What is Ecology

What is Population Ecology

What is a biosphere

What is an ecosystem

What is an organism

What is a community

What is a species

What is an individual

What is a population

What affects the size of a population (4 points)

What impacts the size of a human population (2 points)

What is the impact of these influences on Population (3 points)

How is the growth of the population regulated

What is environmental resistance

What is carrying capacity

What is limiting factors

What are the types of limiting factors (2 points)

What is a stable population

What is an unstable population

Draw and label the logistic and geometric graph for carrying capacity

Why do the graphs not start at zero

How is a population estimated (3 points)

What is direct method

What is indirect method

What is mark recapture

What is a predatory- prey relationship

Why is there a predator-prey relationship (4 points)

What is competition

What is intraspecific competition

What is interspecific competition

Why are ecological niches important (4 points)

Define Ecological Niches

What is competitive exclusion

What is competitive co-existence

What is resource partitioning

How can resources be partitioned (3 points)

What is ecological succession

What are the types of succession (2 points)

What are disturbances (3 points)

What are the stages of succession (3 points)