[UCSB] EEMB 2 - Midterm 1 Questions and
Answers
What is ecology? - ANSWER-The distribution and abundance of organisms and WHY (what factors,
interactions, etc.)
What book did Aristotle write that contributed to ecology? What did he contribute? - ANSWER-
Historia Animalium; he was able to expla...
What does the Z-test in statistics tell us? - ANSWER✔✔-How much above or below the mean something
is
What is Graunt the father of? - ANSWER✔✔-Demography (1662)
What kind of growth was Leeuwenhoek interested in? - ANSWER✔✔-Population growth (ie, insects)
(1687)
What did Malthus believe? Was he right or wrong? - ANSWER✔✔-That populations grow exponentially
but food grows linearly, this was wrong (1798)
What did Quetelet believe? - ANSWER✔✔-That growth (population, food, etc.) is somehow controlled by
the environment (logistic growth)
What did Verhulst do? - ANSWER✔✔-Came up with an equation (describes the logistic growth of
populations) to prove Quetelet's theory of logistic growth
What is Farr's rule? - ANSWER✔✔-As population density increases, so do mortality rates
What were Forbes and Cowles the first to study? - ANSWER✔✔-Community regulation and succession
(species replacement)
What did Robert Ross study? - ANSWER✔✔-Systems analysis (mathematical modeling of the spread of
infectious disease)
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