Ecology Quiz [Identification]

Question 1

The act of one animal consuming or preying upon another.

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Predation

Question 2

A contest between two organisms that seek a resource that cannot be shared.

Answer 2

Competition

Question 3

Can replenish itself at the rate it is used.

Answer 3

Renewable resource

Question 4

Has limited supply.

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Non-renewable resource

Question 5

Group of individuals belonging to one species living in an area.

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Population

Question 6

Population of organisms of different species that interact with one another.

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Community

Question 7

First described the interrelationship between organisms.

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Theophrastus of Eresus

Question 8

Called the attention to the conflict between expanding populations and the capacity of Earth to supply food.

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Thomas Malthus

Question 9

States that the supply of food cannot keep up with the growth of the human population.

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Mathusianism

Question 10

Reported an impressive number of species, particular plants.

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Alexander Von Humboldt

Question 11

Father of ecology.

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Alexander Von Humboldt

Question 12

Proposed his theory of evolution and adaptation.

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Charles Darwin

Question 13

Coined the term ecology.

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Ernst Haeckel

Question 14

Applied the term “oekologie” to the “relation of the animal both to its organic as well as its inorganic environment.”

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Ernst Haeckel

Question 15

Term applied to the “relation of the animal both to its organic as well as its inorganic environment.”

Answer 15

Oekologie

Question 16

Ecology comes from the greek word ________, which means ________

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Oikos, household or place to live

Question 17

First defined the term biosphere.

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Edward Seuss

Question 18

Introduced the discipline of biogeography.

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Eugen Warming

Question 19

The study of the distribution of species and ecosystem in geographic space through geological time.

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Biogeography

Question 20

One of the founders of biometry.

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Raymond Pearl

Question 21

The application of statistics to biology and medicine.

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Biometry

Question 22

Convinced that the biggest problems of human reproduction lay in high birth rate found in many non-industrialized countries.

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Raymond Pearl

Question 23

Detailed the idea of biosphere in his work “The Biosphere”

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Vladimir I. Vernadsky

Question 24

Introduced the concept of trophic or feeding levels.

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August Thienemann

Question 25

The energy of food as transferred through series of organisms.

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Tropic/ Feeding levels

Question 26

Made one of the first mathematical models applied to ecology

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Alfred Lotka and Vito Volterra

Question 27

One of the first mathematical model applied to ecology.

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The Lotka-Volterra Model

Question 28

The predator feeding is limited only by the amount of prey in the environment.

Answer 28

Lotka-Volterra Model

Question 29

Developed the concept of ecological niches and pyramid of numbers.

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Charles Elton

Question 30

Concept of food chain and food webs.

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Charles Elton

Question 31

Father of animal ecology.

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Charles Elton

Question 32

Measured the energy budget of lakes.

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Edward Birge and Chancey Juday

Question 33

The uptake of energy from the environment vs. the use of energy.

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Energy Budget

Question 34

The study of inland aquatic ecosystems.

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Limnology

Question 35

Coined the term ecosystem as the biological communities of interacting organism.

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Arthur Tansley

Question 36

Father of modern ecology.

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Evelyn Hutchinson

Question 37

First credited with combining ecology with mathematics.

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G. Evelyn Hutchinson

Question 38

Concepts of instinctive and aggressive behavior (animal behavior).

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Konrad Lorenz

Question 39

Nobel Prize of Physiology or Medicine

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Konrad Lorenz

Question 40

Study of animal behavior.

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Ethology

Question 41

(principle of attachment) A bond is formed between a newborn animal and its caregiver.

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Imprinting

Question 42

Especially known for his long-term observations of seagulls.

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Konrad Lorenz

Question 43

Developed the trophic dynamic concept of ecology.

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Raymond Lindeman

Question 44

Only 10% of energy is transferred from one trophic level to another.

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Lindeman’s 10

Question 45

Quantified field studies of energy flow through ecosystems.

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Eugene and Howard Odum

Question 46

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.”,

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Eugene and Howard Odum

Question 47

Their book “Fundamental of Ecology” contributed to the establishment of ecology as a subject in schools.

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Eugene and Howard Odum

Question 48

Role of social behavior in the regulation of populations (through epideictic displays)

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Vero Wynne-Edwards

Question 49

Intend to communicate a message to the members of the same species.

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Epideictic displays

Question 50

Natural selection acts at the level of the group, instead of at the level of individual or gene.

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Group Selection

Question 51

Proposed the Gaia Hypothesis

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James Lovelock

Question 52

Advanced the view that the Earth should be regarded as a single living organism.

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Gaia Theory