Life Science
2nd 9 weeks Study Guide
- Know the parts of a microscope and what each does.
- Know how to calculate Total Magnification.
- What is the complete biological organization sequence from smallest to largest?
- What is a cell? What is the difference in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells?
- What is the classification hierarchy from largest to smallest?
- What are organelles and the functions of each organelle?
- What doe the following terms mean:
Autotrophic, heterotrophic, unicellular, multicellular.
8. What are the kingdoms found under the domain Eukarya? What characteristics make each kingdom unique?
9. What is archaebacteria? Types?
10. What is ecology? What is an ecosystem? Biom?
11. What is the difference in a community and population?
12. What is carrying capacity and limiting factors? Name some factors.
13. What are the characteristics of a living thing?
14. What structures make plant cells different from animal cells?
15. What is taxonomy and binomial nomenclature? How do you write a scientific name?
16. What is the cell theory and the 3 parts?
17. What is an organ?
18. What are the biomes and where are they found on the earth? Be able to identify characteristics of each.
19. What is the difference between climate and weather?
20. What are the parts of a food web and food chain? Be able to identify primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary levels of a food web. Also, know what role decomposers play in a food web.
21. Know how energy flows in an ecosystem and which organisms have the most and least amounts of energy.
22. What is the biosphere and what is found in it?
23. What is symbiosis? What are the 3 types and examples of each.
24. What is the difference in a predator and prey?
25. What is the difference in an abiotic and biotic factor?
26. Be able to use a dichotomous key.
27. What is a niche?
28. What is competition in an ecosystem?
29. In a plant cell, where does photosynthesis occur?
30. What is photosynthesis? What is the equation?
31. What is the source of all energy on the earth?
32. What is the hydrologic cycle/water cycle? Steps?
33. What is one of the possible causes of global warming? How does the Carbon Cycle contribute to this?