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Semester Review

Identify the three key nutrient cycles studied in class

Contrast endocytosis & exocytosis

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Define carrying capacityContrast diffusion and facilitated

diffusion

Briefly describe how increased greenhouse gases lead to rising

temperatures

Define an ecological footprint

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Briefly explain why our current model is named the fluid mosaic

model Organizes cell division

Illustrate the difference between logistic and exponential growth Cell Wall

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Identify why ions are unable to pass across a membrane by diffusion Identify the four cell structures that all

types of cells have.

Ribosome

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Modifies, sorts, packages proteins and lipids for storage and transportation out of cell

Identify at least three ways humans alter the populations within an

ecosystem

Identify the two ways a population may decrease in size Nucleolus

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Explain why the cell membrane is considered semipermeable Illustrate a food chain that shows a

tertiary consumer

Synthesize proteins

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Chloroplast Vacuole

Cytoskeleton

Contrast passive & active transport

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Describe what happens to the concentration of a chemical, such as DDT, when it moves up a food chain.

What is this concept called?

Assembly of ribosomes begins here

Identify the two sources autotrophs may capture energy from

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Identify the symbiotic relationship where both organisms are helped

A hypotonic solution differs from the inside of a cell in what way?

Assembles proteins and lipids

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Identify the four components that make up the cell membrane

Passive transport mechanisms always move molecules in what

direction along a gradient?

Identify the six levels of ecological organization from smallest to

largest

Identify at least three things that organisms may compete over

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Regulates material entering & leaving the cell

Protects and supports

Identify the six types of consumer discussed in class

Nucleus Convert solar energy into chemical energy stored in food

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Predator is to prey as herbivore is to ___

Identify the symbiotic relationship where one organism is helped while

the other is neither helped nor harmed

Contains DNA

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Identify at least two factors from class that affect climate

Identify at least two density-independent limiting factors

Contrast the sizes of prokaryotic cells, eukaryotic cells, and viruses.

Stores & moves materials around the cell

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Fluid portion outside the nucleus

Identify the four types of macromolecules found within all

organisms.

Separates nucleus from cytoplasm

Contains pores to move material in & out

Cell Membrane

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Mitochondria Convert chemical energy in food to usable compounds

Contrast primary & secondary succession

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Describe the population that should result in 30-40 years

Briefly explain what would occur to the cells of a freshwater plant that

was exposed to flooding from a nearby body of salt water

Illustrate a portion of a lipid bilayer including phospholipids and a

protein(along with a carbohydrate receptor and cholesterol)

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Endoplasmic Reticulum

Provide at least two reasons why some molecules are unable to cross

the membrane

Rare(not shown)

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Complex of DNA and proteins

Briefly describe why succession happens within an ecosystem Break down and recycle

macromolecules and old organelles

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Cells placed in hypotonic solutions will always have what happen to

their mass?

Contrast a habitat from a niche

Contrast weather & climateTwo eggs are placed into different

solutions. An egg placed into a green solution loses 2.1% of its

mass, while the egg placed into a red solution loses 3.5% of its mass. Which solution has a higher solute

concentration?

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Identify the six elements that are the building blocks for the four types of

macromolecules.

LysosomeIdentify the two ways a population

may grow in size

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Identify the eight major taxonomic ranks from most inclusive to most

specific

Temporarily store materials like water, salts, carbohydrates, and

proteins

Identify the type of population growth the human population

current trending toward

Describe how the movement of energy and matter differs within a

living system

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Identify the cause to a slowed population growth rate if

immigration and emigration remain equal?

As the concentration of solute in a solution increases, what happens to

the water concentration in that same solution?

Maintains cell shape

Moves cell parts

Helps cells move

Identify the first level of any food chain or food web

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Golgi ApparatusIdentify the percent of energy that is

passed from one trophic level to another, on average

Identify the three factors that are required for there to be competition Nuclear Membrane

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Vesicles

Identify the three key nutrients that often act as limiting factors within

an ecosystem

Contrast phagocytosis & pinocytosis

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Chromatin

Provide at least two examples of types of organisms that are

producers

Identify at least three density-dependent limiting factors

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Cytoplasm Centriole

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Shapes, supports, and protects the cell

Identify the cause of molecular movement

Identify at least two ways that molecular active transport differs

from any passive transport mechanism