Station 1 : Evolution
Theory of Natural Selection: Use the answers in the bank, to fill in the blanks
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
Overproduction
The spread of an adaptation throughout new generations.
Variation
A process where those with beneficial adaptations have a better chance for survival.
Adaptation
Decent with Modification
1. Natural selection is ___________________________________________________________________________________
a. It is based upon 4 principles:
i. ________ Producing more offspring than are likely to survive.
ii. ________ Heritable differences in an individual from those of the same population.
iii. ________ The ability of a trait to be inherited and passed down from one generation to the next.
iv. ________ A characteristic that allows an individual to better survive in their environment over others
of the same population.
Evidence for Evolution: Answer the following questions
2. By looking at the DNA sequences above, would you say that the two species are:
one) closely related or not closely related
a. What type of evidence is this? ________________________________
3. What types of structures are shown?
a. _______________________________________
(circle
b. _______________________________________
i. What type of evolutionary evidence is this? ________________________________
4. In the strata shown right, which fossil(s) are the most primitive? ___________________________________
a. What type of evidence is this?_________________________________
Mechanisms for Evolution: Answer the following questions
5. What are the 5 factors that can lead to evolution:
a. ____________________________________________
b. ____________________________________________
c. ____________________________________________
d. ____________________________________________  What happens when there is none of this?
i. _____________________________________
e. Genetic Drift
i. What type of genetic drift is this?
____________________________________________
Patterns in Evolution: Answer the following questions
6. What two patterns are usually seen
after a mass extinction?
a. __________________________________
b. __________________________________
Fossil Record: Answer the following questions
7. According to the graph, a material that has
approximately 6.25% 14C remaining, is how old?
a. 0 years of age
b. 5730 years of age
c. 11460 years of age
d. 17190 years of age
e. 22920 years of age
Origin of Life: Answer the following questions
8. Who created this experiment? ___________________________________
a. What was the purpose of the experiment?
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
Station 2: Ecology
Ecological Relationships: Label the following ecological levels of organization
1.
2.
e.
d.
c.
b.
a.
2. List all the biotic and abiotic factors that you can find in the picture above:
BIOTIC FACTORS
ABIOTIC FACTORS
3. What does the diagram to the right represent?
___________________________________________________
a. What do the arrows represent?
________________________________________________
b. Circle organisms in the diagram to create a
food chain.
c. What organism(s) are the base (support) for
the diagram? _________________________________
d. Name one secondary consumer:
________________________________________________
e. What organism is missing from this
diagram?______________________________________
4. Using your food chain from #3, create an Energy Pyramid and add the components below.
a. Label each trophic level.
b. Use arrows to show the flow of energy.
5. The grass contains 50,000 kcal of energy, how much energy is transferred to the grass hopper?
_______________________
a. How much energy is transferred to the owl? _____________
b. What happens to the rest of the energy?
____________________________________________________________________________
6. What symbiotic relationships do the following pictures represent?
___________________________________
7. Compare & contrast:
PRIMARY SUCCESSION
SUCCESSION
_______________________________
SUCCESSION
______________________________
SECONDARY
8. Label the following cycles of matter:
Station 3: Human Body & Reproduction
The senses
1. Sight- label the eye:
Word bank: pupil, cornea, lens, iris, retina, optic nerve
a.What controls the amount of light that enters?_______________
b.What focuses the light?__________________________________
c.Where can you find rods and cones?________________________
2. Owls are active at night. Due to this, which photoreceptor would
you expect to be used more frequently? (circle) ROD / CONE
Hearing
3. Where are mechanoreceptors located? ____________________
a. What are these called? ___________________________
4. What kind of stimuli do mechanoreceptors detect?____________
Touch, Taste, and Smell
5. Use the following key to match the sense with the description below: A=touch, B=taste, C=smell
Answers can be used more than once, or not at all
a. ________ uses the olfactory nerve.
b. ________ uses chemoreceptors.
c. ________ uses thermoreceptors.
Whole Blood
d. ________ uses nerves to generate impulses.
e. ________ uses mechanoreceptors.
Is composed
mainly of
Blood
6. Fill in diagram
Is composed of
an O2 carrying
protein
Carries ____________to the
cells, and _____________away
as waste.
Consists of:
a. ____Cells that destroy
infected body cells.
b. ____cells that make
antibodies.
c. ______________ that
“eat” clumped
pathogens.
Helps form
clots that
control
bleeding
Which is
composed
of water.
7. Write the blood type for each patient:
a. Steve has B antigens and Rh factor _____________
i. He can donate to ______________ and receive from_______________.
b. Lisa has A and B antibodies, and no Rh factor _______________
i. She can receive from____________________________.
c. Ashtyn has no antibodies but does have Rh factor ______________
i. She can donate to _________________________________.
Nervous and Endocrine System
8. What is the picture below? __________________________________________________________________
9. Label the picture:
10. Nerve cells are physically (circle) CONNECTED / DISCONNECTED, while the glands of the endocrine
system are physically (circle) CONNECTED / DISCONNECTED.
11. How does the endocrine system communicate? __________________________________________________
12. Match the gland with the proper hormone/function:
______ Ovaries
______ Testes
______ Pituitary
______ Thymus
______ Pancreas
______ Thyroid
______ Hypothalamus
______ Adrenal Glands
a. Controls glucose levels in blood. Releases
insulin and/or glucagon (sugars).
b. Stimulates the pituitary glands and
controls growth, reproduction, and body
temp.
c. Controls [H2O] in the blood and controls
cell growth.
d. Regulates metabolism.
e. Allows WBC’s to mature.
f. Releases primarily testosterone and is
responsible for male sexual maturity.
g. Releases epinephrine and increases
breathing, alertness, and blood pressure.
h. Releases primarily estrogen and
progesterone; also, regulates female
sexual maturity.
13. Label parts A – H.
14. Put letters A – D in order, for which eggs are produced & released. ______  _____  _____  ______
15. Put letters E – H in order, for which sperm is produced & released. ______  _____  _____  ______
16. Label each of the three phases of the menstrual cycle on the diagram below:
17. Label which organ releases the following hormones:
a. Testosterone ___________________
c. Estrogen _______________________
b. LH _____________________________
d. FSH ____________________________
18. Which form of contraception is effective in reducing both the chances of becoming pregnant and
the chances of contracting an STD? ________________________________________
Station 4: Microorganisms & Taxonomy
Viruses
1. Why are viruses not in the above tree of life? ____________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________
2. A virus that infects bacteria is known as a _______________________________________________________.
a. Label it’s parts (on the right):
3. What virus affects your immune system?
_________________________________
C
Bacteria
4. Which bacteria is bacilli shaped?_____
5. If bacteria A stained purple, it would
be gram (circle) POSITIVE / NEGATIVE.
6. What kind of cells are bacteria
A
B
composed of? __________________
Protista
7. Fill in the following diagram:
Includes slime molds and water molds.
__________-like
are photosynthetic
Protists are
eukaryotic, but are
NOT plants,
and can be found
in multicellular
colonies or single
animals, or fungus.
Includes psuedopods (amoebas) and ciliates
(parameciums)
Fungi
8. Label the parts of the fungi below:
9. Match the following:
______ Basidia- spore producing structure of club fungi
______ Ascus- spore producing structure of sac fungi
______ zygospore- spore producing structure of primitive fungi.
Plants (only on replacement, NOT final)
10. Place the different types of plants we learned about on the cladogram below (add any other traits
you can think of)::
------------ seeds enclosed in fruit
------------ seeds
----------- has vascular system
----------- photosynthetic
11. List 2 traits that allowed land plants to retain moisture.
- ______________________________
- _______________________________
12. Tell whether the plants are monocot(M) or dicot (D).
a. _________
b.__________
c.___________