Download Agriculture Biology Final Study Guide

Agriculture Biology Final Study Guide
Fall Semester 2011
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What is Biology?
Describe the steps of scientific method
What is an inference?
Know the difference between a control and experimental group
Know the difference between independent variables, dependent variables and constants
What is a hypothesis?
What is a response and a stimuli – give an example
What is homeostasis?
What are the 8 characteristics of living things?
What is the difference between biotic and abiotic factors? Give examples of each
What is symbiosis? What are the differences between the three kinds?
What is predation?
Be able to list in order (population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere)
What is the difference between an autotroph and a heterotroph? Give an example of each.
What is the difference between population, community and ecosystem?
What is the source of all energy in most ecosystems?
Where can producers get their energy? (Hint: 2 answers)
Name the type of organisms that break down dead matter to get their energy.
What is a trophic level?
At what trophic level would green plants be found?
What happens to the energy that is not passed on to the next trophic level? (textbook)
What is biomass?
How much energy is taken to the next level of a ecological pyramid?
What is the difference between a food chain, food web and ecological pyramid?
Be able to label different types of organisms in a food web, chain or pyramid
Be able to draw a food web of given organisms
Be able to explain the amount of energy in each level of a ecological pyramid picture
Be able to name three biomes discussed in class
Describe one Biome discussed in class?
Name one Biome found in the US.
What factors distinguish different biomes?
What is a limiting factor? Give an example
What is an organisms “tolerance”?
What is the relationship between limiting factor and tolerance?
Describe the difference between primary and secondary succession?
What are the different types of special distribution?
What factors limit the carrying capacity of an area?
What is the difference between a density independent and dependent factor?
What things effect the population growth rate?
What are the three things used to describe populations of species?
What is the difference between eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells?
What does a prokaryotic cell contain? What does a eukaryotic cell contain?
What is the role of the nucleus?
What do lysosomes do for the cell?
What do mitochondria do for the cell? What are ribosomes?