophagus
b. The ability to make their c. The pancreas
own food d. The small intestine
c. The presence of cell walls
d. The presence of sense 21. Which best describes budding?
organs a. Offspring develop from a
fertilized egg
15. Which organelle is used to store b. Offspring develop on a
water, food, and wastes? parent
a. Mitochondrion c. Offspring develop from a
b. Nucleus stem
c. Cell membrane d. Offspring develop from two
d. Vacuole parents

16. Which can you conclude if an 22. Which organisms reproduce by

animal cell contains many splitting?
mitochondria? a. Bacteria
a. The cell is shaped like a b. Jellyfish
box c. Strawberry
b. The cell does not grow and d. Honeybees
divide
c. The cell has thick cell walls 23. Which controls traits in organisms?
d. The cell requires a lot of a. Genes
energy b. Pedigrees
c. Instincts
17. Which list shows the arrangement d. Cell membranes
of an organ system?
a. Cells-->tissues-->organs 24. Which is an example of an inherited
b. Organs-->Tissues-->cells trait?
c. Tissues-->cells-->organs a. A scar received from falling
d. Organs-->cells-->tissues off a bike
b. A person’s curved or
18. All these are characteristics of straight thumb.
arthropods EXCEPT c. A person learning to play
a. An exoskeleton the piano
b. Paired limbs on each side d. A dog learning to sit on
of the body command
c. They are warm-blooded
d. They are invertebrates 25. Which produces offspring that are
not genetically identical to either
19. Which statement describes all parent?
reptiles? a. Bacterium splitting
a. They are cold-blooded b. Budding
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c. Vegetative propagation
d. Sexual reproduction

26. Which statement is true of sexual

reproduction?
a. It involves only one parent
b. Sex cells are not needed
c. Offspring are copies of the
parent
d. Traits are mixed

27. The plant in the picture is using…

a. Seeds
b. Budding
c. Cones
d. Vegetative propagation

28. Order the classification levels from the largest group to the smallest group. Where 1 is the
largest and 7 is the smallest.

a. ______ e. ______
Phylum Species

b. ______ f. ______
Order Genus

c. ______ g. ______
Kingdom Family

d. ______
Class
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29. Look at the next chart and answer the questions.

a. These types of charts are called:

i. Shape chart
ii. Pedigree Chart

b. Which color is the dominant trait?

i. Black
ii. White

c. How many offspring are there in generation III?

i. Three
ii. Five

d. In generation III. Which gender is the offspring with the recessive trait?
i. Male
ii. Female

e. In generation I. Which parent has the dominant trait?

i. Father
ii. Mother
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30. Match the system with the correct functions.

a. Muscular system ______ Carries nutrients to all body parts

b. Skeletal system ______ Pull and pushes the bones

c. Circulatory system ______ Supports the body

d. Respiratory system ______ Breaks down food

e. Digestive system ______ Gets oxygen

PART 3. VOCABULARY QUESTIONS: Answer the next questions.

33. Use the words from the box to fill in the blanks.

a. ____________________ is the passing down of traits from one generation to

the next.
b. A(n)_______________________________ is a characteristic passed down
from parent to offspring.
c. The chemical instructions for inherited traits are carried in a _______________
d. The _______________________ occurs when a sperm cell and an egg cell join
into a single new unit.
e. When a new organism is produced from a single parent. This is called
___________________ reproduction.
f. Any living thing is a(n) _________________________
g. The esophagus, the stomach, and the intestines are part of the
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h. The smallest unit of living things that can carry out the basic processes of life is
a(n) ______________________
i. A ______________________ is a group of cells that work together at the same
job.
j. An animal without a backbone is called a(n) ___________________________

Organism Gene Heredity Sexual Digestive

system

Tissue Inherited trait Cell Invertebrate Fertilization