biol104 final

type I survivorship

Rainforests

Climate Change impact

Biological Control

Studying with the stereo on

Territorial Species

Sign language is a sign of

Late breeding seasons

Bubonic Plague

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Foraging

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optimal foraging theory

sending of, reception of, response to signals

K-Selection

R-Selection

Number of species in a community

Pelagic

Benthic

Process of healing ecosystems

Global warming caused by

World population is

Coniferous Forests

Thin ozone layer ->

survivorship curve

chaparral biome characteristics

A tidal wave wipes out the entire population of mice living on an island

Yukon to Yellowstone Initiative

The greatest annual input and least seasonal variation in solar radiation occurs in the

The level of ecologic organization that incorporates abiotic factors is the

Greenhouse gases

age structure

global warming will result in the oceans

If an overlap develops between the ranges of two closely related species

Silent Spring

kin selection in action

Using living organisms to clean up polluted ecosystems

Chaparral vegetation occurs around much of the central valley of central and southern California. This biome is very similar to that found

Approximately ________ living species have been named and described.

What type of behavior would explain the ability of the salmon to return to their home streams?

Tundra

About one-third of all animal and plant species are concentrated on ________ of Earth's land.

Many desert animals

The dominant herbivores in savannas are

Total of a population's use of biotic & abiotic resources

A regional assemblage of interacting ecosystems is a

To decrease pollution from sulfur, your local power plant built very tall smokestacks. The ultimate consequence of this would most likely be

A blue jay hides hundreds of nuts throughout the fall and finds them throughout the winter and spring. The blue jay is most likely finding the stored food by using

young bobcats

Organisms that digest molecules in organic material and convert them into inorganic forms are

The current rate of extinction may be as much as ________ times higher than at any other time in the past 100,000 years.

While on a walk through a forest, you notice birds in trees, earthworms in the soil, and fungi on plant litter on the forest floor. Based on your observations, you conclude that each of these organisms occupies a different

Human social behavior appears to be

The kind of vegetation in a tropical rain forest is generally determined by the amount of

Which of the following environmental factors usually has the greatest direct effect on an organism's rate of water loss by evaporation?

A demographic tool used to predict a population's future growth is

In many dense forests, plants living near the ground level engage in intense competition for

Habitats with many edges

In terms of global air circulation, the tropics are a region where air

which of the following types of information will be communicated to other workers by a honeybee's "dance"?

Biodiversity considers

From a sociobiological perspective, altruism is a behavior that

One of the most worrisome results of the large-scale clearing and cultivation of land is

Which of the following has the greatest impact on the global water cycle?

Protecting the endangered black-footed ferret from extinction involved

adaptation of pronghorns