Amphibians and Reptiles

[adam124218]

Okay, for anyone who is wondering, I was going to email out my practice test this evening until I realized it's saved on the network at school, not on my home computer. So I'll try to send it tomorrow. Send me your email address if you want it! I'd still like more responses.

[celtics09]

Would you suggest writing everything that you know about that order in the field guide or quick notes?

[robotman]

uhh no not really i would just what you find that is wierd or good to no

[Emily]

Hey guys, I just got a call today asking if I could fill in for herpetology and the meet is on Saturday. I am not part of science Olympiad but I do keep over 50 herps, do you have any suggestions as far as cramming?

I have both the Peterson and Audubon guides already so I plan on just reading those I guess?

[Flavorflav]

Hey guys, I just got a call today asking if I could fill in for herpetology and the meet is on Saturday. I am not part of science Olympiad but I do keep over 50 herps, do you have any suggestions as far as cramming?

I have both the Peterson and Audubon guides already so I plan on just reading those I guess?

Get the list and tab the pages with the animals you need to know. One of the issues with a guide is that they concentrate on identification of different subspecies etc., when all you want is the genus, so you might want to mark it up linking the ones that are the same for your purposes. You probably already know some of them, so concentrate on preparing the guide and developing some kind of system for differentiating the tough ones.

[robotman]

print off the list from here:
http://soinc.org/sites/default/files/up ... 09List.pdf

[celtics09]

I find it best for you to learn unique information on the reptiles and amphibians. It also helps if you practice labeling images of animals and classify them into their common names. Then you could save a lot of time.

[Emily]

Thanks for the replies all, but it turns out the guy who dropped out is now doing it, so no cramming!

[adam124218]

Alright, the first test of the test exchange is going out this evening!

[Emily]

Can you send one to me as well? I probably need some intensive to learn latin names even if I'm not competing.
My email is [email protected]

[adam124218]

The email I sent to you bounced, Emily...

[Emily]

Hmm thats odd. Do you want to try [email protected]?

If not thats fine, thanks for all the feedback everyone...

[mellolover]

What do you have to do for amphibians and reptiles? My schedule got all messed up for the regionals. urgg. Now I'm going to have Crave the wave, Amphibians and reptiles, and science crime busters.

[Skink]

What do you have to do for amphibians and reptiles? My schedule got all messed up for the regionals.

Uhh, learn stuff? Use logic and reasoning? Turn pages?

You should take the time to study the Training Handout (the fundamentals of the event) and then learn what a lot of specimens eat, when they are active, how they reproduce, what certain structures are for, how they relate to their environment, what their range is, and so forth. Find the specimens here...be able to identify as many by sight as you can.

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Anyone here know how to deal with the bolded part of the rules (recordings of songs)? At a Div. C invitational I competed at in January, there was nada; however, yesterday, my Middle Schoolers came back to me complaining that a 'game' of some kind played four frog calls and they had to distinguish between them (what it really meant was blow four points by guessing). That throws me and everyone else on our team into a snare because none of us have any remote idea how to discern one call from another. I have a few Web sites with some already, but they're meaningless if there is no way to memorise them...have any pointers?

[dickyjones]

Not really. I'm having an awful time with it. There is a ridiculous amount of variety in calls among members of a single frog family and even genus. Right now I'm making a glossary of calls of the North American frog species that could be given in this event. I'm really just starting on actually learning them though. I'm putting some quick notes by each species of what the call sounds like (pitch and approximate number of 'beats' in a second). I'm sort of right now assuming they'll give a cricket frog or a bull frog and make it somewhat easy; because others will likely just make it guesswork.