Plants & Human Affairs (BIOL106)  -  Stephen G. Saupe, Ph.D.; Biology Department, College of St. Benedict/St. John's University, Collegeville, MN 56321; ssaupe@csbsju.edu; http://www.employees.csbsju.edu/ssaupe

Review for Exam #2

General:
     The exam will be a mixture of objective (e.g., multiple choice, definition, fill-in-blank) and subjective (short answer) questions.  You may use pencil or pen to complete your exam, though I strongly recommend pencil.  The exam is designed to last one hour.  In general, the exam could include:  (1) anything covered in class; (2) items in textbook that pertain directly to concepts covered in class; (3) lecture notes on line; (4) study sheets, handouts or other materials used/assigned in class; and (5) questions from videos seen in lab (i.e., video worksheet).  The following is a brief summary of the main topics that are "fair game" for the exam:

Countries of the day
    All countries of the day since the beginning of the semester (e.g., cumulative) and any "regions" (e.g., Fertile Crescent, Andes, Central America) we've discussed are potential questions.  Plants of the day will not be on the exam.

Columbus Day

• web notes & class info
• you don't need to remember dates (except perhaps 1492) but concepts, especially pertaining to plants
• explain how Columbus knew that the earth was round
• how how our ancestors knew how big the earth is
• how did Columbus calculate the presumed length of his voyage
• what was the egg trick and what was its "message"
• describe the importance of migrating birds on the first voyage
• where did Columbus land?  where is Hispaniola?
• algae played a role in the first voyage.  explain.
• what is the Sargasso Sea?  where is it?  what was its effect on the voyages? 
• what is Sargassum, Fucus
• what is a holdfast, float bladder?
• did Columbus find what he was looking for?
• identify some of the plants that Columbus found
• what were some of the consequences of the Columbian exchange?
• compare and contrast world cuisines before/after the Columbus exchange.
• compare and contrast native vs. naturalized vs. alien vs. introduced
• identify the native region for some of our common crops (sheet given in class)
• compare and contrast animals that were domesticated in the Old/New worlds.
• visit the Public Folder for our course to check out the Columbus Powerpoint

Vegetative Structures

• check out the web notes (except VIII - Mustard) and pertinent info in Chapter 3.
• check out the Vegetative Structures Study Guide
• a copy of the Powerpoint presentation is in the Public Folder for our course under Academic/Saupe/etc.

Reproductive Structures

• check out the web notes and pertinent info in Chapters 5 & 6
• check out the Reproductive Structures Study Guide
• a copy of the Powerpoint presentation is in the Public Folder for our course under Academic/Saupe/etc.

Origin of Agriculture

• check out the questions/materials in the Study Guide
• web notes and info in chapter 11 in text
• the Vavilov Powerpoint is in our course Public Folder

Wood

• web notes (excluding paper), pertinent sections of chapters 3 & 18 in text
• info in Wood Exercises & Study Guide.   However, you will not have to identify different types of wood as in Exercise 1 but you should understand the structures/features of these woods.

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