Unit 4 Study Guide
(Go to Unit 4 on weebly and use it to review the concepts found below)
Vocab
Homeostasis
Negative feedback
Positive feedback
Photosynthesis
Cellular Respiration
Carbon cycle
Light energy
Chemical energy (Glucose and ATP are both examples of stored chemical energy)
Amino acids
Energy
Concepts
Phineas Gage (Week of April 9)
-What did we learn from this case?
Neurotransmission (Week of April 13)
- How do neurons talk with each other
Rat Experiment (Week of April 20)
-What we learned about drugs in this experiment
- Why addiction is a brain disease
Cellular Respiration (Week of April 27)
-Inputs and outputs
-The importance of ATP
Virtual Lab- Carbon Transfer Through Snails and Elodea (Week of May 4)
-What did we learn in this virtual lab
-How photosynthesis and cellular respiration make a cycle
Photosynthesis (Week of May 4)
-Inputs and outputs
-Why this process is important
What happens to glucose in your body (Week of May 11)
-How glucose is involved in both photosynthesis and cellular respiration
-How glucose can be transformed into other carbon-based molecules
Organelles in the cell (Week of May 14, Week of May 18)
-Focus the most on the following: cell membrane, nucleus, chloroplast, mitochondria
Simple reflex arc (Week of May 14)

-The interacting systems that make a reflex possible
Homeostasis (Week of May 18)
-What is homeostasis and why it is important
-Positive and Negative Feedback
Thermoregulation (Week of May 18)
-How it maintains homeostasis
-How is it an example of a negative feedback loop
-The interacting systems that makes thermoregulation possible
Child labor (Week of May 26)
-How it maintains homeostasis
-How it is an example of a positive feedback loop
-The interacting systems that make child labor possible
Glucose regulation (Week of May 26)
-How it maintains homeostasis
-How it is an example of a negative feedback loop
-The interacting systems that make glucose regulation possible
Exercise (Week of May 26)
-What your body does in order to maintain homeostasis during exercise
-The interacting systems that are at work during exercise