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Choose the correct answer A, B or C to complete the statements.

1 The weather conditions of a given location over a long period of time is known ass b .

a) humidity b)) Climate c) field trip

2 c is the distance north or south of the equator, measured in degrees.

a) Environment b)) Elevation c) Latitude

3 It is the branch of science that deals with living organismss a .

a) Biology b)) Topography c) Geography

4 The amount of water vapor present in the air is called

d b .

a) climate b)) Humidity c) interaction

5 a is the science of land, bodies of water and climate and their interactions with all forms
of life.

a) Geography b)) Biology c) Topography

6 You can find

d c regions in the high-latitude regions of Alaska, northern Canada, parts of
Greenland, parts of Scandinavia and across northern Russia.

a) forest b)) Glacier c) tundra

7 A biome is a specific majorr b with distinctive plants and animals.

a) region b)) Environment c) latitude

8 Most plants and animals have certain characteristics that make them highly suited to the
environments in which they live. This is called
d c .

a) behavioral characteristic b)) Condition c) adaptation

9 The most characteristic feature of the

e a is the lack of water.

a) desert b)) Grassland c) savanna

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0 c refers to how living organisms and their physical environments affect and
interact with each other.

a) landform b) interdependent c) ecosystem

11 c is known as the area between the minimum and maximum values of

environmental factors that can support the life of an individual species or biome.

a) Migration b) Hibernation c) Range of tolerance

12 The relationship between two or more organisms in which each organism provides
something to the others and gets some benefit in return is called
d a .

a) symbiosis b) interaction c) adaptation

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3 c are the living organisms that feed on both plants and animals.

a) Carnivores b) Herbivores c) Omnivores

14 The process in which the powerful forces of wind and water work together to wear down
rocks, create soil and move sediments all over earth, is known ass a .

a) weathering b) erosion c) changes

15 Relative dating is the scientific method used to study time on Earth through the
arrangement or position of b .

a) rocks and stones b) fossils and sediments c) plants and animals

16 The compilation of individual rocks and sedimentary layers that helps tell the story of
the Earth’s past is named
d b .

a) relative dating b) rock record c) scientific method

17 The alternating long periods of warming and cooling between the Mesozoic and the
Cenozoic era gave rise to the
e a .

a) Ice age b) Glaciers c) North Pole

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8 b are formed from the remains of plants and animals of long ago.

a) Stones b) Fossils c) Organisms

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9 b is known as changes in the genes of an organism’s offspring that result in an
anatomical or behavioral change.

a) Adaptation b) Mutation c) Evolution

20 The theory that suggests that all of the organisms in the history of Earth are the result
of common descent, and have adapted to the environmental conditions through genetic
mutations is called
d a .

a) evolution b) mutation c) adaptation

21 According to the theory above mentioned primates evolved into

o c .

a) sophisticated organisms b) species c) homo sapiens

22 During the last century, scientists have made many discoveries about human origins on
thee b .

a) European continent b) African continent c) American continent

23 The
e b took more than a million years to evolve into homo sapiens.

a) anthropologist b) homo erectus c) homo habilis

24 It was the c who made the first cave painting.

a) homo erectus b) homo habilis c) Cro-Magnon

25 Homo erectus meanss a .

a) man that walks upright b) man that paints c) man that thinks

26 The first humans were adapted to the

e c of Africa.

a) forest area b) savanna biome c) glaciers

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