Bellringers
9/1: Why are experiments important to science?
9/6: What is the difference between the control group and the experimental group? What is the difference between the independent variable and dependent variable?
9/7: None
9/8: Disregard
9/9: What does “living” mean? What do you consider the necessary characteristics to be considered a living organism?
9/12: What are the six characteristics of living things?
9/13: Explain how asexual reproduction differs from sexual reproduction? (p. 6)
9/14: Define homeostasis. Describe why it is important. Give one example. (p.5)
9/15: Define Metabolism. How does metabolism allow you to use energy? Define heredity.
9/16: None
9/17: What are the four building blocks of life? What is a monomer? What is a polymer?
9/19: None
9/20: Explain the role of a consumer, producer, and decomposer
9/21: Explain how organisms need food, water, air, and a place to live.
9/22: What is a monomer? What is a polymer? Give one example of each. What is ATP? Why is ATP important?
9/26: None
9/27: None
9/28: None
9/29: Ecology is the study of the interaction of organisms with one another and their environment.
1) Explain this in your own words
2) How do organisms interact with each other?
3) How do organisms interact with the environment?
9/30: What is Abiotic? What is Biotic? Give some examples of each.
10/3: None
10/4: Define Organism. Explain how populations, communities, and ecosystems are different.
10/5: What is the biosphere? What is the range on earth that the biosphere exists?
10/6: What is the difference between: herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, and scavenger.
10/13: What are food chains, food webs, and energy pyramids? What is the difference between them? How does energy move through each one of these maps? Where are the organisms most numerous? Where are they least numerous?
10/14: Wolves and the Energy Pyramid: Explain what happen to the populaces of the Gray Wolves, Elk, and Grass at Yellowstone? What happen when the Gray Wolves were reintroduced into Yellowstone?
10/17: Disregard
10/18: Define Symbiosis. Distinguish between the three types of symbiosis provided for you in the text.
10/19: What is a predator? What is a prey? What are adaptations for each predator and prey?
10/20: What is co-evolution? What traits/behaviors evolved between the Acacia tree and the Pseudomyrmex ant?
10/21: None
10/24: None
10/25: None
10/26: None
10/27: What are the inputs and outputs of: Photosynthesis, Respiration, Decomposition, and Combustion
11/3: None
11/4: None
11/7: Where is most of the earth's nitrogen found? What has to happen before plants and animals can get their nitrogen?
11/8: None
11/9: Describe how the nitrogen changes in each phase of the nitrogen cycle: Nitrogen fixation, ammonification, nitrification, denitrification.
End of MP1: Bellringers Collected
11/17: Open your book to p.36 and read the introduction in Italics. What do you think happens next? What will be the first things to grown in this area? How long before Yellowstone will loock the same again? If ever...
11/18: What is primary succession? What is a pioneer species? What is the pioneer species for primary succession?
11/29: What is a mature community? What is a climax species? What is Biodiversity and why is it important?
12/2: What is a biome? (circle the important points from)
12/5: What makes the three forest biomes unique? Explain why each biome is different.
12/6: What are some differences between the temperate grassland and the savanna?
12/7: What is unique about the dessert biome? How can you distiguish between the polar tundra and the alpine tundra?
12/12: What do you think the top five pollutants are?
12/13: Distiguish between renewable and nonrenewable resources.
12/14: What are exotic species? How do they get to a new place? Give an example. What is overpopulation? What advances have led to overpopulation?
12/15: Describe how habitat destruction affects Biodiversity. What is deforestation? What is point-source pollution? What is nonpoint source pollution?
12/19: What is conservation? Explain why it is important. Describe the three R's.
12/20: What was the Endangered species Act designed to do? What are the two ways the law does this? What is the EPA? What three things does it do?
1/3: What are the four parts that all living cells have? What do they do?
1/4: What is a cell? What are the three tenets of the cell theory?
1/5: Briefly, in a few words, summarize each scientist's contribution to the cell theory: Hooke, Leeuwenhoek, Schleiden, Schwann, Virchow.
1/6: Why are cells so small? Calculate the surface area to volume ratio for a cube that all sides are 3 cms.
1/9: What are the main differences between prokaryotic cells and eukaryotic cells? What are the two types of prokaryotic cells? What makes archaebacteria different?
End of MP2: Bellringers Collected
1/24: What is a cell membrane made out of? What does hydrophobic and hydrophilic mean? What is a cell wall? Which cells have a cell membrane? Which cells have a cell wall?
1/25: Write an essay describing a cell membranes structure and function: Include in structure the following words: phospholipid bilayer, hydrophilic head, hydrophobic tail, semipermeable - CO2, H2O, O2, pumps and channels - Na, K. Include in function: protect, shape, homeostasis:
1/26: What are the main differences between an animal cell and a plant cell?
1/27: Life of a protein: Polly the protein: Describe Polly's life. Specifically, the role the following organelles had on Polly: Nucleus, ribosome, Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum, Golgi Apparatus, Vesicles.
1/30: Describe the structure and function of the following organelles: Mitochondria, Chloroplast, Lysosome
2/7: Write one interesting thing about the video: http://www.sciencefriday.com/videos/watch/10380
2/8: Expalin this equation: Magnification = Image Height / Object Height. Solve this problem: A lady bug is 7 cm long. Under a magnifying glass the lady bug appears to be 42 cm long. What is the magnification power of the magnifying glass?
2/14: What are the three benefits of being multicellular?
2/15: Define structure. Define function. Describe the structure of lung tissue. Describe the function of lung tissue. Explain how the structure and function of lung tissue are related.
2/20: Define diffusion. Provide an example of how it works. Define osmosis.
2/21: Define osmosis. Explain the picture at the top of page 35 (use the word semipermeable in your explanation)
2/22: Define isotonic, hypertonic, and hypotonic. What does it mean when a solution is at equilibrium?
2/23: Compare and Contrast passive and active transport. What direction do they go along their concentration gradient? Which process uses energy? What size are the particles in each process?
2/24: Compare and Contrast endocytosis and exocytosis. Which uses energy? What type of transport are they?
2/29: Describe photosynthesis. What organelle is responsible for photosynthesis? Describe cellular respiration
3/1: Write the chemial equation for photosynthesis. What are the inputs and outputs? Write the chemical equation for cellular respiration. What are the inputs and outputs?
3/2: What is fermentation? How is fermentation different than cellular respiration?
3/5: What happens when you cells die? (Break a bone or sustain a cut). How is mitosis involved?
3/6: How is cell division different between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells? How many chromosomes do each have? What are their shape?
3/7: How is cell division different between animal cells and plant cells?
3/12: What characterisitcs do you have that make you look the way you are (i.e. hair, eyes, etc.)? These characteristics are called traits. Where do you get your traits from?
3/14: What is a dominant trait? What is a recessive trait?
3/15: What did Mendel do in his first experiment? What did he conclude? What did Mendel do in his second experiment? What did he conclude?
3/16: Define self-pollination, true breeding, and cross pollination.
3/19: What is the difference between a genotype and phenotype? How are alleles related to genotype and phenotype?
3/21: What does a Punnett square do?
3/26: What is incomplete dominance?
End of MP3: Bellringers Collected
3/29: What are sex chromosomes? Draw a punnett square for sex chromosomes. Explain why sex-linked disorders occur in one sex more than the other (p.73).
3/30: What is the difference between meiosis and mitosis?
4/2: Describe the pedigree diagram. What do the following things represent: Squares, circles, full shade, half shade, no shade.
4/3: What is selective breeding? Provide an example.
4/10: What does DNA stand for? What makes up DNA? What does DNA do? (p.86)
4/11: What were the three important events that led to the understanding of DNA? (p.87)
4/12: How does DNA replicate (p.88-89)
4/16: Explain what is a mutation. What are the three types of mutations? What is sickle cell disease? (p.94-95)
4/17: Explain the process in which DNA encodes proteins. (p.93)
4/18: What is genetic engineering? What are some benefits? What is DNA fingerprinting? What are some benefits? (p.96)
4/20: How does DNA form a chromosomes?
4/26: Define classification and taxonomy . Why is classification important to science?
5/1: What classification system did early taxonomists use? Who developed the modern day classification system? How many levels are there? Why is the new system better then the old system?
5/2: Explain how to write a scientific name.
5/3: What are the six kingdoms of living organisms?
5/4: Describe what classifies Archaebacteria and Eubacteria into their own kingdoms.
5/7: How did Euglena change the way we look at classification? How do Euglena resemble plants? How do Euglena resemble animals? How are they classified?
5/8: What makes the Kingdoms Protista and Fungi unique?
5/14: What are the three common shapes of bacteria? What does it mean to be prokaryotic?
5/15: What is binary fission? What is an endospore? How do endospores help the survival of bacteria?
5/16: What is the difference between the lytic cycle and lysogenic cycle?
5/17: Why are viruses considered not to be living? What living characteristics do they have?
9/6: What is the difference between the control group and the experimental group? What is the difference between the independent variable and dependent variable?
9/7: None
9/8: Disregard
9/9: What does “living” mean? What do you consider the necessary characteristics to be considered a living organism?
9/12: What are the six characteristics of living things?
9/13: Explain how asexual reproduction differs from sexual reproduction? (p. 6)
9/14: Define homeostasis. Describe why it is important. Give one example. (p.5)
9/15: Define Metabolism. How does metabolism allow you to use energy? Define heredity.
9/16: None
9/17: What are the four building blocks of life? What is a monomer? What is a polymer?
9/19: None
9/20: Explain the role of a consumer, producer, and decomposer
9/21: Explain how organisms need food, water, air, and a place to live.
9/22: What is a monomer? What is a polymer? Give one example of each. What is ATP? Why is ATP important?
9/26: None
9/27: None
9/28: None
9/29: Ecology is the study of the interaction of organisms with one another and their environment.
1) Explain this in your own words
2) How do organisms interact with each other?
3) How do organisms interact with the environment?
9/30: What is Abiotic? What is Biotic? Give some examples of each.
10/3: None
10/4: Define Organism. Explain how populations, communities, and ecosystems are different.
10/5: What is the biosphere? What is the range on earth that the biosphere exists?
10/6: What is the difference between: herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, and scavenger.
10/13: What are food chains, food webs, and energy pyramids? What is the difference between them? How does energy move through each one of these maps? Where are the organisms most numerous? Where are they least numerous?
10/14: Wolves and the Energy Pyramid: Explain what happen to the populaces of the Gray Wolves, Elk, and Grass at Yellowstone? What happen when the Gray Wolves were reintroduced into Yellowstone?
10/17: Disregard
10/18: Define Symbiosis. Distinguish between the three types of symbiosis provided for you in the text.
10/19: What is a predator? What is a prey? What are adaptations for each predator and prey?
10/20: What is co-evolution? What traits/behaviors evolved between the Acacia tree and the Pseudomyrmex ant?
10/21: None
10/24: None
10/25: None
10/26: None
10/27: What are the inputs and outputs of: Photosynthesis, Respiration, Decomposition, and Combustion
11/3: None
11/4: None
11/7: Where is most of the earth's nitrogen found? What has to happen before plants and animals can get their nitrogen?
11/8: None
11/9: Describe how the nitrogen changes in each phase of the nitrogen cycle: Nitrogen fixation, ammonification, nitrification, denitrification.
End of MP1: Bellringers Collected
11/17: Open your book to p.36 and read the introduction in Italics. What do you think happens next? What will be the first things to grown in this area? How long before Yellowstone will loock the same again? If ever...
11/18: What is primary succession? What is a pioneer species? What is the pioneer species for primary succession?
11/29: What is a mature community? What is a climax species? What is Biodiversity and why is it important?
12/2: What is a biome? (circle the important points from)
12/5: What makes the three forest biomes unique? Explain why each biome is different.
12/6: What are some differences between the temperate grassland and the savanna?
12/7: What is unique about the dessert biome? How can you distiguish between the polar tundra and the alpine tundra?
12/12: What do you think the top five pollutants are?
12/13: Distiguish between renewable and nonrenewable resources.
12/14: What are exotic species? How do they get to a new place? Give an example. What is overpopulation? What advances have led to overpopulation?
12/15: Describe how habitat destruction affects Biodiversity. What is deforestation? What is point-source pollution? What is nonpoint source pollution?
12/19: What is conservation? Explain why it is important. Describe the three R's.
12/20: What was the Endangered species Act designed to do? What are the two ways the law does this? What is the EPA? What three things does it do?
1/3: What are the four parts that all living cells have? What do they do?
1/4: What is a cell? What are the three tenets of the cell theory?
1/5: Briefly, in a few words, summarize each scientist's contribution to the cell theory: Hooke, Leeuwenhoek, Schleiden, Schwann, Virchow.
1/6: Why are cells so small? Calculate the surface area to volume ratio for a cube that all sides are 3 cms.
1/9: What are the main differences between prokaryotic cells and eukaryotic cells? What are the two types of prokaryotic cells? What makes archaebacteria different?
End of MP2: Bellringers Collected
1/24: What is a cell membrane made out of? What does hydrophobic and hydrophilic mean? What is a cell wall? Which cells have a cell membrane? Which cells have a cell wall?
1/25: Write an essay describing a cell membranes structure and function: Include in structure the following words: phospholipid bilayer, hydrophilic head, hydrophobic tail, semipermeable - CO2, H2O, O2, pumps and channels - Na, K. Include in function: protect, shape, homeostasis:
1/26: What are the main differences between an animal cell and a plant cell?
1/27: Life of a protein: Polly the protein: Describe Polly's life. Specifically, the role the following organelles had on Polly: Nucleus, ribosome, Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum, Golgi Apparatus, Vesicles.
1/30: Describe the structure and function of the following organelles: Mitochondria, Chloroplast, Lysosome
2/7: Write one interesting thing about the video: http://www.sciencefriday.com/videos/watch/10380
2/8: Expalin this equation: Magnification = Image Height / Object Height. Solve this problem: A lady bug is 7 cm long. Under a magnifying glass the lady bug appears to be 42 cm long. What is the magnification power of the magnifying glass?
2/14: What are the three benefits of being multicellular?
2/15: Define structure. Define function. Describe the structure of lung tissue. Describe the function of lung tissue. Explain how the structure and function of lung tissue are related.
2/20: Define diffusion. Provide an example of how it works. Define osmosis.
2/21: Define osmosis. Explain the picture at the top of page 35 (use the word semipermeable in your explanation)
2/22: Define isotonic, hypertonic, and hypotonic. What does it mean when a solution is at equilibrium?
2/23: Compare and Contrast passive and active transport. What direction do they go along their concentration gradient? Which process uses energy? What size are the particles in each process?
2/24: Compare and Contrast endocytosis and exocytosis. Which uses energy? What type of transport are they?
2/29: Describe photosynthesis. What organelle is responsible for photosynthesis? Describe cellular respiration
3/1: Write the chemial equation for photosynthesis. What are the inputs and outputs? Write the chemical equation for cellular respiration. What are the inputs and outputs?
3/2: What is fermentation? How is fermentation different than cellular respiration?
3/5: What happens when you cells die? (Break a bone or sustain a cut). How is mitosis involved?
3/6: How is cell division different between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells? How many chromosomes do each have? What are their shape?
3/7: How is cell division different between animal cells and plant cells?
3/12: What characterisitcs do you have that make you look the way you are (i.e. hair, eyes, etc.)? These characteristics are called traits. Where do you get your traits from?
3/14: What is a dominant trait? What is a recessive trait?
3/15: What did Mendel do in his first experiment? What did he conclude? What did Mendel do in his second experiment? What did he conclude?
3/16: Define self-pollination, true breeding, and cross pollination.
3/19: What is the difference between a genotype and phenotype? How are alleles related to genotype and phenotype?
3/21: What does a Punnett square do?
3/26: What is incomplete dominance?
End of MP3: Bellringers Collected
3/29: What are sex chromosomes? Draw a punnett square for sex chromosomes. Explain why sex-linked disorders occur in one sex more than the other (p.73).
3/30: What is the difference between meiosis and mitosis?
4/2: Describe the pedigree diagram. What do the following things represent: Squares, circles, full shade, half shade, no shade.
4/3: What is selective breeding? Provide an example.
4/10: What does DNA stand for? What makes up DNA? What does DNA do? (p.86)
4/11: What were the three important events that led to the understanding of DNA? (p.87)
4/12: How does DNA replicate (p.88-89)
4/16: Explain what is a mutation. What are the three types of mutations? What is sickle cell disease? (p.94-95)
4/17: Explain the process in which DNA encodes proteins. (p.93)
4/18: What is genetic engineering? What are some benefits? What is DNA fingerprinting? What are some benefits? (p.96)
4/20: How does DNA form a chromosomes?
4/26: Define classification and taxonomy . Why is classification important to science?
5/1: What classification system did early taxonomists use? Who developed the modern day classification system? How many levels are there? Why is the new system better then the old system?
5/2: Explain how to write a scientific name.
5/3: What are the six kingdoms of living organisms?
5/4: Describe what classifies Archaebacteria and Eubacteria into their own kingdoms.
5/7: How did Euglena change the way we look at classification? How do Euglena resemble plants? How do Euglena resemble animals? How are they classified?
5/8: What makes the Kingdoms Protista and Fungi unique?
5/14: What are the three common shapes of bacteria? What does it mean to be prokaryotic?
5/15: What is binary fission? What is an endospore? How do endospores help the survival of bacteria?
5/16: What is the difference between the lytic cycle and lysogenic cycle?
5/17: Why are viruses considered not to be living? What living characteristics do they have?