Study Guide Fall Final 2014

Chapter 1
1. What are the steps of the scientific method? What is the first step in the scientific method and
why can the steps vary in order?
2. What is the difference between quantitative data and qualitative data? Give an example of each.
3. How do scientists generate hypotheses?
4. What is a controlled experiment?
5. What is the importance of isolating and testing a single variable?
6. What are the characteristics of all living things?
7. What are some factors that influence living things?
Review your safety contract and be able to identify what is safe in a lab and what is not safe.
Be able to interpret and explain the results of bar graphs and line graphs.

Chapter 2
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What is homeostasis?
What re feedback loops?
Draw and label the subatomic parts of an atom. Next to each label indicate if there is a charge?
What is a chemical reaction? What are the reactants and products?
Draw a water molecule and label the elements.
From your drawing explain why a water molecule is a polar molecule.
What are the special properties of water and give an example in life for each?
What is the most abundant compound in most living things?
Draw an example of solution, solute and solvent. Make sure to label picture.
What does the pH scale measure?
What is a substance that has a pH of 3? What is a substance that has a pH of 36?
Which substance is a stronger _________ a solution with a pH of 2 or a solution with a pH of 4,
why?
What is the difference between monosaccharide, disaccharide and polysaccharide? What type of
organic molecule are they?
What type of organic molecule is an enzyme?
What is the function of an enzyme?
What are the functions of a carbohydrate? Give an example of a carbohydrate.
What molecule makes up a starch?
What are the functions of a protein? Give an example of a protein.
What are the functions of a lipid? Give an example of a lipid.
What are the functions of a protein? Give an example of a protein.
What are the functions of a nucleic acid? Give an example of a nucleic acid.

Chapter 7
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What are the main differences between a prokaryotic cell and an eukaryotic cell?
Give 2 examples of organisms that are made up of prokaryotic cells.
Give 2 examples of organisms that are made up of eukaryotic cells.
What are the functions of the following organelles: nucleus, cell membrane chloroplast,
mitochondria?
Why does diffusion occur?
What is diffusion?
What is osmosis? What is osmotic pressure?
If a salt water fish is placed in freshwater what will happen to the fish?
If a fresh water fish is placed in saltwater what will happen to the fish?

38. An advantage of a multicellular organism over a single celled organism is___________.

39. Put in order from smallest to largest. (organ, atom, tissues, compound, organism, cell, organelle,
organ system) Give an example of each.

Chapter 8
40. What is the difference between an autotroph and heterotroph? Give an example of both.
41. Draw a molecule of ATP and ADP. What is the difference structurally and functionally?
42. What is the balanced equation for photosynthesis? In words what are the reactants and what are
the products of photosynthesis?
43. Why are plants green?
44. Draw and label a chloroplast?
45. Where in the chloroplast does the light dependent reaction occur?
46. Where in the chloroplast does the light independent/Calvin Cycle occur?
47. What would happen if carbon dioxide was removed from the environment?
48. What can affect the rate of photosynthesis?
49. How does light intensity affect the rate of photosynthesis? Can a plant get too much light?

Chapter 12
50. Draw a molecule of DNA?
51. What makes up a nucleotide?
52. What are the 4 nitrogenous bases of DNA?
53. How do the nitrogenous bases pair up?
54. What is the function of DNA?
55. Why does DNA need to duplicate?
56.Explain how DNA duplicates.