Pre-AP/Biology
Finals Review
Chapters 1-4
Ch. 1 Study of Life
1.1– What is Biology?
1.
Know and understand vocab terms:
Biology, organism, organization, reproduction, species, growth, development, stimulus,
Response, homeostasis, energy, adaptation, evolution.
2.
Know the Characteristics of Life
1.2 – Methods of Biology
3.
Know and understand vocab terms:
Scientific Methods, hypothesis, experiment, control, independent variable,
Dependent variable, safety symbol, data, theory.
4.
Know the process of the Scientific Method
1.3 – Nature of Biology
5.
Know and understand vocab terms:
Ethics, Technology
6.
What is Qualitative and Quantitative information?
7.
Understand the process of gathering data, graphing, reading charts and graphs.
Ch. 2 Principles of Ecology
2.1 - Organisms and Their Environment
8.
Know and understand vocab terms:
Ecology, biosphere, abiotic factor, biotic factor, population, biological community,
Ecosystem, habitat, niche, symbiosis, commensalism, mutualism, parasitism.
9.
What are Living and Non-Living Factors?
10.
What are the levels of organization?
11.
Compare Aquatic and Terrestrial ecosystems.
2.2 – Nutrition and Energy Flow
12.
Know and understand vocab terms:
Autotroph, hererotroph, decomposer, food chain, trophic level, food web, biomass
13.
What are food chains?
14.
What are food webs?
15.
What are Trophic levels? What is found at each level?
16.
What are the Three Ecological Pyramids?
17.
How much energy is passed to each level in a pyramid? Explain role of decomposers.
18.
What is the Carbon Cycle? Explain it….
19.
What is the Nitrogen Cycle? Explain it…..
20.
What is Phosphorus Cycle? Explain it……
Ch. 3 Communities and Biomes
3.1 – Communities
21.
Know and understand vocab terms
Limiting factor, tolerance, succession, primary succession, climax community,
Secondary succession, Pioneer species…
22.
Explain limiting factors
23.
Explain ranges of tolerance
24.
Explain the components of primary and secondary succession
25.
Identify the first organizms to appear in Primary and Secondary succession.
3.2 – Biomes
26.
Know and understand vocab terms
Biome, photic zone, aphotic zone, estuary, intertidal zone, plankton, tundra, taiga, desert,
Grassland, temperate deciduous forest, tropical rain forest.
27.
What is the most abundant organism found in the photic zone?
28.
Where is the greatest diversity of life found in a freshwater biome?
29.
Explain the difference between taiga and tundra.
30.
What is an adaptation for plants in the desert?
Ch. 4 Population Biology
4.1 – Population Dynamics
31.
Know and understand vocab terms
Population, exponential growth, carrying capacity, life-history pattern, density-dependent factor,
Density-Independent Factor
4.2 – Human Population
32.
Know and understand vocab terms
Demography, birthrate, death rate, doubling time, age structure