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Ecology Flashcards

1
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What does qualitative mean

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Data relating to the general words and what they mean within surveys

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What does quantitative mean

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Data relating to numbers within surveys

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What 3 things could cause incorrect assumptions when surveying

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Equipment failure survey design incorrect(biased) and lack of experience

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What does biotic mean

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Living factors e.g animals plants that can affect data

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What does Abiotic mean

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Non living factors that can influence data

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What are some examples of biotic factors

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Organic matter, jelly fish, trees, bacteria

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What are some examples of Abiotic factors

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Climate, temperature, soil, humidity

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8
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What legislation works to promote and protect certain species

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The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
(WACA)

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What does WACA stand for

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The Wildlife and Countryside Act
1981

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10
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What year is WACA

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1981

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How many parts does WACA have
(Wildlife and Countryside Act)

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Four main parts

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What does part 1 of WACA cover

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The protection of wildlife
All birds are under this act
And some species of plant and animals but not all

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What does section one of WACA prohibit

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The intentional killing, injuring or taking of any wild birds or damaging or destroying any wild birds nest and possession of wild birds dead or alive and their eggs

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What is the section 4 exception in WACA

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That if you can prove a bird had been disabled by non human actions and take for the sole purpose of helping and releasing when no longer disabled that’s ok

And it allows the killing of any wild bird that is seriously disabled (not by humans) and that is no chance of recovery

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What does section 2 of WACA cover

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It defines what’s meant by close seasons

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What does section 3 of WACA cover

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The types of designated areas of special protection and what/where they are

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What does section 6 of WACA cover

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The restriction on selling and trading of live wild birds, bird eggs and dead wild birds

18
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What does biome mean

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An area classified according to the species that live in that location

19
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What biome is this

A

Taiga

20
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What biome is this

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Temperate forests

21
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What biome is this

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Mangrove forest

22
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What biome is this

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Tropical dry forest

23
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What order do these following terms go in from largest to smallest
Biological communities, biome, biosphere, ecosystems, populations and species

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1 Biosphere 2 biome 3 ecosystem 4 community 5 population 6 species

24
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What is an indicator species

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An indicator species is a species that can give people a lot of information about the habitat and environment they live in

25
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What is a Ecological Succession

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An Ecological succession is the process of one ecological community gradually developing into a more complex ecosystem

26
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What can cause changes in the ecosystem

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Droughts, floods, fires, disease, famine and population shifts

27
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What does speciation mean

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Speciation is the changes in different and similar species to adapt to different things

28
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What are the five main types of speciation

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Allopatric
Peripatric
Parapatric
Sympartic
Artificial

29
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What is evolution

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A gradual process in which an animal/organism changes into a different and usually more complex

30
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What is adaptation

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The process of an animal/organisms becoming better suited to their environment through changes

31
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What is natural selection

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It’s the process of animals//organisms becoming better adapted to their environment and survive better to then produce more offspring

32
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What is sexual selection

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Sexual selection is a way of natural selection in which one sex choose mates of the other sex to mate with and compete with members of the same sex

33
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What is artificial selection

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It’s where humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to develop selective traits and characteristics to the make better offspring

34
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What is speciation

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It is species having genetic variation
(Animals all coming from one common ancestor and slowly become all genetically (aesthetically) different)

35
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What is polymorphism

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The state of existing in or different forms
E.g. caterpillar and butterfly’s

36
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What is a deme

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It’s a sub population within a population that can freely interbreed

37
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What are the types of evolution

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Divergent Convergent and Parallel

38
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What is Parallel evolution

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Parallel evolution is two or more unrelated or distant related organisms following a common pathway

39
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What is divergent evolution

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Is a specific population developing into a new species then that species further branching off and becoming a new species to adapt to different environmental conditions and both groups developing into distinct species due to the differences

40
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What is convergent evolution

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Organisms not closely related independently evolving similar traits as a result of having to adapt to similar environments or niches

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