Semester 1 Review
Value Systems Define eco, anthro, and technocentric
Systems Explain why each of these is a system
Systems What kind of system is each picture? Open, closed, or isolated. Explain why.
Transformations and Transfers What kind of diagram is this? What do the boxes represent? What do the arrows represent? Name the cycle. Identify 2 transformations and 2 transfers.
Feedback loops Identify the type of feedback loop shown in the graph Identify the type of feedback loop shown in the illustration
Identify the type of feedback loop
Thermodynamics State the 1 st law of thermodynamics State the 2 nd law of thermodynamics How does this law apply to this class—give examples.
Specific Heat How does weather occur on the beach? Explain using convection cells.
Which cycle is this?
Identify the cycle
Which cycle?
Identify Cycle
Biomes What 2 abiotic factors dictate what kind of biome there is?
Name the patterns of the biomes as you move from the equator to the north pole.
Productivity of the Major Biomes
What kind of ecological succession is this? What stage is it in? What will the predictable stages be after this one? What is the productivity like? The biodiversity?
What kind of ecological succession is this? How do you know? What is the productivity like? The Biodiversity?
What is this stage called in ecological succession?
What kind of ecological succession is this? What is the end result?
Study the food web and answer these questions. Be sure to explain WHY. Identify the keystone species. Which species could be an umbrella species? Which species could be an indicator species? Describe the niche of one of the organisms. Turn this food web into a pyramid of productivity (use units)
Study the food web and answer these questions. Be sure to explain WHY. What is a community? What would a population look like? Identify a food chain Identify an autotroph Identify a heterotroph Identify
What is the difference between a habitat and an ecosystem and a biome? Define species
Organism Interactions What kind of relationship?
Organism Interactions What kind of relationship?
Organism Interactions What kind of relationship?
Organism Interactions What kind of relationship?
Organism Interactions What kind of relationship?
Which is the #1 reason for loss in biodiversity?
Simpson’s Diversity Index D = N(N-1) ∑n(n-1) Number of individuals of species ABC Ecosystem Ecosystem
Productivity What kind of productivity is this? What does GSP equal? What does NSP equal? Say a bluetit eats the caterpillar, how much energy will it get from the caterpillar?
Productivity What kind of productivity is being illustrated?
What is the diagram illustrating?
Soil
How is soil formed? ___________ + _______________ = soil 2 kinds
What determines the kind of soil? What are the four kinds of soil we talked about in class? What is arable? Which soil(s) are arable? What is friable. Which soil(s) are friable?
List the particle sizes from biggest to smallest. List drainage of soil from most drainage to least drainage List the amount of air in soil from most air to least air Is there a relationship between these 3 lists?
What kind of soil?
List the 3 types of soil degradation. Identify a conservation method for each of the 3 types of soil degradation.
List inputs and outputs in a commercial farming system List inputs and outputs in a subsistence farming system
How are these 2 pictures related?
Using the picture below, explain how plate tectonics works
What is the difference between the earth’s crust, the lithosphere, and the asthenosphere?