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Chapter 40: Population Ecology & the Distribution of Organisms Flashcards

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What influences the distribution of terrestrial biomes?

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Earth’s Climate

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What are aquatic biomes?

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diverse and dynamic systems that cover most of Earth

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What limits the distribution of species?

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interactions between organisms and the environment

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What do biotic and abiotic factors affect?

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population density, dispersion, and demographics

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What are population dynamics influenced strongly by?

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life history traits and population density

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What is ecology?

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the scientific study of the interactions between organisms and their environment

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What is population?

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a group of organisms of the same species living in the same geographic area

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What is a community?

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a group of populations of different species

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What is an ecosystem?

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a community of organisms in an area and the physical factors with which those organisms interact

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What is a landscape?

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a mosaic of connected ecosystems

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What is a biosphere?

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the global ecosystem (the sum of the planet’s ecosystem)

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What does the global ecology examine?

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the distribution of organisms on Earth

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What does landscape ecology focus on?

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factors controlling exchange of energy, materials, and organisms across ecosystems

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What does ecosystem ecology look at?

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energy flow and chemical cycling in an eosystem

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What does community ecology look at?

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interactions between species.

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What is population ecology?

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how an organisms structure, physiology and behavior meet the challenges posed by the enviroment

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What is the most significant influence on the distribution of organisms on land?

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climate

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What is climate?

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long-term, prevailing weather conditions in a given area

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What are the four major components that make up climate?

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temperature, precipitation, sunlight and wind

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What are global climate patterns determined by?

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the input of solar energy and Earth’s movement

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What exerts seasonal, regional, and local effects on climate?

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the changing angle of the sun over the year, bodies of water, and mountains

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What are biomes?

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major life zones (ecosystem) characterized by vegetation type (in terrestrial biomes) or by physical environment (in aquatic biomes)

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What causes latitudinal patterns of biome distribution?

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the latitudinal patterns of climate over the Earth’s surface

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What is a climograph?

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a plot of the annual mean temperature and precipitation in a particular region

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What are the 6 biomes?

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desert, grassland (temperate), temperate broadleaf forest, tropical forest, northern coniferous forest, arctic and alpine tundra

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What is plotted on the x-axis of a climograph

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Annual mean precipitation (cm)

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What is plotted on the y-axis of a climograph?

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Annual mean temperature (C)

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Some arctic tundra ecosystems receive as little rainfall as deserts but have much denser vegetation. What climatic factor might explain the difference?

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sunlight and wind

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Why are some biomes rich in species abundance?

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species abundance is related to primary productivity (productivity is higher in ecosystems with abundant light energy and warmer temperatures)

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What can the distribution of biomes be modified by?

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a disturbance

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What is a disturbance?

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an event such as a storm, fire, or human activity that changes community

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What are most terrestrial biomes named for?

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predominant vegetation

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What are most terrestrial biomes characterized by?

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microorganisms, fungi, and animals adapted to that particular environment

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What are aquatic biomes characterized by?

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the physical and chemical environment (marine biomes vs. freshwater biomes)

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What are aquatic biomes divided into?

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vertical and horizontal zones

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What is the photic zone?

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a zone in aquatic biomes where there is sufficient light for photosynthesis

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What is the aphotic zone?

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a zone in aquatic biomes where little light penetrates

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What is the benthic zone?

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the bottom of all aquatic biomes

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What are benthos?

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the community of organisms that live in the benthic zones

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What is the littoral zone?

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where waters close to shore that are shallow enough for rooted plants

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What is a thermocline?

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a narrow layer of abrupt temperature change which separates the warm upper layers from cold deeper water

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What do marine algae and photosynthetic bacteria do?

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supply much of the world’s oxygen and consume large amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide

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What is an oligotrophic lake

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A lake that is nutrient poor and oxygen rich (sterile)

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What is an eutrophic lake?

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a lake that is nutrient rich and often depleted of oxygen when heterotrophs use up oxygen at the end of summer

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What is a wetland?

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a habitat that is inundated by water at least some of the time supports plants that are adapted to water saturated soil

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What is an estuary?

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a transitional area between river and sea. Water in this area is often described as brackish because it is a mixture of fresh and salt water

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What is an intertidal zone?

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an area that is periodically submerged and exposed by the tides

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What are species distribution are consequence of?

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both ecological factors and evolutionary history

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What is disperal?

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the movement of individuals away from their area of origin or from centers of high population density

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What are biotic factors?

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living factors in an environment

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What are abiotic factors?

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non-living factors in an environment

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What does population ecology explore?

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how biotic and abiotic factors influence the density, distribution and size of a population

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What Is population density?

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the number of individuals per unit area or volume

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What factors increase population density?

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births and immigration

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What factors increase population density?

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deaths and emigration

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What does ZPG stand for?

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Zero Population Growth

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When does ZPG occur?

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when births equal deaths

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What are patterns of dispersion?

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the pattern of spacing among individuals within the boundaries of the population

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What are three basic patterns of dispersion?

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clumped, uniform, and random

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A male stickleback fish attacks other males that invade its nesting territory. Predict the likely pattern of dispersion for male sticklebacks?

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Uniform

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What is demography?

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the study off the vital statistics of populations and how they change over time

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What are life table?

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age-specific survival and reproductive rates of individuals in a population. These are produced by following the fate of a cohort.

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What does type 1 survivorship show?

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low death rate at birth and middle life and then death rate increases sharply in older age groups. low infant mortality. associated with high parental care

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What does type II survivorship show?

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relatively constant birth and death rate.

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What does type III survivorship show?

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high death rates early in life, but then death rates decline for older age groups. Usually associated with many offspring and low parental care.

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What is population growth rate

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the change in the number of individuals in a given area over time

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What is the formula for population growth rate?

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r = (births-deaths/N)

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What is exponential population growth

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described as an idealized population growth in an environment with unlimited resources.

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What shape curve is exponential population growth?

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J-shaped

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What is intrinsic rate of increase

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the per capita rate at which an exponentially growing population increases in size at each instant in time (ideal conditions, unlimited resources)

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What is carrying capacity?

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the maximum population size that a particular environment can sustain (K)

73
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What is logistical population growth?

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it charts the growth of a population with unlimited resources when the population is low (exponential growth), but then the rate of population growth approaches zero as the population size nears the carrying capacity

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What is true about the birth and death rate during exponential growth?

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birth rate is much greater than death rate

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What is true about the birth and death rate as the population approaches the carrying capacity?

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birth rate begins to decrease and/or death rate increases

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What Is true about the birth and death rate at the carrying capacity?

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rates are roughly equal

77
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What makes up an organism’s life history

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due to limited resources, there must be a tradeoff between survival and reproductive traits (frequency, number of offspring, and parental care), which make up an organisms’ life history/

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What is k-selection?

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selection of life history traits that are sensitive to population density and carrying capacity

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What is r-selection?

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selection of life history traits the maximize reproductive success in uncrowded environments

80
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What happens at large population sizes?

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negative feedback is provided by density-dependent regulation which halts population growth through mechanisms that reduce birth rates or increase death rates

81
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What are the 6 density-dependent mechanisms?

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competition for resources, predation, disease, toxic wastes, territoriality, intrinsic factors

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What are density-independent mechanisms?

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factors that are unrelated to population density. These factors will affect the same % of a population regardless of population density.

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