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1. Biotic and Abiotic Factors. What are the biotic and abiotic factors? What would happen if one of
the factors that you mention were changed? Give examples. Carrying Capacity/Limiting Factors
explain both. What factors affect the growth/size of a population?
2. Photosynthesis and Respiration. Explain and illustrate both.
3. Food Webs and Food Chains – include producers, consumers, herbivores, carnivores, and
omnivores. Give an example of both a food chain and a food web and explain what would
happen if you took one thing out of your food web/chain. What happens to energy as you move
through a food chain?
4. Organism, Population, Community, Ecosystem – show an example of this. Habitats and Niches.
Explain the difference and give plenty of examples of each. What are the conditions of an
ecosystem? What does it take to be classified as an ecosystem?
5. Symbiosis – parasitism, mutualism, commensalism. What is the difference and give examples.
Invasive species are parasitic- give examples, where did they come from? What problems do
invasive species cause? What can be done to fix the problem?
6. Biodiversity – why/how is there such a great biodiversity on our planet? Why is biodiversity
important? What threatens the biodiversity of our planet?
7. What causes mutations and give examples. Good (adaptations), bad, and neutral. How is
natural selection related to adaptations? What did Darwin discover about natural selection?
Explain how a once beneficial adaptation could become a harmful mutation if the environment
were to change.
8. Fossil Record – what do fossils tell us about our past environment and species that have lived in
the past. Extinct/Endangered- what factors have caused animals/plants to be extinct. What are
some examples of animals/plants that are currently on the endangered species list. What is
causing these organism to be endangered. What can be done to save these organisms.
9. Innate and Learned behaviors- explain the difference and give examples such as hibernation,
migration, etc..
10. Human Impact – how have humans negatively impacted the environment? What can be done to
fix the problems? What are the main sources of pollution?
11. Heredity – Phenotype, Genotype, Punnet Squares . The difference between sexual and asexual
reproduction. What types of organisms reproduce asexually?
12. Parts of a cell/Cell theory , Tissue, Organ, Organ System – explain and give an example. Give 3
examples of specialized cells.
13. Phases of Matter – how do the particles in solids, liquids, and gases differ, what has to happen
for each phase to change? What is matter? Physical/Chemical Change – explain the difference
and give examples of each. What factors influence the rate of a chemical reaction?
14. Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures, Periodic Table, real life uses for elements and
compounds, and certain chemicals.
15. Chemical Properties/Physical Properties, be sure to include solubility, mass, volume, and
density. How is density calculated?
16. Conservation of Matter – balancing chemical equations, Reactants and Products in a Chemical
Reaction Endothermic/Exothermic Reactions Chemical Formula
17. Motion – explain velocity, speed, acceleration, Force, Newton’s Laws, Net force,
Balanced/Unbalanced Forces, Gravity, Friction, Graphing Motion
18. Sun’s energy – explain how and why the sun’s energy is responsible for the water cycle, climate(why is it warmer at the equator), seasons, and the carbon cycle
19. Renewable and Nonrenewable energy resources.
20. Atmosphere –layers and composition Air Pressure and Altitude. Weather – what causes
weather, how is weather forecasted? What are the weather symbols on a weather map and
what do they stand for?
21. Global warming and the greenhouse effect. Explain what they are and how they are related
22. Layers of the earth. Formation of the Earth.
23. Types of Rocks and the Rock cycle.
24. Plate Tectonics – which way do plates move and what is caused when these plates move? What
are the different types of plate movement? Convergent, Divergent, Transform faults. What is
the difference between a fold a fault?
25. Earthquakes – what causes earthquakes? San Andreas vs. New Madrid faults. Earthquakes in KY,
Volcanoes.
26. What is the difference between constructive and deconstructive forces, what do they cause?
How is water both constructive and destructive? What is the difference between weathering
and erosion. How do weathering and erosion help to shape the landscape?
27. Landforms – name some various landforms and explain how these landforms are created. Some
examples could include canyons, arches, hoo doos , valleys, islands, hills, sinkholes, etc.
Mountains – how can you tell that the Rockies are younger?
28. Silt, Sand, and Pebbles - put in order from largest particle to smallest particle. Soil – what is
humus? What are soil horizons? What makes soil? Explain the “Dust Bowl”.
29. Glaciers – what are they? How have glaciers helped to shape the landscape?
30. Solar system, moon phases, eclipses, day, month, year – rotation in the solar system.