Exam review sheet

REVIEW SHEET FOR SCIENCE EXAM: [Updated 2:30pm, 5/12/15]

My expectation would be that anyone who will take the science exam will prepare for it by focusing on this review sheet. While lengthy, the final exam will be based solely on the questions listed below. Before you start to complain, look at some of the questions; answers are often one word answers!

Scroll to the bottom for an extra credit opportunity for those preparing for their science exam before the weekend!

Your exam is worth 175 points, or 15% of your final grade for this semester.

1.       If I am an organism that has a nucleus, to what domain do I belong?

2.      Which kingdom of organisms can make their own food? What is required to make that food?

3.      What are the three types of extremophiles and where are each found? To what domain do these belong?

4.      How do Kingdom Fungi organisms obtain nutrients?

5.      When using the scientific method, what is the first step of the process?

6.      What are some units of length used in the metric system? What are some units of mass?

7.      When using a microscope, what do you turn to control the amount of light?

8.     When carrying a microscope, where do you put your hands?

9.      To what domain do Homo sapiens belong?

10.  If an organism has roots in the soil, leaves and flowers, and uses the process of photosynthesis to make food, to what domain would it belong? To what kingdom would it belong?

11.   Name an organism that is a common cause of food poisoning. What do the different parts of its name represent in regards to classification?

12.  Which part of the brain responsible for comprehension?

13.  What are the building blocks of proteins?

14.  Which part of the brain responsible for creativity?

15.   What are the Nodes of Ranvier? Where are they located? What is their purpose?

16.  Where does the fertilized egg embed and develop?

17.   What falls under the category of “lipid”? What do lipids do for us in our bodies?

18.  What do you call the tubes that lead from the kidneys to the bladder?

19.  What enzyme is in saliva that begins the digestion of carbohydrates?

20. When taking blood pressure, which measurement is when the ventricles contract?

21.  What do you call the collected “stuff” that is waste filtered by the nephron? Where does this “stuff” go? When this “stuff” mixes with water, what is it called?

22. What do you call the involuntary muscular contractions that push food through the digestive tract? What does “involuntary” mean?

23. Which blood vessel takes blood from the lungs, back to the heart? Is the blood in that blood vessel oxygenated or deoxygenated? How do you know?

24. What is the difference between the CNS and the PNS? What do those letters stand for? What makes up each?

25.  Why is surface area important in digestion?

26. Sperm stored in the epididymis travels through what tube to get to the prostate gland?

27.  What is the powerhouse of the cell? What does it produce?

28.  What is the purpose of the liver?

29. What is tube that leads out of the penis? Other than urine, what else passes through this tube?

30. In females, where eggs are made?

31.  What are the products of photosynthesis?

32. What is the process when a sperm and egg form a zygote? Where does this occur?

33. Where does the zygote implant and grow during a normal pregnancy?

34. What is the name of the sac where the testes and epididymis are located?

35.  Which papillae of the tongue are whitish in appearance?

36. Where did Gregor Mendel perform his experiments?

37.  What type of plants did Mendel study? Why was this choice important?

38. In Mrs. Harris’ family, having blue eyes (like my husband) is an example of this type of trait because none of our kids have blue eyes, so it “disappeared” in the first generation. What type of trait is that?

39. What is the difference between the terms osmosis and diffusion? What is a concentration gradient?

40. If a flower of one plant is fertilized by an insect carrying pollen from another plant, this is called what?

41.  What is the sperm of a plant called?

42. Where is a nephron found? What is its purpose?

43. What does the renal vein do?

44. After the kidneys filter the blood, where does the filtered waste go? What is it called?

45.  Which allele is represented using a capital letter?

46. What is the difference between a genotype and a phenotype?

47.  What is the purpose of platelets?

48. What is fibrin? How is fibrin important with clotting?

49. What are the four nitrogen bases found in DNA?

50. What are the four nitrogen bases found in RNA?

51.   What is the name of a mutation where a nitrogen base is removed?

52.  Where does translation occur? What is the purpose of translation?

53.  What does the tRNA do during translation?

54.  What does the mRNA do during protein synthesis?

55.  What is meant by nitrogen-base pairs?

56.  What type of RNA makes up the ribosome?

57.  What is the difference between motor nerves and sensory nerves?

58. How would you identify the iris of the eye?

59.  What is the center of the iris called? What is its purpose?

60. What happens to the walls of the uterus as it prepares for implantation of the fertilized egg?

61.  What is the main male hormone? What are the main female hormones?

62. When dissecting, the tool that looks like tweezers are called what?

63. In the earthworm, why is the crop squishy and the gizzard hard?

64. In mitosis, what stage is when the sister chromatids line up at the equator? Where is the equator?

65.  What stores urine?

66. What is the purpose of the pancreas?

67.  Why is the small intestine so long?

68. What is a normal blood pressure?

69. Where are some helpful bacteria found?

70. What are the two categories of protists? Give examples of each.

71.   Draw a RBC for someone with type B blood. Draw that person’s antibodies.

72.  For garden peas, tall plant is dominant and short plant is recessive. What would T represent? What term describes this?

73.  For garden peas, round seed shape is dominant and wrinkled seed shape is recessive. What could be a heterozygous genotype in this example? Describe what each part of the genotype represents.

74.  What is a true breeding plant?

75.  What makes bile? What stores bile? What secretes the bile?

76.  If an allele is written as a lower case letter, what does that represent?

77.  Parent 1 is blood type A. Parent 2 is blood type O. What is the genotype of parent 1?

78. Parent 1 is blood type A. Parent 2 is blood type O. What is the phenotype of parent 2?

79.  Parent 1 is blood type A. Parent 2 is blood type O. What is the probability of the first generation offspring having O type blood? (HINT: You need to draw a Punnett square.)

80.Parent 1 is blood type A. Parent 2 is blood type O. What is the recessive trait?

81.  Parent 1 is blood type A. Parent 2 is blood type O. What is the characteristic in this scenario?

82. Parent 1 is blood type A. Parent 2 is blood type O. What are the possible genotypes of the offspring?

83. Parent 1 is blood type A. Parent 2 is blood type O. Draw a RBC for parent 1.

84. Parent 1 is blood type A. Parent 2 is blood type O. Draw a RBC for parent 2.

85. What are the three parts of the tongue?

86. Which part of the eye is found behind the iris? It is a clear structure that functions to control the focusing of light

87. What does avascular mean? What is the avascular part of the eye?

88.What is peristalsis?

89. Which fluid fills the anterior chamber of the eye? What is the purpose of this fluid?

90. In the retina, what do the rods and cones do?

91.  What are the gaps between neurons?

92. What type of circulation sends blood to and from the lungs?

93. What are the type of nerves in the peripheral nervous system that carry messages from the body to the brain?

94. What is a temporary disturbance of the brain’s ability to function? What could cause this? Which part of the brain controls breathing and heart rate?

95.  Which part of the eye is fluid? Where is this fluid found?

96. What is the purpose of the epididymis?

97.  What makes a carbohydrate different from a protein? How could you tell which is which based on the chemical formula?

98. What is a vasectomy? What is the purpose of this procedure?

99. Pulmonary means that it has to do with lungs. What term means that it has to do with the kidneys?

100.                     What occurs in the Loop of Henle?

101.                      What is the purpose of the gall bladder?

102.                     Why is it said that digestion doesn’t occur in the large intestines? What does happen in the large intestine?

103.                     What blood vessel enters the heart through the right atrium?

104.                     What type of circulation provides oxygen and removes wastes from the cardiac tissue (heart muscle)?

105.                      What is in a leaf that helps the plant perform photosynthesis? How does that help the leaf participate in photosynthesis?

For TEN bonus points added onto your final exam grade, follow the directions below and submit a printed (paper) copy of your answer sheet (NOT question sheets!) to Mrs. Harris by Friday (May 15) morning at 8AM.

ü  Create a separate page for answers. Sentences are not required.

ü  Points will be earned based on correctness of spot-checked answers. Incomplete or incorrect answers will not earn any bonus.

ü  Answer questions in order. Clearly number answers.

ü  Write your name in the top right corner.  

ü  Staple pages in order.