The midterm exam will be a 50-minute timed test with one part containing about 30 multiple-choice questions and the other part requiring about two pages of writing and drawing-type answers, each part counting one-third or two-thirds of the total grade.  You may bring one 3 x 5 " card containing whatever you want to write on it, front and back.  Here's what to expect 1. graphs, lots of them .... ID hypothesis for any experiment in textbook and maybe be able to write the If-then summary of the hypothesis and predicted experimental results. Explain or interpret the graph. Interpret any statistical terms on the graph: mean, SD, P, ns, etc. Does the graph exhibit any qualities of excellence in ecological experimental design? Exhibitions of Experimental Excellence ?? 2. Equations & Life tables & frequency distributions Explain or interpret them, like in the quizzes and worksheet (but no calculations) sketch graphs, like N v t N v dN/dt lx v t N1 v N2 compare and contrast, like J v S curve, K v r-selection, Exponential v density-dependent (regulated) population growth, Individual life history v pop.growth explain, or at least recognize among multiple-choice options, different rates: Ro r % (lambda = 1+ %) = er dN/dt recruitment mx, lx 3. Vocabulary terms may re-appear in old and new disguises 4. Review web help-pages to remember what the instructor considered worth mentioning 5. Here are the end-of-chapter questions the instructor considered most important: Intro Chapter 1: 1,3,4,5,6,7,8 Niche chapter 3: #2, 10, 3, 10, 4, 10, #5, 10, 7, 10, 8, 10. Biomes chapter 4:  (p 149):  #1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 Population chapter 5: #1,2,3,5, #7, 8, 9, 10; chapter 12: 2, 3,4 Competition chapter 6: #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9