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27 Cards in this Set
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what term is fro a top predator that contributes to the maintenance of specie diversity among it's prey
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keystone species
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what are the most important factors that effect the distribution of biomes
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daylength and rainfall
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the main decomposers oin an ecosystem are
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fungi and prokaryotes
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humn use of prokarotic organisms to help detoxify a polluted wetland would be an example of
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bioremediation
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two poisonous frogs with similar color patterns are what tpe of mimicry
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Mullerian mimicry
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animals that help other animals of the same species are expected?
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to genectically related to the other animals
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the minimum an ecosystem need to recycle nutrients is?
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producers and decomposers
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aquatic primary productivity is limited often by?
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light and nutrients
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in what community would organisms most likely have adaptations enabling them to respond to different photoperiods?
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temperate forest
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behavior can be modified by learning, but some apparent learning is due to maturation.
is this a correct statement? |
this is not a correct statement.
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does optimal foraging involve maximizing the population size of foraging?
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i does not involve maximizing the population
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what was the first major event that increase the size of the human population?
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the advent of agriculture
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unifrom spacing patterns are most often associated with?
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the random distribution of seeds
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distrubances to ecological communities are related to what? and can cause what?
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are frequently related to humans.
can remove organisms and alters resource availibity. Also can create vacated ecological niches that other species can colonize |
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sow bugs become mofe aciive in dry areas and less active in humid areas. this is an example of?
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kinesis
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slght variations in niche allow similar species to coexist, is an example of what?
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Resource partitioning
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wildlife movemet of corridors can
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promote disease transmission
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what causes Earth's seasons
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the tilt of the Earth's axis
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what was caused by excessive nutrient input into lakes?
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Eutrophication
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what caused excessively high levels of DDT in fish-eating birds.
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biological magnification
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which is not a property of life
-evolutionary adaptations -energy processing -responding to the anvironment -growth and reproduction -breathing |
Breathing
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which of these biome have the shortest growing seasons
-savanna -temperate broadleaf forest -temperate grassland - tropical rain forest - taiga |
the savanna
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these three statments desribe what?
-they are highly stereotyped, instinctive patterns -they are triggered by sign stimulus - an innnapropriate stimulus can sometimes trigger them |
fixed action patterns (FAP)
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learning in which an associated stimulus may be used to elicit the same behavioral response as the orginal sign stimulus is called?
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classical conditioning
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according to the competitive exclusion principle, two species can not occupy th same?
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range
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what is the successional event in which one organism makes the environment more suitable for another organism?
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inhibition
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what is the fundamental difference between matter and energy
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energy is cycled through ecosystems; matter is not.
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