Download Accelerated Final Review Packet – Complete the following review

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Accelerated Final Review Packet – Complete the following review packet to prepare for the
science final. This is required! The packet will be turned in the day of your final.
1-15: Fill-in-the-Blank with the correct answer.
1. The six characteristics of living things are:
a. Be made up of cells.
b. Use energy.
c. Adapt to surroundings.
d. React to change.
e. Change or develop.
f. Produce more organisms.
2. The cell is the smallest unit that can perform the basic activities of life.
3. This protective coating surrounds every cell. Cell membrane.
4. This organelle uses energy from the sun to make sugar. Chloroplast
5. Eukarya is the domain on Earth that almost all multicellular organisms on Earth belong to.
6. What is the main purpose of mitosis? To divide the nucleus.
7. Offspring are genetically identical to their parents if they a result of asexual reproduction.
8. Genes are inherited from your parents.
9. Alleles are various forms of the same gene.
10. If an animal has an allele for brown fur, but its fur is gray. The allele for brown fur must be
recessive.
11. The possible combinations in which parents’ alleles might combine in their offspring can be
figured out using a Punnett Square.
12. In a plant, green (T) is the dominant allele. White (t) is the recessive allele. Which genotype
would a white offspring have? tt
13. When a sperm and egg combine this process is called fertilization.
14. Meiosis is the process in which sperm and eggs (gametes) are produced.
15. A change in DNA is called a mutation.
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16-26: Matching – Match the word to the statement. Write the letter on the line.
___C___
16. Period during Earth’s history when huge numbers of
species suddenly disappeared.
A. Seeds
___B___
17. An example of a prokaryotic organism.
B. Bacterium
___H___
18. Both plant cells and animal cells have this structure.
C. Mass extinction
___G___
19. This is the process where the nucleus of the cell divides
prior to cytokinesis.
D. Evolution
___D___
20. The process by which species develop new traits.
E. Plants
___A___
21. This consists of plant’s embryo and food source.
F. Diffusion
___J___
22. The study of how living things interact.
G. Mitosis
___K___
23. The process in which plants convert sunlight into
chemical energy.
H. Mitochondria
___I___
24. A plant uses a gas from the air to make sugar during
photosynthesis as part of this cycle.
I.
___E___
25. This organism has roots, stem, and leaves.
J. Ecology
___F___
26. The process in which molecules spread out or move
from areas where there are many of them to areas
where there are few of them, like smells in the air.
K. Photosynthesis
Carbon cycle
27- 36: True/False. If the statement is true, write true on the line. If the statement is false,
change the underlined term to make the statement true.
False-Water
27. This earliest living things lived on land.
True
28. Scientists determine the absolute age of a fossil by measuring its
radioactivity.
False-Mass Extinctions
29. Isolations are periods during Earth’s history when huge numbers
of species suddenly disappeared.
False-Variation
30. An example of overproduction is no two zebras having the exact
same pattern of stripes.
True
31. An adaptation is an inherited trait that gives an organism an
advantage in its environment.
True
32. In the Galapagos Islands, many organisms have evolved to
become new species with the help of isolation.
False-Vestigial Organs
33. Ancestors of snakes used legs to walk on land. The small leg
bones that are still in the bodies of snakes are called fossils.
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False-Endocytosis
False-Genetic
True
34. During exocytosis the cell membrane surrounds materials and
transports them into the cell.
35. Scientists use physical evidence to find a common ancestor when
they compare one organism’s DNA with another.
36. Active transport is when cells use energy to transport materials
across the cell membrane.
37-55: Fill in the blank with the best possible answer
37. The source of energy for almost all life on Earth is the Sun.
38. An example of a biotic factor in a forest ecosystem is moss.
39. A consumer is a living things that gets its energy by eating other living things in a food chain.
40. Put the following organisms into a food chain in the correct order.
Caterpillar, cattail, frog, and water snake. Draw below:
Cattail Caterpillar Frog  Water Snake
41. In an energy pyramid where would the producers go?
Label on the diagram
42. What does symbiosis mean? The relationship between individuals who live together in a
close relationship.
Example of symbiosis: A butterfly sipping nectar from a flower.
43. A bee visits a flower and gets nectar while helping pollinate the flower. This is an example of
what type of interaction? Mutualism
44. A remora hitching a ride on a shark. This is an example of what type of interaction?
Commensalism
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45. Male birds fighting over territory is an example of what type of interaction? Competition
46. A deer, a rabbit, and a squirrel all live in the same section of a forest. Ecologists would say
they belong to the same community.
47. The biome that receives the most rain fall each year is the tropical forest.
48. Explain the term carrying capacity. The maximum number of individuals that an ecosystem
can support.
49. Moss growing in a bare rock environment is a pioneer species.
50. Define secondary succession. In secondary succession, the ecosystem changes after a
disturbance (fire, flood), when there is still soil for life to rebuild.
51. Define natural resource. Any type of material or energy that humans use to meet their
needs.
52. Would the population density be greater in a city or suburbs? Why?
Population density is greater in a city than in suburbs because there are more people in a
smaller place.
53. Name 3 renewable resources.
Trees, Sunlight, Water
54. Name 3 nonrenewable resources.
Oil, Coal, Petroleum
55. Define conservation. The process of saving or protecting a natural resource.
Describe sustainable practices. Ways of living and doing business that use natural resources
without using them up. (i.e. Developing new technologies, reducing resource use, and
creating less waste)