Make sure that you have completed chapter 19 blogs before attempting these questions.
1. Would you measure a species evenness of a community or the species richness? Explain.
2. Would plants be benefit more if they had more than one pollinator? Why or why not.
3. How would you compare primary succession to secondary succession?
4. How can exotic [...]
1. A certain tropical tree has a fruit that is eaten by only one species of bats. As the bat digests the fruit, the seeds are made ready to spout. When the bat excretes the wastes of the fruit, it drops seeds in new locations. Which of the following is the correct term for the [...]
Predation, interspecific competition, symbiosis, parasitism, mutualism, commensalism, ecological succession, primary succession, climax species
1. Bird distribution may be clumped as birds fly or migrate. What are the advantages of a clumped spatial distribution?
2. How could disease be a density contributing factor in a population?
3. Explain the four processes that contribute to population sizes.
4. Because humans alter our environment more than other animals do, we can affect the carrying [...]
Explain the relationship between birth rate, death rate, and growth rate.
Explain the pattern described by the exponetial model of population growth.
According to the logistic model how do birth and death change with population size.
List two density independent factors that could limit population size.
Explain how inbreeding can threaten the survival of a small population.
Birth rate
Death rate
life expectancy
age structure
growth rate
immigation
emigration
exponential model
limiting factor
logistic model
carrying capacity
inbreeding
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Has the derastation in Japan hurt the biosphere or ecosystem?
How can situation in Japan effect human health?
Why did the system fail in Japan. Could anything be done to prevent it?
Could there be long last effects in Japan? Explain.
What are your feelings about nuclear power?
Distinguish between biotic and abiotic factors.
Explain how migration allows organisms to cope with a changing enviroment.
What does a tolerance curve indicate about an organism?
How does an organism niche differ from it’s habitat?
Give examples of a generalist and a specialist not mentioned in the text on pg. 365?
Habitat
bioticfactor
abiotic factor
tolerance curve
acclimation
conformer
regulator
dormancy
migration
niche
generalist
specialist
