Download EOC 10th Grade Inquiry Review Questions EOC Review

EOC Review from Inquiry Science Year 2
*You should be able to answer these questions verbally in a concise & clear manner. Any questions that
you want to talk through with Mr. Jequinto, please feel free any day before May 30.
1. CH 1 - Experimental Design
a. Key Vocab Words: Validity, Reliability, Inquiry, Control, Manipulated (Independent)
Variable, Responding (Dependent) Variable.
b. What is Validity?
c. How is Validity different than Reliability?
d. What is “Inquiry?”
e. When do you use a bar graph vs when do you use a line graph?
2. CH 6 – Evolution
a. Key Vocab Words: Homologous structure, adaptation, selective pressure, natural
selection, artificial selection,
b. Stratigraphy – which layers are older? Which are newer?
c. Radiometric dating – what is actually measured? How does this help determine age?
How is radiometric dating used together with stratigraphy?
d. How do fossils relate to evolution?
e. What is evolution? What causes it to happen?
f. What three things need to happen for natural selection to occur?
g. How are mutations, variations & adaptations related to each other? What happens
to variations that aren’t helpful to survival or actually harm survival?
h. Is an “adaptation” always an adaptation? (Think of the bunny fur color in the online
sim)
i. How would directional selection, stabilizing selection, and disruptive selection
evolve a population? How would future generations be different than the current
one?
j. Can an individual bird adapt or evolve? Why not?
k. How do selective pressures / selective factors affect evolution?
3. CH 7 – Genetics
a. Key words: allele, genotype, phenotype, autosome, asexual reproduction, gamete,
zygote, meiosis, mitosis
b. Dominant vs recessive traits – how are they different?
c. Meiosis – What is the end product? Why does it happen? How many chromosomes
after?
d. Mitosis – What is the end product? Why does it happen? How many chromosomes
after?
e. What’s the biological purpose of sexual reproduction? (Hint: genetic variation)
f. Punnett Square – how to predict chance of passing on a trait.
g. More complex ways to inherit traits (co-dominance, incomplete dominance, multiple
alleles)
h. How to read a pedigree.
4. CH 8 – DNA & RNA
a. Key words: replication, transcription, translation, codon, amino acid, protein
b. How are proteins created?
c. How are DNA & RNA similar? How are they different?
d. What job does DNA have? mRNA? tRNA? Where are each of these located?
e. How do Mutations happen? Which would lead to a more lasting mutation – a
change to the DNA, to RNA, or to a protein?
f. What nucleotides are DNA made of? RNA?
g. How does DNA code for the proteins in your body?
5. CH 11 – Carbon Cycle
a. Key Words: cellular respiration, photosynthesis, carbon sink, carbon source.
b. What are some forms Carbon takes in the natural world? In the air what is the most
likely formula? In the water?
c. How are plants & animals involved in the Carbon Cycle?
d. What is used up in photosynthesis? What is produced? What do plants do with this
product?
e. What is used up in cellular respiration? What is produced?
f. How are aerobic & anaerobic respiration different?
g. How are cellular respiration & burning fossil fuels similar? How are they different?
6. CH 14 – Population Dynamics
a. Key words: biotic, abiotic, closed population, open population, predator-prey,
carrying capacity, commensalism, parasitism, mutualism, autotroph, consumer,
decomposer
b. How are food webs different than food chains? Which represents an ecosystem
more realistically?
c. What are some common limiting factors for animals?
d. Is carrying capacity always the same #, or can it change? What could cause it to
increase or decrease?
e. What are some examples of mutualism? Parasitism? Commensalism?
f. How are parasitism, predator-prey, and competition different?
g. How much energy is passed on from the food to the consumer? (Hint: 10%). Where
does the rest of the energy get used?
h. What would lead a non-native species to thrive in a new environment? What would
lead it to do poorly & die out?
7. CH 15 – Human Populations
a. What are limiting factors for humans?
b. What resources that humans use are renewable?
8. CHs 9 & 16 – Bioethics & Engineering Design Process
a. What questions are best for science to investigate? What questions would science
have a hard time answering?
b. How do science & engineering relate to each other?
c. Which step(s) of the Engineering Design Process can science make better?
d. Identify a problem that affects the world.
e. What questions can you ask to help generate ideas for solutions?
f. How will you pick the best solution? (What criteria will you use?)
g. What are the tradeoffs & unintended consequences of your solution?