What’s Your Style

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What’s Your Learning Style

For these questions, choose the first answer that comes to mind and click on a, b, or c. Don’t spend too much time thinking about any one question.

Question 1
    1. When you study for a test, would you rather

      • a) read notes, read headings in a book, and look at diagrams and illustrations.

      • b) have someone ask you questions, or repeat facts silently to yourself.

    • c) write things out on index cards and make models or diagrams.
Question 2
    1. Which of these do you do when you listen to music?

      • a) daydream (see things that go with the music)

      • b) hum along

    • c) move with the music, tap your foot, etc.
Question 3
    1. When you work at solving a problem do you

      • a) make a list, organize the steps, and check them off as they are done

      • b) make a few phone calls and talk to friends or experts

    • c) make a model of the problem or walk through all the steps in your mind
Question 4
    1. When you read for fun, do you prefer

      • a) a travel book with a lot of pictures in it

      • b) a mystery book with a lot of conversation in it

    • c) a book where you answer questions and solve problems
Question 5
    1. To learn how a computer works, would you rather

      • a) watch a movie about it

      • b) listen to someone explain it

    • c) take the computer apart and try to figure it out for yourself
Question 6
    1. You have just entered a science museum, what will you do first?

      • a) look around and find a map showing the locations of the various exhibits

      • b) talk to a museum guide and ask about exhibits

    • c) go into the first exhibit that looks interesting, and read directions later
Question 7
    1. What kind of restaurant would you rather not go to?

      • a) one with the lights too bright

      • b) one with the music too loud

    • c) one with uncomfortable chairs
Question 8
    1. Would you rather go to

      • a) an art class

      • b) a music class

    • c) an exercise class
Question 9
    1. Which are you most likely to do when you are happy?

      • a) grin

      • b) shout with joy

    • c) jump for joy
Question 10
    1. If you were at a party, what would you be most likely to remember the next day?

      • a) the faces of the people there, but not the names

      • b) the names but not the faces

    • c) the things you did and said while you were there
Question 11
    1. When you see the word “d – o – g”, what do you do first?

      • a) think of a picture of a particular dog

      • b) say the word “dog” to yourself silently

    • c) sense the feeling of being with a dog (petting it, running with it, etc.)
Question 12
    1. When you tell a story, would you rather

      • a) write it

      • b) tell it out loud

    • c) act it out
Question 13
    1. What is most distracting for you when you are trying to concentrate?

      • a) visual distractions

      • b) noises

    • c) other sensations like, hunger, tight shoes, or worry
Question 14
    1. What are you most likely to do when you are angry?

      • a) scowl

      • b) shout or “blow up”

    • c) stomp off and slam doors
Question 15
    1. When you aren’t sure how to spell a word, which of these are you most likely to do?

      • a) write it out to see if it looks right

      • b) sound it out

    • c) write it out to see if it feels right
Question 16
    1. Which are you most likely to do when standing in a long line at the movies?

      • a) look at posters advertising other movies

      • b) talk to the person next to you

    • c) tap your foot or move around in some other way

Total your a’s, b’s, and c’s

 

Taxonomy Quiz

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Taxonomy
  1.  Which of the following pairs is MOST closely related?
    dog & tapeworm
    tapeworm & bacteria
    mushroom & tree
    ameba & bacteria
  2. Organisms in the Kingdom Animalia are:
    multicellular & heterotrophic
    multicellular & autotrophic
    unicellular & autotrophic
    unicellular & autotrophic
  3. Which of the following groups would contain the largest number of organisms?
    class
    order
    phylum
    family
  4. A scientific name contains information about its:
    family & species
    genus & species
    phylum & order
    class & family
  5. What do plants and animals have in common?
    both are heterotrophic
    both are autotrophic
    both are prokaryotic
    both are eukaryotic
  6. The current classification system was devised by:
    Aristotle
    Plato
    Linnaeus
    Darwin
  7. Instead of phylum, plants use which category?
    division
    subspecies
    class
    subkingdom
  8. If two organisms are in the same phylum, they must also be in the same:
    class
    species
    family
    kingdom
  9. Which kingdom contains “extreme halophiles”?
    eubacteria
    archaebacteria
    fungi
    protista
  10. A dichotomous key is used to:
    locate an organism
    identify an organism
    divide a kingdom
    interbreed species

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Protists Quiz

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Simple Protists
  1. Plant-like protists are collectively called:
    protozoans
    algae
    diatoms
    pseudopodia
  2. Where would you find a paramecium?
    in quiet ponds
    in the human body
    in dirt
    on leaves
  3. Which of the following moves using pseudopodia?
    paramecium
    euglena
    diatoms
    ameba
  4. Which of the following is unicellular and heterotrophic?
    ameba
    paramecium
    algae
    both ameba & paramecium
  5. The word “pseudopodia” means:
    small cell
    fake eye
    false foot
    first animal

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Identify the organism pictured above.

ameba
paramecium
euglena
diatom

  1. Which organelle functions to remove excess water?
    micronucleus
    contractile vacuole
    pellicle
    gullet
  2. The ameba reproduces by:
    fusion
    endocytosis
    binary fission
    conjugation
  3. The paramecium belongs to the Kingdom ____ and the Phylum _____
    Ciliphora, Protista
    Protista, Ciliophora
    Protozoa, Protista
    Animalia, Protista
  4. Which of the following is autotrophic?
    paramecium
    foraminifera
    ameba
    euglena

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Diffusion Across Membranes: A Short Formative Assessment

Cells and Transport Teaching Resources · High school biology; AP extensions where noted.

Use these original questions after teaching diffusion, membrane permeability, and tonicity. They replace an obsolete interactive quiz with a readable assessment that needs no plugin. Students should explain a prediction before looking at the feedback.

Objectives and setup

Students will distinguish movement from net movement, identify missing information, and classify a transport mechanism. Materials: notebook or a printed copy of the questions. Allow a short independent response followed by discussion; this is a formative check, not a complete unit test.

Student questions

  1. Compartments A and B contain the same gas at 40% and 20%, respectively, under otherwise comparable conditions. An open connection allows the gas to move. Describe molecular movement in both directions and the initial net direction.
  2. A molecule has a higher concentration outside a cell. Is that enough information to conclude it will diffuse through the cell membrane? Explain what is missing.
  3. An animal cell contains 0.20 M nonpenetrating solute and is placed in 0.35 M nonpenetrating solute. The membrane permits water to cross, and initial pressures are equal. Predict its initial water movement and volume change.
  4. A membrane protein carries a substance downhill along its relevant gradient without energy coupling. Is the process necessarily active? Name a suitable mechanism.
  5. A pump moves an ion against its electrochemical gradient using ATP. Explain what distinguishes this from a passive channel.
  6. At equilibrium, a student draws no arrows across a permeable membrane. What should change in the drawing?

Answer explanations

  1. Gas molecules move both A→B and B→A. The initial net movement is A→B; it is incorrect to say all molecules move one way.
  2. Permeability is missing. A gradient alone does not make a membrane permeable. For ions, electrical conditions also influence the net direction.
  3. Water initially moves net out and the cell tends to shrink. The external solution is hypertonic relative to this cell under the given assumptions.
  4. No. This description fits facilitated diffusion. Proteins participate in both passive and active mechanisms.
  5. The pump couples an energy input to uphill transport. An open passive channel permits downhill movement and does not maintain that uphill transfer by itself.
  6. Draw arrows in both directions with equal overall rates. Zero net movement is not zero molecular motion.

Teaching notes

Ask students to name the moving substance and permeability assumption before grading the direction. If a student answers “salt water shrinks cells,” ask what the salt concentration is relative to the cell: the phrase alone is underspecified. Score one point for a supported prediction and one for reasoning on each question. Use patterns of error to select the next lesson rather than treat the score as a comprehensive achievement measure.

AP extension: Revisit Question 2 with an ion. Ask how an electrical gradient could reinforce or oppose the concentration gradient, and what measurements would resolve the prediction.

Continue the unit

Sources and further reading

Reptile Quiz

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Reptiles
  1. Which of the following made it possible for reptiles to make a complete transition to land?
    amniote egg
    3 chambered heart
    double loop circulation
    nictitating membrane
  2. Which of the following pairs is most closely related?
    snake & lizard
    crocodile & tuatara
    alligator & komodo dragon
    alligator & alligator snapping turtle
  3. Which part of the amniote egg is responsible for storing waste?
    chorion
    yolk sac
    amnion
    allantois
  4. Sea snakes and turtles breathe:
    with gills
    with lungs
    through their skin
    through their chorion
  5. Turtles and Tortoises belong to the ORDER:
    Squamata
    Crocodilia
    Chelonia
    Rynchocephalia
  6. Which organ on the snake is responsible for detecting odors?
    cloaca
    pit organ
    Jacobson’s organ
    venom gland
  7. Which of the following reptiles is known as a “living fossil”?
    tuatara
    komodo dragon
    sea turtle
    anaconda
  8. The top of a turtle’s shell is called the:
    plastron
    amnion
    carapace
    ventricle
  9. Snakes are thought to have evolved from:
    crocodilians
    lizards
    eels
    salamanders
  10. Ovoviviparous snakes:
    are venomous
    incubate eggs within the body
    lay eggs in nests
    do not have an amnion

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