BIO 4130

Biotic factors include... CORRECT ANSWERS: animals, plants, bacteria, fungi, parasites Abiotic factors include.... CORRECT ANSWERS: Temp, nutrients, pH, sunlight, turbidity, salinity, weather Ecosystem Ecology CORRECT ANSWERS: a community of organisms and the environment in which they live Natural experiment CORRECT ANSWERS: when a natural event acts as an experimental treatment in an ecosystem Accuracy CORRECT ANSWERS: how close a measured value is to the actual or true value (...

Scales of Study: CORRECT ANSWERS: spatial temporal paleoecology Levels of Biological Organization: CORRECT ANSWERS: organism population community ecosystem Natural Experiments CORRECT ANSWERS: Naturally occurring events or phenomena having somewhat different conditions that can be compared with almost as much rigor as in experiments where the investigator manipulates the conditions. Accuracy CORRECT ANSWERS: A description of how close a measurement is to the true value of the q...

Survivorship of which of the following organisms is most likely to be analyzed with a static life table? A. Butterfly B. Annual Plant C. Elephant D. American Robin E. Barnacle CORRECT ANSWERS: C. Elephant _________ survivorship curves are usually associated with organisms that have high mortality rates in the early stages of life. CORRECT ANSWERS: Types III If the net reproductive rate (Ro) is equal to 0.5, what assumptions can we make about the population? CORRECT ANSWERS: This po...