Clark College, Biology 144, Winter 2000
Second Midterm Study Guide
I. Terms and definitions
Antagonostic skeleton
Broadcast fertilization
Carnivores
Cheliped
Community
Cuticle
Diffusion
Ecology
Ecosystem
Endoskeleton
Evisceration
Food webs
Exoskeleton
Fin rays
Herbivores
Hydrostatic skeleton
Keystone species
Mandibles
Mantle cavity
Population
Predation
Primary producers
Resource partitioning
Top Predators
II. Concepts
- Know the basic characteristics of all animals groups covered. Be able to contrast different groups in terms of their relative morphological advances and constraints.
- Contrast the advantages and disadvantages of radial vs. bilateral symmetry; multicellular vs. unicellular; complete vs. incomplete gut.
- Contrast differences between suspension feeding and deposit feeding.
- Be able to describe the five classes of vertebrates. What are the advances and constraints of each group?
- What are food webs are why are they important? What is a keystone species?
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