Daily Quiz and Journal

1. Daily Quiz and Journal • Ch 1 Sect 1 • Why are questions important in life science? • Write an original definition for life science. • Give three examples of resources you can use to do research. • Ch2 Sect 1 • 4. What is a cell? • 5. What is homeostasis? • 6. What is the difference between sexual reproduction and asexual reproduction? • 7. What is an organism’s metabolism?

2. Daily Quiz and Journal • 8.What is the difference between producers, consumers, and decomposers? • 9. What is the difference between simple carbohydrates and complex carbohydrates? • 10. What is a lipid? • What is the purpose of proteins? • Proteins are large molecules that make up another substance. What is that substance? • 13. How is water related to how a cell functions? • 14. List four things that all organisms need to survive.

3. Daily Quiz and Journal • Chapter 3 Section 2 • Write definitions for the following words: • 15. reflection • 16. scattering • 17. absorption • 18. Transmission • How is the angle of incidence related to the angle of reflection? • Name and describe at least three different ways light interacts with matter. • Describe how absorption and scattering can affect a beam of light? • What does the law of reflection state?

4. Daily Quiz and Journal • 23. What is a wave that consists of changing electric and magnetic fields called? • 24. Why are you able to see objects that are illuminated? • 25. What makes up only a small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum? • 26. Visible light only represents a small band within the entire? What? • Which law states that a light beam’s angle of reflection is equal to its angle of incidence? • An interaction of light with matter that causes light to bounce off an object is? • The transfer of light energy to particles of matter is? • An interaction of light with matter that causes light to change direction is?

5. Daily Quiz and Journal • 31. The passing of light through matter. • 32. Wave that consists of changing electric and magnetic fields. • 33. EM wave that makes whatever it strikes feel warmer. • 34. The entire range of electromagnetic waves. • 35. EM wave that causes skin cancer. • Why can you see luminous objects? • One effect of ultraviolet light is? • Bouncing of light waves off an object. • Interaction of light with matter that causes light to change direction • Arrival of a beam of light at a surface. • Transfer of light energy to particles of matter. • Range of colors of light • Type of wave that makes up light • Visible light of all wavelengths combined.

6. Daily Quiz and Journal • Chapter 4 Section 1 • According to the cell theory, what makes up all living things? • Where is DNA stored in a eukaryotic cell? • Where do cells come from? • What limits the size of a cell? • What four cell parts are common to both animal and plant cells? • What are organelles and what do they do? • What is the purpose of the cytoplasm? • Why are most cells small?

7. Daily Quiz and Journal Chapter 4 section 2 53. What type of cell has a nucleus? 54. What is the stiff membrane around a plant cell, and what is its purpose or function? 55. What is the green pigment in plant cells for? 56. What protects the inside of a cell from the outside world?

8. Daily Quiz and Journal • 57. What are three differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells? • 58. How does the cell membrane protect the cell? • 59. What two functions does the cytoskeleton play in animal cells? • 60. What is the function of the nucleus? • Chapter 4 Section 3 • How are multicellular organisms more efficient than unicellular organisms. • What is an organ? • What is tissue made of, and does tissue have a specific job? • List the four levels of organization in multicellular organisms.

9. Daily Quiz and Journal • Ch 4 section 3 • A group of organs that work together are called? • A group of cells that work together are called? • What is the smallest piece of a living organism? • What are two or more tissues that work together called? • Chapter 5 Section 1 • Describe the photosynthesis process. • What are chloroplasts? • What is cellular respiration? • What is fermentation?

10. Daily Quiz and Journal • What are chromosomes? • What is mitosis • What is cytokinesis • What are the six phases of mitosis? • 74. Describe the mitosis process. • In what phase of mitosis does the nuclear membrane dissolve? • Why is it important for eukaryotic cells to undergo mitosis?

11. Daily Quiz and Journal • 74. Describe the mitosis process. • In what phase of mitosis does the nuclear membrane dissolve? • Why is it important for eukaryotic cells to undergo mitosis? Chapter 6 Section 1 77. What is heredity? 78. What is cross-pollination? How does it work? 79. How does cross-pollination differ from self-pollination? 80. What are characteristics, and how are they different from traits?

12. Daily Quiz and Journal • What is a true-breeding plant? • What is a dominant trait? • What is a recessive trait? • What is a homozygous plant? • What is a heterozygous plant? • 86. If the parent generation of a plant is a purple flowering dominant plant, and it is cross-pollinated with a white flowering plant, what will the offspring look like? • 87. In Mendel’s experiments did the recessive white flowering plant disappear forever? Explain. • 88. What did Mendel call the trait that appeared in all of his first-generation plants?

13. Daily Quiz and Journal Section 2 89. In Mendel’s experiments, all first-generation plants had purple flowers, but second-generation plants also had white flowers. What did this lead Mendel to hypothesize? 90. What are genes? 91. What are alleles? 92. What is a phenotype? 93. Describe homologous chromosomes. 94. What is a karyotype? 95. What are diploid cells? 96. What are haploid cells? 97. What is the purpose of meiosis?

14. Daily Quiz and Journal • 98. What is a zygote? • How are mitosis and meiosis different? The same? • What do the chromosomes contain? • How many chromosomes are in a human cell?