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Chpt 34-37

Chpt 34, 35, 36, 37 Test

 

Chpt 37 Objectives

1.       Explain the relative roles of genes and environment in the following types of behavior: pattern recognition, fixed action patterns, habituation, imprinting, association, imitation, and innovation.

2.       Describe the evolutionary context of examples of the following types of individual behavior: biological rhythms, kineses, and orientation behaviors, migration, and feeding behavior.

3.       Describe the evolutionary context of examples of the following types of social behavior: agonistic behavior, dominance hierarchy, territoriality, mating behavior, signaling, and altruism.

 

Chpt 36 Objectives

1.       Distinguish between the terms in the following pairs: community and ecosystem, habitat and niche, coevolution and symbiosis, and energy flow and chemical cycle.

2.       List the properties that are used to compare different communities.

3.       Discuss the forces that tie population together into communities: competition, predation and symbiosis.  Give an example of each, and explain why it is difficult to assess these forces fully in natural communities.

4.       Describe the process of community succession using a local example, and trace the changes in community parameters that occur during the process.  Demonstrate how disturbance, on various scales, is a characteristic of many communities.

5.       Define the trophic levels that occur in most ecosystems, and discuss how energy flow through trophic level structure results in an energy pyramid.

6.       Outline the dominant pathways of the cyclic movement between organic matter and abiotic reservoirs of water, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus.

7.       Explain how human disruption of ecosystems disturbs chemical nutrient cycles and how zoned reserves are being used in an attempt to restore ecosystems.

 

Chpt 35 Objectives

1.       Define population in the sense used by population ecologists, and in contrast to the traditional biological definition of population.

2.       Explain how density and dispersion describe populations and how each of these variables is measured.

3.       Distinguish between exponential and logistic models of population growth, explaining the effects of existing population size and carrying capacity on growth rate.

4.       Differentiate between density-dependent and density-independent factors that limit population growth.

5.       Describe the interrelationships among predator, prey, and prey food that cause mixed populations to cycle.

6.       Name the attributes of survivorship curves and distinguish between opportunistic and equilibrial life histories.

7.       Discuss life tables and age structures, and examine them for human populations.  Compare a stable population, such as Sweden’s with a population with an explosive growth rate, such as Mexico’s.

8.       Outline the history of the growth of the human population, including factors affecting that growth.

 

Chpt 34 Objectives

1.       Identify the abiotic and biotic factors that control ecological relationships, stressing the role of natural selection in shaping the adaptations of each organism that allow it to function well in its environment.

2.       Name the two types of aquatic ecosystems and nine types of terrestrial biomes, indicating for each the defining abiotic characteristics, the location of each on Earth, characteristic features of the organisms, and any particular sensitivity to human disturbance.