6th Six Weeks Portion Semester Review
Your semester test will be broken into two parts. Part 1 (Tuesday June 3rd) will be the portion that tests
the most recent six weeks material. This portion will be counted individually as the 6th six weeks test
grade and then combined with the second portion to make your semester/final exam grade.
Sixth six weeks test material.
For this test material begins with cells and goes up to ecosystems. Vocabulary words can be found on
our faculty webpage under the vocabulary tab.
Cells and Cell Theory Unit 11 Test
Students will need to know the following information to allow them to have an opportunity at success.
1. What does the cell theory say? There are 3 parts and you needed to know them all and who
came up with them.
a. All living things are made of one or more cells.
b. The cell is the basic unit of life.
c. Cells are only produced through the reproduction of living cells.
2. You will need to know the history behind the cell theory and the contributing scientists such as
the following
a. Robert Hooke- discovered the first cell from cork
b. Anton Van Leeuwenhoek- found single celled organisms. Animalcules
c. Matthias Schliden- Plants are made of cells. 1st two parts of cell theory
d. Theodor Schwann – Animals are made of cells 1st two parts of cell theory
e. Louis Pasteur- Disproved spontaneous generation
f. Rudolf Virchow- 3rd part of cell theory. Cells are from other living cells.
3. Cell types: (you need to know what they are as well as how they are different.)
a. Prokaryotic
i. No Nucleus
b. Eukaryotic
i. Have a Nucleus
4. Organelles:
a. You will need to know all of the organelles and their functions in the cell on an individual
level. Try to remember them as parts of a city. It will help. (This will be the hardest part)
When we get finished with the review this is what you will study
On the unit 11 exam these were the most missed questions!!!!!
5. Microscope:
a. You will need to be able to identify the parts of the microscope and explain in your own
words how you would go about finding and focusing in on them.
b. Calculation of magnification.
i. Eyepiece x objective= magnification
Unit 12 Material
1. Who is the founder of taxonomy and what did he come up with?
a. Carolus Linnaeus
i. How is his system different than the current system and what is his system
called?
1. His had no domains. Called binomial nomenclature
2. There are ____3____ domains and ___6____ kingdoms.
a. The Domains and kingdoms fall into a very specific order:
b. What does it take to be in each domain!!!!!!!
Domain
Bacteria
Domain
Achaea
Kingdoms:
a. Eubacteria
Domain
Eukarya
Kingdoms:
a. Archaebacteria
Kingdoms:
a. Animalia
Plantae
Protista
Fungi
3. I will need to know the levels of taxonomy, also known as taxa. (There are 8)
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4. We copied down a chart which tells us how things are classified into kingdoms, you need to
know that! What are the criteria for each kingdom?
5. What is the human classification?
Eukarya, Animalia, Chordata, Mammalia, Primates, Hominidae, Homo, Sapiens
6. You should be able to use/produce a dichotomous key.
a. Remember it is just following directions based on characteristics.
7. Abiotic/Biotic factors
a. You should know the difference between the two as well as multiple examples of each
type of factor.
b. Something is living if it… (THIS IS IN YOUR NOTES!!!)
i. Reproduces
ii. Grows and develops
iii. Obtains and uses energy
iv.
Adapts to its environment
v. Responds to its environment
vi. Is made of cells
c. What is a biome? How is a biome different from an ecosystem?
A biome is a region characterized by a prevailing climate and a specific set of living
organism.
An ecosystem exists within a biome. There can be many ecosystems within a biome.