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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East of Eden So today‚we will discuss: 1)How to identify Rhetorical Strategies 2)What to write once you have found them (use a direct quote from the passage to support this claim) Do not spend 20 min on into and Paragraph 1 and then leave no time for the end of the essay Try to include some higher level vocab‚ and use at least one simple‚ declaritive sentence for effort no YOU are the one who is sickening me with your unbelievable ignorance... Are you just blind or stupid? I mean even if there
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General Principles of Aquatic Ecology KAREN L. LANCOUR National Rules Committee Chairman – Life Science Part I: General Principles of Aquatic Ecology Aquatic Ecosystems Freshwater Lotic ecosystems – flowing water o Streams o Rivers Lentic ecosystems – still water o Ponds o Lakes o Wetlands Estuary ecosystems Marine ecosystems o Coral Reef Ecology Review of Ecology Principles: Ecology = the systematic study of how organisms interact with one another and with their environment
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class and first heard the term‚ “deep ecology‚” I thought that it was simply referring to being environmentally friendly‚ saving paper and the whole “going green” movement. However‚ I now know that what I was thinking of is considered “shallow ecology‚” according to Arnie Naas. I wasn’t completely off in my thinking because shallow ecology is an aspect of deep ecology‚ however it is only a very thin layer. There is really no simple definition for deep ecology because it is such a vast idea. Nevertheless
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Experiments with hardware support in high level languages in the late 1960s led to such languages as PL/S‚ BLISS‚ BCPL‚ and extended ALGOL for large systems. Forth also has an application as a systems language. In the 1980s‚ C became worldwide‚ aided by the growth of UNIX. More recently C++ has seen some use. IT application development has been on an evolutionary journey since the 1960’s which was written in assembler language. But later in November 2001 it was re-enhanced by IBM Software group
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ESSENTIALS OF ECOLOGY (Chapter 9) 1. Review the Key Questions and Concepts for this chapter on p. 184. What factors led to the premature extinction of the passenger pigeon in the United States? Factors that led to the premature extinction of the passenger pigeon are uncontrolled commercial hunting and habitat loss. Passenger pigeon in the 1858 became a big hunting business. Weapons like shotguns‚ traps and artilleries were used and even the burning of sulfur in suffocating the birds. These threats
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Population Ecology Take the theory of Darwinism and apply in business you will get the theory of Population Ecology in business. Population Ecology was merged in the seventies and founded by Michael Hnnan and John Freeman. Borrowed from biology‚ it is the process of natural selection in business and organizations with the favorable traits are more likely to survive‚ which means that organizations depend on the environment to survive. Luck‚ chance‚ and randomness play an important role
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TERMINOLOGIES INVOLVED IN INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY Design for environment:- an engineering perspective in which environmentally related characteristics of a product‚ process or facility design are optimized. Eco-efficiency:- a business strategy to produce goods with lower use of materials and energy to realize economic benefits of environmental improvements Industrial ecology:- An approach to the design of industrial products and processes that evaluates such activities through the dual perspective
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John D Rockefeller Population ecology is a perspective that seeks to explain the factors that affect the life cycles of organizations. It also suggests why some organizations survive for longer than the others. Earlier theories such a the such as the strategic choice theory argued that organizations try to adapt to changing environments and the ones that do it successfully survive. The population ecology perspective states that it is the environment that selects organizations
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HUMAN ECOLOGY:ROLE OF FOOD AND WATER. What is Human Ecology? Ecology is the science of relationships between living organisms and their environment. Human ecology is about relationships between people and their environment. In human ecology the environment is perceived as an ecosystem (see Figure 1.1). An ecosystem is everything in a specified area - the air‚ soil‚ water‚ living organisms and physical structures‚ including everything built by humans. The living parts of an ecosystem - microorganisms
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