Study Sheet for Biology SB4: Chapter 3 Concept Checks Concept Check 3.1: ~Animal Behavior: what an animal does as it interacts with its environment. ~ Immediate Cause: explanation of an organism’s behavior based on its immediate interactions with the environment ~Ultimate Cause: explanation of an organism’s behavior based on its evolutionary adaptations 1. Why do the whales blow bubbles when they touch the surface? What allows the whales to blow bubbles when they reach the surface? 2. Tinbergen’s
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Table of Contents 1: Introduction Every day people are increasingly realizing the choices they make in their everyday lives‚ affect the people and the environment around them. They are buying local‚ organic food to reduce the use of pesticides‚ support their local community‚ and reduce the fuel costs associated with producing what they eat. They are choosing to ride their bike or take the bus instead of driving a car. However‚ much is changing. We are seeing a push to create buildings
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Humboldt Bay Tidelands and the Public Trust Doctrine Wildland Water Quality December 11‚ 2009 Table of Contents Setting 1 Historical Setting 4 Legal Setting 5 Impairments & Beneficial Uses 6 Extent of Severity 9 Causes of Impairment 10 Reasons for the Impairment 10 Solutions 12 Summary 12 References Cited 13 List of Figures and Tables Figure 1: Historical extent of land entrusted to the public around Humboldt Bay 2 Figure 2: Six watersheds feed Humboldt Bay Source
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Biology‚ 7e (Campbell) Chapter 53: Community Ecology Chapter Questions 1) Communities can be linked by which of the following? I. predation II. systematics III. competition A) I only B) III only C) I and II only D) I and III only E) I‚ II‚ and III Answer: D Topic: Concept 53.1 Skill: Knowledge 2) Which of the following statements is consistent with the competitive exclusion principle? A) Bird species generally do not compete for nesting sites. B) The density of one competing species
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION‚ OBJECTIVES AND OUTLINE OF THE THESIS -49- -50- Abstract As marine environments are under increasing anthropogenic pressure‚ there is a need for decision support systems (DSSs) and management tools that allow to tackle some of the environmental problems associated with this pressure and to allocate the different uses in a sustainable way. Most marine management tools are built around the Driver-Pressure-StateImpact-Response (DPSIR) framework‚ where indicators
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Problems. Ecological Knowledge and Environmental Problem Solving‚ 1986. G.H. Orians (Chairman and Editor)‚ National Research Council‚ National Academy Press‚ Washington‚ DC. Cricket Software‚ 1986. Cricket Graphic. Malvem‚ PA. Dubuc‚ L.J.‚ 1987. The ecology of river otters on Mt. Desert Island‚ Maine. M.S. Thesis‚ University of Maine‚ Orono (unpublished). Garshelis‚ D. and Pelton‚ M.R.‚ 198 1. Movements of Black Bears in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. J. Wildl. Manage.‚ 45: 912-925. Kaplan
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APES Notes – Chapter 8 Community Ecology: Structure‚ Species Interactions‚ Succession‚ and Sustainability I. Appearance and Species Diversity A. The structure or spatial distribution of a community or ecosystem can be described by: a. Physical Appearance : relative sizes‚ stratification‚ and distribution of its population and species b. Species Diversity or Richness : the number of different species c. Species Abundance : the number of individuals of each species d. Niche Structure : the
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China is standing on the top of the most developed country-list around the world.China grew rapidly based on manufacturing and industrialization after Mao ’s age. Dang made the effective plans of modernization of that promoting agricultural sector‚ industrialization sector and technology standards and enhancing the military strength.Its role is become vivid as its rapid rise in the aspects of other nation. Its geography is harmony with agriculture and so the citizen are mainly depends on the agriculture
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the technological modern world has shaped humans to be oblivious of nature and the ethnocentrism has positioned human beings above all other things. Nature has become resources for people and nothing more than that. David Abram‚ the author of the Ecology of magic‚ travels into the wild‚ traditional land in search of the relation between magic and nature; the meaning nature holds in the traditional cultures. Abram intends to communicate his realization of the magical awareness of the countless nonhuman
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Theories: unifying explanations of the natural world Proximate questions: deal with mechanisms. Don’t always need evolutionary explanations Ultimate questions: concerned with evolutionary origins and functions Induction: inference of general law from observations Hypothesis: possible explanation for observation Carolus Linnaeus: binomial nomenclature Nomenclature: system of rules for naming things Taxonomy: naming and classifying organisms Systematics: theory and practice of classifying organisms
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