Last TEST of the YEAR Study Guide
by Mr. Carrison with the watchful supervision of Flash. 
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1. Find and review the work sheet with the study guide and crossword puzzle on it. KNOW THIS SHEET COLD!
2. Tiki recommends that you know all the animal phyla. He also suggests that you and be able to identify members of each phyla.
3. Flash thinks you should know orders of the arthropods and representative members of each.
4. Can you identify the three main body parts of an insect?
5. What is the difference between an insect and arachnid?
6. What are the main body parts of a spider?
7. Tiki ate some myripods. Should Ms. Sabonis be worried?
8. There are two different categories of myripods. What are they and what are the differences? Which is the hunter and which is a decomposer of sorts?
9. Are myripods insects? Why or why not?
10. Know what an appendage is.
11. To what body part do the legs and/or wings attach on spiders and insects.
12. What taxa is arachnid, insecta, crustacean and myriapod?
13. What are the membership requirements for all the animal phyla?
14. What is the “group” name for wings, legs, spinnerets, fangs, antennae, mandibles, claws and swimmerets?
15. Be able to identify the fins of a commom bony fish.
16. The swim bladder serves what function? What is the advantage of having one?
17. Name and know the structure that bony fish have evolved what to protect their delicate and thin membraned gills?
18. The lateral line serves what function in a bony fish?
19. What the heck is a jawless fish? Are there only one type or species?
20. Know the differences between a lamprey and a hagfish.
21. Is a shark considered a bony fish?
22. What caused economic havoc to the tourism, commercial fishing and recreational fishing industries of the Great Lake region of our country?
23. To what phylum do humans, cats, dogs and pigs belong?
24. Have you reviewed the worksheet mentioned in #1?
25. Does the grasshopper go through complete or incomplete metamorphosis? What are the different stages of their life cycle?
26. What type of metamorphosis do moths and butterflies go through? Do you know the different stages?
Yipes! What a quick year, where did it go? Seems like September was only a month or so ago. As the year draws to an end I would like to thank you all for a great year. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your patience with the subs while I have been out sick these past few weeks.
Watch for a summer FUN blog. Flash and I will put up a blog so you can all keep in touch with each other over the summer. Do not forget to annoy the Typo Police for me.
Not every adult can say that most days they look forward to going to work, I can!
Sincerely,
Mr. Carrison Duck that frequents my wife’s bird feeder around 6:00 at night and sometimes early in the morning.
Squirrel snagging a free meal on my back porch.
Help! Cooney’s trying to take over AGAIN!!!
Three hams present to you the LAST full homework assignment board of the year!
A few of Flash’s cronies – Cleatis and Chole
Tiki in world domination plotting mode.
Maximum of 5 points (1/2 point for Bailey) for either Ms. Yasin’s, Ms. McLaughlin’s, Tiki’s or Ms. Sabonis’s signature over one of Flash’s pictures on this week’s blog. If Tiki the evil cat signs you will also need Ms. Sabonis counter signature as we all know how sneaky Tiki can be! No photocopies!!!
Rumored to be the home planet of Cooney and Tiki.
Any truth to this???
Hey! Who did this? Looks like the work of AJ and his pet eel!Picture of my brothers and I when we lived in Cedar Grove, NJ. Which one is me? (The Typo Police say it should be "Which one am I?) I was in 7th grade at the time!
Two bonus points for the FIRST student to post a comment.
Remember to use your FIRST or LAST name only when posting. Using both makes it to easy for a weirdo, Tiki, or the dreaded Typo Police to stalk you!
