Transcript OCTOBER 12, 2012 REVIEW FOR 1ST 9 WEEKS EXAM 1. What traits are common to all living things? • • • • • • • • • ANSWER: All living things: Grow Reproduce Respond to.

OCTOBER 12, 2012
REVIEW FOR 1ST 9 WEEKS EXAM
1. What traits are common to all living
things?
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ANSWER: All living things:
Grow
Reproduce
Respond to changes in the environment
Move
Take in nutrients
Take in oxygen for cellular respiration
Produce wastes to be eliminated
Made of cells
2. What is the order of classification
from the largest group to the smallest?
•Kingdom
•Phylum
•Class
•Order
•Family
•Genus
•species
• ANSWER:
• Kingdom
3. What classification group has the
greatest variety of organisms?
4. What makes up the 2 parts of a scientific
name?
• ANSWER:
• Genus and species names
5. What part of the scientific name shows
relationship?
ANSWER:
Genus shows closest relationship
6. Who developed the modern system of
classification?
• ANSWER:
• Linnaeus
7. What is the scientific name (written correctly) of:
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WOWbug
ANSWER: Melittobia digitata
California blackworm
ANSWER: Lumbriculus variegatus
Duckweed
ANSWER: Lemna sp.
8. How do you determine a microscope’s
total magnification? Give an example.
• By multiplying the power of the ocular lens by
the power of the objective lens being used.
• Example:
• Ocular = 10x and objective = 40x
• Total magnification = 10 X 40
• =400x
9. What does it mean for a WOWbug to be
a “parasitic wasp”?
• ANSWER:
• It is an insect that lays its eggs in
or on another insect
10. What are the parts of the microscope? (know
where they are)
11. What does each microscope part do?
12. What are the structures of Lumbriculus
that we viewed and what did they do?
13. What are some characteristics of the
blackworm?
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ANSWER:
Segmented
Has a photoreceptor
Tubelike, transparent body
Can reproduce by fragmentation and
regeneration
• Rapid reflex in tail
14. What are the characteristics of insects?
• 3 body parts: head, thorax and
abdomen
• Six jointed legs
• An exoskeleton
• 2 antennae
• 4 wings
15: What are some rules of correct
microscope use?
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–Always carry the microscope with 2
hands- on base and arm
–Focus with the lowest power objective
lens
–Never let the objective lens touch the
stage
16. What are the 6 kingdoms and what are
some characteristics of organisms in each?
• Archaea: unicellular prokaryotes that live in
harsh environments
• Bacteria: unicellular prokaryotes
• Protista: a diverse kingdom that has organisms
that are plant-like, animal-like, and fungus-like
• Fungi: mostly multicellular organisms that
have cell walls and absorb nutrients
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• Plantae: Multicellular organisms with
cells that have a cell wall and
chloroplasts and they make their own
food
• Animalia: multicellular organisms that
have cells with no cell walls and usually
can move freely
17. What are the 3 domains and what kind
of cells are found in each?
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• Archaea: prokaryotic cells
• Bacteria: prokaryotic cells
• Eukarya: eukaryotic cells
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18. What are some differences between the plant
and animal kingdoms
ANSWER:
Plants:
are sessile
reproduce sexually or asexually
have different stages of growth and development
external stuctures such as leaves, flowers, thorns,
roots, stems
internal structures which consist of 3 tissues
#18 (CONTINUED)
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Animal:
Are motile
Usually reproduce sexually
Have different stages of growth and
development
• External structures such as include arms, legs,
hair, feathers, scales
• Internal structures are made of 4 different
tissue types
19. Be able to label items as biotic factors
or abiotic factors in the environment
#19 CONTINUED
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ABIOTIC FACTORS:
Water
Oxygen/ carbon dioxide
Soil
Rocks
Temperature
• BIOTIC FACTORS:
• Microorganisms
(bacteria, protists…)
• Birds, lizard, zebra and
other animals
• Plants
• Fungi (mushrooms,
mold…)
VOCABULARY REVIEW
ALL CLASSES
• All of the living things in an area
• ANSWER: community
• The place where an organism naturally lives
• ANSWER: habitat
• A group of individuals of a species that live in
an area
• ANSWER: population
• Group of interbreeding organisms that share
similar characteristics
• ANSWER: species
• Community of living organisms and their
physical environment
• ANSWER: ecosystem
• A living creature
• ANSWER: organism
• Having to do with living things
• ANSWER: biotic
• Having to do with nonliving things
• ANSWER: abiotic
• The science of classifying living things
• ANSWER: taxonomy
• A body section of an organism
• ANSWER: segment
• Tiny hairlike structures found on
blackworm segments
• ANSWER: chaetae
• The leaves of aquatic plants like the
Lemna
• ANSWER: frond
• A saddle-like structure or bulge on an
earthworm
• ANSWER: clitellum
• A structure that is sensitive to light
• ANSWER: photoreceptor
• The process by which certain organisms
produce new body parts
• ANSWER: regeneration
• An organism that cannot be seen without
magnification
• ANSWER: microscopic
• An organism that can be seen with the
unaided eye
• ANSWER: macroscopic
• Curved glass that is used to make things look
clearer, larger and closer
• ANSWER: lens
• The maximum area visible through the lens of
a microscope
• ANSWER: field of view
• A tool that uses 2 lenses and light to make a
specimen visible
• ANSWER: compound light microscope
• A slide on which no water is used
• ANSWER: dry-mount slide (used to view
WOWbug)
• Hard outer shell that covers the bodies of
certain animals, including crustaceans
and insects
• ANSWER: exoskeleton
• A universally used name for an organism
which contains the organism’s genus and
species
• ANSWER: scientific name
• A category of classification that is always
the first part of a scientific name
• ANSWER: genus
STUDY FOR TUESDAY’S
EXAM
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WEDNESDAY
18. What are some differences between
monocots and dicots?
MONOCOT:
DICOT:
Cotyledon #:
1
2
Vascular
Bundles:
Leaf Veins:
Scattered
Ring
Parallel
Branched
Flower Parts:
Multiples of 3
Multiples of 4 or 5
Root System:
Fibrous System
Tap System
• What did we view with a dry-mount
slide?
• ANSWER: WOWbugs
20. Know the parts of an energy pyramid.
#20 continued:
4th trophic level:
Tertiary consumer/
heterotrophs
3rd trophic level:
secondary consumers/
heterotrophs
2nd trophic level: primary
consumers/ heterotrophs
1st trophic level:
producers/ autotrophs
• Solid waste released by earthworms
• ANSWER: castings
• A slide and coverslip with a drop of liquid
and/or a specimen between them
• ANSWER: wet-mount slide
• The beginning of growth or sprouting of a
seed
• ANSWER: germination
• The first leaf or one of a pair of leaves
developed by the embryo within a seed
• ANSWER: cotyledon
• Organism that can use energy directly from
the sun to produce simple sugars
• ANSWER: producer
• Another name for a producer
• ANSWER: autotroph
• Organisms that get their energy by eating
either producers or other organisms that eat
producers
• ANSWER: consumer
• Another name for a consumer
• ANSWER: heterotroph
• An organism that break down dead organisms
into matter called detritus
• ANSWER: decomposer
• A plant whose seed contains 2 seed leaves
• ANSWER: dicotyledon
• A plant whose seed contains one seed leaf
• ANSWER: monocotyledon
• A substance composed of a mixture of
nutrient substances in proportions necessary
for plant growth
• ANSWER: fertilizer
• Meat-eater
• ANSWER: carnivore
• Plant-eater
• ANSWER: herbivore
• Organism that eats both plant and animal
• ANSWER: omnivore