Egyptian American International School
The Science Department
2016-2017
Gr. 7 Life Science Semester 1 exam Study Guide
THE MID YEAR EXAM GRADE WILL BE DIVIDED 90 % FROM THEORITICAL AND 10 % FROM PRACTICAL EXAM
The Exam will include: ( 2 HOURS EXAM )
PART A: Multiple choice questions
PART B: Complete
PART C : True or false
PART D: Draw and Label diagram
PART E: Short essay questions
PART F: Bonus question
THE EXAM WILL INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING MATERIAL
Unit 1: The Study of living things
Chapter 2 – it’s alive!! Or is it?
Section 1: Characteristics of living things
Pg 38
Section 2: The Necessities of Life
Pg 42
Chapter review
Pg 50
Standardized Test Preparation
Pg 52
Vocab Words:
Cell
stimulus
Homeostasis
Sexual reproduction
Asexual reproduction
Heredity
Metabolism
Producer
Consumer
Decomposer
Protein
Carbohydrate
Lipid
Phospholipids
ATP
Nucleic acid
Make sure you know how to:
- Describe the six characteristics of living things
- Explain how asexual reproduction differs from sexual reproduction
- Explain why organisms need food, water, air, and living space
- Describe the chemical building blocks of cells
Chapter 3: the basic unite of life
Section 1: the diversity of cell
pg60
Section 2: eukaryotic cells
pg68
Section 3: the organization of living things pg76
Vocab words:
Cell
Cell wall
Organ
Cell membrane
Ribosome
Organ system
Organelle
ER
Organism
Nucleus
Mitochondria
Structure
Prokaryotic
Golgi complex
function
Eukaryotic
Vesicle
Lysosomes
Tissue
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Make sure you know how to:
- Explain why cells are so small
- State the parts of the cell theory
- Describe the parts of a cell
- Describe how eubacteria are different from archaebacterial
- Explain the difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells
- Identify the different parts of eukaryotic cell
- Explain the function of each part of a eukaryotic cell
- List three advantage of being multicellular
- Describe the four levels of organization in living thons
- Explain the relationship between the structure and function of a part of an organism
Study these Diagrams to draw and label:
From pg 60 to67
From pg 68 to 75
From pg 76 to 79
Chapter 4 : the cell in action
Section 1: exchange with the environment
pg 90
Section 2: cell energy
pg94
Vocab word :
Diffusion
Active transport
osmosis
endocytosis
passive transport
exocytosis
Make sure you know how to:
- explain the process of diffusion
- describe how osmosis occurs
- compare passive transport with active transport
- explain how large particles get into and out of cells
- describe photosynthesis and cellular respiration
- compare cellular respiration with fermentation
Photosynthesis
cellular respiration
fermentation
Unit 3: Hereditary, Evolution and Classification
Chapter 7: the evolution of living things
Section 1: change over time
pg 166
Section 2: how does evolution happen
pg 174
Section 3: natural selection in action
pg180
Vocab word :
Adaption
Fossil record
Generation time
Species
Trait
Speciation
Evolution
Selective breeding
Fossil
Natural selection
Make sure you know how to:
- identify two kinds of evidence that show that organisms have evolved
- Describe one pathway through which a modern whale could have evolved from an ancient mammal
- Explain how comparing organisms can provide evidence that they have ancestors in common
- List four sources of Charles Darwin’s ideas about evolution
- Describe the four parts of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection
- Relate genetics to evolution
- Give three examples of natural selection in action
- Outline the process of speciation
Study these Diagrams to draw and label:
From pg : 90 to 93
From pg: 94 to 97
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Chapter 9 – Classification
Section 1: Sorting it all out
Pg 222
Section 2: Domains and Kingdoms
Pg 228
Chapter review
pg 236
Standardized Test Preparation
pg 238
Vocab Words:
Classification
bacteria
Plantae
taxonomy
Eukarya
Animalia
dichotomous key
Protista
Archaea
Fungi
Make sure you know how to:
- Explain why and how organisms are classified.
- List 8 levels of classification
- Explain scientific names.
- Describe how dichotomous keys help in identifying organisms.
- Explain how classification developed as greater number of organisms become known.
- Describe the 3 domains.
- Describe four kingdoms in the domain Eukarya
Study these Diagrams to draw and label:
Fig 3: 8 levels of classification
pg 224-225
Fig 5: Dichotomous Key
pg 226
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