Test Next class! Ch4-3, 4-4, 5-1, 5-2

#62 Visual Terms #3 Quiz

Test Coming on Monday for A Block, Tuesday for B block

I meant for this to come a bit earlier, but it's been a long afternoon/evening, so here goes! 

The two main topics for the test:

1) Cell Division:

-Interphase, Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase, Cytokinesis.

-You should know what is happening in each phase is the cycle, the correct order, and be able to identify a picture or drawing of each. 

2) Genetics:

-know what a gene is

-know how to use and read the information from a punnett square

-know the difference between dominant and recessive genes

-understand hybrid (heterozygous) and purebred (homozygous) genes and how they affect the trait in an organism

Link to Video We Watched in Class Today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0k-enzoeOM

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Benchmark Test Study Guide--Benchmark Test is Wed for A block, Thurs for B block

Name:_______________________________________Per____Date________

Benchmark Q1 Review Sheet/Study Guide

1. What are the three parts of the cell theory.

2. What is a cell wall made of?

3. Name one thing you find in a plant cell, but not in an animal cell.

4. What is the difference between the vacuoles in plant cells and the vacuoles in animal cells?

5. Where is the chromatin found in a cell?

6. What happens during photosynthesis?

7. What happens during respiration?

8. What is another name for the sugar that a plant makes?

9. What is the control center of the cell?

10. What organelle packages and distributes things in a cell?

11. What organelle makes food?

12. What organelle makes energy?

13. What do ribosomes do?

14. What does the cell membrane do?

15. What does the endoplasmic reticulum do?

16. What does the cell wall do?

17. If you were looking at a picture of a cell, how could you tell if it was animal or plant?

Want to Know How the Cell Project Will Be Graded?

For Cell Project Gradesheets, click here


Please note, there are three (very similar) slightly different gradesheets...one for each type of project, be sure you are looking at the one you are doing.

Also, please note:  all work should be done IN YOUR OWN WORDS.  Be careful not to just copy from the book.  Make it your own.

When you think you are done with your project, go through it using this sheet and see if you would give yourself the maximum points in each area.

Projects are due October 10 for Periods 1 and 3, October 11 for Periods 5 and 6.

Quiz next class on Visual Terms #2!!

Apparently there have been some technical difficulties lately with my site. Hoping everything is running smoothly now. Here's one against from last week. Please note the test coming this week!

Back To School Night

Hello Parents,
It was so nice to see all the parents who attended last night's Back to School!!!   I have posted the presentation that I did last night in the digital file cabinet.  To access it, click on the digital file cabinet icon to the right of this page, then choose the Back to School Night Folder, Click on the Power Point Slide, and then click "Open" in the blue box in the lower right hand corner.  You will be able to scroll through the slides.

Also, students, you will notice other folders with notes in them.  If you are ever absent for notes, you can always find them in there!

Quiz on Parts of a Microscope is on 9/4 for periods 1-2, and 9/5 for periods 3-6 (weird schedule next week due minimum day on Wed!

Agenda and Homework 8/28 and 8/29

Agenda:
Collect/correct workbook pages 18-19
Microscope notes
Microscope drawings

Homework:
None!

Benchmark Test will be Wednesday (5/22) for A block and Thursday (5/23) for B block

Remember that the study guide from the chapter 7-1,7-2,Living Things Test will help you prepare for the benchmark test, as well as the study guide handed out in class today (should be on page 30 in your INB).  Just in case, here's the one from the last test:

Chapter 7-1, 7-2, and Living Things Study Guide

The following questions will help prepare you for the upcoming test.  Save this page for the benchmark test at the end of the year, this info may show up on that too!

1)  What is a species?

2) What did Darwin observe about the finches in the Galapagos Islands?

3) What is a scientific theory? What is an example of a scientific theory 

4)  What is natural selection

5) Define evolution

6) Define adaptation.

7) How does natural selection lead to evolution

8)  What is overproduction? Give an example of overproduction.

9)   What is the definition of variation?

10)  What is a fossil?

11)  Do all organisms become fossils? Why or why not?

12)  What is the difference between the theory of gradualism and the theory of punctuated equilibria?

13)  What are some conditions that allow for preserved remains?

14) What may a scientist learn from a footprint (trace fossil)?

15)  How do minerals play an important role in fossilization?

16) Why do you think bones are the most common type of fossil?

17)  Why are the birds and iguanas on the Galapagos Islands different than their mainland relatives?

18) How are vertebrates different from invertebrates?

19) What are the characteristics of each of the following organism groups? Protist, Fungus, Plant, Mammal, Bird, Fish, Reptile, Insect, Arthropod, Mollusk, Worm. (Found in your living things notes).

Passed this out today in class, but just in case!

Chapter 7-4, 8-1, 8-2 Test

Study Guide

Test is on Monday 5/20 for A block, Tuesday 5/21 for B block

1)      What is classification?

2)      What are the levels of classification in order from largest to smallest?

3)      What is taxonomy?

4)      What is binomial nomenclature?  Who invented it?

5)      What are the three domains and how are organisms identified in each group?

6)      What are the three types of Rock and how are they different from each other?

7)      What are 5 things that can make a rock turn into another type? (Text pg 270)

8)      What are relative and absolute age?

9)      Explain the Law of Superposition.

10)   Know your Earth Visual Terms.

11)   How do scientists use fossils to tell how old fossils are?

12)   How can faults, intrusions, extrusions, unconformities help scientists determine the relative age of rocks? 

Tests are Coming! INB Check too!

Agenda 5/14(a), 5/15(B)

Correct Workbook pages 134-139
Test Corrections
Ch 8-2 Relative Age of Rocks

Homework:
Beach Permission Slip
Test and INB check on Monday for A block, Tuesday for B block...so study!

Table of Contents

I have noticed a bunch of students who do not seem to be putting pages where they need to in their INB during class...if you haven't glued them in, here is the order:

1-2) Visual Terms Living Things
3-4) Notes: Living Things
5-6) N otes: Ch 7-1
7) Migration Video Notes
8) Visual Terms--Natural Selection
9) Animal Project Grade Sheet
10) 6 Kingdoms Flipbook AND gradesheet
11) Bill Nye: Fossils
12) Ch 7-2 Notes: Fossils
13) Quiz-Living Things

Agenda and Homework 4/30 (A block), 5/1 (B Block)

Agenda:

• Chapter 7-1 Quiz
• Bird Beak Lab

Homework:

• Study for CH 7-1, 7-2, Living Things Test on Monday (A), Tuesday (B)--Study Guide passed out in class
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• Beach Permission Slip due next class
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• Bird Beak Lab due next class

Site Under Construction

It may take a few days for me to get this site up and running (my other blog site is shutting down), until then, please keep track of your assignments during class and if you are absent, see Miss Bretthauer during brunch or lunch for your work.