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What websites can you recommend? Plus, I'd like to know what is the best field guide money can buy for this event? Need all the help I can get - Thanks

What is the best field guide/Herpotology book to bue and bring back to student council.

Doesn't anyone know anything for this event?

C'mon. Read the Amphibians and Reptiles thread. It's exactly the same subject matter, so the resources that work for that event will work for this one. I've suggested field guides and websites that my team has used for Herpetology in that thread. Calm yourself.

freeman wrote:Does anyone have any sources or websites that give infromation for this event? From 1 to 10 how hard do you think this event will be? (1 is the easiest- 10 is the Hardest)

Having participated in this event last year, I think this is one of the harder events that I have participated in. I'm sure it varies depending on the person and the test, but I would rank this at being perhaps a 7 or 8. Or course if you really study for this you should be good (but I prefer to spend more time studying for my other events which I am better at).

i don't know much about what is supposed to happen this year but i did the event last year. my test was like a worksheet and we went around to stations classifying things (it was either a photo or something in a tank, i think one of ours was a turtle) and once you classified it you had to answer a few questions. the questions were things like how do they reproduce, what do they eat, or what kind of environment does it live in. it was generally pretty basic stuff and we were allowed to have a field guide. the only problem was not everything that the test asked about was listed in the field guide but other then that it was pretty easy.

abbcossni wrote:we went around to stations classifying things (it was either a photo or something in a tank, i think one of ours was a turtle) and once you classified it you had to answer a few questions. the questions were things like how do they reproduce, what do they eat, or what kind of environment does it live in.

That's pretty much how it was for me. There were a few living creatures, but mostly pictures or skeletons.

The questions were hard, but if you used logical thinking, you could make a decent guess.

herpetology is the worst. i got last out of 20 today. i didnt know i was doing it until 3:30 yesterday

Herpetology rules!
That is not Herpetology's fault, it is simply an unfortunate turn of events.

Jazzy09 wrote:herpetology is the worst. i got last out of 20 today. i didnt know i was doing it until 3:30 yesterday

This will be my second year in the Herpetology event and I have to say last year's test blew me out of the water. I was not prepared in the slightest. They were asking things that I didn't know to study! My partner and I got to the point where we wrote a Lion King song lyric for one of the questions. I have an excellent field guide that was given to my coach this summer by one of the workshop directors for winning the event but I am still a little tedious in how to prepare for our upcoming competition.

I have completed a sample exercise but it was the same as last years so it was basically writing down memorization...not much help. My partner and I getting ready to dissect a snake!, so hopefully that will help. Any suggestions on how to prepare?