Name:___ ______________ Date: _______Period:_____
Agenda Week of 12 May – 16 May 2008
Unit 6 Physiology Exam 5/13/08 Semester Final 5/29 – 5/30.
Class website: www.marric.us/teaching
Monday 5/12/08
Review for Exam
HW: Study for Unit 6 EXAM 100 pts
Tuesday 5/13/08 LEAP 2:30 – 3:30
- Unit 6 Physiology Exam
- Collect agenda for last week
HW: At Ease
Review for Semester Final
Exam:
Wednesday 5/14/08 –Late Start
- Parent Letter
- Review Exam Results
HW: Get Parent Letter signed
Begin working on Semester Final Study Guide
1) Study Guide is complete.
Thursday 5/15/08 – Block
- Life Support – HIV review
- Collect agenda for this week.
HW: Review for Semester Final – work on Study Guide
Friday 5/16/08 – Block
- Life Support – HIV review
- Collect agenda for this week.
HW: Review for Semester Final – work on Study Guide
2) Review Unit 4 Heredity, Unit
5 Evolution, and Unit 6
Physiology and Anatomy
materials and study guides.
3) Practice Flashcards on class
website.
4) Quiz classmates.
Parents/Guardian –
 I have reviewed my child’s activities and homework for the week
of 5/12/08- 5/16/08.
5) Have family members quiz
you with your study guide.
 I understand that is important for me to make sure that my child
is ready for the EXAM on Tuesday 5/13/08, and has completed
all assignments this week.
 It is very important that students get good rest and either eat
breakfast at home or come to school early enough for breakfast
before school. Tardies this time of year can hurt a student’s learning opportunities.
 Unit 6 Exam on Tuesday 5/13/08. Semester Final 5/29-30.
 Pacer Passport Day is Friday May 23, 2008.
 On Thursday /Friday 5/15/08 during scheduled periods, a film about the consequences of HIV infection will be
shown in the classroom. The show is Life Support and stars Queen Latifah. You are welcome to attend. Please
feel free to come to class to see the film, after checking in with the West Office. We will have an associated
lesson to review how HIV infects cells and how AZT works to control symptoms.
Parent/Guardian Printed Name
Signature
Date
Bell Ringers: Week of 12 May – 16 May 2008
Monday – Blood from the lungs enters the heart at the ______.
a. left ventricle. b. left atrium.
c. right atrium.
d. right ventricle.
As soon as bleeding occurs, platelets ______.
a. begin to clump together in the damaged area.
b. release a variety of chemicals that react with proteins in the plasma.
c. form a plug that helps reduce blood loss.
d. All of the above
Which function of human blood includes the other three?
a. transporting nutrients
c. maintaining homeostasis
b. transporting oxygen
d. collecting wastes
Explain how the respiratory system and the cardiovascular system work in conjunction.
Tuesday – Which of the following is NOT part of the lymphatic system?
a. trachea
b. lymph node
c. thymus
d. spleen
Which system is responsible for transporting hormones from endocrine glands to various body tissues?
a. circulatory
b. digestive
c. excretory
d. nervous
Lymph is moved through lymphatic vessels by _______.
a. an internal pump.
c. the squeezing of skeletal muscles.
b. a lymph node.
d. the spleen.
Wednesday – Because large arteries have thick, elastic walls, they _______.
a. are able to store blood.
b. can withstand the high pressure at which the heart pumps blood.
c. are able to collect and pump oxygen-poor blood back to the heart.
d. can support large valves.
Describe the three main kinds of blood vessels and how they are different.
Thursday/Friday – __________________ is the entire process by which a body obtains and
uses oxygen and gets rid of carbon dioxide and water.
a. Respiration
b. Breathing
c. Exhalation
d. Inhalation
Describe the processes above – use some compare/contrast of the answer choices