SOES1006 Marine ecology and evolution UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
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SOES1006 Marine ecology and evolution
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SOES1006 Marine Ecology And Evolution
SOES1006 Marine ecology and evolution
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Ecology - CORRECT ANSWER- The scientific study of interactions among organisms
and between organisms and their biotic and a biotic environment
Micro evolution - CORRECT ANSWER- evolutionary in the genetic comp...
SOES1006 Marine ecology and evolution
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Ecology - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The scientific study of interactions among organisms
and between organisms and their biotic and a biotic environment
Micro evolution - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔evolutionary in the genetic composition of
population, over multiple generation.
Macro evolution - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔genetic evolution over long time period, this
leads to the formation of new species (speciation)
Extinction - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔loss of all populations of a species
Biotic factors (examples) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Living components of the
environment: predator, parasitism, competition, territoriality, commensalism, mutualism,
facilitation/succession, species richness, functional diversity, evolutionary history, human
impacts
Ecological niche - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A specific role of a species within an
ecosystem, including its use of resources, and relationships with other species.
Percentage cover of the world's oceans covered by MPAs and marine reserves - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔~4%
Palaeo-marine ecology - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔using the past to inform the present and
estimate the future
, Photic zone depth - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔0-200m
Aphoic zone - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔200m + (-1000m)
Temperature reefs do not grow if winter temps are below - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔20^C
Classifications of marine environments (5) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔1. depth and position
2. distribution of organisms
3. mechanisms of energy capture
4. trophic level
5. method of larval development
Neustonic - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔live at or near the water's surface
Nektonic - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔aquatic animals that are able to swim and move
independently of water currents.
Planktonic - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Describes bacteria that are freely floating in water.
Boring - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔within a hard substance
Mechanisms of energy capture - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔primary producers, predators,
grazers, filter feeders, suspension feeders, deposit feeders, detritivores, parasites
Larval development - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Planktotrophic, Lecithotrophic, Direct
development
Functional diversity - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔measures of different functionally distinct
species in an area
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