Chapter 4 Flashcards

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When the rate of change or doubling time is constant in a population, the population is said to experience?

A

Exponential growth

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2
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rN or rN (1-N/K) is equivalent to

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Rate of change

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3
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Blank populations go up and down and blank populations go up, then settle at a single level

A

R then K

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4
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What tends to be always in the exponential growth phase?

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R-selected species

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5
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J curve equals what and s curve equals what

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S curve is logistical growth while J curve is exponential curve

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6
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Environmental resistance keeping a population in balance matches what population curve?

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S curve

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7
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What strategists have high biotic potential but poor recruitment, mostly?

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R-strategists. Female cod fish, many eggs, abandons them.

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8
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Passage from infant to adulthood is

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Recruitment

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9
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Potential/ability to produce offspring

A

Biotic potential

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10
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What strategist has low biotic potential but good recruitment?

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K strategists: Humans & whales don’t have many kids but take care of their children they do have

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11
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What factors are needed to regulate a population?

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Density dependent factors

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12
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Density independent factors are not associated with what?

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Population regulation

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13
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A population size below what is needed to recover?

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Critical Number

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14
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What percent of cheetahs reach good recruitment?

A

5%

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15
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What strategists have an advantage in unstable environments, are smaller, live shorter, give birth younger, more offspring, no parental care, and fluctuating populations.

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R-Strategists

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16
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What strategist benefit from more stable environments, larger size, longer lifespan, older first birth, fewer kids, long parenting, and stable populations

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K-strategists

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17
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living together in more-or-less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism)

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Symbiosis

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18
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Does commensalism have a positive or negative affect?

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Positive on one species and neutral on the other

19
Q

Is the predator and prey relationship symbiosis?

20
Q

Why do wolves never eat all the moose on royal island?

A

Because they target the old, the young, and the disabled.

21
Q

An exception to survival of the fittest in predator interactions is?

A

Sport fishing

22
Q

Too many herbivores with no predators can lead to what two issues?

A

Starvation and destruction of flora

23
Q

A species whose role is essential for the survival of many other species in an ecosystem

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Keystone Species

24
Q

California kelp forest in 2008 ceased in what year?

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Competition between members of the same species?
Intraspecific competition
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Survival of the fittest
Natural Selection
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Division of a resource and specialization in different parts of it
Resource partitioning
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A physical change that lessens competition when two species co-occur
Character displacement
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Cape May warblers, blackburnian warbler, bay-breasted warbler, black throated green warbler, and yellow-rumped warbler live where?
In spruce forests in maine
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Polar bears are descended from what, 150,000 years ago?
Brown bears ursus maritimus
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What are a species options to responding to abiotic or biotic factors/changes?
Adaptation, migration, or extinction
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Lead poisoning, low biotic potential i.e. raising one chick every two yrs, and running into power lines nearly caused the extinction of what?
California Condor
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California authorities helped restored California condor population by breed them in captivity to what number?
537-561
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Getting along with your roommate is?
Acclimation
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Evolving to better suit your environment is?
Adaptation
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225 million years the continents moved, previously they were
All together?
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What moves continents to different latitudes, alters ocean currents and creates mountain ranges?
Continental drift
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The current ice age has lasted how many years so far?
3 million years
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Australia and South America were connected sixty-five million years ago to what?
Antarctica
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Because of the erosion and disease they cause, Louisiana started a 5-year program to get people to eat more nutria rat. How much money did they invest into it?
2.1 Million
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How many birds do the invasive species cats kill annually?
2.4 billion
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Rats and mice hitchhiked on Polynesian boats and killed what type of birds?
Ground nesting birds
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What company is turning nutria rat into dog food?
Marsh Dog