Biology credit recovery or improvement is only offered if the student has failed a lab science biology course in the past. Please see your ACE instructor for this option.
You will need to use the following if utilizing the APEX curriculum:
Students are to take Cornell Notes on the following units. Each unit must have 5-10 pages of notes before the student can attempt the unit test. ACE educator authorization is required to take the test. Students may use Google Docs to take notes, but must show original note taking skills that are approved by your ACE educator.
Lab review will be done with the ACE educator and students will need to demonstrate proficiency in the subject area.
Students must complete the following to receive full credit:
Define Terms with examples for each term.
Write a Summary of each video (minimum 3-5 sentences per video). Label clearly for teacher to see work.
Answer Important Questions after watching the videos and taking notes.
Practical application of scientific notations. Students must show real world application to the scientific method.
Take Exam at: https://testmoz.com/class/16400 be sure to print (control + "P") results of submitted exam and staple to the front of each credit.
Results of labs or proof of lab work (must be approved by teacher or counselor).
Unit 1: The Biosphere
Review the videos and media and take notes on terms to know. If the terms are not on the media, please Google them in order to get the materials needed to take the test.
Terms to Know:
liquids
hypothesize
physical change
SI units of measure
nitrogen
oxygen
carbon
Fahrenheit degrees
line graph
Ectothermic animals
density
mass
volume
solid
liquid
gas
matter
proteins
electron
Notes:
Important Questions:
1. A genus is divided into
2. All organisms are made of small building blocks called
3. Organisms that are composed of many cells are called
4. A change in a organism's surroundings that causes it to react is called a
5. An organism reacts to a stimulus with a
6. The mistaken idea that living things can arise from nonliving things
7. What is an experiment called that carries out two test that are identical in every respect except one factor
8. What was the name of the French chemist that helped to disprove spontaneous generation in the 1800's
9. All living things must satisfy their basic needs for what four things
10. Organisms that make their own food are called
11. Organisms that can not make their own food are called
12. What is homeostasis
13. What is the process called that groups things together by similarities
14. Why is Biology important?
15. The naming system that Linnaeus used is called
16. The first word in a organism's scientific name is its
17. List in order the levels of classification beginning with domain
18. The process by which species gradually change over time is called
19. What is a prokaryotes
20. What domain do seaweeds,mushrooms and tomatoes and dogs belong to
21. The scientific study of how living things are classified is called
22. Which of the following statements about cells is not true?
A. Cells are the building blocks of living things
B. Cells carry out the basic life functions of living things
C. Some organisms are made up of only one cell
D. Most cells can be seen with the naked eye
23. Organisms that are autotrophs are classified in which of the following domains?
A. Bacteria
B. Archaea
C. Eukarya
D. All of the above
24. Pasteur's experiment in which he boiled broth in some flasks, but not in others, was a controlled experiment because ________________________
25. Which gas was NOT a large part of Earth's early atmosphere?
26. How do living and nonliving factors impact biodiversity and population sizes?
27. How do ecosystems and their populations respond to changes in the environment?
28. How do living and nonliving factors interact to create an interdependent system of resiliency and change within ecosystems?
*Hand in ALL work to teacher with test results on the front.
Work should be 5-10 pages when completed for full credit.
Unit 2: Populations
Review the videos and media and take notes on terms to know. If the terms are not on the media, please Google them in order to get the materials needed to take the test.
Terms to Know:
chromosomes
male
female
chloroplasts
genetics
traits
cell
photosynthesis
dominant gene
phenotype
osmosis
tissues
mutations
DNA
mitochondria
organelles
Notes:
Important Questions:
1. The first person to describe cells was:
2. Which of these statements is NOT part of the cell theory?
A. All living things are made of one or more cells
B. All living things have chloroplast.
C. Cells are basic units of living things
D. All cells come from existing cells
3. Plants have rigid _____________ to support the cells, which is absent in animals.
4. __________ are structures that perform specific functions within the cells.
5. The part of the cells that make proteins are called
6. What part of the cells that convert the chemical energy of food into a form the cell can use?
7. The part of plant cells that make its own food is called ____________.
8. Cell division is called ___________.
9. What is the passing of traits of parents to their offspring or children?
10. In __________, offspring come from a single parent.
11. Process of reproduction involving a single parent that results in offspring that are genetically identical to the parent
12. Process of reproduction in which genetic material from two parents combines and produces offspring that differ genetically from either parent
13. Cell grows in size, makes a copy of DNA, and grows more to prepare for cell division
14. Sister chromatids line up in the middle of the cell
15. Chromatin (DNA) condenses to form sister chromatids; nucleolus & nuclear membrane disappear
*Hand in ALL work to teacher with test results on the front.
Work should be 5-10 pages when completed for full credit.
Unit 3: Ecosystems
Review the videos and media and take notes on terms to know. If the terms are not on the media, please Google them in order to get the materials needed to take the test.
Terms to Know:
Water
Animal Development
ATP
Respiration
Taxonomy
Phylogenetic treees
eukaryotic
multicelluler
Notes:
Important Questions:
Scientists place organisms into one of six groups. These groups are also called what?
Which of the following is NOT one of the smaller groups in a kingdom?
A: phylum
B: class
C: order
D: trait
3. What is a trait?
4. True or False? Classification is the system used for identifying organisms.
5. Organisms in the same kingdom have ______________ traits.
6. What do we call the group that makes up of one type of organism?
7. A kingdom is divided into smaller groups. These groups are phylum, class, order, _______________, genus, and species.
8. What are one-celled organisms called?
9. Kingdoms that include organisms made up of one cell are bacteria, ______________, and _____________ .
10. What do scientists use to identify individual types of organisms?
11. another name for the scientific name of a living thing. Genus is like last name (capitol letter), species is like first name (lowercase letter)
12. living thing which must obtain food from out side
13. domain (animals, protists, fungi) which are all eukaryotic
14. animals, plants, fungi, protists, and bacteria are...
15. what happens as you go down the classification categories?
16. phylums for the animal kingdom are divided into what?
17. order and family classifications have a lot to do with...
18. genus and species are..
19. why do scientists classify living things?
20. where else do people classify?
*Hand in ALL work to teacher with test results on the front.
Work should be 5-10 pages when completed for full credit.
Unit 4: Photosynthesis
Review the videos and media and take notes on terms to know. If the terms are not on the media, please Google them in order to get the materials needed to take the test.
Terms to Know:
protists
dinoflagellates
flagella
euglenas
Red tides
microorganism
Viruses
Sarcodines
pseudopodia
sporozoa
kelps
capsid
budding
Eurkaryotes
fungi
Notes:
Important Questions:
1. Check all that apply to the Bacteria Kingdom. (3 answers)
A. Single celled organism single celled organism
B. Multi-cellular organism
C. Complex cell structures
D. Grow fast
E. Reproduce through spores
F. Share characteristics with animals, plants, or fungi
G. Have a nucleus
H. Have no nucleus
I. Most numerous type of organism
J. Move by using cilia or a psuedopod (a false foot)
2. Check all that apply to the Protist Kingdom. (5 answers)
A. Single celled organism single celled organism
B. Multi-cellular organism
C. Complex cell structures
D. Grow fast
E. Reproduce through spores
F. Share characteristics with animals, plants, or fungi
G. Have a nucleus
H. Have no nucleus
I. Most numerous type of organism
J. Move by using cilia or a psuedopod (a false foot)
3. Check all that apply to the Fungi Kingdom. (6 answers)
A. Single celled organism single celled organism
B. Multi-cellular organism
C. Complex cell structures
D. Grow fast
E. Reproduce through spores
F. Share characteristics with animals, plants, or fungi
G. Have a nucleus
H. Have no nucleus
I. Most numerous type of organism
J. Move by using cilia or a psuedopod (a false foot)
4. Which of the following are kinds of bacteria?
A. Mushrooms, Amanitas,
B. Amoebas, Slime mold, Algae
C. Cocci, Bacilli, spirochetes
5. Which of the following are kinds of protists?
A. Mushrooms, Amanitas,
B. Amoebas, Slime mold, Algae
C. Cocci, Bacilli, spirochetes
6. Which of the following are kinds of fungi?
A. Mushrooms, Amanitas,
B. Amoebas, Slime mold, Algae
C. Cocci, Bacilli, spirochetes
7. There are 3 kingdoms for bacteria
8. Archaebacteria and Eubacteria are the 2 kingdoms of bacteria.
9. What are cilia used for?
10. What insect infects people with Black Plague?
11. What is something good that protists do?
12. Which types of cells can destroy bacteria?
13. Bacteria do not...
14. What is something good that fungi do?
15. What is the best description of a flagellum?
*Hand in ALL work to teacher with test results on the front.
Work should be 5-10 pages when completed for full credit.
Unit 5: Plants, Nonflowering Plants, and Flowering Plants
Review the videos and media and take notes on terms to know. If the terms are not on the media, please Google them in order to get the materials needed to take the test.
Terms to Know:
Sperm
pollen
vegetative propagation
phloem
transpiration
Calvin cycle
anther
tropism
ATP
xylem
epidermis
stomates
sporophyte
rhizoids
stigma
plants
Bryophytes
Notes:
Important Questions:
What is the scientific name for non-flowering plants that use seeds to reproduce?
What is different from the seeds of gymnosperms vs. the seeds of flowering plants?
Where do conifers house their seeds?
How is pollen carried from one cone to another?
How are the seeds of the conifer dispersed?
How do non-flowering plants that don't produce seeds reproduce?
What are spores?
Where do ferns produce their spores?
Are ferns flowering or non-flowering plants?
Does a sequoia grow cones?
Is a shrub a flowering plant or non-flowering plant?
Seedless plants reproduce with ___.
What are moss plants produced from?
Some non-flowering plants have seeds.
All flowering plants produces spores.
Plants can be classified into __________ main groups.
Cedar, Pine, and Spruce trees are example of what type of plant?
Orange trees are examples of...
Peach tree, apple tree, and a banana tree are examples of what type of plant?
An example of a non-flowering plant that produces spores is a
Taking in CO2 from the atmosphere and turning it into glucose is called
Which substance from the light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis is a source of energy for the Calvin Cycle?
Where does the Calvin Cycle occur?
What are the products of photosynthesis?
What is the main purpose of the light reactions?
*Hand in ALL work to teacher with test results on the front.
Work should be 5-10 pages when completed for full credit.