Wednesday, July 9, 2014

WEDNESDAY, JULY 9TH

REVIEW GUIDE POSTED AND MORE TO FOLLOW...
Thursday:  Final consists of Chapters 1-7 test, 8-10 test, written portion comparing Mitosis and Meiosis, Lab practical.
8-10 am:  Chapter 8-10 exam and the free response.
10:20 - 11:20 Lab Practical
11:30 - 1 pm Chapter 1-7 exam.

Dismissal is at 1 pm today, grades posted later that day! :)

Ch 1

What is science?
What do scientists do and why?
Define homeostasis, theory, control, variables, observation, hypothesis, inference.
What are the proper steps in the scientific method?
How does lens magnification work?
Why do we used different types of microscopes?
How does a light microscope work?
What are safe lab practices?  Which are unsafe?

Ch 2
What are atoms and what are electrons, protons, neutrons.
Compare bonds, define hydrogen bond, covalent, ionic.
Compare polar vs. nonpolar.
What is an ion? 
How do chemical reactions rely on enzymes?
Define enzyme, activation energy, catalyst.
pH scale?  Neutral =, Acidic = , Basic =
What are chemical properties of water?
What are organic compounds made of?
Know structures of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids.  What are these compounds made of? (smaller units)
What are the two nucleic acids that exist?

Ch 3/4
Know biomes and their major characteristics.
What are food chains, food webs?
Know how to analyze the three types of energy pyramids.
Carbon cycle understood.
Nitrogen cycle understood.
Water cycle understood.
Phosphorus recycling understood.
What is the difference between temperature and climate?
Explain rain shadow, why it happens.
Explain green house effect, what is it?
Define niche, give an example.
Symbiotic relationships = mutualism, commensalism, parasitism
What is the difference between primary and secondary succession.
Define pioneer species.
Be able to read a climograph.

Ch 5
How do and why do populations grow?
Emigration, Immigration?
Compare birth rates to death rates, age structure diagrams explain…?
Logistic growth?  Exponential growth?  Examples?
Define demography.
Define carrying capacity.
What has the human population done over the last 10,000 years? Past 150 years?

Ch 6
Define acid rain.
Define irrigation, contour plowing, agriculture.
What is soil erosion, why does it happen.
How did DDT become a huge environmental problem?  What is biological magnification?
Define conservation biology, ozone depletion, fossil fuels.

Ch 7
This chapter is really vocabulary heavy!!!
Cell organelles, define all your organelles, know them!
Compare the animal to the plant cell.
What are the major differences in prokaryotes versus eukaryotes?

Ch 8
What is a molecule of ATP made of?  Why is it important?
Who was van Helmont, Priestly, Ingenhousz and Calvin?  Why were they important for the discovery of Photosynthesis?  what did each experiment and conclude?
What is the equation for photosynthesis?
Where are the light reactions occuring?  What are reactants and products?
Know Calvin cycle, what are reactants and products?
How is photosynthesis affected by light, CO2 or temperature?
What is an electron carrying molecule?  Where do they get made? used?
Where are ATP made?
What is the ETC?  How does it work?

Ch 9
What is cellular respiration?
What are the reactants and products of cellular respiration?
Where does the Krebs cycle take place? glycolysis?
What are reactants and products of glycolysis?
Compare quick and long term energy?  What pathway is best for each?
What is an electron carrying molecule?  Where do they get made? used?
Know the three pathways diagram!  Understand cellular respiration and glycolysis pathways and know difference between them.


Ch 10
Cells grow and with it surface area to volume ratios change...What happens? Why does this affect the cell?  Why can't cells grow infinitely?
Define mitosis and its phases.
What is a chromosome?  Know the parts of it.
How do bacteria, plants and animals divide their cells differently?
What factors can stop cell growth?  accelerate cell growth?
How do you know you are in Prophase?
What is the Cell cycle, do you understand the diagram?  Study it!
What is cancer?  What is a cyclin?  What is p53?
Can you label the mitosis diagram of cell division?






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