Module 1
What is Biology?
What is the study of life
What is cohesion?
What is an attractive force that holds molecules of the same substance together.
What is ecology?
What is the study of the interactions between living and nonliving things
Which organelle contains its own DNA?
What is mitochondria
Experiment 1.1 "Introduction to the Microscope"
Name at least five parts of the microscope.
Eyepiece, body tube, revolving nosepiece, objectives, arm, stage with clips, diaphragm, condenser, coarse focus, fine focus knobs, light source, and base.
How can we make an observation?
What is using the five senses: see, hear, smell, touch, or taste.
What is found in the nucleus of atoms?
What is protons and neutrons
When released in large quantities into the atmosphere, what gas do some scientists believe may be responsible for the greenhouse effect?
What is carbon dioxide
Which of the following processes requires that the cell expand energy?
a. passsive transport
b. endocytosis
c. osmosis
d. diffusion
What is b: endocytosis
Experiment 2.2 "How Effective is Your Antacid?"
How did we determine which antacid was more effective?
What is the antacid that took more acid to reach a PH of 4.
What is the smallest most basic unit of life?
What is a cell
Why does the temperature of deserts drop so much more at night than it does in the towns near the ocean?
What is because of the water's high heat capacity.
Name three ways in which carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere.
What is plants, algae, photosynthetic bacteria and it is dissolved in the ocean.
You can also say photosynthesis
What type of cellular activity would occur if the cell's mitochondria stopped working?
What is the cell would no longer be able to provide energy for active transport.
Experiment 3.2 "How Does Competition Affect Plant Growth?"
Recalling your results from the bean plant experiment: How does this tie into what you've read about density-dependent limiting factors?
What is answers will vary :)
What is the difference between Scientific theory and Scientific law?
What is Scientific theory is supported by observations and experiments. Scientific law is supported by mathematical terms and a significant amount of evidence.
A solution with a PH of 5 is considered:
a. acidic
b. basic
c. neutral
d. strong
What is a: acidic
Name the properties of the biome: Tundra
What is permanently frozen soil that does not allow for the growth of large plants
A cell produces a protein that will be used by other cells. When the cell releases the protein into the extracellular fluid, what function has it performed?
What is secretion
Experiment 4.1 "Plant and Animal Cell Structure"
How are plant and animal cells similar in structure and how are they different in structure?
What is answers will vary :)
Why did the law of spontaneous generation survive for so many years?
What is because flawed experiments seemed to confirm it.
What determines the properties (the shape and function) of a protein?
What is the type, number, and order of amino acids linked together
In the process of ecological succession, the first organisms are called ______ and the final community that exists in the ecosystem is called _______.
a. producers, primary consumers
b. pioneer organisms, climax community
c. climax organisms, pioneer community
d. none of the above
What is b: pioneer organisms, climax community
What is the membrane-bounded "sac" that transports large molecules through the cell membrane?
What is endocytic vesicles
Experiment 4.2 "Osmosis in Animal Cells"
Using the terms hypertonic, hypotonic, and isotonic, explain what happened to the circumference of your egg and how that applies to animal cells.
What is answers will vary but must use the three listed vocabulary words