Ecology Quiz [Identification] Flashcards
The act of one animal consuming or preying upon another.
Predation
A contest between two organisms that seek a resource that cannot be shared.
Competition
Can replenish itself at the rate it is used.
Renewable resource
Has limited supply.
Non-renewable resource
Group of individuals belonging to one species living in an area.
Population
Population of organisms of different species that interact with one another.
Community
First described the interrelationship between organisms.
Theophrastus of Eresus
Called the attention to the conflict between expanding populations and the capacity of Earth to supply food.
Thomas Malthus
States that the supply of food cannot keep up with the growth of the human population.
Mathusianism
Reported an impressive number of species, particular plants.
Alexander Von Humboldt
Father of ecology.
Alexander Von Humboldt
Proposed his theory of evolution and adaptation.
Charles Darwin
Coined the term ecology.
Ernst Haeckel
Applied the term “oekologie” to the “relation of the animal both to its organic as well as its inorganic environment.”
Ernst Haeckel
Term applied to the “relation of the animal both to its organic as well as its inorganic environment.”
Oekologie
Ecology comes from the greek word ________, which means ________
Oikos, household or place to live
First defined the term biosphere.
Edward Seuss
Introduced the discipline of biogeography.
Eugen Warming
The study of the distribution of species and ecosystem in geographic space through geological time.
Biogeography
One of the founders of biometry.
Raymond Pearl
The application of statistics to biology and medicine.
Biometry
Convinced that the biggest problems of human reproduction lay in high birth rate found in many non-industrialized countries.
Raymond Pearl
Detailed the idea of biosphere in his work “The Biosphere”
Vladimir I. Vernadsky
Introduced the concept of trophic or feeding levels.
August Thienemann
The energy of food as transferred through series of organisms.
Tropic/ Feeding levels
Made one of the first mathematical models applied to ecology
Alfred Lotka and Vito Volterra
One of the first mathematical model applied to ecology.
The Lotka-Volterra Model
The predator feeding is limited only by the amount of prey in the environment.
Lotka-Volterra Model
Developed the concept of ecological niches and pyramid of numbers.
Charles Elton
Concept of food chain and food webs.
Charles Elton
Father of animal ecology.
Charles Elton
Measured the energy budget of lakes.
Edward Birge and Chancey Juday
The uptake of energy from the environment vs. the use of energy.
Energy Budget
The study of inland aquatic ecosystems.
Limnology
Coined the term ecosystem as the biological communities of interacting organism.
Arthur Tansley
Father of modern ecology.
Evelyn Hutchinson
First credited with combining ecology with mathematics.
G. Evelyn Hutchinson
Concepts of instinctive and aggressive behavior (animal behavior).
Konrad Lorenz
Nobel Prize of Physiology or Medicine
Konrad Lorenz
Study of animal behavior.
Ethology
(principle of attachment) A bond is formed between a newborn animal and its caregiver.
Imprinting
Especially known for his long-term observations of seagulls.
Konrad Lorenz
Developed the trophic dynamic concept of ecology.
Raymond Lindeman
Only 10% of energy is transferred from one trophic level to another.
Lindeman’s 10
Quantified field studies of energy flow through ecosystems.
Eugene and Howard Odum
Defined ecosystem as “any unit that includes all of the organisms in a given area interacting with the physical environment so that the flow of energy leads to clearly defined trophic structure.”,
Eugene and Howard Odum
Their book “Fundamental of Ecology” contributed to the establishment of ecology as a subject in schools.
Eugene and Howard Odum
Role of social behavior in the regulation of populations (through epideictic displays)
Vero Wynne-Edwards
Intend to communicate a message to the members of the same species.
Epideictic displays
Natural selection acts at the level of the group, instead of at the level of individual or gene.
Group Selection
Proposed the Gaia Hypothesis
James Lovelock
Advanced the view that the Earth should be regarded as a single living organism.
Gaia Theory
