OSAT 010: Biological Sciences: Competency 001 || Solved Correctly.
Structure and function correct answers At each level of the biological hierarchy we find a
correlation between these two concepts
Sense of scale correct answers necessary in order to know what properties and what aspects of
shape or material are relevant at a particular magnitude or in investigating particular phenomena
Primary pedagogical content: information processing (r/t structure and function) correct answers
Students make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and
animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents.
Primary pedagogical content: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems (example) correct
answers Students plan and conduct an investigation to determine if plants need sunlight and
water to grow
Middle-level pedagogical content: Structure and Properties of Matter (example) correct answers
Students develop a model that predicts and describes changes in particle motion, temperature,
and state of a pure substance when thermal energy is added or removed
Middle-level pedagogical content: Waves and Electromagnetic Radiation (example) correct
answers Students use mathematical representations to describe a simple model for waves that
includes how the amplitude of a wave is related to the energy in a wave
Middle-level pedagogical content: Structure, Function, and Information Processing (example)
correct answers Students gather and synthesize information that sensory receptors respond to
stimuli by sending messages to the brain for immediate behavior or storage as memories.
Middle-level pedagogical content: Growth, Development, and Reproduction of Organisms
(example) correct answers Students develop and use a model to describe why structural changes
to genes (mutations) located on chromosomes may affect proteins and may result in harmful,
beneficial, or neutral effects to the structure and function of the organism.
, High-school pedagogical content: Structure and Properties of Matter (example) correct answers
Students communicate scientific and technical information about why the molecular-level
structure is important in the functioning of designed materials.
High-school pedagogical content: Earth's Systems correct answers Students develop a
quantitative model to describe the cycling of carbon among the hydrosphere, atmosphere,
geosphere, and biosphere.
High-school pedagogical content: Structure and Function (example) correct answers Students
plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that feedback mechanisms maintain
homeostasis.
Scientific Model correct answers A representation of an object or event that can be studied to
understand the real object or event
Simulacra correct answers Simplified reflections of reality that, despite being approximations,
can be extremely useful
Rutherford model correct answers Described the atom as a tiny, dense, positively charged core
called a nucleus, in which nearly all the mass is concentrated, around which the light, negative
constituents, called electrons, circulate at some distance, much like planets revolving around the
Sun.
Standard Model correct answers The combination of two theories of particle physics into a single
framework to describe all interactions of subatomic particles, except those due to gravity.
Two Components of the Standard Model correct answers Electroweak theory, which describes
interactions via the electromagnetic and weak forces, and quantum chromodynamics, the theory
of the strong nuclear force.
Structure and function correct answers At each level of the biological hierarchy we find a
correlation between these two concepts
Sense of scale correct answers necessary in order to know what properties and what aspects of
shape or material are relevant at a particular magnitude or in investigating particular phenomena
Primary pedagogical content: information processing (r/t structure and function) correct answers
Students make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and
animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents.
Primary pedagogical content: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems (example) correct
answers Students plan and conduct an investigation to determine if plants need sunlight and
water to grow
Middle-level pedagogical content: Structure and Properties of Matter (example) correct answers
Students develop a model that predicts and describes changes in particle motion, temperature,
and state of a pure substance when thermal energy is added or removed
Middle-level pedagogical content: Waves and Electromagnetic Radiation (example) correct
answers Students use mathematical representations to describe a simple model for waves that
includes how the amplitude of a wave is related to the energy in a wave
Middle-level pedagogical content: Structure, Function, and Information Processing (example)
correct answers Students gather and synthesize information that sensory receptors respond to
stimuli by sending messages to the brain for immediate behavior or storage as memories.
Middle-level pedagogical content: Growth, Development, and Reproduction of Organisms
(example) correct answers Students develop and use a model to describe why structural changes
to genes (mutations) located on chromosomes may affect proteins and may result in harmful,
beneficial, or neutral effects to the structure and function of the organism.
, High-school pedagogical content: Structure and Properties of Matter (example) correct answers
Students communicate scientific and technical information about why the molecular-level
structure is important in the functioning of designed materials.
High-school pedagogical content: Earth's Systems correct answers Students develop a
quantitative model to describe the cycling of carbon among the hydrosphere, atmosphere,
geosphere, and biosphere.
High-school pedagogical content: Structure and Function (example) correct answers Students
plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that feedback mechanisms maintain
homeostasis.
Scientific Model correct answers A representation of an object or event that can be studied to
understand the real object or event
Simulacra correct answers Simplified reflections of reality that, despite being approximations,
can be extremely useful
Rutherford model correct answers Described the atom as a tiny, dense, positively charged core
called a nucleus, in which nearly all the mass is concentrated, around which the light, negative
constituents, called electrons, circulate at some distance, much like planets revolving around the
Sun.
Standard Model correct answers The combination of two theories of particle physics into a single
framework to describe all interactions of subatomic particles, except those due to gravity.
Two Components of the Standard Model correct answers Electroweak theory, which describes
interactions via the electromagnetic and weak forces, and quantum chromodynamics, the theory
of the strong nuclear force.
