Biology Credit Recovery

Semester 2

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:

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).

Total pages (with exam):

5-10 pages of work per credit


Unit 6: Systems

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:
  • Roundworms
  • invertebrates
  • filet feeding
  • budding
  • trichinella
  • planaria
  • Asexual reproduction
  • tissues
  • sea fan
  • exoskeleton
  • pupa
  • arthropods
  • barnacle
Notes:
Important Questions:
  1. The job of the nervous system.
  2. The job of the digestive system.
  3. The job of the skeletal system.
  4. The job of the respiratory system.
  5. The job of the muscular system.
  6. This is made up of the brain and spinal cord.
  7. Made up of sensory neurons, clusters of neurons called ganglia and the nerves connecting them to each other and the central nervous system.
  8. The part of the brain in charge of thinking and memory.
  9. The part of the brain that coordinates balance.
  10. The part of the brain in charge of breathing.
  11. The major set of large set of nerves running down the spinal column or vertebrae.
  12. Specialized connection with other cells.
  13. The cell body of a neuron.
  14. A filament that arises from the neuron cell body and extends for micrometers. A cluster of them form a tree.
  15. A special nerve filament that arises from the cell body and travels up to a meter.
  16. Helping cells of the brain.
  17. A subsystem of the peripheral nervous system.
  18. This system controls everything you do:
  19. Without the nervous system, you couldn’t:
  20. The nervous system is made up of these three parts:

**Take exam at https://testmoz.com/class/16400 during class session.

*Hand in ALL work to teacher with test results on the front.

Work should be 5-10 pages when completed for full credit.


Unit 7: Plants and Animals

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:
  • hypothalamus
  • endoskeleton
  • gills
  • cartilage
  • chordata
  • vertebrates
  • ectotherms
  • amphibian
  • artidactyla
  • cerebrum
  • contour
  • hollow
  • mammary gland
Notes:
Important Questions:
  1. What is the scientific name for non-flowering plants that use seeds to reproduce?
  2. What is different from the seeds of gymnosperms vs. the seeds of flowering plants?
  3. Where do conifers house their seeds?
  4. How is pollen carried from one cone to another?
  5. How are the seeds of the conifer dispersed?
  6. How do non-flowering plants that don't produce seeds reproduce?
  7. What are spores?
  8. Where do ferns produce their spores?
  9. Are ferns flowering or non-flowering plants?
  10. Does a sequoia grow cones?
  11. Is a shrub a flowering plant or non-flowering plant?
  12. Seedless plants reproduce with ___.
  13. What are moss plants produced from?
  14. Some non-flowering plants have seeds.
  15. All flowering plants produces spores.
  16. Plants can be classified into __________ main groups.
  17. Cedar, Pine, and Spruce trees are example of what type of plant?
  18. Orange trees are examples of...
  19. Peach tree, apple tree, and a banana tree are examples of what type of plant?
  20. An example of a non-flowering plant that produces spores is a
  21. Taking in CO2 from the atmosphere and turning it into glucose is called
  22. Which substance from the light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis is a source of energy for the Calvin Cycle?
  23. Where does the Calvin Cycle occur?
  24. What are the products of photosynthesis?
  25. What is the main purpose of the light reactions?

**Take exam at https://testmoz.com/class/16400 during class session.

*Hand in ALL work to teacher with test results on the front.

Work should be 5-10 pages when completed for full credit.


Unit 8: Complex Animals

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:
  • Axial
  • Cardiac
  • Extensor
  • Endosekelton
  • Melanin
  • Ligaments
  • bones
  • diaphragm
  • urethra
  • Chemical digestion
  • thyroid
  • diaphragm
  • urethra
  • endocrine glands
  • veins
Notes:
Important Questions:
  1. Scientists place organisms into one of six groups. These groups are also called what?
  2. 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?

**Take exam at https://testmoz.com/class/16400 during class session.

*Hand in ALL work to teacher with test results on the front.

Work should be 5-10 pages when completed for full credit.


Unit 9: Ecology

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:
  • adolescence
  • testes
  • testosterone
  • zygote
  • first stage of labor
  • second stage of labor
  • semen
  • depressants
  • aspirin
  • carbohydrates
  • nicotine
  • aerobic
  • caffeine
  • calories
  • salt
  • HIV
  • antibodies
  • Vaccines
  • lymphocytes
  • interferon
Notes:
Important Questions:
  1. What is Ecology?
  2. Organisms of the same species living in the same environment together
  3. Populations of organisms living in the same environment at the same time
  4. What are 3 basic needs for a living thing?
  5. All living and nonliving parts of an environment found in a specific location.
  6. Identify an a example of an Abiotic Factor?
  7. What are Biotic Factors of an ecosystem?
  8. This is the part of the Earth that supports life
  9. A ________ is a large region of Earth that has a certain climate and certain types of living things.
  10. A place where an organism lives.
  11. Water is a/an ________________.
  12. the surroundings in which an organism lives
  13. The non-living aspects of an Ecosystem.
  14. What is the original source of almost all energy in most ecosystems?
  15. ___________ are comprised of ____________ which are groups of interbreeding individuals of the same species.
  16. In a community, producers are _____ which convert light energy to chemical energy in a process called _______.
  17. ______________make their own food from air, water, and the sun's energy.
  18. In addition to producers and consumers, healthy communities must have ________, bacteria and fungi which recycle detritus
  19. Each organism has its own _____ or function in a community, and is part of the ________ or web of life.
  20. In a typical ecological pyramid, cows are good examples of _____ consumers because they are _________.

A: primary, herbivores

B: secondary, omnivores

C: tertiary, herbivores

D: primary, carnivores


**Take exam at https://testmoz.com/class/16400 during class session.

*Hand in ALL work to teacher with test results on the front.

Work should be 5-10 pages when completed for full credit.

Unit 10: More Biological Systems

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:
  • Abiotic factors
  • biosphere
  • condensation
  • habitat
  • herbivores
  • ecology
  • omnivores
  • nitrogen fixation
  • niches
  • biome
  • tundra
  • atoms
  • precipitation
  • evaporation
  • condensation
Notes:
Important Questions:
  1. A living microbe with reduced virulence that is used for vaccination is considered _____.
  2. Which of the following diseases has two forms of vaccine, one a killed virus and the other an attenuated virus?
  3. Which of the following is an example of natural acquired active immunity?
  4. Subunit vaccines like the pneumococcal pneumonia vaccine can't cause infection because _____.
  5. Booster immunizations are used to raise the antibody level by stimulating the _____ cells to induce the secondary antibody response.
  6. The colostrum, or first milk of a nursing mother, contains _____ that is transferred to the nursing child.
  7. Hyperimmune serum is serum with a higher than normal level of _____.
  8. What are the risks of vaccination?
  9. Sperm production begins in the
  10. The hormone that works with estrogen to prepare the endometrium for implantation of a fertilized egg is
  11. The average menstrual cycle is
  12. The structure between the uterus and the vagina is the
  13. The hormone that stimulates uterine contractions is
  14. The external genitalia of the female are collectively called
  15. The layer of the uterine wall that is shed during menstruation is the
  16. Sperm maturation occurs in the
  17. The production of testosterone in the interstitial cells is stimulated by
  18. The cell produced by fertilization is called
  19. 18-inch passageway where sperm is moved along by cilia and transports sperm along to meet a seminal vesicle
  20. glands that secrete a clear alkaline fluid that serves as nourishment

**Take exam at https://testmoz.com/class/16400 during class session.

*Hand in ALL work to teacher with test results on the front.

Work should be 5-10 pages when completed for full credit.