Biology test - chapters 1 and 3; section 4.1, 4.3 and 4.4 (section 4.2 will be on the next
test)
Format: a mix of multiple choice and free response (usually can be answered with 1-2 sentences
or a list)
Concepts and terms covered:
Scientific method/experiments (section 1.1 and 1.2)
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Hypothesis
Theory
Variables: manipulated and responding
Data and observation
Inference
Metric system (know the base units we covered in lab) (and section 1.4)
See also p. 65 - experiments in ecology
microscopes
Characteristics of life (section 1.3)
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see list on p. 16 and/or in your notes
levels of biology (chart p. 21; list on p. 64)
Food chains/webs (chapter 3)
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producers, consumers, decomposers, heterotrophs, autotrophs, herbivores, carnivores,
detritivores
photosynthesis and chemosynthesis
food chain vs. food web
10% rule: pyramids of numbers, energy, and biomass
water cycle
carbon cycle
nitrogen cycle
Climate (section 4.1)
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latitude
temperature + precipitation
ocean currents and winds
Biomes (4.3 and 4.4)
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know the characteristics (climate, appearance, major plants and animals, and location) of
each biome/zone
tropical forests
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savanna
temperate grassland (prairie/steppe)
desert
temperate (deciduous) forest
boreal forest
tundra
chapperal ("temperate woodland and shrubland)
temperate rain forest ("northwestern coniferous forest)
rivers and streams
wetlands
estuaries
ocean zones: intertidal; photic, aphotic, benthic, open ocean