SI Worksheet #1 (Chapter 1-2)
BY 123
Meeting 9/1/2015
1. Match the following terms with their examples:
a. Coral reef, including all living organisms and nonliving components that interact with
living components.
b. Cardiovascular system: including the heart, arteries, capillaries, veins
c. Golgi complex
d. Earth
e. H2
f. A group of a variety of species living in the coral reef including fish, sponges, plankton,
algae, etc.
g. Neuron
h. A group of clown fish living in a specific area of the coral reef
i. A dolphin
j. Muscle
_____ Cell
_____ Molecule
_____ Tissue
_____ Organ System
__ ___ Organelle
__ ___ Population
__ ___ Community
___ __ Biosphere
__ ___ Ecosystem
___ __Organism
2. Number the above terms in the sequence of biological organization from the simplest to the
most complex?
3. All of the following can be true of the following
image except:
a. Can belong to a unicellular organism
b. Can belong to a multicellular organism
c. Is a prokaryotic cell
d. Is eukaryotic cell
e. Both a and c are untrue
4. A man states that he saw a mermaid while fishing in the Gulf Coast waters. He was alone and
did not take pictures or collect any physical evidence of the mermaid. His observation would be
given little scientific credence because it _____.
a. was not made by a scientist
b. did not include numerical measurements
c. was not repeatable
d. did not include a hypothesis
e. Both c and d are true
5. An upcoming cardiologist is investigating the design of the heart and its pumping action. He
starts by examining a heart cell under a microscope and notices that this cell alone does not
possess the ability to pump blood. He then examines the heart tissues, complete heart, and the
complete cardiovascular system and notices that it takes the complete system to pump blood.
This is an example of:
a. Biological organization Properties
b. Adaptive Properties
c. Reductionism
d. Emergent Properties
e. Primitive Properties
6. The muscular tissue of the heart and its pumping action are an example of _________.
a. Reductionism
b. Adaptive Properties
c. Theory of Design
d. Negative feedback
e. Form fits function
7. Lucy takes a run around the neighbor. The energy Lucy is using for her run is__________.
a. Stored as chemical energy
b. Being converted into kinetic energy
c. Being stored as potential energy
d. Being lost as heat
e. Both b and d are true
8. You get a cut on your finger that begins to bleed. A blood clotting factor causes the clumping of
platelets that forms a net stimulating more platelets and blood cells, causing the bleeding to
hault. This is an example of ________________.
a. Stimulation feedback
b. Negative feedback
c. Non-stimulation feedback
d. Positive feedback
e. Continuous feedback
9. Methanobacteriales is an organism that thrives thrive under the extreme conditions of hot
sulfur pools or in minerals and rock deep inside the Earth. Methanobacteriales belongs to what
domain?
a. Eukarya
10.
11.
12.
13.
b. Bacteria
c. Archaea
d. Protist
e. Plant
Kelsey is doing an experiment in which she is recording how many times bonobos move from
the trees to the jungle floor during a 3 hour period. Her data will be ____________.
a. Ordinal Data
b. Interpretative Data
c. Qualitative Data
d. Quantitative Data
e. Normative Data
John is doing an experiment using pigs with diabetes to discover the effects of a new drug on
the uptake of insulin. John proposes that his drug will help the pigs uptake insulin. John has 24
pigs and inject them all with his new drug. After a 2 day period John notices that all the pigs are
uptaking insulin more readily. What is wrong with John’s experimental design? What can John
do to improve it?
a. It is not repeatable
b. It lacks a control; inject control with water
c. It is not measurable
d. It lacks a hypothesis
e. It is not scientific
Trace elements are ________.
a. a dietary element that is needed in very minute quantities
b. needed for the proper growth, development, and physiology of the organism
c. needed only in certain times of the year
d. both a and b are correct
e. all the above are correct
If we add 2 neutrons to a carbon-12 atom, what do we get?
a. A neutron
b. A proton
c. An electron
d. An isotope
e. Another atom