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Can You…….
Make each into a question and answer it.
1. Explain and use the steps of the
scientific method: forming a
question that can be investigated;
posing a hypothesis; designing an
investigation to gather data that will
answer the question; collecting,
recording, and analyzing data; and
developing a conclusion.
2. Distinguish between independent
(manipulated) and dependent
(responding) variables in an
experiment.
3. Identify the variables that are kept
the same in an experiment.
4. Explain what happens when more
than one variable (condition) is
changed on purpose in an
experiment.
5. Explain why collecting a large
amount of data is important in an experiment?
6. Compare and contrast the mass,
volume, state, and reaction to
heat of various substances.
7. Describe several physical
properties that help identify
substances (e.g., state, density,
solubility).
8. Demonstrate that substances
having equal volumes can have
different masses.
9. Demonstrate that substances
having equal masses can have
different volumes.
10. Determine the densities of
several solids.
11. Distinguish between physical
changes and chemical changes
in substances.
12. Model the positions and
describe the movement of
atoms in solids, liquids, and
gases.
13. Identify the parts of an atom,
their charges, and their
positions in the atom.
28. Explain why chromosomes must
be duplicated before mitosis.
29. Compare and contrast types of
asexual and sexual reproduction
using examples of plants,
animals, and bacteria.
30. Describe the characteristics of
living things.
31. Review the needs of living
things.
32. Explain why a virus could be
considered nonliving as well as
living.
33. Identify the relationship between
the three domains and six
kingdoms in the classification
system for organisms.
34. Use a dichotomous key to
identify various organisms or
objects.
35. Describe the characteristics of
bacteria and how they are
classified.
36. Describe the characteristics of
protists, including common
examples.
37. Describe the characteristics of
fungi, including common
examples
38. Recognize that a pattern of
cellular organization occurs in
plants.
39. Compare and contrast nonvascular
and vascular plants.
40. Compare and contrast the three
kinds of vascular plants
(seedless, gymnosperms, and
angiosperms).
41. Explain the process of
photosynthesis in green plants.
42. Identify the purpose of cellular
respiration.
54. Predict how a long-term
change in the abiotic or
biotic factors could change
the populations of an
ecosystem.
55. Describe ways that plants
and animals change the
landscape or keep it from
changing.
56. Identify human actions that
cause changes in
ecosystems.
59. Describe the physical and
chemical changes that cause
rocks to weather.
60. Explain with examples how
rivers reshape the land over
both the long term
(weathering, erosion, and
deposition) and short term
(storms and floods).
61. Explain with examples how
waves along the beach
erode and deposit materials.
62. Explain how wind erodes and
deposits materials.
63. Compare and contrast the
effects of erosion by moving
water and by ice.
64. Interpret the role of gravity in
both fast and slow erosion.
14. State the cell theory.
15. Describe how various scientific
discoveries led to the
development of the cell theory.
16. Recognize that most cells can
only be seen using the
magnifying power of a
microscope.
17. Explain why most cells are small.
18. Distinguish between prokaryotes
and eukaryotes.
19. Draw and label the main
organelles in a typical plant cell
and a typical animal cell.
20. Identify the function of each
organelle in plant and animal
cells.
21. Explain why the process of
osmosis is important to cells.
22. Compare and contrast unicellular
and multicellular organisms.
23. Review the levels of cellular
organization.
24. Describe the role of specialized
cells in various multicellular
organisms.
25. Review the structure and
function of human body systems.
26. Explain why cells in multicellular
organisms divide.
27. Illustrate and explain the function
of each part of the cell cycle,
including mitosis.
43. Identify the biotic and abiotic
parts of an environment.
44. Define population, community,
and ecosystem and identify
examples of each.
45. Compare and contrast how
producers, consumers, and
decomposers in a food web
recycle energy through the
ecosystem.
46. Describe the role of bacteria,
fungi, and worms in adding
organic matter to the soil.
47. Explain what an energy pyramid
shows about energy in an
ecosystem
48. Identify specific adaptations
that help organisms survive
and reproduce in specific
environments.
49. Describe specific behaviors
of animals that help them
survive in their environment.
50. Compare and contrast
interactions between
organisms (competition,
predator-prey, mutualism
and symbiosis).
51. Describe plant tropisms that
help plants survive in their
environments.
52. Explain how the nitrogen,
carbon, and oxygen cycles
recycle matter throughout the
environment.
53. Predict how a short-term
change in the abiotic or
biotic factors in an
ecosystem could change the
populations of organisms
living there.
We will take a little time for the following
65. Explain the causes of
surface ocean currents.
66. Review the causes of land
and sea breezes.
67. Draw and label the parts of
a wave in water (crest,
trough, wavelength, and
amplitude).
68. Compare the time required
for various earth processes
(weathering, erosion,
deposition, wave action,
landslides) to occur.
