PPT-Pretest Unit 3: Population Ecology

What is a population and how do ecologists study it Explain the difference between a niche and habitat Explain the predatorprey relationship and carrying capacity on the graph Explain why animals fight. Score your pretest usi ng the key on the last page If you miss three or more out of questions 1 11 consider taking Essentials of AV Technology to learn more about AV sig nals devices and systems before taking Networked AV Systems If you miss three We will discuss answers in class once you have completed the pretest. Milk and Dairy Pretest. T or F. _______ 1. When scalding milk, it is necessary to bring the milk to a full rolling boil.. ________2. When milk curdles, the protein settles out in the form of white clumps.. Chapter 4 Section 1. Levels of Ecological Organization. Ecologists study life at many levels.. Ecology is the study of how organisms interact with each other and their environments . . Individual Species/Organism. BIOL 7083. Community Ecology. Robert H. MacArthur:. Life, Work, and Legacy. Biographical Sketch. Robert H. MacArthur. April 2, 1930 – November 1, 1972. Personal Background. Born in Toronto, Ontario. Case Study: . Serengeti Lion Population Study. Panthera. . leo. “They say that cats have nine lives, but they don’t say that about the Serengeti lion. Life is hard and precarious on this unforgiving landscape”. Population. ecology. Community. ecology. Ecosystem. ecology. Landscape. ecology. Global. ecology. Introduction to Ecology . Populations. Population ecology. Abundance. Dynamics . Density, dispersion, demographics, interrelationships with other populations. Natural Selection. This includes describing how organisms respond to the environment and how organisms are distributed.. Events that occur in the framework of . ecological time. (minutes, months, years) translate into effects over the longer scale of . damp, dark. raining, dripping, steaming. monkey, jaguar, frog, anaconda. climbing, stalking, slinking. furry scaled. endangered.. What is ecology?. Is this . and. Levels Of Organization in . Biology and Ecology. Springfield Central High School. Questions to Answer. Daily Problem Set Unit 2- #1. 1. . Explain what ecology is. . 2. . In the relationship between the lynx and the hare, what factors, biotic and . Developers have . approved a project that . will permanently reduce . the primary producers’ . biomass by 50% and remove all rabbits and deer. Which of the following is the most likely result at the completion of the project?. HW #1. Age-structured populations. Stage-structure populations . Life cycle diagrams. Projection matrices. Context: Sea . Turtle . Conservation. (But first … background). Population. Structure. :. Seguing into from populations to communities. Species interactions. Lotka-Volterra. equations. Competition. Adding in resources. Species interactions:. Competition (- , -). Predation (+ , -). (. Herbivory. I. Biotic and . Abiotic. Factors. A. Biotic Factors-- all living things that inhabit an environment. 1. relationships with organisms of the same or different species. . B. . Abiotic. Factors: The nonliving environment. 41:. Ch. 42:. Ch. 44:. Ecology. Ecology. : study of interactions between organisms and their environments – science of relationships, studied by ecologists. Abiotic . Factors:. non-living parts of an organism’s environment.