BIOLOGY 331: GENERAL ECOLOGY TEST 1‚ FALL 2009 STUDY GUIDE Concepts: What is Ecology? • Foundation Disciplines (esp.‚ behavior‚ ecology‚ genetics‚ evolution) • What it is not (i.e.‚ not a study of environmental problems‚ but rather a study of interactions among organisms and environment) Levels of Organization • Individual organism • Population • Community • Ecosystem (with the abiotic environment) Limiting Factors – abiotic vs. biotic Adaptation
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Neo-Impressionism Neo-Impressionism was founded in 1886 by the artist Georges Seurat. Nothing significant was going on during that time. The term was coined by the French art critic Felix Feneon. He saw Seurat’s masterpiece‚ A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte and immediately noticed the individualism of the painting. He called it Neo-Impressionism. This art period was around until 1935. It was a very unique type of painting style as it incorporated tiny dots of color on luminescent
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: 13.0 POPULATION ECOLOGY (2 HOURS) Learning outcomes : 13.1 Population Growth (a) Explain biotic potential (r) and environmental resistance and their effect on population growth (b) Explain carrying capacity and its importance (c) Describe natality and mortality and their effects on the rate of population growth Learning outcomes : 13.1 Population Growth (d) Explain population growth curves (state the basic forms of growth curves) i. Exponential growth curve (human) ii
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Neo liberalism is a political ideology which advocates economic liberalization and decreasing the role of the public sector in modern society. Its supporters also argue for free trade and deregulation of the economy. The three most significant developments in the neo liberalist era were; internationalization of trade and finance‚ increasing power of the transnational corporation and enhanced role of economic institutions like the IMF‚ WB and the WTO. It has characteristics such as privatization
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Hart Benton Dr. Levey HI/Hon 282 26 November 2010 Neo-Confucian History and its Application to Government Neo-Confucianism arose in China during the Song Dynasty as a vehicle to reapply Confucian teachings and morality to an era in which Buddhist and Daoist followers were all but competing with Confucianism. Such competition found Confucianism becoming more and more related to the state as an official religion‚ reducing the true existence of Confucianism as predicated by Kung T’zu’s own canonical
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INTRODUCTION TO ECOLOGY I. Definition - Greek words: oikos = family household logy = study of by Ernst Haeckel in 1866 - 1866 Ernst Haeckel: the comprehensive science of the relationship of the organism to the environment - 1927 Charles Elton: scientific natural history - 1963 E. P. Odum: the study of the structure and function of nature - 1972 C. J. Krebs: the scientific study of the interactions that determine the distribution and abundance of organisms To summarize: - Scientific
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Jill Payne Mrs. Healey Ecology March 7‚ 2011 Essay I have recently found several acres of land to plant my crops on although the land is not in the best condition. I have many concerns about planting on this land and thought of some measures throughout the upcoming years to improve the condition of my land. While thinking of these ideas to help improve my property I went back to the things I learned in the soil and agriculture chapters in my wonderful ecology class. I remembered how important
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blindness in many characters‚ including those who have money and those who lack it. The community‚ as a whole‚ refuses to condemn unlawful activity and wrongdoings. By means of the billboard in the valley of ashes‚ he connotes the possibility of paganism as well. Tom Buchanan‚ Daisy’s "hulking brute of a husband"‚ epitomizes a lack of morality. He believes in racial superiority and that everything good in society has resulted from the work
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Ecology and Evolution Crystal Dillon-Reeves BIO/315 April 1‚ 2013 Howard Rubin‚ Ph.D. Ecology and Evolution Beren Robinson performed remarkable field study of threespine sticklebacks. These fish closely relate to ecology and evolution. The researchers original findings are different than that of Robinson’s field study. His hypothesis states that the threespine sticklebacks varied phenotypes are the handiwork of natural selection supporting the discrepancy in the population. Diet and the
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Ethics of ecology focuses on sustaining business and environment. Ethics is a set of principles about right and wrong and how human beings should behave. Ecology is about inter- relationships – between living organisms (both plants & animals) and between biological & physical entities. As people now realise that the environment is a limited resource‚ awareness all over the world of the necessity to protect and save the environment has grown as well. From the Bill of Rights‚ Chapter 2‚ of the S.A
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