LIFE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

QUARTER 4 EXAM IN SCIENCE

2nd Grade

Name: Date: Score: / 50

I. Circle the letter of the correct answer.

1. The needs of animals are ________________.

a) air, water, space

b) air, food, water, shelter, and trees

c) air, food, water, space, and shelter

2. Animals live where their ____________ can be met.

a) characteristics b) needs c) energy

3. Some animals change where they live to meet their needs by _______________.

a) storing food and building shelters

b) eating grass and building shelters.

c) storing food and sleeping

4. Scientists classify animals into two main groups using the characteristics of

a) gills or feathers b) fur or lungs c) backbone or no backbone

5. Animals that have a backbone are fish, birds, mammals, ______________.

a) amphibians, and reptiles

b) amphibians, and insects

c) insects, and spiders

6. Which animal is a mammal?

7. Which animal is a bird?

8. A fish is having trouble moving in the water. Which body part might be hurt?

a) the gills b) the fins c) the lungs

9. What characteristic is missing from the chart?

Reptile Characteristics a) have thin, smooth, and wet skin

have a backbone
b) no backbone
breathe air with lungs
? c) have tough, dry, and scaly skin

10. What characteristic is missing from the chart?

Spider Characteristics
a) 2 body parts
8 legs
no wings b) 3 body parts
no antennae c) 4 body parts
?

11. Many reptiles ________________.

a) have gills as babies.

b) have fins and scales.

c) shed their skin as they grow.

12. An insect knows about the world around it by using _____________.

a) color or pattern b) wings c) antennae

13. To keep an insect safe, an insect has a hard _________ outside its body.

a) color or pattern b) covering c) antennae

II. Write the letters in the boxes to show the life cycle of a butterfly. (4 points)

egg

larva

adult

pupa

Write the letters in the boxes to show the life cycle of a frog. (3 points)

egg

tadpole

adult
Use the food chain below to answer the following questions. Circle your answer.

1. A food chain begins with energy

predator

rabbit
2. The carrot plant gets energy from the
sun

fox
3. The rabbit gets energy from the
carrot plant

rabbit
4. The fox gets energy from the
lion

energy
5. Each living thing in a food chain uses some of the predator and keeps the rest.

6. A prey is an animal that hunts and eats other animals.

predator

7. A predator is an animal that is caught and eaten by another animals.

prey

8. The rabbit is the predator of the fox.

prey

9. The fox is the prey of the lion.

predator

10. The lion is a predator

prey
III. Fill in the blanks. Use the word bank below.
community fossil evolution paleontologist
habitat creation population worldview

1. A place where a living thing lives and finds food, water, and shelter is a ____________.

2. All the living things of one kind that live in one area are ___________________.

3. All the living things that live in one area are a ____________________.

4. A ___________________ is the remains of a living thing that has died.

5. A ___________________ is the way person a person thinks about the world.

6. ____________________ is the act by which God spoke to make all things.

7. ________________ is the belief that the earth and space formed by chance without God.

8. A _______________ is a scientist who studies fossils.

IV Decide whether each of the following statement is true or false. Write “T” for true or “F”
for false in the blank beside each statement.

____________1. Dolphins depend on fish and squid for food.

____________2. A nutria changes its habitat by building a dam.

____________3. Fish can survive in dry habitat.

____________4. Giraffes, lions, and tall grasses can be found in Tundra.

____________5. Johnson grass and Kudzu are unwanted plants that can quickly change
the animals' habitat.

____________6. Man’s sin caused God to send a flood that covered the whole earth.

____________7. There are 10 kinds of fossils.

____________8. The scientists have the same worldview.

____________9. Extinct means that none of the plants or animals of that kind are still alive.

IV. Match the kind of fossil to the picture.

__________1. mold

__________2. trace

__________3. amber