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Final Exam Review

A Year of 7th Grade Science

Name______________________

1. What are safe practices during lab and field investigations as explained in class?
2. Be prepared to make observations using appropriate equipment.
3. Be prepared to analyze data to formulate explanations, communicate valid
conclusions supported by the date and predict trends, i.e., data tables, graphs,
charts.
4. When should you use the appropriate safety equipment and how should you clean
up after a lab?
5. Describe some of the models you have used in class this year to help you
understand science concepts (colored water as blood). What were their
limitations?

MATTER and ENERGY


1. Radiant energy from the sun is transformed into _________ energy through the
process of ____________________. What is the equation for that process?
2. Diagram the flow of energy through living systems, i.e., food chains, food webs
and energy pyramids.
Food Chain
Food Web
Energy Pyramid

3. What is the difference between chemical and physical changes in matter in the
digestive system?
4. How are large molecules broken down into smaller molecules (for example,
carbohydrates can be broken down into sugars)?

EARTH AND SPACE


1. How do different types of catastrophic events impact ecosystems such as floods,
hurricanes, or tornadoes?

2. Describe the effects of weathering, erosion, and deposition on the environment in


ecoregions of Texas.
3. What are possible effects of human activity on groundwater and surface water in a
watershed?
4. What are the characteristics that allow life to exist on a planet?

5. What are the challenges astronauts face living on the ISS, that make it different
from living on earth?

ORGANISMS AND ENVIRONMENTS


1. How do different environments support different varieties of organisms (differences
in biomes grasslands, rainforests, tundra, coniferous forests, etc.)

2. How does biodiversity contribute to the sustainability of an ecosystem?


3. What is the role of ecological succession (2 types)?
Primary Secondary 4. Give an example of how variation within a population or species has changed to
enhance their survival (adaptations such as migration, hibernation, storage of
food in a plant bulb).

5. What is natural selection? What is selective breeding?

6. The energy in plants is transferred to us when we ____ and occurs in the


_____________ system.
7. What is biomass? How is it related to available energy?

8. In a food pyramid, how much energy is passed to the next level? Therefore, the
most energy is available at what level of the pyramid and/or food chain?

9. All energy in an ecosystem/food pyramid/food chain comes from the _______.


10.
How do internal structures of organisms have adaptations that allow specific
functions?

11.
What are the main functions of the systems of the human organism?
SYSTEMS
MAIN FUNCTION
CIRCULATORY
RESPIRATORY
SKELETAL
MUSCULAR
DIGESTIVE
EXCRETORY
REPRODUCTIVE
INTEGUMENTARY
NERVOUS
ENDOCRINE

13. What physical and chemical changes happen in the digestive system? Think of 3-5.

14. The digestive system breaks down complex molecules into simple molecules.
Examples are:
Carbohydrates to ______________________
Proteins to _________________________
15. Cellular respiration is the breakdown of chemicals in the mitochondria. This reaction
provides energy for the body processes. This is an example of __________ energy into
_____________ energy.

16. What are the levels of organization in living things?


__cells_____

___________

___________

__________

__________

17. Draw and differentiate the structure and function in plant and animal cell organelles.
Drawing and Characteristics of Animal
Cells:

Drawing and Characteristics of Plant Cells:

18. How does waste removal occur in a cell and in an organism?


19. What are the three statements of the cell theory?

20. What is:


Geotropism
Phototropism
Turgor Pressure GENETICS
1. How many parents are there in asexual reproduction? In sexual reproduction?
Who has the most diverse offspring and why?

2. Binary fission and budding are examples of what type of reproduction?


3. What is an inherited trait? How are they transmitted?

4. What is a phenotype? Give an example of how dominant and recessive traits


might be presented in a group of siblings.

5. What is a genotype? What possible combinations are there?


6. What structures in the nucleus of a cell provide genetic information?
7. How many pairs of these structures are in each human cell?
FORCE, ENERGY AND MOTION
1. Forces are exerted on objects all around us. What must happen for movement to
occur?
2. What can change the direction of a force?
3. What forces are being demonstrated when a root pushes its way out of a plant?
4. How would this force be varied if we grew the same bean seeds without the force
of gravity?
MITOSIS / MEIOSIS
1. What happens during Mitosis?
2. Draw and label the sequence of Mitosis from left to right.

3. What happens during Meiosis?


4. Draw and label the sequence of Meiosis from left to right.

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