Ecology

Question 1

What does qualitative mean

Answer 1

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

Question 2

What does quantitative mean

Answer 2

Data relating to numbers within surveys

Question 3

What 3 things could cause incorrect assumptions when surveying

Answer 3

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

Question 4

What does biotic mean

Answer 4

Living factors e.g animals plants that can affect data

Question 5

What does Abiotic mean

Answer 5

Non living factors that can influence data

Question 6

What are some examples of biotic factors

Answer 6

Organic matter, jelly fish, trees, bacteria

Question 7

What are some examples of Abiotic factors

Answer 7

Climate, temperature, soil, humidity

Question 8

What legislation works to promote and protect certain species

Answer 8

The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
(WACA)

Question 9

What does WACA stand for

Answer 9

The Wildlife and Countryside Act
1981

Question 10

What year is WACA

Answer 10

1981

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Four main parts

Question 12

What does part 1 of WACA cover

Answer 12

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

Question 13

What does section one of WACA prohibit

Answer 13

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

Question 14

What is the section 4 exception in WACA

Answer 14

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

Question 15

What does section 2 of WACA cover

Answer 15

It defines what’s meant by close seasons

Question 16

What does section 3 of WACA cover

Answer 16

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

Question 17

What does section 6 of WACA cover

Answer 17

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

Question 18

What does biome mean

Answer 18

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

Question 19

What biome is this

Answer 19

Taiga

Question 20

What biome is this

Answer 20

Temperate forests

Question 21

What biome is this

Answer 21

Mangrove forest

Question 22

What biome is this

Answer 22

Tropical dry forest

Question 23

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

Answer 23

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

Question 24

What is an indicator species

Answer 24

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

Question 25

What is a Ecological Succession

Answer 25

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

Question 26

What can cause changes in the ecosystem

Answer 26

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

Question 27

What does speciation mean

Answer 27

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

Question 28

What are the five main types of speciation

Answer 28

Allopatric Peripatric Parapatric Sympartic Artificial

Question 29

What is evolution

Answer 29

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

Question 30

What is adaptation

Answer 30

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

Question 31

What is natural selection

Answer 31

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

Question 32

What is sexual selection

Answer 32

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

Question 33

What is artificial selection

Answer 33

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

Question 34

What is speciation

Answer 34

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

Question 35

What is polymorphism

Answer 35

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

Question 36

What is a deme

Answer 36

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

Question 37

What are the types of evolution

Answer 37

Divergent Convergent and Parallel

Question 38

What is Parallel evolution

Answer 38

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

Question 39

What is divergent evolution

Answer 39

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

Question 40

What is convergent evolution

Answer 40

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