Review questions for exam 1. Review these questions, and those questions at the end of the chapters. This will help you do well on the exam. Don’t forget to review the papers we talk about too, like the coffee paper. If I did not cover a concept, then it will not be on the test, even though it is in the book UNLESS I TELL YOU
OTHERWISE IN THE STUDY GUIDE.
Chapter 1 Study Guide
1. What are the steps of the scientific method?
2. What are dependent and independent variables?
3. What are the characteristics that define life?
4. Define homeostasis. Does a sick person still have homeostasis?
5. Sexual reproduction is crucially important in what type of environments?
6. How is a caterpillar that looks like a bird dropping illustrating natural selection?
7. What observations led Darwin and Wallace to predict the existence of a long-‐
tongued moth in Madagascar?
8. Review the coffee paper. What are the dependent and independent variables in this study? How big was the sample size? What is one strength, what is one
weakness of the study? What was the gender ratio in this study?
9. What is a theory? What is a Law? Define Natural selection.
10. What led Darwin to believe that a flower with a very long nectary HAD to be pollinated by an organism with a very long tongue?