final Flashcards
What two factors determine terrestrial biomes?
Understand the three-cell model and how to predict the latitude biome position.
What is the greenhouse effect?
Define population density.
Be able to distinguish between exponential and logistic growth models. Understand the mathematical model for each and what the terms mean.
Be able to identify the 3 different survivorship curves. Also, explain and give an example of an organism that exhibits each type of curve.
What is meant by carrying capacity? What is it that causes a population to have a carrying capacity?
Interactions between species can be defined by the effect on the populations concerned. Be able to name and identify the + or – interactions between species.