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Biology Review – First Quarter – Mr. Pagani

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Scientific Method

Look at the picture above:

Pretend the picture shows the results of a controlled experiment that you conducted.

Complete the following questions.

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1. Briefly describe a controlled experiment that would have these

results.______________________________________________________________________________

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2. What would be the problem statement of your experiment?

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3. What was your hypothesis?

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4. What were the independent (manipulated) variable & the dependent (responding) variable?

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5. What were the things that were held constant (controlled variables)?

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6. What materials did you use?

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7. What was your procedure for the experiment?

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8. What does the diagram above tell us about your results?

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9. What could have been sources of error in the experiment:

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Draw a flow chart with pictures or symbols instead of words showing the levels of organization starting

with molecules & ending with biosphere

Use the word bank to label the diagram of the microscope:

Word Bank:

arm high power objective diaphragm

stage low power objective coarse adjustment knob

eyepiece revolving nosepiece fine adjustment knob


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Chemistry of Life

1. What is the name of the molecule(s) shown above?

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2. Label the above diagram showing the hydrogen bonds and the polar covalent bonds; 3. What is the property of water that is an attraction between water molecules?

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4. What is the property of water that is an attraction between molecules of different substances?

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5. Why is a water molecule polar?

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The molecule above is a building block of one of the macromolecules

1. Which macromolecule is the molecule above a part of?

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2. What is the name of the building block pictured above?

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3. Give an example of a type of food that is made of this type of macromolecule.

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1. Which type of macromolecule is pictured above?

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2. What is the difference between unsaturated & saturated in the diagram above?

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3. What are the functions of the above molecule?

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4. Give an example of a type of food that is mainly this type of macromolecule.

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Look at the diagram above

1. What type of macromolecule is pictured above?

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2. What are the building blocks of this macromolecule called?

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3. What is the MAIN function of this macromolecule?

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4. Give an example of a type of food that is mainly this type of macromolecule.

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5. Give a few examples of polysaccharides

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Look at the picture above

1. Assume the picture is related to enzyme activity, what does the hill represent?

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2. What could you add to make it easier to get the rock up the hill

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3. What type of macromolecule is an enzyme?

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4. What do enzymes do? (what is the function?)

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LABEL THE FIGURE ABOVE WITH THE FOLLOWING TERMS (PAGE 52)

ENZYME ACTIVE SITE

SUBSTRATE ENZYME-SUBSTRATE COMPLEX


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ECOLOGY

1. Look at the diagram above and explain the difference between how energy & matter/nutrients flow

through the biosphere.

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2. What are the 4 biogeochemical cycles that cycle most of the nutrients through the biosphere?

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3. How is most energy lost at between tropic levels? ___________________________________________

4. What percent of energy is lost between trophic levels? ________________________________________

5. Label the diagram with arrows showing how the energy is lost between tropic levels.

6. Below sketch a picture of the carbon cycle & the nitrogen cycle. Be sure to label your pictures.

7. Why are these nutrient cycles important to living things? (i.e. what do we need carbon, nitrogen, water,

& phosphorus for in our bodies?)

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Energy Flow


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Look at the picture above

1. Label each picture above as producer or consumer.

2. Which one of the above would eat the other one?

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3. Where would you find the above organisms?

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4. What are some examples of abiotic factors that affect these types of organisms?

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5. What type of organisms would eat the zooplankton?

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6. What are the 3 main gases that are part of the greenhouse effect?

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7. What is the greenhouse effect?

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8. What is the phenomena that is making the “blanket” of gases thicker?

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Population Growth

1. What is a limiting factor?

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2. What are 4 examples of density-dependent limiting factors?

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3. What is the difference between density-dependent & density-independent limiting factors?

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4. What are at least 3 examples of density-independent limiting factors?

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Look at the diagram above

1. What is the name of the above diagram?

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2. What percent of the population are female ages 0-4 in the Germany?

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3. What percent of the population are male ages 75-79 in Kenya?

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4. Will the population of United States increase or decrease or be stable?

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5. What percent of the population are males & females aged 40-44 in the ___________________________


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1. What is biodiversity? __________________________________________________________________

Make a CONCEPT MAP labeling the center Threats to Biodiversity

2. What is biological magnification?

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3. What is an invasive species?

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4. What effect can invasive species have on an ecosystem?

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THE CELL

Look at the cell above.

1. Label all the numbers on the diagram with the parts of the cell 2. What type of cell is shown above? _______________________________________________________

3. What is main difference between this type of cell & eukaryotic

cells?_______________________________________________________________________________

LABEL THE ABOVE DIAGRAM WITH ALL THE ORGANELLES IN THE CELL


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Complete the Venn diagram below to show the differences between plant & animal cells

Plant Cell vs. Animal cell


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1. What is the structure shown above?_____________________________________________

2. What is the structure above made of? ___________________________________________ 3. What is the function of the structure above?

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1. Look at the diagram above it shows molecules moving out of a cell. What type movement is this (hint:

it needs ATP to occur)

__________________________________________________________________________________ 2. What do you call the “above strength” collection of molecules outside the cell?

__________________________________________________________________________________ 3. What do you call the “below strength” collection of molecules inside the cell?

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4. What would you call it if both sides had an equal amount of moleucle? __________________________

1. Label each of the above diagrams with one of the following: Simple diffusion, facilitated diffusion,

& active transport


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MATCH THE FOLLOWING SCIENTISTS WITH THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENTS

1. Robert Hooke ______

2. Theodore Schwaan _____

3. Matthias Schleiden _____

4. Anton van Leeuwenhoek _____

5. Rudolf Virchow ______

A. was first to look at plant cells underneath the microscope. Said “All plants are made of cells”.

B. was first to look at animal cells underneath the microscope. Said “All animals are made of cells”.

C. coined the term “cells” by looking at cork in the microscope.

D. was one of the first to reveal that all cells come from other living cells.

E. was first to look at living unicellular organisms through a microscope

1. If the molecules in the above diagram represent water, what do you call the movement of the water

molecules across a selectively permeable membrane______________________________________

2. What are the 3 parts of the cell theory?

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3. What is the function of the ribosome?

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4. What is the function of the mitochondria?

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5. What is the function of cytoskeleton

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6. What does the phrase “membrane-bound organelles” mean?

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