Transcript Semester 1 Exam Study Guide

Semester 1 Exam
Study Guide
By: Stephen, Ben, Michael, Tyler
Period 3
What is the first part of the
scientific name?
Genus
Name all of the MRS.GREN
words.
O Movement
O Respiration (breathing)
O Sensitivity
O Growth (tallness)
O Reproduction (sexual or asexual)
O Excretion (poop)
O Nutrients (food)
List the levels of classification
from largest to smallest.
O Kingdom
O Phylum
O Class
O Order
O Family
O Genus
O Species
What are the 5 kingdoms?
O Animal
O Plant
O Fungi
O Monera
O Protista
Name 3 classifications.
O Behavior and physical appearance
O Method of reproduction, locomotion, diet,
and habitat
O Cells and DNA analysis
Name three examples of
insects.
O Bees
O Butterflies
O Cockroaches
Name three ways insects can
make sounds.
O By rubbing their wings together
O By clicking their mandibles
O Making sounds through their spiracles
What are the three types of
mouthparts?
O Siphoning
O Piercing & sucking
O Lapping (sponging)
What are the metamorphosis
types ?
O Molting- shedding skin
O Incomplete- egg, nymph, adult
O Complete- egg, larva, pupa, adult
What are dichotomous keys?
O It’s a key used to classify and group things
Who are the founding fathers
of Microscopy and what did
the discover?
Hooke- observed cork cells
Leeuwenhoek- observed bacteria and protists
Schleiden- studied plant cells
Schwann- studied animal cells
Virchow- Discovered that all cells come from
living things; cell theory
Janssen – first compound microscope
What is total magnification
and how do you calculate it?
O multiply the magnification of the eyepiece
by the multiplication of the objective lens
you're using.
What does a clip do for a
microscope
O It holds the slide in place
What two things are found in
animal cells but not plant
cells?
O Lysosomes and centrioles
What does the stage do?
O It is where the specimen rests
What are the 2 types of cells?
O Somatic (body cells such as hair, skin,
muscle)
O Gametes (sex cells such as eggs and sperm)
Name a difference between
eukaryotic and prokaryotic
organisms.
O Eukaryotes have a nucleus
O Prokaryotes do not
O DNA floats in cytoplasm for prokaryotes
O Prokaryotes are unicellular
Is a cell wall in a plant or
animal cell?
O Plant cell
Are chloroplasts found in plant
or animal cells?
O Plant cells
What does cytoplasm do?
O It supports the organelles
What does a nucleus do?
O It controls all of the cells actions
What is the job of the
mitochondrion
O It breaks down sugars into energy
What do ribosomes do?
O They produce proteins
What does the vacuole do?
O It stores food, water, and waste
What is diffusion?
O It is movement of molecules from high to low
concentration without energy.
What is osmosis?
O Diffusion of water
What is photosynthesis?
O The process of which an autotroph makes
food with sunlight and carbon dioxide
What is the main
difference between active
and passive transport?
O Active transport uses ATP.
O Passive transport uses no energy.
What is respiration and what
are the two types?
O Breathing oxygen
O Cellular respiration
O Breathing through lungs
What are the steps of the
scientific method?
O Research
O Problem Question
O Hypothesis
O Procedure
O Record data
O Analyze results
O Conclusion
What is the independent
variable?
O The factor that you control
What is the dependent
variable?
O What you are testing/measuring
What is the experimental
group?
O The testing group
What is the control group?
O The group used for comparison
What are the controls?
O What is kept constant throughout the
experiment