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17 Cards in this Set
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What is a population?
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A group of randomly mating individuals of the same species.
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What is Population Ecology?
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The study of a group of randomly mating individuals of the same species occupying a shared distribution.
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What defines population distribution in Population Ecology?
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Distribution is determined by geography, climate and other factors.
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Define a Community.
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Populations of multiple species that occupy an environment together.
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What are two possible types of ecosystem interactions?
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Biotic and Abiotic.
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What does Ecosystem Ecology study?
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Interactions between populations that occupy an environment,
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What is an environment?
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An area where things live.
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What are the three divisions of environment form lowest to highest?
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Biosphere, geosphere, atmosphere.
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What is a habitat?
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A specific home of living things within the environment.
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What do seasonal fluctuation in habitats cause?
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Migration.
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Define a biome.
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A large region of environments defined by plant and animal communities present, climate, geography, and geology of area.
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Name the 4 types of Ecology.
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Population, Conservation and Management, Evolutionary, and Genetic.
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Name three types of spacing in Population Ecology.
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Uniform, clumped, and random.
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Define clumped in terms of spacing in Population Ecology.
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Spacing in response to uneven distribution of resources. Usually placed in small groups.
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Define random in terms of spacing in Population Ecology.
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Lack of strong interaction between organisms causes random distribution with no pattern.
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Define uniform in terms of spacing in Population Ecology.
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Great inreactoin between the population.
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What usually happens when there is uniform distribution.
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Competition in the residing populations.
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