square miles (137‚760 km²) spanning 118 countries and territories.[1][2] The word is used in at least three senses: (1) most broadly to refer to the habitat and entire plant assemblage ormangal‚[3][page needed] for which the terms mangrove forest biome‚ mangrove swampand mangrove forest are also used‚ (2) to refer to all trees and large shrubs in the mangrove swamp‚ and (3) narrowly to refer to the mangrove family of plants‚ theRhizophoraceae‚ or even more specifically just to mangrove trees of the
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of that particular finch changed from eating insects to eating seeds‚ so it allowed the two finches to coexist in the same ecosystem. 4. The levels of ecological organization are: 1) Organism 2) species 3) population 4) community 5) ecosystem 6) biomes 7) biosphere 5. 1. Competition-Organisms struggle‚ fight or search for the same basic needs and becomes more intense when basic needs become limited. Normally‚ they will compete for shelter‚ nesting sites‚ food‚ sunlight‚ minerals‚ and breeding partners
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1. 2. carrying capacity the maximum number of a species or “load” that can be sustainably supported by given environment. k and r strategist reproduction K-Strategists (human)– species that are slow growing and produce few‚ large offspring that mature slowly R-Strategists (oyster)– species that grow and mature quickly and produce many small offspring R- and K- selection theory suggests that natural selection may favour individuals with a high reproductive rate and rapid development over
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This also shows that succession is not yet occurring. Introduction A group of populations of different species living dose enough to interact is called a biological community (Campbell‚ 2008). Communities can be classified by characteristic (terrestrial or aquatic) or by vegetation (forest or grassland). Communities are characterized by its properties like community structure and composition. One can define community structure as how different groups of species are arranged in time and space. Community
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APES Chapter Questions Living in the Environment‚ Miller‚ 15th Ediction Chapter 1: Environmental Problems‚ Their Causes & Sustainability 1. What is an environmentally sustainable society? Give 2 examples. 2. What is the rate of global population growth? 3. How do you calculate doubling time? 4. What is the difference between economic growth‚ economic development and environmentally sustainable development? 5. Define natural capital and natural capital degradation. Give
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Geography Preliminary Exam Outline 20 multiple choice – skills Short Answer Questions – Biophysical Interactions (some or all or how they integrate)‚ population and culture integration. Extended response – Natural resources – one or a combination of the four points Geography Preliminary Notes The Biophysical Environment * The Biophysical Environment is the interaction of all abiotic and biotic elements found on the planet. * Expressed another way the BPE is made up
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The UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 defined biodiversity as being the variability between all living organisms‚ terrestrial‚ marine and aquatic. This includes the diversity within species‚ between species and of ecosystems. A reasonable standard of living does not mean that a person should live at a luxury level‚ but neither does it mean that a person should only live at a subsistence level. It should be somewhere in between where the person can afford to eat nutritious food‚ buy clothes
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Practice Exam for APEs Chapters 1‚2‚3‚4‚5‚6‚8 &28 Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. A person who is primarily interested in the establishment of new wilderness areas would be considered a(n) a. ecologist. b. preservationist. c. restorationist. d. conservationist. ____ 2. Natural capital includes all of the following except a. sunlight. b. air. c. water. d. soil. ____ 3. All of the following illustrate
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abiotic factors can be classified as light or more generally radiation‚ temperature‚ water‚ the chemical surrounding composed of the terrestrial atmospheric gases‚ as well as soil and more. The macroscopic climate often influences each of the above. Not to mention pressure and even sound waves if working within marine- or terrestrial environments. The Biome is defined as environments where organisms live in accordance to their environments. Those underlying factors affect different plants
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AP Biology Summer Assignment Chapter 50.1: An Introduction to Ecology and the Biosphere Ecology is the scientific study of how organisms interact with the environment. When studying Ecology scientists want to know‚ where organisms live‚ why they live there‚ and how many are there. Ecology and environmental biology both stem from Darwin’s interest and observations upon the distribution of organisms and how they adapted to their specific environment. Darwin concluded that the environment interacting
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