Study Guide – 2nd Final Exam – May 2016 Name:______

Complete the following study guide to prepare you for your 2nd Semester Benchmark Exam. You may write your answers on notebook paper. Please attach all additional sheets to this study guide.

1. What is the difference between a food web and a food chain?

2. How does energy move in a food web? What does the direction of the arrows show us?

3. What is an apex predator? Where are they usually found?

4. What is biodiversity?

5. What is the job of the decomposer?

6. What is the major difference between a producer and a consumer?

7. Which organism do you ALWAYS use to start a food chain? ______

8. Attach examples of food chains you have made from previous assignments. Make sure they were completed properly in the format required.

9. A niche is a job that organisms perform in their ecosystem.

What is the niche(job) of the following organisms from the food web?

a. Bees b. Wolf c. Rabbit d. Oak tree

10. Organize the following terms in order from smallest to largest.

Ecosystem Biome Biosphere Habitat

11. How are an ecosystem and a biome different?

12. Define biome.

13. What are the 2 factors that determine which type of biome will be found in an area?

14. In which type of biome is Mississippi located?

15. What differentiates MS’s forest biome from other forest biomes?

16. Define and give examples for the following factors.

Biotic factor:

Abiotic factor:

Interaction:

Study Guide – 2nd Final Exam-May 2016 Name:______

17. Be prepared to read a weather map and predict the weather. In the space below draw the weather symbol for the term.

Warm front Cold front Stationary front Occluded front

High pressure Low pressure

18. What type of weather will you experience under an area of high pressure? ______

What type of weather will you experience under an area of low pressure? ______

19. Identify the two fronts in the diagrams below.

20. What winds push the air masses across the US? And in which direction do they move?

21. A cold front passes over Florence. What will the weather be like AFTER the front passes through?

24. What are the two factors that determine climate? ______and ______

25. How do the following factors affect MS and make our climate HUMID SUBTROPICAL?

a. Latitude

b. Altitude

c. Distance from large bodies of water

d. Ocean currents

e. Prevailing winds

f. Mountain ranges

Add some of the factors to the map below.

27. Warm air is ______than cold air, so warm air ______.

28. Cold air is ______than warm air, so cold air ______.

31. Which equation below represents the process of photosynthesis? Which one represents respiration? Justify your choices.

a. 6CO2 + 6H2O C6H12O6 + 6O2

b. C6H12O6 + 6O2 6CO2 + 6H2O + energy

32. Classify the types of chemical equation that explain the two processes below. SYNTHESIS or DECOMPOSITION

Provide evidence to support your answers.

A.Photosynthesis:

B. Respiration:

33. Name the following compounds involved in the two processes.

a. CO2 b. C6H12O6 c. O2 d. H2O

34. Where are the reactants found on a chemical equation? Where are the products found on a chemical equation?

C6H12O6 + 6O2 6CO2 + 6H2O + energy

35. In which type of cell does photosynthesis take place? In which organelle in the cell does this process take place?

36. In which type of cell(s) does respiration take place? In which organelles in the cell does this process take place?

37. What does the Law/Principle of Conservation of Mass state?

38. How does this law apply to a chemical reaction such as the one shown in the equation above?

39. On the butterfly diagram, draw the O2 and CO2 cycle. In the table below explain how the autotroph and heterotroph in the diagram use the products of photosynthesis and respiration.

The butterfly / The flower

40. Four of the organ systems we studied are the Respiratory, Digestive, Circulatory and Excretory. Identify in which system these organs play an important part.

Heart Stomach Lungs Kidneys Liver Bladder

41. What doe s homeostasis mean?

42. Action – Which System? How do they work together to maintain homeostasis?

Action / Which system? / Interaction of which systems to maintain homeostasis?
Removes waste (liquid) from the body
Circulates needed materials around the body
Breaks down food for the body to use
Brings in oxygen, and removes carbon dioxide

43. WHY does the human body need two cell division processes?

44. Does the following happen in Mitosis (mi) or Meiosis (me)?

___A. Same number of chromosomes in the daughter cells.

___B. Half the number of chromosomes in the daughter cells.

___C. Grows and repairs the body.

___D. Forms the sperm and egg cells.

___E. Cycle, will repeat itself.

___F. Not a cycle, but has 2 stages.

47. What do I need to remember when I read/hear these words?

HETEROZYGOUS ______HOMOZYGOUS ______

DOMINANT ______RECESSIVE ______

48. Which trait shows up if present and covers up the other trait? ______

49. What is the only way you can show a recessive trait?

50. Complete the Punnett Square below

51. What does this picture represent?

52. Give the complementary code for the following sequence;

ATTTCGCGTTAAACGGGT

53. What information is carried on the part of the cell that is pictured?

54. Match the following cell parts with their function.

___ A. Controls the cell’s activities.

___ B. Found in both cells, allows materials to move in and out.

___C. Found only in plant cells, allows materials move in and out.

___ D. Builds proteins

___ E. Makes food for the plant cell.

___ F. Produces energy

___ G. Removes waste from the cell.

___ H. Stores materials for the cell.

___ I. Transports materials to golgi body.

57. Identify the following organelles in the cell above – Vacuole, chloroplasts, nucleus, cytoplasm, endoplasmic reticulum, cell wall and cell membrane

60. Which two organelles are found in the first cell, but not found in the second cell? ______

61. 17. How is a cell like a city?

62. Place the following 7 levels of classification in correct order from broadest to most specific;

Phylum Genus Species Kingdom Class Order Family

63. What is the story that will help you remember the levels of classification in correct order?

64. List the 6 kingdoms in correct order.

65. Opposites. Explain how the following VIV words are opposites

Autotroph vs Heterotroph / Unicellular vs Multicellular
Prokaryote vs Eukaryote / Sessile vs Mobile/Motile

66. Which characteristics apply to the organisms in the kingdoms? Give an example.

Archeabacteria –

Eubacteria –

Protists –

Fungi-

Plants –

Animals –

67. What are the 7 characteristics of living things? MRSNERG?

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