Field Biology Mid-term Review
Make sure you can answer the following questions!
1. What is the difference between simple vs. compound leaf arrangement? How are opposite, alternate, whorled, pinnate, palmate, trifoliate, and rosette leaves different?
2. What are the basic shapes of leaves- sword, lance, ovate, elliptic, round, and cordate?
3. How do leaf edges differ- entire, lobed, toothed, and serrated?
4. Know the different types of symbiosis: Commensalism, Mutualism, Parasitism, and Neutralism. Be able to give examples of each.
5. Be able to diagram food chains and food webs.
6. What is a keystone species?
7. What are the components of the ecological pyramid?
- How does the biomass change from level to level?
- Know the terms Autotroph/ Producers, Primary Consumer/ Herbivore, Secondary Consumer/ Carnivore and Tertiary Consumer.
8. What are the differences between these following terms? Ecology, Community, Habitat and
Niche.
9. What are the main predation and prey tricks that animals use to attack or avoid each other?
10. Know the characteristics of the following habitats: field, swamp, pond, stream, woods, transitional.
11. Be able to identify the tracks of Coyote, Dog, Black Bear, Gray Squirrel, Cottontail Rabbit, White Tailed Deer, Bobcat, Northern Racoon, Opossum, Bullfrog, Canada Goose, Barn Owl, Great Blue Heron, Striped Skunk and Eastern Chipmunk.
12. Using buds, leaves, fruit, nuts and bark be able to identify the following trees:
Eastern Red Cedar
Witch-hazel
Northern Red Oak
White Oak
Red Maple
Gray Birch
Paper Birch
American Hornbeam
Flowering Dogwood
Shagbark Hickory
Catalpa
Black Cherry
American Beech
Quaking Aspen
Staghorn Sumac
Poison Ivy
Wild Grapes
Goldenrod
Little bluestem grass
Duckweed
Christmas Fern
Aster
Haircap moss
Dandelion
Sensitive fern
Extra Credit: Be able to match the following insects with their families:
Insects:
Butterflies
Bees
Beetles
Mosquitos
Stinkbugs
Dragonflies
Praying Mantis
Families:
Orthoptera
Coleoptera
Odonata
Hemiptera
Lepidotera
Diptera
Hymenoptera |