1. Warm-ups 2009-2010 Life Science

2. Warm-up #1 Q.: What is Life Science? A: The study of living things

3. Warm-up #2 Name 5 Classroom Guidelines? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

4. Warm-up #3 Name 5 Safety Rules you learned about last class 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

5. Warm-up #4 In 5-10 lines describe what the perfect hometown is. What does it look like? What types of people live there? How do the people act?

6. Warm-up #5 Q. What is the definition of a cell ?? A. The smallest functional and structural unit of all living organisms. Usually consists of nucleus, cytoplasm and a membrane.

7. Warm-up #6 Q. What is the 7th grade life science standard for cell biology. (Hint page 4 and 15 in your notebooks) A: Cell Biology Students will know that all living organisms are made up of cells, from one to trillions, and their details are usually only visible through a microscope.

8. Warm-up #7 What are the steps in the scientific method? Hint page 12 in your notebooks.

9. Warm-up #8 What are the three parts of the cell theory??

10. Warm-up #9 Warm-up#9- Name all the parts of the Plant Cell and the Animal Cell? Hint Page 120-121 in your textbook

11. Warm-up #10 Warm-up #10-How do you get the flu virus?

12. Warm-up #11 Warm-up #11-What would happen if there were no television? Why would this be good? Bad?

13. Warm-up #12 What is Photosynthesis?

14. Warm-up #13 What is the definition of Mitosis? What is the cell cycle? (hint page 154-155 in your textbook)

15. Warm-up #14 What is something that really bugs you? What makes you really angry?

16. Warm-up #15 Which part of a flower develops into a fruit? (hint page 401 in textbook)

17. Warm-up #16 Write 3 to 5 sentences explaining the cell cycle and mitosis? (p. 154-155)

18. Warm-up #17 What is DNA? What are the 4 nucleotides of DNA? (hint page 208 in textbook)

19. Warm-up #18 Do you think you have a lot of self- confidence? Describe why you think you have high or low self-confidence, and what you can do to be more self confident.

20. Warm-up #19- Probability Take out your quarters. Number 1-10, toss quarter 10 times and write down if it landed on heads or tails. What was your probability?