Biology
Unit 3 – Ecology & Evolution
Williams
Name: ______________________________________________ Date: _________________________ Hr: ______
Unit 3 Exam Study Guide
Biome:
1. What is a biome?
2. How are biomes formed?
3. How can plants and animals indicate they live in the same biome?
4. What are the 9 biomes? What are their specific features? (location, abiotic factors,
adaptations, threats, and unique traits)
Effect of Culture on Skeleton:
1. What are the 6 uses of the skeleton?
2. Do bones change during your lifetime?
3. What 3 factors affect the skeleton?
4. How does environmental temperature affect the skeleton?
5. How and why does surface area change with temperature?
6. What are the definitions of gracile and robust?
7. What different activities can be determined by examining the skeleton?
Adaptations:
1. What is a trait?
2. What are the differences between inherited and acquired traits?
3. What are the two types of adaptations? (are they inherited or acquired traits?)
4. What are structural adaptations?
Biology
Unit 3 – Ecology & Evolution
Williams
Name: ______________________________________________ Date: _________________________ Hr: ______
5. What are behavioral adaptations?
6. Is a trait ever a disadvantage? When?
Population Dynamics:
1. How can you categorize a population?
2. What affects the size of a population?
3. What factors affect a population’s growth rate?
4. What are the 3 survivorship curves?
5. What trade offs occur in conjunction with the cost of reproduction?
6. What are the 2 reproductive strategies?
7. Can populations continue to grow exponentially? Why not?
8. What is the carrying capacity?
9. Describe the predator prey relationship.
Population Dynamics pt 2:
1. Describe the 3 selective factors.
2. What is the bottle-neck effect?
3. What is the founder effect?
Phylogeny:
1. What is a species?
2. What are the 3 ways to distinguish between species?
Biology
Unit 3 – Ecology & Evolution
Williams
Name: ______________________________________________ Date: _________________________ Hr: ______
3. What is a phylogeny?
4. How do you determine ancestry?
5. What is homology?
6. Define ancestral, derived, and shared derived traits.
7. What is parsimony?
8. What is convergent evolution?
9. Practice creating phylogenetic trees with specific given information (worksheets).
Human Evolution:
1. What is the classification order of Homo sapiens?
2. What traits do primates possess that was due to them being arboreal?
3. What are the two groups that primates are divided into and what are their traits?
4. Who is our closest relative and how much DNA do we share?
5. What is evidence of our genetic similarities?
6. What are the uniquely human traits?
7. What are the traits of the 4 different species of humans?
8. What is the timeline of human evolution?
9. What are the scars of human evolution and how do they affect us today?