Life Science Final Exam Study Guide
Name: _______________________ Class: ____
Date: ________
Activity 12 What’s Happening Inside?
Definitions:
 Organs
 Systems
 Structure
 Function
- know the difference between them:
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What is the difference between an organ and a system?
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What is the difference between a structure and function?
Activity 14 Breakdown
Definitions:
 chemical breakdown
 mechanical breakdown
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What is the purpose of Mechanical breakdown?
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What is the purpose of Chemical breakdown?
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How does mechanical breakdown affect chemical breakdown?
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Explain how surface area is involved:
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In order for food to be absorbed by the body, What type of breakdown is necessary?
Activity 15 Digestion: An absorbing tale
Definitions:
 absorb
 tissue
 nutrients
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List in order the organs food pass through when you eat something and describe what
happens to the food (its function):
ORGAN
FUNCTION
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List the organs that help with digestion but food does not pass through it and explain the
function of each:
ORGAN
FUNCTION
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Where does mechanical breakdown occur in the digestive system? (which organs?)- explain
how it occurs
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Where does chemical breakdown occur in the digestive system? (which organs?)
Explain how it occurs
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What are wastes produced by the human body?
STEM project
What does an Engineer do?—look at the Engineer Design Process
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Be able to calculate the speed of something given the distance and
time.—Ex. 20 feet in 10 seconds
Activity 35 A License to Learn
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Parts of the microscope and their function
Eyepiece
coarse adjustment knob
fine adjustment knob
objective
stage
diaphragm
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Be able to calculate magnification with eyepiece and objective magnifications.
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What objective should you start at? Highest or lowest
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Microscopes are used to see objects that are (too close, far away, too big, too small??)
Activity 36 Looking for Signs of Micro-life
 Microbe
 Disease
 Infectious
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What causes infectious disease?
Activity 37 The history of the germ theory of disease
 Germ theory of disease
 Cell Theory- 3 parts:
 Cell
 Multicellular
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Give an example of something made of a cell
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An example of something NOT made of a cell
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Give two examples of multicellular organisms:
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What are some functions of a cell?
Activity 38 Microbes, Plants, and You
 Cell membrane
 Cytoplasm
 Nuclear membrane
 Nucleus
 Organelles
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Difference between a plant and animal cell- venn diagram
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What do humans and plants have in common?
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Is a cell membrane found in all cell types?
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Function of:
cell membrane
Cell wall
Chloroplasts
Chromosomes
Cytoplasm
Mitochondria
Nuclear membrane
Nucleus
Vacuole
Activity 38B Processes and Purposes of Cell Division
 Asexual reproduction
 Chromosome
 Dna
 Sexual reproduction
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Purpose of cell division- 3 main reasons:
Activity 40 A cell model
 Permeable
 Selectively permeable
 Osmosis
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What is the main purpose of the cell membrane?
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Substances pass in and out of a cell through its __________________________
Activity 41 A cell so small
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Why are multicellular organisms made of small cells instead of large cells?
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What is the advantage to having small cells?
Activity 42 A Closer Look
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What is the purpose of:
cell wall?
Nucleus?
Mitochondria
Chloroplast?
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From largest to smallest, list these in order: cell, organelles, organ, tissue, organism, organ
system
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What structures are in a plant cell but are not in an animal cell?
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What do chloroplasts do?
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What do mitochondria use to produce energy for a cell?
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What part of the cell contains its genetic material?
Activity 44 and 45 Who’s Who- the world of Microbes
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Be able to use a Dichotomous key
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The difference between a Prokaryote and Eukaryote?
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What is the difference between archaea and bacteria
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What are four types (kingdoms) of Eukaryotes? (fungus, plants, animals, protists)
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Characteristics of a: Bacteria, Protist, virus- how do they differ- in structure, size, how they
function?
Protist
Bacteria
Virus
o Which of these has a nucleus?
o Which can you see with a 10x microscope__________________
o
a 100x microscope______________
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Are each of the above helpful, harmful, both or neither?
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What causes infectious diseases?
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Where can bacteria be found?
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What are two other words used for Germ?
Activity 46 Disease Fighters
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Immune system- what does it do?