1: What is ecology?
Ecology is the scientific study of interactions of organisms with one another and with the physical and chemical environment.
2: What is BBECPO? (Define each)
Biosphere is wherever life is on our planet
Biome is areas with similar climate
Ecosystem is adding abiotic factors.
Community is populations interacting
Population is groups of individuals
Organism is one individual
3: What is a community?
A community is not just a group of people bounded by a geographical links, such as a village, settlement or district.
4: What is species composition?
Species composition is the identity of all the different organisms that make up a community.
5: What is species diversity (biodiversity)? Where is the greatest species diversity?
Species diversity is the effective number of different species that are represented in a collection of individuals. The greatest species diversity was found the equator.
6: Explain the example of symbiosis with Leaf Cutter Ants and the fungus and bacteria on the ant.
Leaf Cutter Ants have been around for the better part of 50 million years. Interestingly, these ants are consume the largest amount of primary producers in the tropical rainforest areas which is not surprising considering their biomass is four times the amount of other invertebrates. Fungus is grown underground in the nests chambers by the worker ants. And bacteria are found in the underbellies of the worker ants. If the ants are in often close contact with the fungus, they tend to have more bacteria on them. This is because the bacteria has a special property that acts as antibiotic against other molds and fungi, except the ants' food source, the Lepiotaceae fungus.
7: What is an exponential growth pattern? Explain.
Exponential growth occurs when the growth rate of the value of a mathematical function is proportional to the function's current value.
8: What are the limiting factors to growth. Explain both density dependent and density independent factors.
Limiting factors are things that prevent a population from growing any larger. density-dependent processes occur when population growth rates are regulated by the density of a population. Density-independent limiting factors affect all populations in similar ways, regardless of the population size.
9: What is a logistic growth pattern?
Logistic growth population models imply density dependent population regulation.
10: What is the carrying capacity? Define.
The carrying capacity is the size of a population that can live indefinitely using the resources available where that population lives.
11: What is an age-structure diagram (population pyramid)? How it is set-up? What does it tell you? is a graphic description of the age and sex group distribution in a country's population. The way it set up is
age and by gender. It tell me that the individual growth in Angola.
12: What is the shape of a population pyramid of a young (exponential growth)? What is the shape of a population of a stable population (logistic growth)?
The shape of a population pyramid of a young is pyramid.The shape of a population of a stable population is dropping off.
Ecology is the scientific study of interactions of organisms with one another and with the physical and chemical environment.
2: What is BBECPO? (Define each)
Biosphere is wherever life is on our planet
Biome is areas with similar climate
Ecosystem is adding abiotic factors.
Community is populations interacting
Population is groups of individuals
Organism is one individual
3: What is a community?
A community is not just a group of people bounded by a geographical links, such as a village, settlement or district.
4: What is species composition?
Species composition is the identity of all the different organisms that make up a community.
5: What is species diversity (biodiversity)? Where is the greatest species diversity?
Species diversity is the effective number of different species that are represented in a collection of individuals. The greatest species diversity was found the equator.
6: Explain the example of symbiosis with Leaf Cutter Ants and the fungus and bacteria on the ant.
Leaf Cutter Ants have been around for the better part of 50 million years. Interestingly, these ants are consume the largest amount of primary producers in the tropical rainforest areas which is not surprising considering their biomass is four times the amount of other invertebrates. Fungus is grown underground in the nests chambers by the worker ants. And bacteria are found in the underbellies of the worker ants. If the ants are in often close contact with the fungus, they tend to have more bacteria on them. This is because the bacteria has a special property that acts as antibiotic against other molds and fungi, except the ants' food source, the Lepiotaceae fungus.
7: What is an exponential growth pattern? Explain.
Exponential growth occurs when the growth rate of the value of a mathematical function is proportional to the function's current value.
8: What are the limiting factors to growth. Explain both density dependent and density independent factors.
Limiting factors are things that prevent a population from growing any larger. density-dependent processes occur when population growth rates are regulated by the density of a population. Density-independent limiting factors affect all populations in similar ways, regardless of the population size.
9: What is a logistic growth pattern?
Logistic growth population models imply density dependent population regulation.
10: What is the carrying capacity? Define.
The carrying capacity is the size of a population that can live indefinitely using the resources available where that population lives.
11: What is an age-structure diagram (population pyramid)? How it is set-up? What does it tell you? is a graphic description of the age and sex group distribution in a country's population. The way it set up is
age and by gender. It tell me that the individual growth in Angola.
12: What is the shape of a population pyramid of a young (exponential growth)? What is the shape of a population of a stable population (logistic growth)?
The shape of a population pyramid of a young is pyramid.The shape of a population of a stable population is dropping off.