Semester ONE
The frequency of a wave is...
What is the number of wave cycles (or oscillations) that pass a given point per unit of time?
Name the three types of stimuli organisms use.
WHat are electromagnetic, mechanical, and chemical?
Define internal structures.
What are parts inside an organism?
Two examples of how humans used artificial selection to our advantage.
What are seedless watermelon, sweeter apples, Dogs with curly hair, cows that give more milk?
Define point pollution and provide an example.
What is coming from a single, known place (ex: factory, pipe)?
Give two examples of types of kinetic energy.
What are thermal, electrical, light, sound?
How organisms detect, process, and use information about the environment.
What are sense receptors in the body that detect things like light, sound, and touch then the brain processes this information so we can respond?
If a coyote runs out of prey food in their habitat, this is an example of _______ factors.
What is environmental?
The process of natural selection.
What are organisms with helpful traits survive and have more offspring, then these traits get passed on?
There is a puddle with oil in the grocery store parking lot: point or non-point pollution.
What is non-point pollution?
Describe a Gravitational Field.
What is the "influence" of a massive object on the space around it, where any other mass would feel a pull towards the original mass?
Describe the main function of the optic nerve and the part of the brain that is related.
What is sends signals from the eye to the brain and occipital lobe?
Describe how a plant & an animal help each other’s chances of survival and reproduction.
What are bees helping flowers by pollinating them, then flowers give bees nectar to eat?
Define survival of the fittest and provide an example.
What is the best-adapted organisms surviving and a fast rabbit escaping predators?
Two examples of how humans affect the environment.
What are polluting the air, water, and land? What is cutting down forests and building cities?
The formula for calculating average speed.
What is Average Speed = Total Distance / Total Time ?
The two types of photoreceptor cells in the retina and their roles.
What are rods – Help you see in dim light and black and white AND Cones – Help you see color and detail in bright light?
These can create individual differences in growth between goldfish in captivity.
What are tank size, food, light, and water quality?
Darwin's conclusion about the finches in the Galapagos Islands.
What are finches having different beaks based on their food, concluding that species adapt to their environments?
Name the 4 types of water pollution.
What are sediment, toxic, bacterial, and nutrient?
Newton's third law - named and defined.
What is the Law of Action and Reaction - when two bodies interact, they apply forces to one another that are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction?
Explain how color blindness causes a person to not be able to see color.
What is preventing the brain from accurately interpreting the full spectrum of color because the necessary photoreceptors (cones) cannot properly detect all the wavelengths of light beams, leading to a diminished or altered perception of color?
Explain the connection between the desert habitat and the ears of the fennec fox.
What is the fennec fox has large ears that help it release body heat in the hot desert?
Gregor Mendel's discovery and the importance of it.
What is discovering how traits are passed down using pea plants, which helped us understand genetics?
How changes from one ecosystem affect a different ecosystem.
What is if animals move or die out, it affects the food chain and nearby areas?