Chap 9 Section 1 -3

Test Study Skills and Focus

Things to be able to do and understand

Obviously this is not everything but is the core materials and information – it is a helpful guideline

 

It will help to study questions Glencoe on line, End of chapter p276 #11 – 19, p278 #1 – 10

            Review from the holiday handouts

 

I. Be able to identify

Animals by the type of food they eat and how they get energy

                        The general information about organisms methods of getting the sun’s   energy into and thru a food chain/web

                      Producer

                      Consumer

     II. Understand animal/plant relationships

           What does one contribute – what does one use

                            (specific products and names)

           Why is this important to life

     III. Use the book for classification and understanding of getting food/energy

                      Competitors

                     Predator - Prey

                     Herbivores                  specific examples from book 

                     Carnivores

                     Omnivores

     IV. The graphic organizer about biosphere-ecosystem-community-population-organism from

page 27 of Section 1, Reinforcement – Living Earth of the Holiday package

V. Population Information

           Counting methods-and how to do them

                Population count, sample counts, catch-mark-release

           Population Density

                Why and how there are changes in populations

                           Why would it grow or decrease

                                 limiting factors, biotic potential, predation, competition

                           Consumer/producer interactions

                                 How one goes up the other goes down, etc

     VI. Symbiotic relationships and specific examples from the book

           Mutualism

           Commensalism

           Parasitism

 

	Producers (plants)	Consumers	Food/energy intake classification type	Predator or Prey
	Grass
	Trees
	Bushes
	Cactus
	Algae
		Hummingbird	herbivore
		Mouse	herbivore
		Deer, rabbits	herbivore
		Bison	herbivore
		Frog, Spider	carnivore
		Alligator	carnivore
		Cowbirds	carnivore
		Owl	carnivore
		Cougar	carnivore
		Coyote	carnivore
		Bear	omnivore
		Man	omnivore
		Pig	omnivore
		Worms	decomposer
		Mushrooms	decomposer
		bacteria	decomposer