Diffusion

What is diffusion?


What does it mean by the "rate of diffusion"?

Cell Size

Why do we want a cell to have a large surface area?


Why do we not want a cell to have a large volume?

Small Cells

Why are cells small?  Why can't they be big?

Function Card Review

Take out the Function and Organelle Cards and match them up WITHOUT USING YOUR NOTES!!

Then have Ms. O or Mrs. F check your answers, reply with how many you have correct.

City vs Factory

Did your group pick to do it on a City or a Factory?


What organelles were the more difficult ones for you to find?

similarities

What organelles are similar between a plant and animal cell?

Review Cards

Using the set of review cards in your notebook (pg. 22-23).

Match the Organelle with the Function.

When you are finished, have your answers checked with Mrs. F.

Reply to this post with how many you got correct.

Plant Cells

What parts does a plant cell have that an animal cell does not have?

Functions

What is the function of the plasma membrane?

Organelle Functions

What is the function of the Golgi Apparatus?

Cytoskeleton

What is the function of the cytoskeleton?

Nucleus

What are the 3 parts of the nucleus?

Plant and Animal Cells

Look at the diagrams below and answer the question:

Without looking anything up....What is different about a plant and animal cell based on their appearance?

Plant and Animal Cells

What is one difference between a Plant and Animal Cell?

Differences

What is one difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells?

Prokaryotic vs Eukaryotic Cells

What is the difference between Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells?

Ecology Unit Test

Tomorrow is your test over the Ecology Unit.  You will be answering questions over the following topics:

What is Ecology?
How are organisms, populations, communities, ecosystems, biomes, and biospheres connected?
Abiotic vs. Biotic Factors
Density-Dependent and Density-Independent Factors
Emigration, Immigration, Birth Rate, and Death Rate
Population Growth Chart
Habitat vs Niche
Competition vs. Predation
Mutualism, Commensalism, Parasitism
Producers, Consumers, Decomposers
Food Chain and Food Webs
Energy Pyramid with Calculation

What do you need to practice before taking your test?

Ecology Columns

What is the purpose of you putting together an Ecology Column?

Ecosystem

What is an ecosystem?  What is necessary for an ecosystem to function properly?

Owl Pellet

How did the Owl Pellet help you to understand the Ecosystem that the owl's live in?

Owl Pellet

How can an Owl Pellet teach us about Ecosystems and about Food webs and Food chains?

Food Chain

Identify which organism represents each Trophic Levels in the food chain above.

Producers

What are producers? How much energy do they have (percentage)?

Food Webs

What is a food web? What do they show you?

Symbiotic Relationships

What do all 3 symbiotic relationships have in common?

Parasitism

Give an example of parasitism other than a tapeworm, roundworm, or ringworm.

Symbiotic Relationships

What are the 3 types of symbiotic relationships?  Describe each of them.

commensalism

What is commensalism?  Give an example.

competition and predation

What is the difference between competition and predation?

Symbiotic Relationships

What are the 3 different types of symbiotic relationships? Give your own example for each.

Predation and Competition

What is predation and competition?  Give your own example for each.

Habitat vs Niche

What is the difference between a habitat and a niche?

Communities

What is a community?

Niche

What is a niche?

What is a Lion's niche?

Density Dependent and Independent Factors

What are Density-Dependent Factors and Density-Independent Factors?  Give an example of each.

Limiting Factors

What are limiting factors for humans?

Carrying Capacity

What is a carrying capacity?  Why do populations have to have a carrying capacity?

Population

What is a population?

Biotic and Abiotic Factors

In which level of your template or foldable do you see both the biotic and abiotic factors?

Abiotic and Biotic Factors

What are abiotic and biotic factors? Give an example of each.

Biomes

What are the different Biomes on Earth? (List as many as you can find)

Community

What is a community?  Give an example.

Ecology Unit

Our next unit is on Ecology.

What is a community?

Test Question

What questions do you have or what help do you need on your test question before you get started writing today?

Bacteria

What would happen to the population of Non-Nylon Eating Bacteria if it was put in an environment that was completely made of soil?  Explain.

Join Google Classroom

Join the Biology Google Classroom page.

Go to http://classroom.google.com

Click on the + in the top right corner and click join class

Type in the class code: uf2vl4

Reply with "I'm in" when you are done!

Evolution

The red lizards of Arizona love the hot weather and enjoy small insects that they find running along the ground.  The red lizards can come in two different varieties, short legs and long legs.  Which variety of the red lizard is better equipped for survival in this environment? Why?

Vocab Order

WITHOUT USING YOUR NOTES....What order do the words go in?

Connection

What is the connection between Variation and Population?

Population to Natural Selection

What is the reason why Population comes before Natural Selection?

DNA to Mutations

On Friday we were discussing the order of the vocabulary words (think back to the sticky notes activity with your group).

#1. Please explain why:

DNA -->  Mutations


#2. What word do you think would come after mutations?

Evolution

What is evolution? Give an example of evolution.

Variation

Give your own example of variation.

Genotype vs Phenotype

What is the difference between Genotype and Phenotype?

Mutation

What is a mutation?

Natural Selection

What moth on the tree stump is more likely to survive?  Why do you think this?

Evolution

Our first unit for this school year is Evolution.  What is evolution? (You can look this up, but you CAN NOT COPY AND PASTE FROM THE INTERNET!)