Chapters 3-5 Study guide -- ECOLOGY
3 short answer/essay responses
65 multiple choice
97 points total
Be able to read age structures
Define both living and non-living factors in ecology
Define CLIMAX COMMUNITY
Define DEMOGRAPHY
Define the competitive exclusion idea
Diagram how an ecological pyramid would be labeled
Explain how a trophic level pyramid works
Explain how crop rotation is beneficial to whatever may be planted
Explain how nutrients move in a different manner than that of energy and why
Explain how succession works
Explain the difference between DENSITY and DISTRIBUTION
Explain what a LIMITING FACTOR is
Explain where phosphorous is found (multiple places)
how are food chains and food webs different?
How are habitat and niche related?
How are weather and climate different?
How do climate zones differ based on latitude?
How do ecologist actually study the living world?
How does CHEMOSYNTHESIS DIFFER from photosynthesis?
How does COMPETITION work?
How does the nitrogen cycle work?
How does the process of ecological succession work?
Identify a LOGISTICAL GROWTH CURVE
Identify gradual vs. exponential growth
Know how an ecosystem Is organized
Know how to label a trophic level pyramid
know the different types of consumers (herbivore, carnivore, etc.)
Know the stages of DEMOGRAPHICS TRANSITIONS (5.3)
Know the types of bacteria in the nitrogen cycle.
List the steps of the carbon cycle
List the steps of the water cycle
Understand symbiosis and the different relationships
What are the 2 types of succession?
What are the differences between PRIMARY and SECONDARY succession?
What are the main pyramids that are used in ecology?
what are trophic levels?
What is a primary producer?
What is it called when populations are at their ‘max?’
What is Population density? (be able to solve a problem)
What is the starting point of the nitrogen cycle? The ending points?
What’s an algal bloom and what effect does it have?
What’s the difference between DENSITY DEPENDENT and DENSITY INDEPENDENT?
When does each type of succession happen?
Why are the biogeochemical cycles important?