Formative Assessment questions are posted below. Label and answer the questions on the next blank right-hand page in your Interactive Notebook and on your answer sheet when taking the quiz.
CP5 * WEEK TWO * Formative Assessment Questions
Biology
1. What factors can change a population size? 2. What factors might cause the carrying capacity of a population to change? 3. What is the relationship between competition and population size? 4. Write the chemical equation for photosynthesis and the equation for respiration. How are they related? Describe the path oxygen takes.
Earth Science
1. Describe or diagram the carbon cycle. 2. How are humans altering the carbon cycle? 3. What is a carbon footprint? 4. Describe carbon offsetting?
CP5 * WEEK ONE * Formative Assessment Questions
Biology
1. Rabbits introduced into Australia over 100 years ago have become a serious pest to farmers. Rabbit populations increased so much that they displaced many native species of plant eaters. What is the most logical explanation for their increased numbers? a. Rabbits have a high death rate. b. There are few effective predators. c. Additional rabbit species have been introduced. d. There is an increase in rabbit competitors. 2. Four important characteristics of a population are: 3. Three factors that can affect popuation size are: 4. When will a population grow exponentially? 5. List density-dependent and density-independent limiting factors to growth.
Earth Science
1. True or False -- Plants can take in carbon dioxide from air or water? 2. From Earth's atmosphere, carbon dioxide is used by plants, algae, and cyanobacteria during the process of ___ a. photosynthesis. b. respiration. c. decomposition. d. nitrogen fixation. 3. Describe nitrogen-fixing bacteria. 4. Diagram the nitrogen cycle. 5. Diagram the carbon cycle.
CP4 * WEEK TWO * Formative Assessment Questions
Biology
1. How is genetic engineering like software engineering? 2. How does gel electrophoresis work? 3. What does a restriction enzyme do? 4. What's recombinant DNA?
Earth Science
1. Who was Wladimir Koeppen? 2. What's the Koeppen classification system? 3. List the three major criteria used in Koepen's system 4. What are the six main divisions in the modified version of the Koeppen classification system? 5. What is a microclimate?
Earth Science
1. Compare and contrast temperatures in the tropics, temperate zones, and polar zones; 2. Imagine you're a farmer--describe 2 to 5 ways you would use climate data; 3. How do normals differ from actual temperature? 4. List two topographical features and describe how they might cause variation in climate.
CP 3* WEEK THREE Formative Assessment Questions
Biology--
1. List the three main types of RNA.
2. What happens during transcription? What happens during translation?
3. Transcription & translation--diagram, label and describe each process.
4. What is a codon?
Earth Science--
1. What usually causes an ocean wave? Draw a diagram of a wave. Include water & energy movement, wavelength, wave height, crest & trough.
2. What causes tides on Earth?
3. Compare and contrast density currents and surface currents. How are each formed, where do they occur, how are they alike and how are they different?
4. Diagram and label the 5 major currents on Earth. Include direction of current rotation.
5. What is upwelling? How does it form? Where does it usually occur? Why do they usually support abundant populations of marine life?
Earth Science--
1. The average salt content in the ocean is _______%.
2. Why doesn't the salt content in the ocean continue to increase?
3. What is the average density of seawater?
4. Draw and label a diagram of ocean water temperature & depth--label the three layers.
5. Which is more dense, cold freshwater or warm seawater? Explain.
Earth Science--
1. What is oceanography?
2. Oceans contain ______% of the water on Earth.
3. ____% of Earth�s surface is covered by water. Which ocean contains � of Earth�s seawater?
4. Most of the land masses on Earth are in the ____________________ hemisphere.
5. From our studies in class, what is Argo?
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