Safety and Equipment
General Biology
Characteristics of Life
Chemistry of Life
Biochemistry
Miscellaneous
100
What you do when there is any kind of accident or spill during a lab.
What is notify the teacher immediately.
100
The basic functional unit of living things.
What is a cell?
100
Characteristic represented by an owlet hatching from an egg.
What is reproduction?
100
Type of bond in which the electrons are shared between the molecules.
What is a covalent bond?
100
All organic molecules contain this element.
What is carbon?
100
What human body part is the control center of the body?
What is the brain?
200
This piece of equipment
What is a beaker?
200
Groups of cells working together to perform a function.
What is a Tissue?
200
Characteristic of life represented by a cheetah eating an antelope and then running through the grass.
What is require energy?
200
What are the 3 subatomic particles that make up an atom?
What is proton, electron, and neutron?
200
Small molecular units that link together to make larger chains.
What are monomers?
200
The lizard that uses surface tension of water to run across the top.
What is the Basilisk or Jesus Christ lizard?
300
Used to make precise liquid measurements.
What is a graduated cylinder?
300
A herd of elephants is an example this level of organization.
What is a population?
300
Characteristic of life represented by a black swallowtail caterpillar creating a chrysalis and emerging 15 days later as a butterfly.
What is grow and develop?
300
In a solution ___________ is present in the greater amount.
What is the solvent?
300
The type of carbohydrate that is the body's main energy source.
What is glucose (monosaccharide)?
300
The process plants use for making glucose.
What is photosynthesis?
400
How you take care of a small amount of acid spilled on your skin.
What is wash with soap and water, rinsing well?
400
Using the scientific method, after making an observation and asking a question, what are the next two steps?
What is form a hypothesis and perform a controlled experiment?
400
An example of a mammal maintaining temperature homeostasis.
What is sweating, panting, shivering, goosebumps?
400
The 6 most abundant molecules in living organisms.
What is carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur?
400
Monomers of proteins
What are amino acids?
400
The most abundant molecule in living organisms.
What is water?
500
Three things needed to create and view a slide.
What is microscope, slide, cover slip, pipette, fluid/medium, stain, item being viewed?
500
A scientific explanation for a set of observations and how it should be worded (include 3 words).
What is a hypothesis stated as and "if...then...because" statement?
500
3 ways ladybugs respond to their environment.
What is fly away, move towards food, sense changes in air or plant its on, locate a food-rich place to lay eggs, hibernate during cool weather, etc.?
500
2 properties of an acidic substances vs basic substances
What is acids are sour, prickly to skin, pH below 7, puts H+ into solution; and bases are slippery, bitter, pH above 7, put OH- into solution?
500
The type of reaction that builds polymers.
What is dehydration synthesis reaction?
500
Describe and give an example of both quantitative and qualitative data.
What is qualitative data is descriptive like color, type, or behavior; and quantitative data is numerical like a percent, fraction, count, etc.?
800
How you measure the mass and volume of an irregular shaped object (like an ice cube) so you can find density.
What is use a digital balance to get the mass of the object and a graduated cylinder to get an initial and final water volume measurement?
800
List the 12 levels of organization from atom to biosphere.
What is atom, molecule, organelle, cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere
800
Five animal adaptations for winter and cold weather.
What is hibernation, camouflage, blubber, fat layers or padding, fur changes, waterproof coating, dark skin to absorb warmth from sun, small surface to volume ratio, migration, extra eating, chemicals in blood that resist changes, etc.?
800
List and describe 4 unique properties of water.
What is cohesion (ability of molecule to stick to self/surface tension), adhesion (ability of molecule to stick to other molecules), high specific heat capacity (resists extreme changes in temperature), lower density solid state (ice floats - supports marine life), universal solvent (can dissolve many different polar substances)?
800
Two important features of enzymes and an example of an enzyme and its function.
What is lower activation energy and speed up reactions (allow reactions to happen more efficiently) and catalase breaks down hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen gas?
800
4 things a good conclusion should have
What is an overview of the experiment, a report of the data with reference to graphs or tables, discussion of hypothesis, and error analysis/improvement ideas/applications to field?