Glencoe Biology: The Dynamics of Life 2000 (Homework)

James Finch

Biology, section 1, Fall 2010

Instructor: Dr. Friendly

Current Score: 1/10

Due: Sunday, August 22, 2010 16:00 EDT

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Description

Here are some textbook questions from Glencoe Biology: The Dynamics of Life 2/e by Biggs et al published by Glencoe/McGraw-Hill. Click here for a list of all of the questions coded in WebAssign.

Instructions

This demo assignment allows many more submissions than recommended and does not show any feedback for the individual questions. Multiple choice questions are often assigned this way, only showing total assignment score, without showing the students which questions they are getting right and wrong. This often results in lots of 'biology conversations' among your students.

1. Question Details All Submissions Notes Question: Gbio00 1.AKS.03

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A team of students measured the number of seeds that germinated over ten days in a control group and in an experimental group to which fertilizer had been added. They graphed their data as shown.

Which of the following was the independent variable?

kind of seeds time number germinating fertilizer

2. Question Details All Submissions Notes Question: Gbio00 2.UMI.10

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Cowbirds get their name because they follow cows and eat the insects disturbed by the walking cows. Cowbirds have an unusual method for reproducing. The brown-headed cowbird goes to the nest of a different bird species, such as the red-wing blackbird. The cowbird rolls one of the blackbird's eggs out of the nest and lays its own egg in place. The blackbird protects the cowbird egg and feeds the chick when it hatches.

This description best descibes the cowbird's _________.

trophic level niche habitat community

3. Question Details Notes Question: Gbio00 3.TC.26

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Concept Mapping
Complete the concept map by using the following vocabulary terms: biomes, desert, grassland, temperate forest, tropical rain forest, tundra.

4. Question Details All Submissions Notes Question: Gbio00 4.UMI.07

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According to this graph, the growth rate of the house fly population ______________.

levels off after a certain amount of time increases, at a steady rate increases, then drops suddenly increases rapidly

5. Question Details All Submissions Notes Question: Gbio00 5.UMI.08

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A national park has four ways to have roads cross the park. Which method would produce the least fragmentation?

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Glencoe Biology: The Dynamics of Life 2000 (Homework)

Current Score: 1/10