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Go to your e-text for science (Bobcat Science). Begin in chapter 29 and
Set up Cornell notes on page 91 in your notebook. It is likely you will need to extend the page.
Write the questions on the LEFT SIDE OF THE CORNELL NOTES LINE! ( you need to use the internet, not the link
out of your e-reader, to use the links below
CHAPTER 29
Begin with reading Chapter 29, then answer the following questions:
Use this resource to answer the questions that follow.
 http://www.hippocampus.org/Biology.
Non-Majors Biology
Search: Defining Biology
1. What does "biology" encompass?
2. What characteristics define life?
3. Define metabolism.
4. Are viruses living? Explain your answer.
Review
1. List the six characteristics of all living things.
2. Define homeostasis.
3. What is a cell?
4. Making the next generation is known as ____________.
5. Assume that you found an object that looks like a dead twig. You wonder if it might be a stick insect. How could you determine if it
is a living thing?
CHAPTER 30:
Begin with reading Chapter 30, then answer the following questions:
Use this resource to answer the questions that follow.
 http://www.hippocampus.org/Biology
Biology for AP*
Search: Community Ecology: Overview
1. What is the biological definition of a community?
2. What is species diversity?
3. What type of area may have high species diversity? What type of area may have low species diversity?
4. What are the major benefits of adaptive radiation?
Review
1. Describe the levels of organization of a complex, multicellular organism such as a mouse, starting with the cell.
2. Explain how a population differs from a community.
3. What is biodiversity?
Other things to do today:
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Get lab (or lab make up assignment) done and turned in.
Know the 6 characteristics of living things.
Make sure your microscope label and coloring sheet is turned in.
Review your notes. Highlight them.
Go to www.ck12.org and make sure you have your username and password written in the back cover of your journal. You
will need these the next weeks ahead. Also, if you don’t have an account there, please create one. Find your way around to
your textbook, to chapters 29 and 30 and see if you can find the “practice” tab. It’ll walk you through an online quiz on the
chapters.