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pH lab discussion. 1. What pH represented the acid? 2. What pH represented the base? 3. How much more acidic was the acid than the neutral solution? 4. What ions are released from an acid? 5. What part of a base accepts the ions of an acid?.
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1. What pH represented the acid? • 2. What pH represented the base? • 3. How much more acidic was the acid than the neutral solution? • 4. What ions are released from an acid? • 5. What part of a base accepts the ions of an acid?
6. Which pH tested causes the least damage to the beet cells? • 7. How does this lab show the importance of homeostasis? • 8. What is the value of using the colorimeter in this experiment? • 9. What does the absorbance value of the colorimeter refer to?
10. Why is it so important to thoroughly rinse the pH probe before taking the pH of a different solution? • 11. Explain a neutralization reaction using acids and bases.
Test structure • 66 multiple choice/matching questions (66 points) • 1 short extended response question (4 points)
Key points of chapters 1 and 2 • 1. What is the smallest unit of life? • 2. What is the most inclusive level of organization of life on our planet? • 3. What is the steady state of an organism called? • 4. What is the blueprint molecule of life that brings about control?
5. What is an emergent property? (The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.) • 6. How does energy move through an ecosystem? • 7. What is the largest classification grouping used by biologists today? • 8. What would mutation in a population bring about?
9. What is the value of an organism having strong adaptive traits? • 10. What is a hypothesis? • 11. What is most often done by a biologist to test a hypothesis? • 12. How does a law relate to a theory? • 13. Of what value is a control group to an experiment?
14. How is evolution related to natural selection? • 15. Explain the general structure of an atom. • 16. What does atomic number represent? • 17. What does atomic mass represent? • 18. Why is a tracer molecule able to be detected as it passes through the body?
19. What subatomic particle of an element may vary in number? • 20. Explain the significance of the octet rule. • 21. What is the major difference between a hydrophobic and an hydrophilic molecule? • 22. Compare the three major types of chemical bonds.
23. What type of bond is most expected when two hydrophilic compounds are mixed together? • 24. How is a hydrogen bond represented by diagram? • 25. Why do we know oil is a hydrophobic molecule?
26. Compare cohesion and adhesion. • 27. Explain why cohesion and adhesion occurs? • 28. How does a buffer relate to homeostasis within an organism? • 29. What are the two products of a neutralization reaction?