Prairie Dog exiting from "home",
Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota
July, 1999

Monday, October 11 -- Holiday

Wednesday, October 13 -- Lab at 2:10 PM in Room 101, McCort-Ward

Friday, October 15 -- Class members will go to Cardinal Forest with Michele Bird
OR
work on biorama research with Carolee Wende

1. Be able to draw food chains.

2. Understand the signs and significance of all the players in the following biogeochemical cycles: carbon cycle; nitrogen cycle

3. Describe the process of photosynthesis.

4. What are the biotic and abiotic factors in ecosystems?

5. What is soil?

6. How is soil formed?

7. What are sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks and how are each formed? Give an example of each.

8. Describe clay minerals in terms of :

a. Their parent material
b. Their elemental composition
c. Their charges and chemical reactions

9. List the key characteristics of the five kingdoms.

10. Describe energy flow through ecosystems.

11. Be able to recognize the position of various members of a food chain or energy pyramid.

12. Know the classification of human beings.

13. Know the characteristics of living things.

14. What is mechanical weathering and chemical weathering?

15. Understand the concept of alternation of generations in plants.

16. Be able to list several differences among monocotyledons and dicotyledons.

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