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Category 1 Intro

Category 1Organisms and their

environments

Category 1Organisms and their

environments

Category 2 Intro

Category 2PopulationsCategory 2Populations

Category 3 Intro

Category 3Species

interactions

Category 3Species

interactions

Category 4 Intro

Category 4Community

ecology

Category 4Community

ecology

Category 5 Intro

Category 5Human ecology

Category 5Human ecology

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Organisms and their

environments

Organisms and their

environmentsPopulationsPopulations Species

interactionsSpecies

interactionsCommunity

ecologyCommunity

ecologyHuman ecologyHuman ecology

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Answer : These types of Answer : These types of animals receive their heat from animals receive their heat from the environment.the environment.

Question: What are Question: What are ectotherms?ectotherms?

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Answer: This is the enzyme Answer: This is the enzyme used by most plants to used by most plants to catalyze photosynthesis.catalyze photosynthesis.

Question: What is the Question: What is the enzyme rubisco?enzyme rubisco?

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Answer: During this process, Answer: During this process, the body temperature of some the body temperature of some homeotherms drops to homeotherms drops to ambient for part of the day.ambient for part of the day.

Question: What is torpor?Question: What is torpor?

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Answer: In this reproductive Answer: In this reproductive style, an organism sacrifices style, an organism sacrifices future prospects in one future prospects in one suicidal act of reproduction.suicidal act of reproduction.

Question: What is Question: What is semelparity?semelparity?

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Answer: This is a digestive Answer: This is a digestive process that is dominant under process that is dominant under anaerobic conditions in most anaerobic conditions in most vertebrates.vertebrates.

Question: What is Question: What is fermentation?fermentation?

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Answer: This term refers to the Answer: This term refers to the number of individuals per unit number of individuals per unit area.area.

Question: What is Question: What is population density?population density?

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Answer: This type of Answer: This type of population growth considers population growth considers the effect of density.the effect of density.

Question: What is logistic Question: What is logistic growth?growth?

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Answer: This term refers to a Answer: This term refers to a group of individuals born in the group of individuals born in the same period of time.same period of time.

Question: What is a Question: What is a cohort?cohort?

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Answer: TTRT a progressive Answer: TTRT a progressive decline in plant density and decline in plant density and increase in biomass of increase in biomass of remaining individuals. remaining individuals.

Question: What is self-Question: What is self-thinning? thinning?

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Answer: In metapopulation Answer: In metapopulation ecology, the extinction rate of ecology, the extinction rate of a given patch is determined by a given patch is determined by this physical attribute.this physical attribute.

Question: What is the Question: What is the patch area?patch area?

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Answer: TTRT the total range Answer: TTRT the total range of environmental conditions of environmental conditions under which a species can under which a species can survive.survive.

Question: What is the Question: What is the fundamental niche?fundamental niche?

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Answer: This is the total number of outcomes predicted by the Lotka-Volterra competition models.

Question: What is the Question: What is the number four?number four?

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Answer: This response is Answer: This response is characteristic of predators characteristic of predators moving into area of high prey moving into area of high prey density.density.

Question: What is Question: What is aggregative response?aggregative response?

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Answer: This theory of Answer: This theory of foraging factors in energy foraging factors in energy received and handling time.received and handling time.

Question: What is the Question: What is the optimal foraging theory?optimal foraging theory?

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Answer: This form of Answer: This form of symbiosis benefits one symbiosis benefits one species and has no effect on species and has no effect on the other species.the other species.

Question: What is Question: What is commensalism?commensalism?

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Answer: This is the simplest Answer: This is the simplest measure of community measure of community structure.structure.

Question.: What is species Question.: What is species richness?richness?

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Answer: This type of species Answer: This type of species has a disproportionate impact has a disproportionate impact on the community relative to on the community relative to its abundance.its abundance.

Question: What is a Question: What is a keystone species?keystone species?

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Answer: Answer: TTRT the changes in TTRT the changes in the physical and biological the physical and biological structures of communities as one structures of communities as one moves across the landscape.moves across the landscape.

Question: What is Question: What is zonation?zonation?

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Answer: Answer: This type of indirect This type of indirect interaction between species was interaction between species was observed when the starfish observed when the starfish PisasterPisaster was removed from its was removed from its community.community.

Question: What is keystone Question: What is keystone predation?predation?

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Answer: This type of change Answer: This type of change during succession is caused during succession is caused by the community itself.by the community itself.

Question: What is Question: What is autogenic environmental autogenic environmental change?change?

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Answer: Our current Answer: Our current capitalistic system does a capitalistic system does a meager job at pricing this type meager job at pricing this type of capital.of capital.

Question: What is natural Question: What is natural capital?capital?

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Answer: TTRT traditional Answer: TTRT traditional agriculture as practiced in the agriculture as practiced in the wet tropics.wet tropics.

Question: What is swidden Question: What is swidden agriculture?agriculture?

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Answer: Answer: The current The current industrialized system of industrialized system of agriculture will not be viable 50 agriculture will not be viable 50 years from now for this geologic years from now for this geologic phenomenon?phenomenon?

Question: What is peak oil?Question: What is peak oil?

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Answer: Answer: TTRT a theoretical concept TTRT a theoretical concept in conservation biology that describes in conservation biology that describes the number of individuals of a species the number of individuals of a species that can be sustained for 1000 years.that can be sustained for 1000 years.

Question: What is a Question: What is a minimum viable minimum viable population?population?

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Answer: This is the greatest Answer: This is the greatest shortcoming of the human shortcoming of the human race according to Dr. Albert race according to Dr. Albert Bartlett.Bartlett.

Question: What is the Question: What is the exponential function?exponential function?

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Answer: Answer: TTRT the changes in the TTRT the changes in the physical and biological structures of physical and biological structures of communities as one moves across the communities as one moves across the landscape.landscape.

Question: What is Question: What is zonation?zonation?

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The category is:The category is:landscape ecologylandscape ecology

Answer: This theory predicts Answer: This theory predicts the equilibrium number of the equilibrium number of species on an island.species on an island.

Question: What is the Question: What is the theory of island theory of island biogeography?biogeography?

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