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    Biology 20 Unit A Exam Outline

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    The Biology 20 Unit A exam will test students on their understanding of key concepts relating to biogeochemical cycles, energy transfer through ecosystems, and human impacts on the environment. Students must be able to draw and explain the carbon, nitrogen, hydrological, and phosphorus cycles. They must also understand how fossil fuels are formed and burned, and how this relates to biogeochemical cycles and global warming. Additional topics include food webs and pyramids, trophic levels, and atmospheric, lithospheric, and hydrospheric systems.

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    The Biology 20 Unit A exam will test students on their understanding of key concepts relating to biogeochemical cycles, energy transfer through ecosystems, and human impacts on the environment. Students must be able to draw and explain the carbon, nitrogen, hydrological, and phosphorus cycles. They must also understand how fossil fuels are formed and burned, and how this relates to biogeochemical cycles and global warming. Additional topics include food webs and pyramids, trophic levels, and atmospheric, lithospheric, and hydrospheric systems.

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    The Biology 20 Unit A exam will test students on their understanding of key concepts relating to biogeochemical cycles, energy transfer through ecosystems, and human impacts on the environment. Students must be able to draw and explain the carbon, nitrogen, hydrological, and phosphorus cycles. They must also understand how fossil fuels are formed and burned, and how this relates to biogeochemical cycles and global warming. Additional topics include food webs and pyramids, trophic levels, and atmospheric, lithospheric, and hydrospheric systems.

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    Biology 20 Unit A Exam

     Be able to draw and label the components and processes for the Biogeochemical cycles (carbon, nitrogen,
    hydrological, phosphorus)
     Explain how fossil fuels and made and how they are burned.
     Explain how fossil fuels impact the environment and how they associate with biogeochemical cycles.
     Be able to explain how the greenhouse effect is related to global warming and describe how the chemical
    involved contribute
     Be able to draw and label a food web from provided information. Be sure to indicate trophic levels and classify
    organisms.
     Explain how removing a keystone species from an ecosystem could change the populations of other organisms
    and how it could affect the ecosystem.
     Understand and be able to calculate how energy is transferred from one tropic level to another
     Construct a specific type of pyramid based on information (biomass, energy, numbers)
     Be able to define atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere
     Recognize materials with carbon, water, nitrogen, and phosphorus from the cycles.
     Understand the energy that is the driving force behind all of the cycles in the ecosystems
     Describe why stratospheric ozone is important to humans
     Understand the relationship between energy and trophic levels.
     Be able to define an ecosystem
     Understand the difference between a food web and an ecosystem
     Explain the difference between heterotroph and autotroph and give examples
     Explain the difference between the 1 st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics
     Interpret a food web w.r.t trophic levels and energy transfer
     Be able to identify herbivores, carnivores from examples
     Understand the difference between primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary consumers
     Understand the rules for pyramids
     Be able to correctly sequence a food chain from data
     Recognize the chemical formula for photosynthesis and cellular respiration
     Understand that stored chemical energy (glucose) is converted to ATP (useable energy)
     Understand the composition of gases in the atmosphere
     Explain the difference between denitrification and nitrification
     Understand how biogeochemical cycles could contribute to global warming with human influence
     Be able to define chemosynthesis and give examples
     Be able to interpret data on nitrates in a watershed and how they affect the surrounding ecosystem
     Understand useable and not useable forms of nitrogen
     Be able to identify processes that occur in the phosphorus cycle

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