Biologys Test Guide for 2 Partial Exam

I.

Read the next text and answer the next questions.

Mr. Cruz is a big biology teacher. One day, he observed that a student was decreasing in his grades and
slept a lot during his class. He though that it could be happen by the lack of sleep, because when he was
young, like us, he lived the same story, so he proposed that his deficient of concentration was due by the
lack of sleep. He tested his hypothesis living the same situation!!! How? During the winter holidays, he and
his wife made the experiment.
1. Mr. Cruz slept just 3 hours during a week.
2. His wife (Mrs. Cruz) slept in a normally period.
At final of this period, they, with the help of a friend, contested an exam and the results of it were:
Mr. Cruz: 72
Mrs. Cruz: 97
Finally, he concluded that the lack of sleep is the principal cause in the lower of the students performance.
1. Observation:
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2. Inference:
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3. Hypothesis:
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4. In the controlled experiment, identify
a) Dependent variable:
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b) Independent variable:
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c) Controlled variable:
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5. Conclusion:
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II.
Contest the following questions.
1. What is science?
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2. What is the scientific methodology? Where we can use it?
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3. The grass grew up 12 cm. This is a ___________________ data.
4. The color of her eyes are black because is a dominant character. This is a _______________
data.
5. Why the science, technology and society have a link in the search and development of new
experiments?

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III.

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6. Complete the letters with the characteristics of the scientists.
a) C_____________________________________________________________________.
b) O____________________________________________________________________.
c) S_____________________________________________________________________.
d) C_____________________________________________________________________.
e) Oh!!!
7. What is peer review? How can we use it?
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8. Does an inference is a bias? Why?
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9. Write the 8 characteristics of the living things, by this acronym.
a) C_____________________________________________________________________.
b) H____________________________________________________________________.
c) E_____________________________________________________________________.
d) M____________________________________________________________________.
e) G____________________________________________________________________.
f) U____________________________________________________________________.
g) R_____________________________________________________________________.
h) S_____________________________________________________________________.
10. We have a specific metric system with a decimal base. Convert the next measurements
into other ones.
a) 0.134 mg into kg: _______________________________________________________.
b) 1 hm into dm: __________________________________________________________.
11. Mention a goal of the science and a limitation of it.
a) Goal:
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b) Limitation:
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12. Key terms:
a) Stimulus:
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b) Difference between sexual and asexual reproduction:
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c) Metabolism:
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Make a Venn diagram about the levels of organization in the biosphere, using all the members
around you, and staring with me, as a species.

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__________

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Me

IV.

Contest or complete the next questions.

1. The energy is the principal component in the food chain, and it _____________ when the
trophic levels increase.
2. Based on the food web of the page 75:
a) Define food chain:
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Define food web:
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Show a food chain of this food web:
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3. Define the terms and give, at least 2 examples (This * means that the term doesnt need
examples):
a) Biosphere*:
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b) Abiotic Factors:
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c) Biotic Factors:
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d) Autotrophs:
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e) Heterotrophs:
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f) Methods used by the ecologists*:
1. __________________________________________________________________.
2. __________________________________________________________________.

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g)

h)

i)

j)

k)

l)

m)

n)

o)

V.
VI.

3. __________________________________________________________________.
Photosynthesis*:
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Chemosynthesis*:
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Herbivore:
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Carnivore:
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Omnivore:
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Scavengers:
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Decomposer:
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Detritivores:
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Determinate the type of pyramid that is shown.

Check your Big Ideas of Biology.

Respond the following questions.
1. What are the differences between the climate and the weather?
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2. True or False: The Greenhouse Gases can either moderate the climate and weather of
a place or change them to causing a catastrophe.
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3. Rewrite the next sentence with the affirmative information: In the Arctic Circle receive
the highest quantity of heat than the Equator zone and both of the Tropics.

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4.

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Complete the next scheme:

5.

Write the principal Characteristics of the next terrestrial biomes.

BIOME

Characteristics

Tropical Rain
Forest
Tropical Dry
Forest
Tropical
Grassland/
Savanna/
Shrubland
Desert
Temperate
Grassland

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Temperate
Woodland &
Scrubland
Temperate
Forest
Northwestern
Coniferous
Forest
Boreal Forest
(Taiga)
Tundra

6.

7.

Define the next concepts and the types of them (This * means that the term doesnt
need the types).
1. Plankton:
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2. Estuary:
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3. Wetland*:
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4. Benthos*:
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Complete the next Venn Diagram:

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