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Study Guide for Bio 101 Exam 1
This list is only a study guide , NOT a complete list of all the material on the test. Make sure to go
through your lecture notes and power point slides before you try to answer these questions. Any
material discussed in class is potential test material. Please bring questions to office hours or by
appointment .
Chapter 1:Scientific thinking
1. Describe what science is.
2. What are the steps of the scientific method.?
3. Describe key aspects of well-designed experiments
4. Know key terms like hypothesis, double blind study, placebo effect, dependent and independent
variable
A _____ is defined as tentative explanation for observed phenomena.
5. Know to identify the independent and dependent variable in an experiment?
6. What is the error bars in a graph mean? What does P value mean?
7. Know what positive and negative correlation means statistically
In Statistics a ________ correlation occurs when an increase in one variable leads to a decrease in
another variable.
Population Ecology:
1. Be able to define population, community, ecosystem
2. Know the differences between population, and community ecology.
3. How is growth rate of a population calculated?
4. Know the differences between the 4 types of growth pattern that we discussed in class.
5. What is carrying capacity? What is maximum sustainable yield?
6. Territorial behavior of animals leads to _____ dispersion (clumping, uniform or random
dispersion?)
7. Know to read age pyramid graphs. Which age structure graph denote growing, stable and
declining populations.
8. Know about survivorship curves
Community Ecology:
9. What is a community? How is it different from an ecosystem? What are biomes? ecology?
10. What is co-evolution? Can you think of an example?
11.