Bellwork 9/25

• Are viruses living?• Describe the structure of a virus.• How are the lytic and lysogenic life cycles of viruses different?• Draw a bacteriophage

Bellwork 9/26

• Take out U3P3 HW• Make a cladogram using the following chart

Characters Shark Bullfrog Kangaroo Human

Vertebrae X X X X

Mammary Glands

X X

Placenta X

Two pairs of limbs

X X X

Bellwork 9/29

• Take a microviewer from the cart• Take out U3P4 Homework • Are bacteria living? • How are Archaebacteria and Eubacteria different?• Describe the 2 different types of asexual reproduction in bacteria.

Bellwork 10/6

• Are protists unicellular, multicellular or both?• How are protists classified?• Why are algae important to aquatic food chains?

Bellwork 10/10

• Take out lab and U4P3 homework• Which protist causes African sleeping sickness? How is it transmitted?• Which protist causes Malaria? How is it transmitted?• Where does most of Earth’s oxygen come from?• How do Amoebas move?• How do Paramecium move?

Bellwork 10/20 #6

Are plants autotrophic or heterotrophic?• Are plant cells eukaryotic or prokaryotic? Unicellular or multicellular?• What is the first question we ask when classifying plants?• Vascular plants can be divided into 2 categories. What are they?• Give 2 defining characteristics of nonvascular plants.

Bellwork 10/21 #7

• Where does photosynthesis occur in a plant?• What do guard cells do?• How are most gymnosperms pollinated?• What is the role of the fruit in angiosperms?

Bellwork 11/5 #8

• Take out Friday’s assignment• What do the arrows in a food web show?• How much energy is passed from one trophic level to the next?• Explain the role of a decomposer in a food web.

Bellwork 11/10 #9

• Grab one microviewer per lab table• Write the equation for photosynthesis• What are the two steps of photosynthesis• In each step, what is needed and what is created?

11/12 #10

• Take out U6P5 even if I checked yours yesterday• What is the equation for cell respiration?• What are the three steps of aerobic cell respiration?• How many ATP are produced during each step?• Compare photosynthesis to cell respiration

11/13 #11

• What are the two types of fermentation? How are they different? How are they similar?• All types of cell respiration start with which step?• At what point in aerobic cell respiration is CO2 released? • How is energy released from an ATP molecule?

12/1 #12Bellwork will be collected 12/9• Define and give an example of each of the three types of symbiotic

relationships• Mutualism• Commensalism• Parasitism

12/2 #13Bellwork will be collected 12/9

• Why does primary succession take so much longer than secondary succession? • How does a habitat differ from an organism’s niche?• Give three examples of limiting factors in a population.

12/5 #14Bellwork will be collected 12/9• Turn in your biome packet• How is population growth calculated?• Why do populations reach carrying capacity?• Draw a graph that shows a population going through a lag phase,

exponential growth phase and then reaching carrying capacity.

12/6 #15Bellwork will be collected tomorrowAll bellwork questions will be posted to my website tonight

Describe the population growth for each of the following countries

A B C