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Spring Semester IPC Final Exam Review
Instructions: There are eight sections to this review. Each completed section is worth 3 points on your final exam grade.
Section 1_Cells, Organelles, and Viruses
1. A mitochondrion has two membranes. The inner membrane is highly folded, as shown in the diagram below.
The folds greatly increase the membrane’s surface area. This improves the ability of the mitochondrion to do what?
2. Name the characteristics shared by all living things.
3. Explain the function of each of the following organelles:
Mitochondrion-
Choloroplast-
Golgi apparatus-
Vesicle-
4. Compare and contrast viruses and cells. (living/non-living, structures in each, etc.)
5. A bacteriophage is a virus that utilizes bacteria as a host cell. Draw and label a diagram of the lytic cycle with the steps in order.
6. Compare and contrast prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells using a Venn diagram below.
7. Which cells are larger, prokaryotes or eukaryotes?
8. Which organelles are found in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes?
9. Explain the function of each biomolecule below AND draw its structure.
Protein-
Carbohydrate-
Lipid-
Nucleic Acid-
10. What are the monomers of carbohydrates? Draw the structure of glucose.
Section 2_Cell Transport
1. Which biomolecule makes up most of the bilayer of the cell membrane?
2. The following solute particles are moving through the cell membrane from high concentration to low concentration. They are also using a carrier protein.
How would you describe this type of movement across the membrane?
3. What happens to your cells when you drink salt water? ______
The scientific name for your answer above is called what? ______
4. ______is the process that allows large food particles to enter the cell
5. ______is the process that allows bulk liquids to enter the cell.
6. The sodium-potassium pump is considered to be a form (active or passive) transport because the molecules flow from (High or Low) Concentration to (High or Low) Concentration.
7. Describe each of the cells using the words hypertonic, hypotonic and isotonic.
Cell A Cell B Cell C
8. Describe each of the cells using the words hypertonic, hypotonic and isotonic.
RBC A RBC B RBC C
9. Which set of functions is directly controlled by the cell membrane?
Use the diagram below to answer question 10.
10. In the diagram above, name structures 1 – 6 of the cell membrane?
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2.
3.
4.
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6.
Section 3_Systems of Living Things
1. Which body system is responsible for the movement of the body, as well as the movement of internal organs? Which body system provides a structural support for the body and its muscles?
2. The enzyme ______begins the chemical digestion of carbohydrates in the ______.
Match each system with its function and label it on the picture.
3.______This system takes in oxygen and removes carbon dioxide from the body.
4.______This system transports nutrients, gases, wastes, hormones, and other materials to and from cells.
5.______This system controls water and salt balance and filters metabolic wastes from the blood.
6.______This system physically and chemically breaks down food and absorbs nutrients for energy.
7. What are unspecialized cells in animals called? What are unspecialized cells in plants called?
8. Name the living system each specialized cell below makes up, and describe its main function (s).
A. Neuron Cell –
B. Epithelial Cell –
C. RBC –
D. WBC –
E. Muscle Cell –
F. Root Hair –
G. Leaf Cell –
H. Vessel Cell –
9. What is the function of the leaf?
10. What is the equation for photosynthesis? What is the equation for cellular respiration?
11. What organelle does photosynthesis occur in? What organelle does cellular respiration occur in?
12. Plant sperm is in the form of ______, and plant ovaries are in the form of ______.
Section 4_Ecology
1. Define the following terms:
a. Producer –
b. Consumer –
c. Heterotroph –
d. Autotroph –
2. Explain why in a biomass pyramid there is typically a higher number of organisms on the bottom than then top. Give an example of when that may not be true.
3. Where in the pyramid is the most energy found? How much energy is transferred to each level from the previous level? Where does the rest of the energy go?
4. Would a predator get more energy from a secondary consumer or a primary consumer?
5. How much energy would get transferred to a quaternary consumer if the producers have a total energy of 145,000 [kJ]?
6. Define the following terms:
a. Mutualism –
b. Commensalism –
c. Parasitism –
d. Competition –
e. Predation –
7. What is the main difference between primary and secondary successions?
8. What is biomagnification? How does it affect living things?
9. What type of succession occurs in an area that is wiped out by a devastating flood? Explain why you chose this type and give a detailed description of how the area will recover.
10. What type of succession occurs in an area impacted by an erupting volcano and most of its lands are covered by lava flows? Explain why you chose this type and give a detailed description of how the area will recover.
Section 5_1D Motion & Momentum
1. The Earth is 24,900 miles around (the circumference is 24,900 miles). Superman starts by the flagpole of DPHS North Campus and flys completely around the Earth 8 times. What is his displacement?
2. You walk home from school 12 blocks east, then turn 12 blocks North, and then turn 12 blocks east to arrive at your house. What is your distance travelled? What is your displacement?
3. What is the displacement of the object from 0 to 6 seconds whose Position vs. Time graph is shown on the right.
4. If a car has traveled 90 [m/s] for 5 seconds, what is the distance it has traveled?
5. Examine the Velocity vs. Time graph to the right.
What is the acceleration of the object between
40 minutes and 55 minutes?
6. A giant boulder is coming right at The Green Lantern so he creates an energy shield to protect himself. The boulder moves 7 meters East and then bounces off the shield and moves 15 meters West. This all happens in 3 seconds, what is the velocity of the boulder?
7. Give 3 examples of velocity.
8. Calculate the momentum of a 0.25-kilogram baseball moving at 40 m/s?
9. Batman and Robin are traveling together in the Batmobile at 15 m/s. All of the sudden they spot an explosion in the distance. 5 seconds later, she is traveling at 70 m/s. What was Batman and Robins’ acceleration?
10. A 700 [kg] sailboat moves with a momentum of 250,000 [kg·m/s]? What is the velocity of the boat?
Section 6_Forces & Energy
1. A tow truck pulls a 1,000-kg car with a net force of 2,000 N. What is the acceleration of the car?
2. An eagle captures a 0.5 [kg] mouse on the ground and flies the mouse to its nest 25 [m] above the forest floor. What is the potential energy of the mouse when it lands in the nest?
3. “Every action force creates a reaction force that is equal in strength and opposite in direction.” This
statement summarizes which of Newton’s Laws?
4. Compare and contrast fusion and fission?
5. Two balls are dropped from the top of a ladder. They are both the same size, but one is very light and the
other is very heavy. In the absence of air resistance, which ball will hit the floor first?
6. A coin that is tossed straight up into the air. After it is released it moves upward, reaches its highest point
and falls back down again. What is the acceleration of the coin during its motion?
7. At which of these positions does the ball have both the greatest potential energy and the least kinetic energy?
Which has the greatest kinetic and least potential.
8. In the summer, millions of people lay out at the beach or by the pool to get a tan. What type of heat transfer are these people relying on to get their tan?
The diagram below shows a hot air balloon rising. Propane gas tanks are seen at the bottom of the balloon. Answer question 9 with the diagram below.
9. What type of heat transfer helps the balloon rise?
10. A police car is chasing a suspect in a 500 [kg] stolen truck traveling at 12 [m/s]. What is the kinetic energy of the truck?
Section 7_Waves
1. As a wave travels between two points in a medium, it transfers ______.
2. What characteristic of a wave is a direct measure of its energy?
3. What type of wave interaction causes a wave to change direction as it passes from one medium into another medium?
4. What is a mechanical wave? Give 3 examples of mechanical waves.
5. Waves produced by earthquakes are called seismic waves. Which type of seismic wave causes the most destruction to property during an earthquake? What is the second most destructive earthquake wave?
6. Waves in phase combine to build a larger wave. An example of this phenomenon is pushing a person on a swing at the same spot every time. This phenomenon is best explained as ______.
7. What characteristics are common to all electromagnetic waves?
8. Why is the chlorophyll in a coniferous tree green?
9. At 0°C, sound travels through air at a speed of 330 [m/s]. If a sound wave is produced with a wavelength of 0.50[m], what is the wave’s frequency?
10. Lightning hits a house during a thunderstorm. You see the flash 3.3 seconds before you hear it. How far away is the house? (Hint: Speed of sound in this air is 331([m/s).
Section 8_Electricity & Magnetism
1. A tiny imbalance of charge on an object is called ______.
2. The ability of an object to resist current is called electrical ______.
3. Suppose you connect more light bulbs in series to a battery. What happens to the brightness of each bulb as you add more bulbs?
4. As Mr. Ortegon toasts his waffle in the toaster oven, 4.0 amperes of current flows with a voltage of 120 volts across the toaster. What is the resistance of the toaster oven?
5. A light bulb requires 2 amps to produce light. The resistance of the bulb is 3 ohms. How many batteries do you need if each battery is 1.5 volts?
6. If the voltage across the battery in a series circuit had a voltage of 6 V, what would the voltage drop across each bulb be if there are two bulbs in the circuit?
7. In a parallel circuit, the current provided by the batteries is 4 A. What is the current provided to each bulb if there are two bulbs in the circuit?
8. Draw a simple electromagnet. How does this device work?
9. What type of reaction occurs in a nail when a current is sent through the wire wrapped around it in an electromagnet?
10. Identify the series circuit and the parallel circuit below.