REVIEW Sheet for Test
Review all the materials in your science folder and on MaggiesScienceConnection. You should be able to find the answers to all the questions in this review sheet in these two places. You may wish to plan on answering one set of questions each day before the test. If you successfully answer these questions, you should feel very comfortable and prepared for the test! The test will include multiple choice, matching, true/false, and short answer questions. I will provide a hard copy of the review sheet as well as a Microsoft Word file (in case you want to make flash cards). We'll start reviewing in class during your lab period on Nov. 28.
1. Biodiversity & Interdependence
a. What does diversity mean?
b. What does biodiversity mean?
c. What are the 3 ways scientists look at biodiversity? Can you give examples of each?
d. What does interdependence mean?
e. What are the five essential components of a habitat?
f. Thinking about the different sites we studied, can you list some of the different ways each species provided for and depended on the other organisms in the community?
h. How does a food web illustrate interdependency? Can a web illustrates other forms of interdependent relationships?
i. Why is biodiversity important for healthy ecosystems?
j. If the Playground Prairie was mowed, which type of organism might survive better than the other - a specialist, or a generalist? Explain why.
k. What are some of the things that threaten biodiversity?
l. What things can be done to preserve & protect biodiversity?
2. Relationships in nature: You should be able to a) define & explain them and b) give at least 2 examples of each type. [Examples are provided in MSC and on the links from the website. You should also be able to come up with examples from our community studies]
a. The relationships you should be familiar with are:
i. Producer-Consumer
ii. Predator-prey
iii. Competition
1. intraspecies competition
2. interspecies competition
iv. Symbiosis
1. Commensalism
2. Mutualism
3. Parasitism
a. Endoparasitism
b. Ectoparasitism
v. Decomposition
1. Detritivores (you should know why a detritivore is a decomposer and a scavenger is not)
b. Can you give specific examples from our community studies of interdependent relationships between plants and animals in terms of the 5 essential resources of a habitat? (For example, the box elder bug pollinates the box elder tree is an example of mutualism. The box elder tree and the bug also have a producer-consumer relationship. The tree provides shelter, space and oxygen (air) to the bug and the bug provides carbon dioxide (food) to the tree.)
3. Seed dispersal:
a. What does ‘dispersal’ mean?
b. Can you explain 5 different ways that seeds disperse in nature? Give 1 or 2 specific examples of seeds that are dispersed by each of the methods?
c. Why is it important for the parent plant to disperse its seeds?
d. Why is seed dispersal important for biodiversity?
4. Linnaean classification system
a. Explain why it is important to give a species a scientific name?
b. Can you remember the order in which organisms are classified? (HINT: you should be able to sing a song that helps you remember the order, but don't forget "domain")
c. Each level of the classification system is called a taxa. Can you tell whether there are more organisms in the Kingdom or in the Family taxa? Are there more organisms in the Phylum or in the Class taxa?
d. What is the proper way to write the scientific name for an organism? What is the proper way to type the scientific name?
e. You should be able to look at the 6 Kingdom Classification handout and find which Kingdom, phylum (and sometimes subphylum) and class an organism belongs to. For example, I might ask you which Kingdom, Phylum, and Class a bony fish belongs to. Or, I might ask you what features characterize the class Mammalia. This handout will be available during the test.
f. You should know how a dichotomous key works and I would ask you to identify an organism with it.
4. Photosynthesis/Respiratoin
a. You should be able to describe photosynthesis and respiration. The first picture on my website next to the notes on photosynthesis is what I’m looking for as a drawing. Pay particular attention to the direction of the arrows (for example, CO2 in and O2 out).
b. How is photosynthesis important to the plant? (Also, do plants respire, too?)
c. How and why are photosynthesis and respiration related (what is the interdependence of photosynthesizers and respirators?)
Review all the materials in your science folder and on MaggiesScienceConnection. You should be able to find the answers to all the questions in this review sheet in these two places. You may wish to plan on answering one set of questions each day before the test. If you successfully answer these questions, you should feel very comfortable and prepared for the test! The test will include multiple choice, matching, true/false, and short answer questions. I will provide a hard copy of the review sheet as well as a Microsoft Word file (in case you want to make flash cards). We'll start reviewing in class during your lab period on Nov. 28.
1. Biodiversity & Interdependence
a. What does diversity mean?
b. What does biodiversity mean?
c. What are the 3 ways scientists look at biodiversity? Can you give examples of each?
d. What does interdependence mean?
e. What are the five essential components of a habitat?
f. Thinking about the different sites we studied, can you list some of the different ways each species provided for and depended on the other organisms in the community?
h. How does a food web illustrate interdependency? Can a web illustrates other forms of interdependent relationships?
i. Why is biodiversity important for healthy ecosystems?
j. If the Playground Prairie was mowed, which type of organism might survive better than the other - a specialist, or a generalist? Explain why.
k. What are some of the things that threaten biodiversity?
l. What things can be done to preserve & protect biodiversity?
2. Relationships in nature: You should be able to a) define & explain them and b) give at least 2 examples of each type. [Examples are provided in MSC and on the links from the website. You should also be able to come up with examples from our community studies]
a. The relationships you should be familiar with are:
i. Producer-Consumer
ii. Predator-prey
iii. Competition
1. intraspecies competition
2. interspecies competition
iv. Symbiosis
1. Commensalism
2. Mutualism
3. Parasitism
a. Endoparasitism
b. Ectoparasitism
v. Decomposition
1. Detritivores (you should know why a detritivore is a decomposer and a scavenger is not)
b. Can you give specific examples from our community studies of interdependent relationships between plants and animals in terms of the 5 essential resources of a habitat? (For example, the box elder bug pollinates the box elder tree is an example of mutualism. The box elder tree and the bug also have a producer-consumer relationship. The tree provides shelter, space and oxygen (air) to the bug and the bug provides carbon dioxide (food) to the tree.)
3. Seed dispersal:
a. What does ‘dispersal’ mean?
b. Can you explain 5 different ways that seeds disperse in nature? Give 1 or 2 specific examples of seeds that are dispersed by each of the methods?
c. Why is it important for the parent plant to disperse its seeds?
d. Why is seed dispersal important for biodiversity?
4. Linnaean classification system
a. Explain why it is important to give a species a scientific name?
b. Can you remember the order in which organisms are classified? (HINT: you should be able to sing a song that helps you remember the order, but don't forget "domain")
c. Each level of the classification system is called a taxa. Can you tell whether there are more organisms in the Kingdom or in the Family taxa? Are there more organisms in the Phylum or in the Class taxa?
d. What is the proper way to write the scientific name for an organism? What is the proper way to type the scientific name?
e. You should be able to look at the 6 Kingdom Classification handout and find which Kingdom, phylum (and sometimes subphylum) and class an organism belongs to. For example, I might ask you which Kingdom, Phylum, and Class a bony fish belongs to. Or, I might ask you what features characterize the class Mammalia. This handout will be available during the test.
f. You should know how a dichotomous key works and I would ask you to identify an organism with it.
4. Photosynthesis/Respiratoin
a. You should be able to describe photosynthesis and respiration. The first picture on my website next to the notes on photosynthesis is what I’m looking for as a drawing. Pay particular attention to the direction of the arrows (for example, CO2 in and O2 out).
b. How is photosynthesis important to the plant? (Also, do plants respire, too?)
c. How and why are photosynthesis and respiration related (what is the interdependence of photosynthesizers and respirators?)