Chapter 10A: Photosynthesis - Assignments

Textbook Companion

• Go to your textbook companion site:
  • http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072528400/student_view0/
  • Select this chapter from the drop down menu on the left.
• Click the Key Terms Flashcards item on the left.
• Go through the cards until you know all the terms.
• Go through the cards until you know all the terms from the first part of Chapter 10.
• If there are terms that you are not certain how to pronounce,
  • click the glossary
    • Click the first letter of the term at the top of the glossary
    • Scroll down until you see the term. 
    • Click the term and listen to the pronunciation.
• Take the test on terms for this chapter.
  • Scroll down to the bottom of this page and click the link "take quiz" below the heading saying  terms.
  • The test is timed and you will only have 10 minutes to take it.  Once you start the test, you must complete it or the test will be locked.  Make certain you watch the clock on the screen so that you submit it on time.

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Course Companion: Web Links

• Go to your textbook companion site:
  • http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072528400/student_view0/
  • Select this chapter from the drop down menu on the left.
• Click the link for chapter web links
  • Look at several of the links you think might be interesting
  • Select one for which you want to do a report.
  • If none of them look interesting to you, consider selecting one of these instead:
    • Photosynthesis
      • http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookPS.html
      • http://www.alienexplorer.com/ecology/topic3.html
    • Photosynthesis and the Web
      • http://www.life.uiuc.edu/govindjee/photoweb/
    • What is Photosynthesis?
      • http://photoscience.la.asu.edu/photosyn/education/learn.html
• Write a brief summary of what you learned from reading the report.  You must have at least three specific statements of things you learned (or found interesting).  You must include both the name of the reading and the URL in your summary.
• Post your summary on the class discussion board as a reply to the appropriate thread. 
• Read at least one of the summaries that your classmates have posted.  Reply to your classmate's summary with a list of at least two things you found interesting about that summary.  You must make an original reply.  Any replies that appear very similar to the replies of another student will not receive credit.  It would probably be best to reply to a summary that does not have a reply to make certain that your reply is unique.

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Review/Discussion/Summary

At the end of the chapter, you will find a summary, review questions, and discussion questions for the chapter.  Read the summary, the review questions, and discussion questions.  Select questions about the material in the first part of the chapter. Go to the class discussion board.  Click the thread for review/discussion/summary.  Read the postings of your classmates.  YOU MAY NOT post the same review question, discussion question or summary point as any of your classmates. 

• If you select a review question, you must state the question and then answer it completely.
• If you choose a discussion question, you must state the question and then answer it completely.
• If you choose a summary question, you must state the the summary point and then expand on it.  For example if you select summary 7 from chapter 1, you would answer something like:
  • Botany, the study of plants, apparently began with Stone Age peoples' practical uses of plants. Eventually, botany became a science as intellectual curiosity about plants arose.  Botany is considered because the scientific method which describes the procedures of assuming and testing hypotheses, is used when studying botany.

Your posting must be accurate and must use good grammar.  The subject of your posting should be:

• review # OR
• discussion # OR
• Summary #

where # represents the number of the item.

You may also use one of these questions if you want.  Record them as Extra 1, 2, 3, or 4.

1. Compare and contrast the dark and light reactions of photosynthesis.
2. Explain the role that plant pigments play in photosynthesis.
3. Describe the parts of a chloroplast and explain where the light and dark reaction are taking place.
4. Compare and contrast C3 to C4 plants.

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Lab Work

Continue working with the project you started in the lab from the last chapter.  If you have any seeds that have sprouted, you might consider putting some of them on a windowsill and wrapping some of them in foil where they will not get any light.  What do you think will happen?  Carefully compare growth measured with a ruler and color.  Try any other things you can think of based on your readings of this chapter.  If you are doing a project other than the seed sprouting, think of ways you can add photosynthesis into your report.

Do the review questions and quiz questions in lab 10 to prepare for your quiz.  When you are ready go to your class and take the quiz).

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Chapter Quiz

This quiz is only on the first part of chapter 10.  There will be a 20 question quiz for each chapter.  The quiz is open book and notes, but it is timed and you will only have 15 minutes to answer the 20 quiz questions.  However, you may take the test as many times as you want.  Each time to take the quiz, you will be presented with 20 questions randomly selected from the chapter test pool.  NOTE:  For the final exam you will NOT be allowed to use notes or take the exam more than once, but the questions will come from the test pools for chapters 7, 8, 9, and 10.  To take the chapter quiz,

• Scroll down to the bottom of this page.  (Click assignments, intro assignment to get back here)
• Click the "take quiz" link below the Chapter Quiz label.
• You only have 15 minutes for the quiz, BUT
• You may take it again and again as often as you want until the due date for the assignment is past.

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