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Welcome to your Biology Honor’s course.  You will be challenged by the work in this level of academic work.  You will find that this Biology course is not written from a biblical worldview. Scriptures are completely reliable and will not fail to be supported by science with a fair evaluation of scientific data.  If you are looking for “proof” when it comes to creation…neither evolution or creationism will present “proof” but the evidence available that is rightly interpreted does support the biblical worldview.

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Important Note About Biology Honors – There is a section on Intelligent Design (Creation and Science). Students taking this course must complete this special assignment for the course to be completed and credit earned.

Students should see our statement about these courses which are not authored from a biblical worldview. Students uncomfortable with these courses should enroll in our courses from a biblical worldview 

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Unit 1: The Chemistry of Life

  1. Formulating Scientific Questions Guided Notes
    1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – ​How do questions about the natural world become investigations?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Practice asking scientific questions.
    5. Quiz Answers
  2. Hypotheses, Theories, and Laws Guided Notes
    1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – What is the relationship between observations, hypotheses, theories, and laws?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Practice hypotheses, theories, and laws.
    5. Quiz Answers
  3. Using Math to Analyze Data Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How do scientists use math to analyze data?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Practice analyzing data.
    5. Quiz Answers
  4. Assessing Claims and Evidence Guided Notes
    1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How can you determine the reliability of scientific information?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Read about water fluoridation.
    5. Quiz Answers
  5. Carbohydrates Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – What role do carbohydrates play in living organisms?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Explore diabetes.
    5. Quiz Answers
  6. Lipids Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up- Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – What are the structures and functions of lipids in living organisms?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Practice what you have learned about lipids.
    5. Quiz Answers
  7. Proteins and Nucleic Acids Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – What are the structures and functions of proteins and nucleic acids in living organisms?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Practice what you have learned about proteins and nucleic acids.
    5. Quiz Answers
  8. Catalysts Guided Notes
    1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – What effect do enzymes have on biochemical reactions?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Read about the structure and function of enzymes.
    5. Quiz Answers
  9. Unit Test
    1. ​Unit Test Review Answers
    2. ​Unit Test Answers

Unit 2: Cell Structure and Function

  1. Cell Theory Guided Notes
    1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How does cell theory explain the importance of cells to living organisms?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Explore microscopes and cell theory.
    5. Quiz Answers
  2. Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – What are the similarities and differences of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Read about cells.
    5. Quiz Answers
  3. The Function of Organelles Guided Notes
    1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – What are organelles, and what specific cellular functions do they perform?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Practice labeling the organelles of a cell and describing their functions.
    5. Quiz Answers
  4. Cell Homeostasis Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How does a cell maintain homeostasis?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Explore cellular transport.
    5. Quiz Answers
  5. Lab: Diffusion Across a Semi-permeable Membrane
    1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – What is the effect of molecule size on a molecule’s ability to diffuse across a membrane?
    3. Virtual Lab – Explore diffusion across a semipermeable  membrane  by performing a virtual experiment.
    4. Assignment: Reflect on the Lab – Reflect on the laboratory experiment.
    5. Assignment: Lab Report – Write your lab report.
    6. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
  6. Animal and Plant Cells Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up- Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – What are the similarities and differences between animal and plant cells?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Practice identifying animal and plant cell organelles.
    5. Quiz Answers
  7. Unit Test
    1. ​Unit Test Review Answers
    2. ​Unit Test Answers

Unit 3: ​Cellular Energy and Reproduction

  1. Light Dependent Reactions in Photosynthesis Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How do plants get the energy they need to survive?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Practice what you have learned about the light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis.
    5. Quiz Answers
  2. Light Independent Reactions in Photosynthesis Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How are sugars made during photosynthesis?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Practice what you know about light-independent reactions in photosynthesis.
    5. Quiz Answers
  3. Cellular Respiration Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – What is the purpose of cellular respiration? How does it occur?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Use a model to illustrate the process of cellular respiration.
    5. Project: Analyzing Cellular Respiration – Gather evidence to construct and revise an explanation.
    6. Quiz Answers
  4. Cell Cycle Guided Notes
    1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – What is the role of the cell cycle in the growth and development of organisms?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Practice identifying the stages of the cell cycle.
    5. Quiz Answers
  5. Mitosis Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – What process is responsible for the replication of cells for growth and development?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Explore mitosis.
    5. ​Quiz Answers
  6. Meiosis Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How does meiosis allow for variation and sexual reproduction in some organisms?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Explore meiosis and genetic recombination.
    5. Quiz Answers
  7. Asexual and Sexual Reproduction Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How are asexual and sexual reproduction similar and different?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Practice differentiating asexual and sexual reproduction.
    5. Quiz Answers
  8. Unit Test
    1. ​Unit Test Review Answers
    2. ​Unit Test Answers

Unit 4: DNA and Protein Synthesis

  1. Genetic Code Guided Notes
    1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How was the genetic code discovered and what role does it play in genetics today?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Project: Asking Questions about the Genetic Code – Ask and answer questions about the genetic code.
    5. Quiz Answers
  2. DNA and RNA Structure Guided Notes
    1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – What are similarities and differences between the structures of DNA and RNA?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Read about the discovery of DNA structure and types of RNA.
    5. Quiz Answers
  3. Protein Synthesis Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – What is the purpose of proteins, and how are they synthesized?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Explore protein synthesis.
    5. Quiz Answers
  4. Lab: Building Proteins from RNA
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How are proteins built using the information provided by a molecule of RNA?
    3. Virtual Lab – Explore the process  of building proteins from the information carried by RNA.
    4. Assignment: Reflect on the Lab – Reflect on the laboratory experiment.
    5. Assignment: Lab Report – Write your lab report.
    6. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
  5. DNA Mutations Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – What are the causes and effects of DNA mutations?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Project: Analyzing Genetic Variation – Make and defend a claim about genetic variations.
    5. Quiz Answers
  6. Chromosomal Changes Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – What effect do chromosomal changes have on an organism?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Write about chromosomal changes.
    5. Quiz Answers
  7. Unit Test
    1. ​Unit Test Review Answers
    2. ​Unit Test Answers

Unit 5: Genetics and Heredity

  1. Introduction to Genetics Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How has the study of genetics shaped our understanding of heredity?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Practice Mendelian crosses.
    5. Quiz Answers
  2. Laws of Inheritance Guided Notes
    1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How are traits passed from parents to offspring?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Practice the laws of inheritance.
    5. Quiz Answers
  3. Probability of Inheritance Guided Notes
    1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How can inheritance be predicted?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Practice Punnett squares.
    5. Quiz Answers
  4. Lab: Mouse Genetics (One Trait)
    1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – What is the effect of the genes of the parental mice on the fur color of the offspring mice?
    3. Virtual Lab – Explore the relationship between genotype and phenotype with a virtual experiment.
    4. Assignment: Reflect on the Lab – Reflect on the laboratory experiment.
    5. Assignment: Lab Report – Write your lab report.
    6. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
  5. Non-Mendelian Inheritance Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson..
    2. Instruction – What other modes of inheritance are seen in organisms?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Practice using Punnett squares.
    5. Quiz Answers
  6. Sex-linked Inheritance Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How are sex-linked traits determined?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Read about sex-linked inheritance and practice pedigrees.
    5. Quiz Answers
  7. Lab: Mouse Genetics (Two Traits)
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – What is the effect of the inheritance of one trait on the inheritance of a second trait?
    3. Virtual Lab – Explore the two traits by performing a virtual experiment.
    4. Assignment: Reflect on the Lab – Reflect on the laboratory experiment.
    5. Assignment: Lab Report – Write your lab report.
    6. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
  8. The Basis of DNA Technology Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – What is DNA technology?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Write about recombinant DNA and genetic engineering in human beings.
    5. Quiz Answers
  9. Applications of DNA Technology Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How has DNA technology led to advancements in forensics, medicine, and agriculture?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Write about applications of DNA technology.
    5. Assignment – Practice what you have learned about the applications of DNA technology.
    6. Quiz Answers
  10. Consequences of DNA Technology Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How can DNA technology affect our society?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Write about the consequences of using DNA technology.
    5. Quiz Answers
  11. Unit Test
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    2. ​Unit Test Answers

Unit 6: Cumulative Exam

  1. Cumulative Exam Review Answers
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Unit 7: ​Natural Selection and Evolution

  1. Darwin’s Theory Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – What was Charles Darwin’s contribution to the theory of evolution?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Instruction – Apply concepts of statistics to Darwin’s theory.
    5. Project: Analyzing the Effects of the Environment on Traits. Use statistics and probability to analyze the effects of environmental factors on the expression of traits.
    6. Quiz Answers
  2. Lab: Natural Selection
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – What is the effect of the type of food available on the frequency of different types of bird beaks?
    3. Virtual Lab – Explore natural selection with a virtual experiment.
    4. Assignment: Reflect on the Lab – Reflect on the laboratory experiment.
    5. Assignment: Lab Report – Write your lab report.
    6. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
  3. Factors Affecting Genetic Variation Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – What causes genetic variation to be preserved or eliminated and how does that affect evolution?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Practice factors affecting genetic variation.
    5. Quiz Answers
  4. Factors Affecting Biological Diversity Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – What are the types of selection and how do they alter biodiversity?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Practice what you have learned about factors that affect biological diversity.
    5. Quiz Answers
  5. Biogeographic Isolation Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How does isolation affect speciation?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Read about geographic isolation.
    5. Quiz Answers
  6. Biological Evidence and the Fossil Record Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – What evidence supports the theory of evolution?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Write about the evidence for evolution.
    5. Quiz Answers
  7. Evolutionary Relationships Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How does the evolutionary history of an organism contribute to its classification?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Practice what you have learned about evolutionary relationships.
    5. Quiz Answers
  8. Human Evolution Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – What distinguishes modern humans from their ancestors and relatives?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Read “The Discovery of Mungo Lady and Mungo Man” to practice inspecting scientific resources.
    5. Quiz Answers
    6. Assignment – See below – Creation and Science
  9. Unit Test
    1. Unit Test Review Answers
    2. ​Unit Test Answers
Creation and Science

This is a required assignment for the Biology Honor’s course and must be completed in its entirety.  If this assignment is skipped or turned in blank by the student, it will be reassigned by the teacher until completed satisfactorily.

Evolutionary Theory and Intelligent Design – Both Evolutionary Theory and Intelligent Design are studied by scientists, and both are affected by the world view and assumptions made by the scientists who interpret experiments and mathematical models. At what point does the support for either evolutionary theory or intelligent design slide from a foundation of solid experimental science to a foundation of a desired outcome and a pre-existing bias? For this assignment, view the three videos below presenting support for Intelligent Design.

  1. Write a response to the videos in one paragraph.
  2. Following this, complete a research report comparing and contrasting the strengths and weaknesses of Evolutionary Theory and Intelligent Design using a minimum of 3 references. The report is to be a minimum of 800 words. Include a Bibliography listing the resources and references used to write the report.

Use the following as parts of your writing in addition to other sources you select:

  1. The Paradigm Project: Intelligent Design
  2. Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Stupid Design Argument
  3. The Challenge of Complex Adaptation for Evolution

Unit 8: ​Understanding Organisms

  1. Methods of Classification Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How are organisms classified?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Practice methods of classification.
    5. Quiz Answers
  2. The Kingdoms Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How do the structures and functions of organisms vary in different kingdoms?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Practice identifying the six kingdoms.
    5. Quiz Answers
  3. Bacteria Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How does a bacterium’s structure aid in reproduction and infection?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Explore bacteria.
    5. Quiz Answers
  4. Protists and Fungi Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – What distinguishes a protist from a fungus?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Practice distinguishing between protists and fungi.
    5. Quiz Answers
  5. Types of Plants Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How have plants evolved over time?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Practice identifying plants.
    5. Quiz Answers
  6. Plant Structures Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – What structures are important to plant life?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Practice identifying and understanding plant structures.
    5. Quiz Answers
  7. Overview of Animals Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How are animals distinguished from other living things?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Characterize animals.
    5. Quiz Answers
  8. Unit Test
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    2. Unit Test Answers

Unit 9: ​The Human Body

  1. The Central Nervous System Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – What are the roles of the brain and spinal cord in the central nervous system?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Explore the structures and functions of the brain.
    5. Quiz Answers
  2. The Circulatory and Respiratory Systems Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How do the circulatory and respiratory systems deliver important substances?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Project: Modeling Organ System Interactions – Create a poster that models interactions between the circulatory and respiratory systems.
    5. Quiz Answers
  3. Lab: Exercise and Homeostasis
    1. ​Instruction – Plan an investigation to examine how heart rate changes during and after exercise.
    2. Lab Report – Write your lab report.
  4. The Immune System Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How does the immune system help the human body combat illness?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Practice what you have learned about the immune system.
    5. Quiz Answers
  5. Human Health Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How are diseases transmitted and what factors influence susceptibility to disease?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Explore diseases in the news.
    5. Quiz Answers
  6. Medicine and the Immune System Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How does the human body respond to medical treatment?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Write about medicine and the immune system.
    5. Quiz Answers
  7. The Reproductive System Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – What are the major structures and functions of the reproductive system?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Explore puberty and the reproductive system.
    5. Quiz Answers
  8. The Reproductive Process Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How do humans develop from gametes?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Explore the stages of human development.
    5. Quiz Answers
  9. Unit Test
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    2. ​Unit Test Answers

Unit 10: ​Organisms and the Environment

  1. Populations and the Environment Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How do living and nonliving factors in the environment interact with each other?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Explore biotic and abiotic factors in the environment.
    5. Quiz Answers
  2. The Importance of Water Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How are the special properties of water important to life on Earth?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Write about the water cycle and the unique properties of water.
    5. Quiz Answers
  3. Aquatic Ecosystems Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How do aquatic ecosystems differ?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Describe aquatic ecosystems.
    5. Quiz Answers
  4. Biogeochemical Cycles in Ecosystems Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How does matter cycle through an ecosystem?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Project: Modeling the Carbon Cycle – Create a poster that models the carbon cycle.
    5. Quiz Answers
  5. Relationships Among Organisms Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How do organisms interact with each other and the environment?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Explore interactions among organisms.
    5. Quiz Answers
  6. Lab: Interdependence of Organisms
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How can the presence of one species benefit another in the same ecosystem?
    3. Virtual Lab – Explore the interdependence of organisms by performing a virtual experiment with lima bean plants and earthworms.
    4. Assignment: Reflect on the Lab – Reflect on the laboratory experiment.
    5. Assignment: Lab Report – Write your lab report.
    6. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
  7. Energy Flow in Ecosystems Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How is energy stored and transferred among organisms in an ecosystem?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Write about energy flow in an ecosystem.
    5. Quiz Answers
  8. Population Size and Structure Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – What factors determine a population’s size and structure?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Write about population size and structure.
    5. Quiz Answers
  9. Population Growth Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How do biologists model changes in a population?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Use simulations to analyze how different factors affect populations.
    5. Project: Analyzing Factors That Affect Carrying Capacity and Biodiversity. Use simulations to analyze how different factors affect populations.
    6. Quiz Answers
  10. Unit Test
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    2. ​Unit Test Answers

Unit 11: ​The Changing Earth

  1. Succession and Extinction Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How do changes in the environment influence ecosystem stability?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Explore ecological succession and biodiversity.
    5. Quiz Answers
  2. Climate Change Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – What events can cause short-term and global climate change?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Read about scientists who study ice and climate.
    5. Project: Global Temperature Change – Research and write an essay about the rise of global temperatures over the past century.
    6. Quiz Answers
  3. Energy on Earth Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How do renewable and nonrenewable resources differ?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Distinguish between renewable and nonrenewable resources.
    5. Quiz Answers
  4. Human Impact on Resources Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How does human activity impact Earth’s resources?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Explain how human activity impacts Earth’s resources.
    5. Quiz Answers
  5. Human Impact on the Environment Guided Notes
    1. ​Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
    2. Instruction – How does human activity benefit or harm the environment?
    3. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
    4. Assignment – Use simulations to evaluate human impact on the environment.
    5. Project: Evaluation Human Impact on the Environment – Use simulations to evaluate human impact on the environment.
    6. Quiz Answers
  6. Unit Test
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Unit 12: Cumulative Exam

  1. Cumulative Exam Review Answers
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