Ecology test 2

Question 1

Type 1 survivor ship strategy

Answer 1

low odds of death in early life. Dies of age-related casues

Question 2

Type 2 survivor ship strategy

Answer 2

constant rate of death, could be from predation

Question 3

Type 3 survivor ship strategy

Answer 3

High death rate in early years, but good survival in the later years

Question 4

Monoculture/monocropping

Answer 4

farming, making a one species ecosystem

Question 5

age distribution

Answer 5

shows portion of population in pre-repro and post-repro ages

Question 6

Standard diviation

Answer 6

measure of how spread out a data set is

Question 7

Standard error of the mean

Answer 7

true mean is 65% likely to be in that distance from sample mean

Question 8

95% confidence intervals

Answer 8

SE of mean x 2

Question 9

Clumped distribution

Answer 9

members of a species living close together

Question 10

uniform distribution

Answer 10

members of a group are repelled by each other (territorialism)

Question 11

black footed ferrets

Answer 11

driven to the brink of extinction by farming

Question 12

Tasmanian devils

Answer 12

lack diversity, facial cancer

Question 13

Mark recapture conditions

Answer 13

equal chance of catching all pop members.