1. Semester 1 Review

2. Value Systems
Define eco, anthro, and technocentric

3. Systems
Explain why each of these is a system

4. Systems What kind of system is each picture?
Open, closed, or isolated.
Explain why.

5. 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.

6. Feedback loops Identify the type of feedback loop shown in the graph
Identify the type of feedback loop shown in the illustration

7. Identify the type of feedback loop

8. Thermodynamics State the 1st law of thermodynamics
State the 2nd law of thermodynamics
How does this law apply to this class—give examples.

10. Specific Heat
How does weather occur on the beach? Explain using the specific heat of sand and water.

11. Which cycle is this?

12. Identify the cycle

13. Which cycle?

14. Biomes
What 2 abiotic factors dictate what kind of biome there is?

15. Name the patterns of the biomes as you move from the equator to the north pole.

16. Productivity of the Major Biomes

17. What kind of ecological succession is this. What stage is it in
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?

19. What kind of ecological succession is this. How do you know
What kind of ecological succession is this? How do you know? What is the productivity like? The Biodiversity?

20. What is this stage called in ecological succession?

21. What kind of ecological succession is this? What is the end result?

22. Identify the keystone species.
Study the food web and answer these questions. Be sure to explain WHY.
Identify the keystone species.
Which species could be an indicator species?
Describe the niche of one of the organisms.
Which would be a flagship species?
Turn this food web into a pyramid of productivity (use units)

23. What would a population look like? Identify a food chain
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

24. What is the difference between a habitat and an ecosystem and a biome?
Define species

25. Organism Interactions
What kind of relationship?

26. Organism Interactions
What kind of relationship?

27. Organism Interactions
What kind of relationship?

28. Organism Interactions
What kind of relationship?

29. Which is the #1 reason for loss in biodiversity?

30. Simpson’s Diversity Index
D = N(N-1)
∑n(n-1)
Which ecosystem is the most diverse?
Number of individuals of species A B C
Ecosystem 1 48 4 54
Ecosystem 2 1 29

31. How does this concept connect with biodiversity?

32. Productivity What kind of productivity is this? What does GSP equal?
What does NSP equal?
Say a chickadee eats the caterpillar, how much energy will it get from the caterpillar?

33. Productivity
What kind of productivity is being illustrated?

34. What is the diagram illustrating?

35. Soil

36. How is soil formed?
___________ + _______________ = soil
2 kinds

37. 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?

38. 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?

39. What kind of soil?

40. List the
horizons in
order
What
biome
would you
find this
soil?

41. List the 3 types of soil degradation.
Identify a conservation method for each of the 3 types of soil degradation.

42. List inputs and outputs in a commercial farming system
List inputs and outputs in a subsistence farming system

43. Food Waste List 2 reasons MEDCs waste food
List 2 reasons LEDCs waste food
How much food do Americans waste?