Type Your Response to the Water & Carbon Frqs and SAVE Your Document . You Will Submit

·  Type your response to the Water & Carbon FRQs and SAVE your document. You will submit it electronically after school starts and participate in peer scoring using an AP rubric provided at that time. You must save as ONE document and it must be a Word document (.doc or .docx). Format your document title as water_carbon_FRQs_first initial_last name

Water

This essay is a study and assessment of your understanding of the importance of water in its many biological roles. You are expected to use the resources available to you to write an original description of the properties of water. Do not plagiarize. On the actual AP Exam you are required to write your essays/FRQs in blue or black ink. However, you will be turning your electronic document in through Turn It In, which is built into the program Canvas that we will be using as our class website, calendar, etc. If you copied ANYTHING from the web, it will highlight it and give me the web address of where you got it. If you and another person(s) paper(s) have similar/the same wording, it will highlight it and show me all of the papers. If you cheated by copying from anywhere or from anyone, you will receive a zero and a referral to your house principal’s office. For this reason, DO NOT REWRITE THE PROMPT in your document. Just title it “Water” and start your response.

The unique properties (characteristics) of water make life possible on Earth. Select three properties of water and:

a)  For each property, identify and define the property and explain it in terms of the physical/chemical nature of water.

b)  For each property, describe one example of how the property affects the functioning of living organisms.

Carbon

This essay is a study and assessment of your understanding of the importance of carbon in its many biological roles. You are expected to use the resources available to you to write an original description of the characteristics of carbon. Do not plagiarize. On the actual AP Exam you are required to write your essays/FRQs in blue or black ink. However, you will be turning your electronic document in through Turn It In, which is built into the program Canvas that we will be using as our class website, calendar, etc. If you copied ANYTHING from the web, it will highlight it and give me the web address of where you got it. If you and another person(s) paper(s) have similar/the same wording, it will highlight it and show me all of the papers. If you cheated by copying from anywhere or from anyone, you will receive a zero and a referral to your house principal’s office. For this reason, DO NOT REWRITE THE PROMPT in your document. Just title it “Carbon” and start your response.

Carbon is a very important element in living systems.

a.  Describe the various characteristics of the carbon atom that makes possible the building of a variety of biological molecules.

b.  Explain how reactions involving carbon-containing compounds can contribute to the green house effect.

c.  The following structures are examples of two different categories of biological compounds. Describe how each category of compounds is important to the structure and function of living systems.

Category I Category II