1. What is ecology?
Ecology is the study of life on our planet.
2. What is BBECPO? (Define each)
Biosphere - Wherever life is on our planet
Biome - Areas having similar climate
Ecosystem - Adding abiotic factors.
Community - Populations interacting
Population - Groups of organisms
Organism - One individual
3. What is a community?
A community is how populations interact and change over time.
4. What is species composition?
How many, or what percentage of species make of the population.
5. What is species diversity (biodiversity)? Where is the greatest species diversity?
Species diversity is the total amount we have. The greatest species diversity are at rain forests.
6. Explain the example of symbiosis with Leaf Cutter Ants and the fungus and bacteria on the ant.
Leaf cutter ants cut off and feed the leaves to the fungus, in which is broken down into cellulose that gives sugar for ants to eat. The bacteria living on the ants, allows the fungus to spread in farms never affecting the colony. This would be an example of a mutualistic relationship.
7. What is an exponential growth pattern? Explain.
Exponential growth pattern is seeing the change of rate over time in a population and how it dramatically increases to a certain limit.
8. What are the limiting factors to growth. Explain both density dependent and density independent factors.
Limiting factors due to growth can be a lack on food supplies, no more space available, or disease taking over. Density dependent is based on size of population and limits growth. Density independent are related to chance, due to maybe a natural disaster.
9. What is a logistic growth pattern? Explain.
The pattern shows how the exponential growth is reaching its carrying capacity and shows it leveling off.
10. What is the carrying capacity? Define.
Carrying capacity is the maximum number of individuals an area can support.
11. What is an age-structure diagram (population pyramid)? How it is set-up? What does it tell you?
An age-structure diagram shows the number of mainly humans/ individuals by age in each gender group. According to the age and gender, we can notice the individual growth.
12. What is the shape of a population pyramid of a young population (exponential growth)? What is the shape of a population of a stable population (logistic growth)?
The shape of the exponential growth is a pyramid or triangle shape chart. The shape for logistic growth shows in a line graph the leveling off a population.
Ecology is the study of life on our planet.
2. What is BBECPO? (Define each)
Biosphere - Wherever life is on our planet
Biome - Areas having similar climate
Ecosystem - Adding abiotic factors.
Community - Populations interacting
Population - Groups of organisms
Organism - One individual
3. What is a community?
A community is how populations interact and change over time.
4. What is species composition?
How many, or what percentage of species make of the population.
5. What is species diversity (biodiversity)? Where is the greatest species diversity?
Species diversity is the total amount we have. The greatest species diversity are at rain forests.
6. Explain the example of symbiosis with Leaf Cutter Ants and the fungus and bacteria on the ant.
Leaf cutter ants cut off and feed the leaves to the fungus, in which is broken down into cellulose that gives sugar for ants to eat. The bacteria living on the ants, allows the fungus to spread in farms never affecting the colony. This would be an example of a mutualistic relationship.
7. What is an exponential growth pattern? Explain.
Exponential growth pattern is seeing the change of rate over time in a population and how it dramatically increases to a certain limit.
8. What are the limiting factors to growth. Explain both density dependent and density independent factors.
Limiting factors due to growth can be a lack on food supplies, no more space available, or disease taking over. Density dependent is based on size of population and limits growth. Density independent are related to chance, due to maybe a natural disaster.
9. What is a logistic growth pattern? Explain.
The pattern shows how the exponential growth is reaching its carrying capacity and shows it leveling off.
10. What is the carrying capacity? Define.
Carrying capacity is the maximum number of individuals an area can support.
11. What is an age-structure diagram (population pyramid)? How it is set-up? What does it tell you?
An age-structure diagram shows the number of mainly humans/ individuals by age in each gender group. According to the age and gender, we can notice the individual growth.
12. What is the shape of a population pyramid of a young population (exponential growth)? What is the shape of a population of a stable population (logistic growth)?
The shape of the exponential growth is a pyramid or triangle shape chart. The shape for logistic growth shows in a line graph the leveling off a population.