Educational Measurement Assignment

II. Sample test Items

Angela Ouellette & Emily Carlson

Key and correlation to testing matrix

Question
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Answer
T
F
T
T
F
F
T
Deforestation
Nonrenewable
Predator
Consumer
Abiotic Factor
B
C
D
A
A
B
C
A
D
Students need to write about the
negative affects pollution has on
organisms such as harming food
sources, harming the air, and
harming environments. Students also
need to write about natural selection
stating that organisms that survive
pollution might have certain traits
and these traits that help them to
survive and these traits will get
passed on to future generations.

Test Matrix
B.I
B.I
B.I
B.II
B.II
B.II
B.II
A.III
A.IV
A.I
A.I
A.II
A.II
A.I
A.II
A.I
B.III
B.III
A.VI
B.VI
C.VI
C.III

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25.

Students need to properly identify a

mutualistic relationship, describe
what each organism is doing in the
relationship to make it mutualistic.
Students need to properly identify a
parasitistic relationship, describe
what each organism is doing in the
relationship to make it parasitistic.
Students need to thoroughly explain
what abiotic and biotic factors are.
(including examples of each and how
they affect the environment)
Students also need to address the
following in the picture: bird, man,
fish, water, soil, plants, trees, and
gasses.

C.I
C.I
C.II

Organisms and Environment Unit Test

True/False. For questions 1-7, decided if the statements are true or false.

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1. Producers are different from consumers because they make their own food.

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2. Rabbits are predators to grass.

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3. In a parasitic relationship, one organism feeds on, but does not usually kill its host.

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4. Water is an abiotic factor in an ecosystem.

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5. Organisms only need biotic factors to survive.

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6. Biotic factors include temperature, light, soil, and water.

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7. Organisms compete for both biotic and abiotic factors.

Fill in the Blank. For questions 8-12, choose the appropriate term that completes the sentence.
8. The process of clearing forests is ___________________.
9. A resource that cannot be replaced is ___________________.
10. Because a tiger hunts its prey, it is a (n) _____________________.
11. An organism that eats another for energy is known as a (n) _______________.
12. Water is an example of a (n) ______________.

Matching. For questions 13-16, pick the sentence in column B that best describes the term in column A.

COLUMN A
13. Biotic
14. Consumer
15. Abiotic
16. Producer

COLUMN B
A. receives its energy through photosynthesis and
the sun
B. The living parts of an ecosystem.
C. receives its energy from eating other organisms.
D. The nonliving parts of an ecosystem.

Multiple Choice. For questions 17-21, carefully read the questions and select the best answer.

17. Which of the following is an example of a long-term environmental change?

A.
B.
C.
D.

Ice age
Flooding
Smog
Drought

18. Which of the following is an example of a short-term environmental change?

A.
B.
C.
D.

Global Warming
Volcanic Eruption
Urbanization
Ice Age

19. Which of the following is an example of practicing conservation?

A.
B.
C.
D.

Strip mining only one area at a time

Clearing only tropical rain forests
Using fewer natural resources
Building only on wetlands

20. Why can pollutants from one ocean easily be carried around the world?
A.
B.
C.
D.

All the oceans are connected.

Humans travel around the world.
Water knows no bounds.
The pollutants are windborne.

21. When a population grows larger than its carrying capacity, limiting factors in the
environment cause the population to
A. increase.
B. stay the same.
C. undergo mutualism.
D. decrease.

Short answer. For questions 22-24, read each question carefully, and provide a well thought out answer
in the space below.
22. How might pollution affect traits of future generations? Be specific in explaining how the
change might affect the trait.
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23. Pick two organisms that are involved in a mutualistic symbiotic relationship. Describe their
relationship and why it is mutualistic and not a different form of symbiosis.
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24. Pick two organisms that are involved in a parasitistic symbiotic relationship. Describe their
relationship and why it is parasitistic and not a different form of symbiosis.
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Essay. For the following question, write a detailed explanation that fully answers what the question is
asking.
25. What is the difference between abiotic and biotic factors (include examples)? How does each effect
the environment? While looking at the attached picture, describe what is classified as biotic and abiotic
and why.

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