Week 10
4/21-4/25
MONDAY TUESDAY
A food web for an aquatic ecosystem is shown below. A town is built near a rainforest. The nearby rainforest consists of a very diverse
population of plants and animals. The people in the town discover that many of
the trees in the rainforest can be cut down, processed, and sold as lumber.
Continuous logging by the people from the town eventually results in a decrease
in the overall biodiversity of the rainforest because many of these trees
previously provided shelter and food to organisms living in the rainforest.
A conservation group wants to help the town come up with a plan to restore the
stability and biodiversity of the rainforest while still maintaining the town's logging
operation. Which of these would be best to include in the plan?
a. bringing livestock in to graze in cleared areas
b. replanting trees in areas where logging has taken place
c. introducing invasive species that are better able to withstand logging
d. using cleared areas for crop production
A student sliced a potato into six thick slices. She placed three of the
slices into a bowl of distilled water and the other three slices into a bowl
of water with a very high salt concentration. After 30 minutes, the student
Which of the following correctly describes one of the paths through removed the potato slices from the bowls and observed that the slices
that were submerged in distilled water looked and felt about the same as
which energy flows in this ecosystem?
they did before being placed in the water. The potato slices that were
submerged in the saltwater, however, looked shrunken in size and were
a. Puffins receive energy from herring, herring receive energy much more flexible than they were before she placed them in the bowl.
from krill, and krill receive energy from phytoplankton.
b. Mussels receive energy from copepods, copepods receive The student concluded that the cells that made up the potatoes that were
energy from phytoplankton, and phytoplankton receive energy submerged in saltwater must have lost water, causing the cells to shrink
from krill. and lose turgor pressure. What cellular process caused the water to
move out of the potato cells and into the saltwater solution?
c. Lobsters receive energy from codfish, codfish receive energy
from herring, and herring receive energy from krill. a. exocytosis
d. Phytoplankton receive energy from krill, krill receive energy b. osmosis
c. endocytosis
from jellyfish, and jellyfish receive energy from sea turtles.
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Week 10
4/21-4/25
WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
A small population of a specific plant species is The individual strands of a rat's hair can either be agouti Transcription and translation are
found in a grassland habitat. Each plant bears (banded) or non-agouti (solid). This is determined by a important processes involved in gene
flowers that are either white or dark purple. The single gene locus. Agouti fur (A) is dominant to expression. Which of the following is
color of the plant's flowers does not affect the
non-agouti fur (a). true about the products produced by
plant's chance of survival or its reproductive
these processes?
success.
Two rats mate and have offspring. Half of the offspring
A wildfire that occurs in the habitat kills all of the have agouti fur, and the other half have non-agouti fur. a. Transcription produces RNA
plants with dark purple flowers, as well as many of Which of these most likely represents the genotypes of molecules, whereas translation
the plants with white flowers. This causes the gene the parent rats? produces proteins.
for dark purple flowers to be lost from the b. Transcription produces
population. a. Aa × Aa proteins, whereas translation
b. Aa × aa produces RNA molecules.
Which of the following processes caused the loss
c. AA × aa c. Transcription produces DNA
of the gene for dark purple flowers from this
d. aa × aa molecules, whereas translation
population?
a. genetic drift
produces proteins.
b. natural selection d. Transcription produces RNA
c. adaptation molecules, whereas translation
d. speciation produces DNA molecules
Glucose and oxygen are Which of the following correctly describes a difference What is the primary difference between
between a cell and a virus? organisms in the clade of eukaryotes and
a. reactants of both cellular respiration and a. Cells can undergo division to reproduce, whereas organisms in the clades of archaea and
photosynthesis. viruses must use a host for reproduction. bacteria?
b. products of cellular respiration and b. Cells can infect other cells to cause disease, whereas
reactants of photosynthesis. viruses are typically not pathogenic. a. Only bacteria and archaea are
c. products of photosynthesis and reactants c. Cells make their own energy through photosynthesis, photosynthetic
of cellular respiration. whereas viruses must metabolize nutrients for energy. b. Only bacteria and archaea have
d. products of both cellular respiration and d. Cells use nucleic acids that encode their genetic cell walls
photosynthesis. instructions, whereas viruses never contain nucleic c. Only eukaryotes are unicellular
acids d. Only eukaryotes have membrane
bound organelles
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Week 10
MONDAY TUESDAY
A food web for an aquatic ecosystem is shown below. A town is built near a rainforest. The nearby rainforest consists of a very diverse
population of plants and animals. The people in the town discover that many of
the trees in the rainforest can be cut down, processed, and sold as lumber.
Continuous logging by the people from the town eventually results in a decrease
in the overall biodiversity of the rainforest because many of these trees
previously provided shelter and food to organisms living in the rainforest.
A conservation group wants to help the town come up with a plan to restore the
stability and biodiversity of the rainforest while still maintaining the town's logging
operation. Which of these would be best to include in the plan?
a. bringing livestock in to graze in cleared areas
b. replanting trees in areas where logging has taken place
c. introducing invasive species that are better able to withstand logging
d. using cleared areas for crop production
A student sliced a potato into six thick slices. She placed three of the
slices into a bowl of distilled water and the other three slices into a bowl
of water with a very high salt concentration. After 30 minutes, the student
Which of the following correctly describes one of the paths through removed the potato slices from the bowls and observed that the slices
that were submerged in distilled water looked and felt about the same as
which energy flows in this ecosystem?
they did before being placed in the water. The potato slices that were
submerged in the saltwater, however, looked shrunken in size and were
a. Puffins receive energy from herring, herring receive energy much more flexible than they were before she placed them in the bowl.
from krill, and krill receive energy from phytoplankton.
b. Mussels receive energy from copepods, copepods receive The student concluded that the cells that made up the potatoes that were
energy from phytoplankton, and phytoplankton receive energy submerged in saltwater must have lost water, causing the cells to shrink
from krill. and lose turgor pressure. What cellular process caused the water to
move out of the potato cells and into the saltwater solution?
c. Lobsters receive energy from codfish, codfish receive energy
from herring, and herring receive energy from krill. a. exocytosis
d. Phytoplankton receive energy from krill, krill receive energy b. osmosis
c. endocytosis
from jellyfish, and jellyfish receive energy from sea turtles.
d. metabolism © The Trendy Science Teacher
Week 10
WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
A small population of a specific plant species is The individual strands of a rat's hair can either be agouti Transcription and translation are
found in a grassland habitat. Each plant bears (banded) or non-agouti (solid). This is determined by a important processes involved in gene
flowers that are either white or dark purple. The single gene locus. Agouti fur (A) is dominant to expression. Which of the following is
color of the plant's flowers does not affect the
non-agouti fur (a). true about the products produced by
plant's chance of survival or its reproductive
these processes?
success.
Two rats mate and have offspring. Half of the offspring
A wildfire that occurs in the habitat kills all of the have agouti fur, and the other half have non-agouti fur. a. Transcription produces RNA
plants with dark purple flowers, as well as many of Which of these most likely represents the genotypes of molecules, whereas translation
the plants with white flowers. This causes the gene the parent rats? produces proteins.
for dark purple flowers to be lost from the b. Transcription produces
population. a. Aa × Aa proteins, whereas translation
b. Aa × aa produces RNA molecules.
Which of the following processes caused the loss
c. AA × aa c. Transcription produces DNA
of the gene for dark purple flowers from this
d. aa × aa molecules, whereas translation
population?
a. genetic drift
produces proteins.
b. natural selection d. Transcription produces RNA
c. adaptation molecules, whereas translation
d. speciation produces DNA molecules
Glucose and oxygen are Which of the following correctly describes a difference What is the primary difference between
between a cell and a virus? organisms in the clade of eukaryotes and
a. reactants of both cellular respiration and organisms in the clades of archaea and
photosynthesis. a. Cells can undergo division to reproduce, whereas bacteria?
b. products of cellular respiration and viruses must use a host for reproduction.
reactants of photosynthesis. b. Cells can infect other cells to cause disease, whereas a. Only bacteria and archaea are
c. products of photosynthesis and reactants viruses are typically not pathogenic. photosynthetic
of cellular respiration. c. Cells make their own energy through photosynthesis, b. Only bacteria and archaea have
d. products of both cellular respiration and whereas viruses must metabolize nutrients for energy. cell walls
photosynthesis. d. Cells use nucleic acids that encode their genetic c. Only eukaryotes are unicellular
instructions, whereas viruses never contain nucleic d. Only eukaryotes have membrane
acids bound organelles
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