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What are your 3 major dreams?
How do you think these dreams will change your life?
In your dreams is there a certain group of people you are looking forward to helping?
Extra Credit Biology Question -
In recent years, studies of animal behavior have become increasingly important.
Answer either a. or b. below.
a. Describe experiments that demonstrate how honeybees
communicate the location of a food source to other members
of the hive.
b. Discuss several examples and the possible biological functions
of territoriality in the vertebrates other than man.
SCIENCE EXTRA CREDIT QUESTION -
Can you tell me how iron intake and blood levels relate to heart disease in older men?
Science Quiz #1:
Multiple Choice Questions (pick A,B,C, or D for each answer below)
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Why is Earth's biodiversity greatest near the equator? |
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There is more land at the equator than at the poles. |
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More species can live in warm climates than in cold climates. |
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Living things can reproduce faster in warm climates than in cold climates. |
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There is too much solar radiation at the poles to sustain life. |
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Which of the following is not a characteristic of all living things? |
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the ability to reproduce |
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a body made of cells |
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the ability to use energy from sunlight |
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the ability to respond to the environment |
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What makes up Earth's biosphere? |
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all the living things and their environments on Earth |
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only the living things found on Earth |
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only the environments in which living things are found |
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all the living things found in Earth's land environments |
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Which of the following statements is true about biodiversity? |
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All the species that exist have been discovered. |
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There are about 100,000 known species. |
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One half of all the known species are plants. |
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Thousands of new species are being discovered every year. |
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How do multicellular organisms differ from unicellular organisms? |
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Multicellular organisms need energy; unicellular organisms do not. |
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Multicellular organisms have cells with specialized functions; the cell of a unicellular
organism is not specialized for one particular function. |
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Multicellular organisms must take in food; unicellular organisms make their own food. |
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Multicellular organisms have DNA as their genetic material; unicellular organisms have
no DNA.
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Science Quiz #2:
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How is adaptation related to evolution? |
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Evolution causes individuals to adapt to their environment. |
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Adaptations that give an organism an advantage accumulate in a population and lead
to evolution of the population. |
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Adaptations that are harmful cause a species of organisms to evolve into another species. |
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Individuals develop adaptations by using certain body structures more than others,
a process called evolution. |
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Which of the following is not a biological system? |
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molecules that make up a muscle |
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mouth, stomach, and small and large intestines that digest food |
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two cells in the body that function independently |
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single-celled organisms that live in a puddle |
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What is the most likely function of suction cup-like structures found on the underside
of an animal that lives on the ocean floor? |
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They help the animal move along the ocean floor. |
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They absorb solar energy from sunlight. |
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They digest the animal's food. |
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They make proteins. |
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Which is an example of homeostasis? |
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A snake's blood is the same temperature in hot weather and in cold weather. |
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A turtle sits in the sun on warm days and in the shade on cool days. |
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A polar bear catches fish with its front paws. |
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A human sweats in hot weather and shivers in cold weather. |
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In what way are a human and a bacterium related? |
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They are both multicellular organisms. |
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They are made up of similar molecules. |
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They reproduce in the same way. |
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They have similar organ systems.
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SCIENCE QUIZ #3:
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What term describe an explanation that a scientist offers to answer a scientific question? |
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conclusion |
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independent variable |
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dependent variable |
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hypothesis |
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What condition in an experiment does a biologist manipulate? |
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independent variable |
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dependent variable |
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control |
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constant |
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What statement is true about scientific theories? |
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They cannot be changed. |
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They are supported by a wide range of evidence. |
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They have been proved by scientists. |
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They are readily accepted by scientists. |
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Which is the correct sequence of scientific inquiry? |
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forming hypotheses, observing, testing hypotheses, evaluating results, analyzing data |
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observing, testing hypotheses, forming hypotheses, analyzing data, evaluating results |
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observing, forming hypotheses, testing hypotheses, analyzing data, evaluating results |
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analyzing data, forming hypotheses, testing hypotheses, observing, evaluating results |
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Which is an example of qualitative data? |
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After the chemical reaction ended, the mixture had a temperature of 52'C. |
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The chemical reaction produced a product that smelled like vanilla. |
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The mass of the product formed was 147.2 grams. |
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(D) |
After the water froze, it had a volume of 102 mL. | | | | | | |
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