Classify/Protist/Fungi
Energy
Plants/Animals
Animals/ Weather
General/weather
100

What are the for things in which make an organism living?

1. Obtain and use resources for energy

2. Respond to stimuli

3. Reproduce

4. Grow and develop

Bonus 100 pts- Name the two ways organisms get food?

100

Name the 5 types of energy?

1.Heat

2.Solar/Light

3.Chemical

4.Electrical

5.Mechanical

Bonus pts 100- Define each type of energy.

100

Plants are categorized into 2 groups based on their internal structure. What are they known as?

Vascular and Nonvascular

Bonus 100pts- Vascular plants are known for having true _____, true______, and true _______. Plants transport water through the ______ and food through the ______.

100

In the movie Fly Away Home we saw two types of animal behavior. What are they, and from what scene in the movie did we see this scenario happen?

Learned Behaviors and Inherited Behaviors

Learned- Imprinting- the birds thought Amy was their mom because she was the first thing they saw

Learned-Conditioning- training the birds to fly

Inherited- birds migrating

Bonus 100 pts- Name 2 other examples of inherited behaviors.

100

When the winds begin to move in a counterclockwise direction, and often result in rainy and/or stormy weather conditions we know what type of air pressure is near?

Low pressure

Bonus 100 pts- What type of cloud is large and thick that are darker on the bottom and can produce thunderstorms, lightening, and hail? (HINT-RAIN)

Bonus 100 pts- Name the 4 types of fronts. 

200

Place the following levels of classification in the correct order:

genus, phylum, class, family, kingdom, order, species


What is Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

BONUS 100 pts- what levels must be shared in order to be classified as closely related?

Bonus 100 pts- What is the science of classifying organisms?

200

Draw a sketch of a roller coaster with one big hill and one medium hill, and label where you would find the greatest potential energy (GPE) and the greatest kinetic energy (GKE).

Greatest potential energy- Top of the highest hill

Greatest kinetic- bottom of the roller coaster

Bonus 100pts- What type of energy stays the same through-out the entire roller coaster, and why?

200

Photosynthesis and cellular respiration play a major role in a plants to keep them alive. Tell me when does each happen, and what it needs and what it produces. 

Photosynthesis- happens during the day, needs the sun, and produces chemical energy in the form of glucose

Cellular Respiration- happens at night, needs the chemical energy produced from photosynthesis, and produces carbon dioxide so the plants and heal and grow

200

Animals have various ways in which the respond to stimuli. Name 3 ways in which the respond to stimuli and why.

Panting, shedding, shivering, blinking, sweating, food gathering an storing, and storing nutrition.

Bonus 100 pts- Remember our Moth Candy bowl lesson? Why did the population of moths change overtime?

200

What climate factor would most likely have an effect on a city located very high about sea level?

a. Ocean currents

b. Global winds

C. Elevation

D. Latitude

C. Elevation


Bonus 100pts- Put the scientific method in order:

Experiment, Conclusion, Question, Analysis, Hypothesis

300

Name the 4 ways in which living things can respond to a stimulus.

1. Fighting

2. Fleeing

3. Migrating

4. Hibernation

BONUS 100 pts- Explain why they might respond in this way.

300

State an example that uses this energy transformation:

Solar energy -- Chemical energy-- mechanical energy--electrical energy-- light energy and sound energy

example: The sun shines down and helps corn grown, Someone eats the corn (chemical), they get up to turn on the tv (electrical), and watch a move (sound and light)


300

Plants have structure for defense and also structures for survival when the conditions are not suitable. Names 2 structures for defense and 2 for survival.

Survival: Leaves, stems, roots, flowers, seeds

Defense: thorns, fruit and leaves with poisons, the ability to close it leaves when touched

Bonus 100pts- What structure of the plant does photosynthesis occur in?

300

An animal that is live on land and in water, often have webbed feet, breathe with lungs and gills, have moist smooth skin but no hair or fur, and often have 4 legs, lay eggs, and are cold blooded would be classified into which vertebrate group?

Amphibian.


Bonus 100 pts- What are 2 example categories of vertebrates that are warm blooded.

300

Which of the following statements is correct regarding global winds and local breezes?

1. Local breezes are more constant and flow in a steady direction across Earth, while global winds do not.

2. Global winds in both hemispheres tend to flow towards the ocean from the land during the night, while the opposite happens for local breezes.

3. Global winds are forms by temperature differences, while local breezes are due to topographical features of a region.

4. Local breezes are produced by uneven heating of air above coastal shores and oceans, while global winds are formed due to large-scale convection currents.

4. Local breezes are produced by uneven heating of air above coastal shores and oceans, while global winds are formed due to large-scale convection currents.

Bonus 100 pts- does land or water absorb heat quicker? How do you know this... could you give me an example.

400

A scientist recently discovered a pond organism that is unicellular, contains chloroplasts and other membranes-bound organelles. Name which Kingdom this organism belongs in, the name of the organism, and how it moves.

What is the protist kingdom, the organism is a Euglena, and it uses a flagella to move around.

Bonus 100 pts- Name 2 other Protists and how the move around.

Bonus 100 pts- Explain why 2 protists are called "animal like" when one is called "plant like".

400

Complete the following statements:

Simple Electric Motor: _________ to Mechanical Energy

Electromagnet: ____________ to Electrical Energy

Generator: ___________ to Electrical Energy

1. Electrical

2.Chemical

3. Mechanical 

Bonus 100pts- What is the difference between an electromagnet and a regular magnet?


400

Which are the female parts of a flower and which are the male parts:


Anther, Stigma, Style, Ovary, Sepal, Petal, Filament


Female: Stigma, Style, Ovary, Sepal, Petal

Male: Anther, and Filament

Bonus 300 pts- This term is used for when pollen grains transfer from the stamen to the stigma? 

This term is used when pollen from the stamen enters the ovule in the ovary of the flower? 

This term is used for the growth of an embryo; the early stage of seed growth?

400

List the correct layers of the atmosphere in order from Earth to Space?

Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere

Bonus 200 pts- What separates the the layers of the atmosphere? What happens to the air pressure the further you go up in altitude?

400

Due to the unequal heating of Earth we have climate zones. What are the 3 major climate zones in order from equator to the poles?

Can you share why it is hotter at the equator line versus the North and South pole?

Tropical, Temperate, and polar

Bonus 100 pts- which one do we live in?

Bonus 100 pts- Because convection cells are in place in the atmosphere and Earth is spinning on its axis, these global winds appear to curve which is know as what?

500

Fungi help with decomposition and release nutrients back into their environment. There are three different ways fungi obtains energy- Saprophytic Fungi, Symbiotic Fungi, and Parasitic Fungi. 

Saprophytic :  Fungi that get their energy from decaying organic matter

Symbiotic : Fungi that feed on other living organisms (host) but do not harm the host.  In many cases the host benefits from the fungi

Parasitic : Fungi that feed on other living organisms (host) and harm the host

Bonus 100pts- Fungi are made up of a specific structure which allow them to get their food which is called?

Bonus 100 pts- Tell me the plural name of this structure.

500

Name the 3 ways in which heat can transfer and how they do it.

1.Conduction- Transfer of heat by contact 

2.Convection- The transfer of heat that happens when the particles of a gas or liquid flow within the material itself.

3.Radiation- The transfer of heat through space WITHOUT any particles of matter touching or moving.

Bonus 100 pts- What direction does heat move in (in reference to hot/cold, and up or down) and why?

500

Fill in the blanks. ______animals must eat more often than ______ animals to get energy to maintain a constant body temperature.

Endothermic; Ectothermic

Bonus 100 pts: Animals are then further classified into 2 groups known as what? What do these 2 words mean?

500

Which of the following statements are true about the processes of the water cycle?

1. Precipitation is when the invisible liquid turns back into water vapor in the sky.

2. The water cycle is the continuous movement of air around the world.

3.Water can be released into the air by oceans, lakes, streams and plants in a process known as transpiration.

4. During the precipitation stage, water turns into gas called water vapor to create clouds.

3.Water can be released into the air by oceans, lakes, streams and plants in a process known as transpiration.


Bonus 100 pts- What is a huge body of air that form over water or land in tropical or polar regions?

500

What does Dry Mix stand for and when do we use it?

D- Dependent

R-Responding

Y- Yaxis

M- Manipulated

I- Independent

X- X-axis

Bonus 100 pts- What is the driving energy source for heating earth?