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Study Guide for Monday's ClassificationTest

Mr. Carrison - Life Science
Gates Intermediate School - Scituate, MA

The first set of review questions are by our very own Mr. Bailey! Make sure you thank him for his hard work and contributions to our blog.

Part One:

Classification Study Guide
by Alex Bailey with the supervision
and help of Flash the wonder hound

1. Do you know cold the definition of Taxonomy?

2. How many Kingdoms are there?
What are they?

3. How do you classify a species?
What species is Tiki?

4. Do you know the Latin names of the five kingdoms?

5. Why did Linnaeus use Latin?

6. Who was John Ray?
What did he do?

7. Who was Carolus Linnaeus?
What did he do?

8. Who where Aristotle and Theophrastus?
What did they do?

9. What is binomial nomenclature?

10. What changes have been made since Linnaeus?

11. What are the characteristics of a plant? Animal? Moneran?

12. How do you write a scientific name?

13. Have you reviewed your old notes?

14. Have you reviewed your old notes?

15. Have you reviewed your old notes?

16. Have you reviewed your old notes?
(Do I make my point?)

17. Have you been to the MCAS site?

18. Have you read the chapter?

19. Do you have quality notes?

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This is a semi-interesting site with some good articles
http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/science/sciber00/7th/classify/sciber/intro.htm
This site has the entire classification system and can help you learn the system
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=taxonomy

This blog is 97% cat free due to the brutal reign of my cat meow, a close friend of Tiki.

Another NON-happy birthday to Tiki!!
Good! Like Mr. Carrison says you should always read the fine print. If you can name Mr. Carrison’s old dog then you get an extra point on the test. Also if you can tell Mr. Carrison what the latest broad cast on the British royal you tube channel that’s 2 more points.
Next week on the flash channel: Dogs gone wrong!

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Part Two:

1. Can you name all seven taxa in our current classification system from largest group to smallest group (taxa) in order?


2. What kingdom(s) can make their own food or are known as autotrophs?

3. What if any kingdom(s) are Heterotrophic?

4. Can you define:
Autotroph
Heterotroph
Eukaryote
Prokaryote

5. Which kingdoms are eukaryotic?

6. Which kingdoms are prokaryotic?

7. List 4 facts about bacteria

8. List 4 facts about the taxa species

9. In a nut shell what is meiosis? Be able to give at least 3 facts

10. Arrange in order from smallest to largest the following liquid metric units kl – l – ml

11. What are the differences between the animal kingdom and plant kingdom?

12. What is taxonomy?

13. A person who studies classification of life on earth for a living is called a _______ .

14. Is English the root language of our classification system?
Why is it used or why not?

15. If English is not used what language is used?

16. Which is the correct way to represent a scientific name of a domestic cat? Only 1 is correct!

a. Felis Domestica

b. Felis DOMESTICA

c. Felis domestica

d. felis domestica

e. Felis Domestica

f. Felis domestica

g. FELIS DOMESTICA

h. Felis domestica

i. felis Domestica

17. What is an organelle?

18. What organelles do members of the Plant kingdom HAVE that members of the Animal kingdom do NOT have?

19. What is binomial nomenclature?

20. Who is John Ray and why is he mentioned in this week’s text book reading?

21. What do you know about C. Linnaeus? What did he contribute to taxonomy?

22. Can members of different genus belong in the same species?

23. Can members of different families belong in the same order?

Wow! Want to see some neat sites? Check out the links below! They are both very informative and also almost semi-cool! Worth the time, take a peak. http://anthro.palomar.edu/animal/animal_1.htm or
http://www.virted.org/Animals/AnimalClassQuiz.html These sites have oodles of info on this week’s chapter. Some sites even have a couple of quizzes that you can take. Great study and review opportunities for the motivated student!

Confused on something?
Blog a question or request for help using this blog. Hopefully a fellow student will blog you back some help! Semi-cool or what!
Call your homework buddy
Check your textbook
Check your notes
Review your class handouts
See me before class
Put your question into a search engine such as
dogpile.com, google.com or about.com

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Few if any cats were harmed in the
publishing of this blog.

A NON-Happy Birthday to
Ms. Sabonis' Evil Cat Tiki!

LLama free since 3-8-2007 dispite Adam's best efforts!

Where did that darn cat go?

Heredity Study Guide

Boy oh boy, I sure hope I get some Valentines!

Gregor Mendel & Heredity Study Guide

by Mr. Colpoys, Mr. Carrison & with the Guidance of Flash

Check out the web links below for some educational sites and one fun link.

• Have you read the chapter?

• How are your notes???
  
• Have you organized your notes?
  
• Did you put the vocab words into your notes?
  
• During the film were you sleeping, snoring, drooling or taking notes? About 90% of the test was covered by the film!

1. Gregor Mendel:
-Where was he from? When did he live?
-What did he do for a career?
-What’s his “claim to fame”?

2. You’ll need to know the difference between dominant and recessive traits.

3. What are some dominant and recessive traits found in humans?

4. Flash begged me to tell you that the answer to #2 is A - this is his Valentines Day present to all his admirers.

5. What’s the deal with chromosomes?

6. How many chromosomes do we have?

7. What about other species?

8. How many chromosomes do we get from mom and dad?

9. Do you know the difference between mitosis and meiosis?

10. The Chromosome Theory:
-Who wrote it?
-What is it?
-What does it mean?

- Can you list the main parts/consepts?

11. You should also remember the parts of a cell.

12. DO YOU KNOW THE PUNNENT SQUARE?

13. DO YOU KNOW THE PUNNENT SQUARE?

14. DO YOU KNOW THE PUNNENT SQUARE?

15. What do you call a change that a species makes in order to survive better and reproduce?

16. How are Gregor Mendel and Charles Darwin similar? How are they different?

17. What’s the thing to the right called? What do all the letters and stuff mean?

18. Is your vocab finished?

19. Do you know the Metric System? You should!

20. If you haven’t read the chapter, pgs. 160-167, them you probably won’t do well on this test!

21. How many chromosomes in a human?

22. Did you know - How many chromosomes in a:

Fruit fly 8
House fly 12
Onion 16
Cat 38
Dog 78
Goldfish 94

Does this mean that a GOLDFISH is smarter the Mr. Carrison?

Ted Hut! Anyone know where this was taken?

Reminder: A decision was made to NOT use printed blog study guides on future tests. Please plan accordingly.

Per the request of a pseudo-military offical - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo1d6ttbAq8

Heredity video from YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEAGr_Mqm28

Neat interactive eye color genetics site http://mistupid.com/science/heredity.htm

For an example as to why Serra should not major in genetics click below! http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b77/angel_of_my_nightmares/Avis_and_signs/OMG.png

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Blog brought to you this week by the letter R, the number 2 and John Colpoys with the help and supervision of Flash the Wonder Hound!

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Darwin Study Guide

I'm on top of the world! Anyone know where this was taken?

I'm home in Scituate but WHERE?

Chapter 6 – Darwin and Natural Selection
Study Guide by Mr. Carrison under the supervision of Flash

1. Define ADAPTATION and be able to give 3 examples of how a species have adapted to fit into and thrive in their environment.

2. When we talk about evolution, what time period do we general think of? Long or short time period and what unit? Second, minute, hour, day, week, month, year, century or what? Nanosecond???

3. Define and know cold the difference between
- evolution
- natural selection.

4. Principles of Geology
- Who wrote?
- Why in a chapter devoted to Charles Darwin?
- What was it about?
- So what? Why is/was this essay of importantance?

5. What becomes of species that are not able to adapt to new changes in their environment?

6. Name the different authors and/or scientists who influenced Darwin’s work and theories?

7. List 10 facts about Charles Darwin.

8. According to our beloved textbook what did Darwin think about the many variations among members of the same species?

9. List 5 Facts about Darwin’s voyage around the world at the age of only 22 years old.

10. Define thrive

11. What species of animals in Scituate THRIVE despite humans building in “their” natural environment.

12. Review
- population vs community
- metric linear measurement
- sex cells

13. Simply put, what is NATURAL SELECTION?

14. What did Thomas Malthus put in his essay about the effects of plentiful food, water & shelter on a human population?

15. Define ABUNDANT

16. Can you give me 5 facts about the Galapagos Islands?
- Location
- Relevance to Darwin

17. What essay did Darwin write that “shook the world”?

18. Bottom line, how did life start here on Earth?

19. Have you completed your vocab sheet?

20. How good/complete/detailed are your chapter notes?

21. How long would it take you to review the chapter???

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Fine Print: For one point each - tell me where Flash is in the pictures at the beginning of this blog!