Benchmark Review Spring 2016
Write most of your answers on a separate piece of paper.
Flow of Energy in Ecocystems: 2.3
1. Explain the difference between a food chain, an energy pyramid and a food web.
2. Name 4 different types of consumers and define them.
3. Look at the following food web and describe one food chain and draw an energy pyramid for it.
4. How would removing the toad affect existing populations?
Organic Compounds 3.1, 3.3, 10.1
5. When looking at a formula, how can you tell the difference between an organic and inorganic compound?
6. Name 3 organic compounds and the micromolecules that they break down into.
7. What other elements can organic compounds have besides carbon and hydrogen?
Physical/Chemical Changes 11.1
8. What is the difference between a chemical and physical change? Name 5 indicators that make you aware that a chemical change is taking place. Give 5 examples of different chemical changes. Give 5 examples of different physical changes.
9. Starting in the mouth, travel through the digesting of a cracker describing the physical and chemical changes it goes through until it reaches the colon.
Work 4.3
10. Define how you know when work is being done. Give an example of work being done and an example of force being applied but no work being done.
11. What must happen to an object to set it into motion?
12. How do you calculate work?
13. A student pulls out his or her chair to sit down. The student pulls the chair 0.75m with a force of 20N. How much work does he or she do on the chair?
14. A worker lifts a 30N box into the truck 2 meters above the ground. Another worker chooses to use a ramp to push the box into the truck. Which worker did more work? Explain.
Biodiversity 8.1 and Relationships between organisms and their environments
15.
Of the 2 ecosystems, which one appears more sustainable? Why?
16.
Describe how the temperature (at the top of the graph) and precipitation (at the bottom of the graph) of these 2 biomes is different and how the temperature and precipitation affect the biodiversity of organisms that can live in each biome.
Asexual vs. Sexual Reproduction 13.4 and pg.548
17. Compare and contrast asexual reproduction with sexual reproduction focusing on the # of parents, how the offspring compare to the parents, how the offspring compare to each other and advantages and disadvantages of each.
Cell Theory 10.1
18. State the cell theory and give an example of each principle.
Dichotomy 9.1
Body System Functions ch.11
19. Write the function of each of the following body systems and list some vital organs that are involved.
Digestive-
Respiratory-
Circulatory-
Excretory-
Integumentary-
Muscular-
Nervous-
Skeletal-
Endocrine-
Reproductive-
Functions of organelles 10.2 pg.413
20. What are the functions of the following organelles:
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
G.
H.
I.
J.
21. What organelles are found in a plant cell and not in an animal cell?
Inherited traits pg.410
22. Draw a line to where you would find the genetic information in the cell below.
23. What kind of cell is this? (eukaryote or prokaryote)
24. Define chromosomes. Draw and label the genes on a chromosome.
Natural Selection and Adaptation pg. 370-382
25. Write the definition of variation. Give one example of a real world variation in organisms.
26. What is the idea behind natural selection?
27. What are the two types of adaptations?
28. Adaptations increase an organism’s chance of survival. Write two examples of behavioral adaptations and two examples of physical adaptations for an organism of your choice.
29. Compare/contrast selective breeding and natural selection