Download 7th Grade Final Exam Review

7th Grade Final Exam Review
2012-2013
1. Unit 2: Reproduction and Heredity (Module A: Cells and Heredity)
a. Lesson 1: Mitosis
i. Why do cells divide?
1. What is the reason that unicellular organisms go through
cell division?
2. What are the reasons that multicellular organisms go
through cell division?
ii. What is DNA?
1. Where is DNA located in eukaryotic cells?
2. What happens to DNA during cell division?
iii. What is chromatin?
iv. What is a chromosome?
v. What are chromatids?
vi. What are the three stages of a cell’s life cycle?
1. What happens during interphase?
2. What happens during mitosis?
a. What are the four stages of mitosis?
b. What happens in each of these phases?
3. What happens during cytokinesis?
b. Lesson 2: Meiosis
i. What are sex cells?
1. What makes sex cells different from body cells?
2. What happens when two sex cells combine?
3. What is another name for sex cells?
ii. What does diploid mean?
iii. What does haploid mean?
iv. How many chromosomes do human body cells have?
v. What is the major difference between mitosis and meiosis?
1. What type of cells does meiosis create?
2. What is fertilization?
3. What is the male sex cell?
4. What is the female sex cell?
vi. What are the two parts of meiosis?
1. What are the phases of meiosis I?
a. What happens to chromosomes during meiosis I?
2. What are the phases of meiosis II?
a. What happens to chromosomes during meiosis II?
c. Lesson 3: Sexual and Asexual Reproduction
i. What is an offspring?
ii. What is a parent?
iii. What is asexual reproduction?
1. What types of organisms reproduce asexually?
2. In asexual reproduction, how do offspring genetically
compare to their parents?
3. How many parents are involved in asexual reproduction?
4. What are two types of asexual reproduction?
a. What is binary fission?
i. What types of organisms reproduce through
binary fission?
b. What is budding?
5. What are the advantages of asexual reproduction?
iv. What is sexual reproduction?
1. How many parents are involved in sexual reproduction?
2. In sexual reproduction, how do offspring genetically
compare to their parents?
3. What are the advantages of sexual reproduction?
d. Lesson 3: Heredity
i. What is heredity?
ii. What is a characteristic?
iii. What is a trait?
1. What is an example of a trait? (Know at least 5)
iv. Who was Gregor Mendel?
1. What plant did Mendel use for his experiments?
v. What true-breeding?
1. How do the offspring of true-breeding compare to their
parents?
vi. How are traits inherited?
1. **Remember the differences between asexual and sexual
reproduction**
vii. What are genes?
1. What is an allele?
2. How are dominant alleles symbolized?
3. How are recessive alleles symbolized
viii. What does it mean for an organism to be heterozygous for a gene?
ix. What does it mean for an organism to be homozygous for a gene?
x. What is a genotype?
1. **Be able to write a genotype*
xi. What is a phenotype?
1. **Be able to write a genotype*
xii. What is a dominant allele?
1. How do dominant alleles contribute to the phenotype of an
organism?
xiii. What is a recessive allele?
1. How do recessive alleles contribute to the phenotype of an
organism?
e. Lesson 5: Punnett Squares and Pedigrees
i. What is a Punnett Square?
ii. How are Punnett Squares useful in studying heredity?
iii. **Be able to create a Punnett Square based on the traits of two
parents**
2. Unit 1: Introduction to Living Things (Module B: Life over Time)
a. Lesson 1: Introduction to Living Things
i. What five characteristics do all living things have in common?
1. All living things are made of one or more cells:
a. What is a cell?
b. What is a unicellular organism?
c. What is a multicellular organism?
2. All living things respond to their environment:
a. What is a stimulus?
i. What are examples of stimuli?
b. What is a response?
c. What is homeostasis?
i. What are examples of internal conditions
that need to be stable within an organism?
3. All living things reproduce:
a. **Remember the two types of reproduction**
4. All living things use energy:
a. Why do living things need energy?
5. Growth and Development
a. What is growth?
b. What is development?
ii. What do living things need to survive?
1. Why do living things need water?
2. Why do living things need air?
3. Why do living things need energy?
a. What is a producer?
i. Examples?
b. What is a consumer?
i. Examples?
c. What is a decomposer?
i. Examples?
4. Why do living things need shelter?
b. Lesson 2: Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection
i. What is evolution?
ii. What is natural selection?
iii. Who was Charles Darwin?
1. Where did he travel to observe nature?
iv. What is a species?
1. What is an example of a species?
v. What are adaptations?
1. Iguanas
a. What adaptations did the mainland iguanas have?
b. What adaptations did the Galapagos Island iguanas
have?
c. How did these adaptations help them survive in
their respective environments?
vi. What are variations?
1. What adaptations did the finches that Darwin observed
have?
2. How did these adaptations help them eat the food they ate?
vii. What does “survival of the fittest” mean?
viii. What are the factors that can affect natural selection?
1. What is overproduction?
2. What is competition?
3. What are variations?
a. How do these factors affect a species?
c. Lesson 5: Classification of Living Things
i. What is classification?
1. Why is it important for scientists to classify living things?
ii. What is a species?
1. What are examples of organisms that mate, but do not
produce fertile offspring?
iii. What is a genus?
iv. What is taxonomy?
1. What are the 8 levels of taxonomy?
a. **Know these levels from the most general to most
specific**
v. What is a domain?
1. What are the three domains?
2. What are the characteristics of the domain Bacteria?
3. What are the characteristics of the domain Archaea?
4. What are the characteristics of the domain Eukarya?
vi. What are the four kingdoms of Eukarya?
1. What are the characteristics of the kingdom Protista?
2. What are the characteristics of the kingdom Plantae?
3. What are the characteristics of the kingdom Fungi?
4. What are the characteristics of the kingdom Animalia?
3. Unit 2: Earth’s Organisms (Module B: Life Over Time)
a. Lesson 5: Introduction to Animals
i. What characteristics do animals have in common?
ii. What is an invertebrate?
1. Which phyla of animals are invertebrates? (Know at least
2)
2. What are characteristics of invertebrates?
3.
iii. What is a vertebrate?
1. Which phylum of animals are vertebrates?
2. What characteristics do vertebrates have in common?