APES homework

For tonight watch this and take notes:
https://www.khanacademy.org/science/cosmology-and-astronomy/earth-history-topic/plate-techtonics/v/compositional-and-mechanical-layers-of-the-earth

Also, remember to get your forms signed.

Have a good evening!

Biology word list for first set of window panes

window panes for Organic compounds: Due on Tuesday, September 6th

1. Carbohydrate- organic compound made up of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms whose primary job is to provide a quick source of energy to the organisms that consume it.

2. Lipid- organic compound made up of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. It has two main purposes in organisms: provide storage for energy and build membranes ( thin covering around all of your cells).

3. Protein- organic compound made up of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and sometimes sulfur atoms. The main jobs of proteins are: to build tissue in the body, to make up hormones and to build enzymes.

4. Nucleic acids- organic compounds made up of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and phosphorous. The main job of these compounds is to carry our genetic code which determines everything that is made in our bodies. Examples are DNA ( deoxyribonucleic acid) and RNA ( ribonucleic acid)

5.Hormone- a chemical signal (made out of proteins) that travels through our bloodstream and lets other parts of our body know how to grow or what to make. (ex. progesterone- a hormone that is active in pregnant women and helps to prepare the mom's body to hold and care for a baby).

6. Enzyme- a type of protein that is responsible for helping to speed up chemical reactions in our body. In chemistry, or in reactions outside of our body, this is called a catalyst.

7. monosaccharide- a simple sugar (carbohydrate), this is a sugar composed of only one molecule- glucose is a monsaccharide. (mono=one)

8. polysaccharide- a type of sugar made up of a long chain of single sugars. (poly = many)

9. cellulose- a type of sugar found only in plants, it helps to build outer coverings of vegetation ( the yellow shell of each little piece of corn is made of this). we can not digest cellulose.

10. Starch- a complex carbohydrate made up a really long chain of glucose molecules. This is the form that plants store their sugar in.

11.Insulin- a hormone made in the pancreas that helps break down sugar in the body.

12.Hemoglobin- a protein that makes up your blood, it carries iron and oxygen ( you can normally carry 4 molecules of oxygen on each cell).

13. Glycogen- the stored form of glucose, it is stored in our liver.

14.monomer- a molecule that exists by itself - only one molecule of something = glucose

15. polymer- a molecule that exists as a long chain of monomers connected by bonds= starch

16. Organic compounds- compounds that have the element carbon as the central/ essential connection.

17. atom- smallest unit of an element.

18. nucleotide- smallest functional unit (or piece) of a nucleic acid. It consists of a sugar, a phosphate and a nitrogen base.

19. double helix- the shape of a DNA molecule, it resembles a twisted ladder.

20. single helix- the shape of a RNA molecule, it resembles half of a twisted ladder.

APES homework for tonight 8-30-16

AP Environmental science Homework for tonight:

Math:
 https://vimeo.com/channels/573122/72275890

TED TALK-  Nature is everywhere
https://www.ted.com/talks/emma_marris_nature_is_everywhere_we_just_need_to_look_for_it?language=en

Also:
Get Consent and Assent forms signed  for the planting science initiative
https://plantingscience.org/

Get syllabus signed

AP ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE SUMMER ASSIGNMENT for the 2016-2017 school year

YOU  SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED THIS WHEN YOU SIGNED UP FOR THE CLASS, BUT JUST IN CASE  YOU LOST IT OR  WERE ADDED TO THE CLASS LATE, I WANTED TO HAVE A COPY POSTED HERE:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c0o9vWxxVhru-DdmGMgKA8tTDC41FERSlvMqyEg8qOA/edit

THIS IS THE  BOOK YOU SHOULD BE READING:

BE SURE TO HAVE IT DONE FOR THE FIRST DAY OF CLASS


THIS IS AN AP CLASS. IT WILL BE MUCH MORE RIGOROUS THAN THE BIOLOGY CLASS YOU  MAY HAVE HAD with me IN THE PAST.

THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND:

• YOU WILL HAVE HOMEWORK EVERY NIGHT 

• YOU WILL BE QUIZZED ALMOST DAILY

• YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO HAND IN ANYTHING LATE!

• IF YOU HAVE A POOR WORK ETHIC THIS IS NOT THE CLASS FOR YOU.

• YOU WILL DO MATH WITHOUT A CALCULATOR

• THERE WILL BE A GOOD AMOUNT OF CHEMISTRY INVOLVED

• IF YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT AND YOU CAN'T STOP USING PLASTIC WATER BOTTLES YOU WILL FIND MY CLASS VERY CHALLENGING!

Regents test prep review site

REVIEW QUESTIONS- go through as many as you can!

Regents test prep review site (the one we've been using in class) Just click on the zebra, then go to the side bar and click multiple choice questions to get to the ones we were doing in class!
http://www.regentsprep.org/

MORE EOC Practice questions

This document  has some example "assessment" questions that you should all look at.
go to page three then read through the last column of information- those are the questions with the answers in bold!
 http://wsfcs.k12.nc.us/cms/lib/NC01001395/Centricity/Domain/849/assessment%20examples.pdf

Biology students- re-take document and link to practice questions

If you bombed the white sheet test and want an opportunity to improve your grade
OR if you just want to be better prepared for the EOC do the following assignment.
You can print off the document, but you need to hand write your answers!
Once you get to the document, click the link at the top, the answers go in order. Just read and write your answers down :)  Give it to me on Tuesday!! Its lengthy so don't wait until the last minute!!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OBk9l-dp2NEUv8qlaEDx5Wwa3L0XVWPYQoEBFzHvGxM/edit


Regents test prep review site (the one we've been using in class) Just click on the zebra, then go to the side bar and click multiple choice questions to get to the ones we were doing in class!
http://www.regentsprep.org/