Ecology- Chapter0

Question 1

What is Ecology?

Answer 1

• A branch of biology
• Studies the relations of organisms to one another and their physical surroundings

Question 2

T/F: Forest fires are a natural part of
boreal forest ecosystems.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

What are the factors that are affecting boreal ecosystems?

Answer 3

Warming Climate & Forestry Policies’

Question 4

T/F: Because of human disturbance of the environment, an ecologist cannot say that “everything is connected.”

Answer 4

False

Question 5

These trees in Sudbury are dying because of …

Answer 5

Emerald Ash Borer

Question 6

This animal is …

Answer 6

Monarch
butterfly
caterpillar

Question 7

T/F: Knowledge and understanding on what you see in
nature makes you more involved and perceptive.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

… Docile stings rarely and only
when threatened, important
predator of caterpillars and
other insects you may not want
in your garden.

Answer 8

Paper Wasp ( Polistes dominula)

Question 9

Ecology is often considered
as a large-scale discipline, what about Ecosystem?

Answer 9

ecosystems can be
of small scale

Question 10

The term “
ecology” was coined by …

Answer 10

Ernst Haeckel

Question 11

Which one of the following statements is correct?
1.British Ecological Society was founded in 1960s, when general interest in environmental issues increased.
2. British Ecological Society was founded in 1913, when the number of scientists dealing with ecological questions was increasing
3. British Ecological Society was founded in 1875, just 6 years after Darwin’s”Origin of species”, that served as inspiration for the interest in Ecology..

Answer 11

2. British Ecological Society was founded in 1913, when the number of scientists dealing with ecological questions was increasing

Question 12

T/F: Charles Darwin was the first scientist to empirically observe and describe links between vegetation and abiotic
environmental conditions. That is why he is sometimes called the father of ecology.

Answer 12

False