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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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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Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………………....3 Color and Appearance………………………………………………………………………………………3 Habitat………………………………………………………………………………………………………4 The Mating and Courtship of Tigers………………………………………………………………………..5 Tiger Diet and Eating Habits……………………………………………………………………………….6 The Life of Tigers…………………………………………………………………………………………..7 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………………………….8 The tiger that once ruled folklore and mythology has continued to retain its dominance in modern literature and fiction. Tigers have left their mark
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The forgotten ones “at the cemetery‚ /walnut grove plantation‚ /south carolina‚ 1989” The poem at the cemetery‚ walnut grove plantation‚ south carolina‚ 1989 by Lucille Clifton is a six stanza poem with many repetitions throughout the poem conveying the idea of how the slaves that worked in the walnut plantation were forgotten and not honored. The speaker of the poem‚ who is taking a tour around the plantation and cemetery‚ expressed anger throughout the poem as the tension slowly escalates ending
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can learn about different cultures and generations by visiting cemeteries worldwide. Tombstones can be observed‚ compared‚ and analyzed so we will have an idea how different cultures buried their dead. I visited the Live Oak Cemetery and the Greenville Cemetery in Greenville‚ MS. The Live Oak Cemetery is a predominately black cemetery and the Greenville Cemetery is a predominately white cemetery. Both cemeteries have a lot of history behind them by containing tombstones from the 1800s‚ 1900s and
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For this assignment‚ you will be completing a research paper on the impact of the Industrial Revolution. You will develop a thesis based upon preliminary research that takes one of the positions present in the essential question (more positive/more negative). Your paper will include elements of counterargument‚ and will rely on primary source evidence to support your thesis. Your final product will be a 5-7 page paper‚ typed‚ double-spaced‚ 11 point font. 5 pages is a minimum. If you are struggling
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Introduction- This lab experiment serves as a model for community succession using bacterial colonies as the model. A bacterial colony grows from a single bacterium and is composed of millions of cells. Each colony has distinctive colony morphology: size‚ shape‚ color‚ consistency‚ and color. Community succession is a phenomenon observed in the organizational hierarchy of all living organisms. Community succession is not limited to bacterial colonies‚ but spans the entire community of life. As the community
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Ecology Of Crime There are many patterns in the crime rate that seem to be linked to temporal and ecological factors. Crimes usually happen more often‚ and‚ or more less according to the day‚ season‚ climate‚ temperature‚ population density‚ and region. For example‚ a person is more likely to be assaulted at midnight when the temperature exceeds 90 degrees than when to temperature is 10 degrees below zero. Therefore‚ a criminal is more likely to commit a crime when the time of day‚ season‚ and
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Ecology and economy are two different studies that have merged together in recent years. This is because human lifestyle is having an increasingly negative impact on the surrounding environment. There has been a shift in recent years from technologies that are wasteful of resources toward technologies that use resources more efficiently and reduce pollution‚ a shift from conventional economy to sustainable economy. We are living beings on a planet Earth. Humans are living beings who depends on
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BUSINESS AND ECOLOGY Businesses damage the environment when they take natural resources from the Earth and dispose of waste. All of this is done within the natural environment‚ a kind of ecological system or “ecosystem.” THE DIMENSION OF ECOLOGICAL PROBLEM Ecological Problems: These are the some of the environmental issues we face today: 1. Non-stop illegal mining. 2. Air pollution contaminates the air‚ despoils vegetation and crops‚ corrodes construction materials‚ and threatens our lives
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