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Ecology Test One is on Chapter 43: Animal Behavior and 44: Populations

Animal Behavior Topics on Test March 12. (Populations will be added later in the weekend.. Here is 
something to get those that are working on this started)Ecology Test

Definitions of the following will not help you unless you have understanding and can apply them to 
examples.

1.  What is operant conditioning?

What is imprinting?

What is associative learning?

What is insight learning?

2.  What are pheromones?

3.  More on pheromones and genetics. Scenario.

4.  What body systems are related to physiological changes of reproduction?

5.  What is sexual selection?

6. What is imprinting?

What is fixed action pattern?

What is operant conditioning?

7.  What is a stimulus? What is a response?

8.  Scenario with hormones and genes.

9.  What is imprinting? Operant conditioning? Insight learning?

10.  What are adaptations in evolutionary processes really about?

11.  Pheromones

12.  Do other organisms have languages? Examples: How did they acquire them?

13.  What are the following types of communication? Examples:

Chemical, auditory, tactile, visual

14.  same as 13

15.  What is territoriality? Examples

16.  The crab/mussel graph. What is the optimal foraging model and how does this graph demonstrate 
that?

17.  What is monogamy? Polyandry, polygamy, and kin selection?

18.  How do males compete? Examples?

19. What is altruism? What is kin selection? What is natural selection?

20.  Why are altruistic behaviors a necessary selective pressure?

21.  What is the job of the worker bee? Why? What does it support?

22.  What are some examples of female sexual selection?

23.  What are some advantages and dis-advantages of living in a social group?

Populations

24.  What is a population? a community? an ecosystem?
25.  What is clumped? random? and uniform? distribution patterns?
26.  What are abiotic factors? What are biotic factors? examples of each.
27.  What does a Type I survivorship curve represent? Type II? Type III?
28.  What is a cohort in relationship to populations?
29.  What are r-strategists? What is carrying capacity? What is density-independent?
30.  What are some factors that limit population growth?
31.  What does the three shapes of age structure diagrams represent? the pyramid? straignt up? upside down pyramid?
32.  What does a Type I survivorship curve indicate?
33.  What are some population characteristics necessary for a self-sustaining population?
34.  What is density-dependent? what is density-independent? What is competition? resource partitioning?
35.  What is resource partitioning? density-dependent? innate? predation?
36.  What do think the population in the world is doing in relation to poor countries and rich countries?
37 - 41. Identify organisms on a survivorship curve: mollusks, elephants, humans, songbirds. What are the characteristics of each type of curve?
42.  What formula represents exponential growth? dN/dt =
43.  Logistic growth? dN/dt =
44.  What does N represent? K? how are these used to predict outcomes in population.
45. What is a j curve? s curve? exponential? logistical? which curve with which? which formula with which?
46.  same as 45. 
47. same as 45
48. and 49. Read age structure diagrams.
50.  graph reading with mortality rates and life expectancy.