Price: $26.04 (Excluding GST)

Authors: Martin Hanson & Penny Daddy

Published: 2013

Publisher: Nelson Cengage Learning

Format: Paperback

Pages: 160

Suitable: Secondary NCEA Level 3

Level 3 Biology Workbook is a complete workbook covering the externally-assessed Achievement Standards, with text and NCEA-type questions. It is lavishly illustrated in full colour. Each Unit begins with a list of key terms and ends with revision questions.
The book is in three parts, each ending with NCEA-type questions, with answers on the Cengage website.

Demonstrate understanding of the responses of plants and animals to their external environment
1. Introduction to behaviour
2. Biological clocks
3. Seasonal behaviour and photoperiodism
4. Orientation in animals
5. Orientation in plants: Tropisms
6. Competition
7. Exploitation: Predation, grazing and parasitism
8. Cooperative interactions and commensalism
9. Courtship, parental care and life history strategies
Exam-type questions for Part 1

Demonstrate understanding of evolutionary processes leading to speciation
10. Evolutionary basics
11. Genes in populations
12. How do new species arise?
13. Patterns in evolution

Exam-type questions for Part 2

Demonstrate understanding of trends in human evolution
14. Primate legacy
15. A peculiar ape
16. Prelude to fossils: Rocks and dating
17. Small-brained, bipedal apes: The first Hominins
18. The first stone tools: Homo habilis
19. The use of fire: Home erectus
20. Archaic Homo sapiens: H. neidelbergensis, H. neanderthalensis and the Denisovans
21. The first modern humans
22. The origin and spread of Homo sapiens
23. The Neolithic revolution: Agriculture and settlements

Exam-type questions for Part 3
Answers for Revision questions