Midterm Format
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75 Multiple Choice (scantron)
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20 Completion (with a word bank)
 Honors 5 Short Answer; Accelerated 3 Short Answer (both may answer more for up to 10 points extra credit)
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9 Graphically Analysis
How Much Is Your Midterm Worth?
 Your midterm is worth 10% of your grade for the year o Honors version is 130 points
 58% Multiple Choice
 15% Completion
 12% Short Answer
 15% Graphically Analysis o Accelerated version is 124 points
 60% Multiple Choice
 16% Completion
 8% Short Answer
 16% Graphically Analysis
Cheating
If you are caught cheating on your midterm exam you will receive and zero and disciplinary action will be taken!
Review Packet
This packet is due the day of your midterm exam. It will be your last grade of the quarter and is worth 90 points! You may work with other students but if you are caught brainlessly copying another student’s packet both packets will be taken and both you and the student you were copying from will need to start over or will receive a zero.

Chapter 1 Vocab To Know
Environmental Science
Ecology
Agriculture
Natural Resource
Pollution
Biodiversity
Law of Supply and Demand
Ecological Footprint
Sustainability
Chapter 4 Vocab To Know
Ecosystem
Biotic Factor
Abiotic Factor
Organism
Species
Population
Community
Habitat
Natural Selection
Evolution
Adaptation
Artificial Selection
Resistance

Chapter 5 Vocab To Know
Photosynthesis
Producer
Consumer
Decomposer
Cellular Respiration
Food Chain
Food Web
Trophic Level
Carbon Cycle
Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria
Nitrogen Cycle
Phosphorus Cycle
Ecological Succession
Primary Succession
Secondary Succession
Pioneer Species
Climax Community
Chapter 6 Vocab To Know
Biome
Climate
Latitude
Altitude
Tropical Rain Forest
Emergent Layer
Canopy
Epiphyte
Understory

Temperate Rain Forest
Temperate Deciduous Forest
Taiga
Savanna
Temperate Grassland
Chaparral
Desert
Tundra
Permafrost
Chapter 7 Vocab To Know
Wetland
Plankton
Nekton
Benthos
Littoral Zone
Benthic Zone
Eutrophication
Estuary
Salt Marsh
Mangrove Swamp
Barrier Island
Coral Reef

Chapter 8 Vocab To Know
Population
Density
Dispersion
Growth Rate
Reproductive Potential
Exponential Growth
Carrying Capacity
Niche
Competition
Predation
Parasitism
Mutualism
Commensalism
Symbiosis
Chapter 9 Vocab To Know
Demography
Age Structure
Survivorship
Fertility Rate
Migration
Infrastructure
Arable Land
Life Expectancy
Demographic Transition
Urbanization
Least Developed Countries

Chapter 1 Review Questions
1.
What are some examples of renewable resources?
2.
Why is it important to preserve biodiversity?
3.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
4.
What is the “Tragedy of the Commons?”
5.
Why do some countries have larger ecological footprints than others?
6.
Compare developed and developing countries.
7.
What is cost-benefit analysis?
Chapter 4 Review Questions
8.
What is the ultimate source of energy in most ecosystems?
9.
How does a population differ from a community?

10.
Why are some organisms more likely to survive than others?
11.
What are some examples of abiotic factors?
Chapter 5 Review Questions
12.
How much energy is passed from one trophic level to the next? What happens to the rest of the energy?
13.
What are some examples of fossil fuels?
14.
What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere? What percentage of the atmosphere is made up of this gas?
15.
How is fire beneficial in some communities?
16.
What are some examples of primary succession?
17.
What are the reactants and products of cellular respiration?
18.
Why are plants important to the carbon cycle?

19.
How do bacteria fix nitrogen?
20.
What causes algal blooms?
Chapter 6 Review Questions
21.
Which biome do we live in? What are some characteristics of this biome?
22.
How do animals adapt to living in the Arctic tundra?
23.
What biomes would you expect to see as you travel from the North Pole to the equator?
24.
What does a climatogram show? How do you read and analyze a climatgram?
Chapter 7 Review Questions
25.
What are the environmental functions of wetlands?
26.
Where are the majority of marine organisms found?
27.
What factors determine the types of organisms that can live in a pond or lake?

28.
What are the two main types of freshwater wetlands?
Chapter 8 Review Questions
29.
What are some causes of density-independent deaths?
30.
What types of organisms have the highest reproductive potential?
31.
What are the 3 properties used to describe a population?
32.
Why do organisms compete with each other?
Chapter 9 Review Questions
33.
How has educating women helped to lower birthrates?
34.
What size world population are we projected to reach by 2050?
35.
Which regions of the world are experiencing the greatest population growth and why?
36.
What cause the human population to double between 1880 and 1930?

37.
How does age structure contribute to growth rate?
38.
What 4 factors are used by demographers to predict population sizes?
39.
What are some ways that rapid population growth negative impacts popultations?
40.
Describe the 4 stages of demographic transition.
41.
What does it mean if you have an age-structure diagram that is largest at the base? Largest in the center?
42.
What is replacement-level fertility rate and what will happen when we reach that?