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Review Sheet-Final Science Test

 

STUDY! STUDY! STUDY!

 

Your final will count as 25% of your 4th marking period grade!

 

Science and Technology

  • Skills of a scientist

-observing (quantitative vs qualitative)

-inferring

-predicting

-classifying

-evaluating

-making models

 

  • What attitudes help you think scientifically?
  • What is scientific reasoning?
  • What is scientific inquiry?
  • Steps of scientific method
  • How do you design and conduct an experiment?
  • What are some careers in science? (Life, Earth and Space, Physical)
  • Why do scientists use a standard measurement system?
  • What are some SI units of measure?
  • Length, mass, volume, density, temperature, time
  • graduated cylinder, triple beam balance

 

 

Intro to Chemistry

 

  • Matter
  • Atoms, compounds, and molecules
  • Periodic table (C, H, O, N, K, Na, Ag, Au, P)

-Metals, non-metals, halogens, noble gases

  • Chemical properties/changes
  • Physical properties/changes
  • Chemical reactions
  • Acids/bases-ph scale

 

 

 

Cells and Heredity

  • Know what a cell is and be able to describe the organelles.
  • What does the cell theory state?
  • Describe the function of a microscope.
  • What compounds do cells need?

-carbohydrates

-lipids

-proteins

-nucleic acids

  • Understand the importance of water for living things.
  • Compare and contrast osmosis and diffusion.
  • Compare and contrast active and passive transport.
  • How do living things get their energy from the sun?
  • Describe photosynthesis-why and where does it happen?
  • What is cellular respiration?  Where does it occur?  Why is it important?
  • Compare and contrast photosynthesis and cellular respiration.
  • Compare and contrast mitosis and meiosis.  REMEMBER IPMATC!
  • What is heredity?  
  • Understand Gregor Mendel’s experiments and all the vocab terms related to it.
  • Be able to construct a Punnett square using proper symbols for dominant and recessive alleles.
  • What is probability?
  • Genotype vs phenotype
  • Homozygous vs. heterozygous.  Hybrid vs purebred
  • Identify different patterns of inheritance.
  • Understand chromosomes, genes, allele, and DNA.
  • Know the structure of DNA and the 4 nitrogen bases.
  • Understand the process of DNA replication.
  • Mutations and their effect on organisms.
  • Cancer-causes, symptoms, treatments, relation to mutations.
  • Identify and describe some genetic disorders.
  • What is DNA fingerprinting and the Human Genome Project?
  • Who was Darwin?  What is evolution? Natural selection? Adaptations? Predator/prey? Overproduction? 
  • What evidence support evolution?  Know what a homologous structure is.

 

 

 

  • Predator/prey relationship
  • Biotic vs. Abiotic factors in a habitat