Water Quality B/C

[YanaB]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone would like to trade for Water Quality? I am currently working on a test and have some notes. Also, I was wondering how do people get all of those google drives filled with tests through trading?

[TheMysteriousMapMan]

Hi YanaB,

According to the SciOly forum rules (https://scioly.org/rules.php), public test trading is not permitted on this site, except for tests uploaded to the Test Exchange (https://scioly.org/tests/), mostly due to permission issues.

[NSCDS3RdCaptain]

What is meant in rule 3 Part I a. by "recently killed coral"? Also, how much coral reef knowledge is specified by rule 3 Part II a?

[diophantine]

In section II, when the scientific name is given, are we expected to know the scientific names on the test or are they just there to specify which species we will be IDing out of all of them?
Some organisms lack a scietific name, which leads me to believe the second, but the real question is whether the test writers will believe the same

[hmmm]

In section II, when the scientific name is given, are we expected to know the scientific names on the test or are they just there to specify which species we will be IDing out of all of them?
Some organisms lack a scietific name, which leads me to believe the second, but the real question is whether the test writers will believe the same

I think you need to know both if they are present on the list.

[gz839918]

In section II, when the scientific name is given, are we expected to know the scientific names on the test or are they just there to specify which species we will be IDing out of all of them?
Some organisms lack a scietific name, which leads me to believe the second, but the real question is whether the test writers will believe the same

I think you need to know both if they are present on the list.

Rule 3.II.a says "common name only," but I would agree with hmmm that you should know both. Rule 3.II.a is not actually within the same list item as the list of organisms (which are named in rule 3.II.b), so less scrupulous test writers may overlook this rule and still ask for knowledge about cladistics.

A myriad of invitationals tested taxonomy last year, and a handful didn't play by the rules. Heck, for that matter, the national tournament tested taxonomy and tested organisms not mentioned in the rules. It's not out of the question that many of the same test writers will once again gauge how well you've memorized taxonomic names.

For those who know about last year's organisms, I believe the reason why the rules manual now offers taxonomic names despite their absence last season is to help out the student. Last year, several organisms were polyphyletic (midges, air-breathing snails, gilled snails) or too vague (flatworm could refer to any creature of phylum Platyhelminthes, but the only species important to water pollution were planaria of class Turbellaria). With systemic names, you'll know what the rules manual truly wants you to study.

[Presleystepp]

I am struggling when trying to find the class indicator for the marine indicator species. Do any of you have any links that may be useful?

[Elizabethaufleger]

I as well cannot find the class indicators for the the marine indicator species. Does anyone have any sites that would help?

[hmmm]

I am struggling when trying to find the class indicator for the marine indicator species. Do any of you have any links that may be useful?

I as well cannot find the class indicators for the the marine indicator species. Does anyone have any sites that would help?

Weren't the pollution sensitivity classes only for last year(freshwater)?

[gz839918]

I am struggling when trying to find the class indicator for the marine indicator species. Do any of you have any links that may be useful?

I as well cannot find the class indicators for the the marine indicator species. Does anyone have any sites that would help?

Could you please tell us more about what's confusing? More clarity would be appreciated in helping to answer your questions. If you mean pollution sensitivity classes, they aren't used in this year's rules, as hmmm points out.