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What is restoration ecology? - correct answer ✔✔This process involves management practices that
jumpstarts the recovery of an ecosystem with respect to its health, integrity, and sustainability.
Name 3 natural and 3 human disturbances to ecosystems - correct answer ✔✔Natural: floods,
hurricanes, and/or wildfires.
Human: buildings, roadways, and timber harvesting.
What may also be required for restoration of severely damaged ecosystems? - correct answer
✔✔Removal of invasive species and/or reintroduction of native species.
How did Gifford Pinchot initiate the forestry profession in the United States? - correct answer ✔✔No
forestry classes were offered at any university within the United States so he took his education to
Nancy, France. He then started applying what he learned overseas to his new job over in the US, then
began to associate with the National Forest Commission.
What makes a habitat?
a population?
a community? - correct answer ✔✔Habitat: is the place where a particular species lives and grows. A
habitat includes both abiotic and biotic conditions that influence a species population.
A population is a group of organisms of a given species living in a given geographic area.
A community includes the group of plant or animal species which cohabit within a given geographic
area. Members of a community can interact with each other in a variety of ways.
Mutualism - - correct answer ✔✔an interaction between two species that is beneficial to both.
, Predation - - correct answer ✔✔an interaction between two species that is beneficial to one but results
in death for the other individual.
Parasitism - - correct answer ✔✔an interaction between two species that is beneficial to the parasite but
generally does not result in death for the other species.
Biomass - - correct answer ✔✔is the total living matter in a given place. The amount of biomass can be
compared between steps on a food web and between ecosystems.
Flagship species - correct answer ✔✔is a species chosen by society to represent a particular
environmental cause, such as the conservation of a particular ecosystem (e.g. old growth forest).
The number of organisms that can be supported by an ecosystem is called - correct answer ✔✔Carrying
Capacity
Name 3 nutrients that are essential for plant growth and can be extracted from both the atmosphere
and water: - correct answer ✔✔Oxygen, Carbon, & Hydrogren
Two main types of intraspecific relations - correct answer ✔✔Cooperation, competition
Species that serve as surrogates for the condition of environment are called: - correct answer
✔✔Indicator species
Carbon is released back into the atmosphere as a product of cellular respiration when __________ is
(are) broken down to produce energy - correct answer ✔✔Carbohydrates
All of the following are considered heterotrophs except for? - correct answer ✔✔White Oak
A(n) ________________ species is a dominant primary producer in an ecosystem both in terms of
abundance and influence. - correct answer ✔✔Foundation Species
Which of the following are intraspecific relations? - correct answer ✔✔Cooperation and competition
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