ECOLOGY1. Differentiate between the terms weather and climate.2. Contrast the major terrestrial biomes of the earth as to temperature range, rainfall, soil, geographic location, flora and fauna, and human impact.3. Using terrestrial biomes, identify ecological equivalents on each of four trophic levels.4. Explain the importance of biodiversity to the functioning of ecosystems.5. Distinguish between Functional Diversity, Ecological Diversity, Genetic Diversity, and Species Diversity.6. Explain how evolution gives rise to biodiversity.7. Define niche, habitat, native species, non-native species, indicator species and keystone species.8. Differentiate between intraspecific and interspecific relationships9. Define the types of interspecific interactions including an example of each.10. Describe some ways that some prey animals have evolved to avoid predators.11. Explain Gauses Principle; the principle of competitive exclusion.12. Analyze alternatives by which competition between two species for the same resources may be resolved.13. Define the factors that influence population size.14. Construct a J-shaped growth curve, explaining what happens at each of the significant points on the curve.15. Construct an S-shaped growth curve, explaining what happens at each of the significant points on the curve.16. Discuss the role migration plays in regulation of population size, using lemmings as an example.17. Explain the role of predators in an ecosystem citing beneficial and harmful effects to the ecosystem.18. Describe the different stages in primary ecological succession.19. Describe the different stages in secondary ecological succession.20. Explain ways in which human activity has affected ecological succession.23. Define: biotic potential coevolution Estuary Limiting factor carrying capacity pioneer stage climax community Scavenger ecological equivalent ecological succession Stratification symbiosis environmental resistance territoriality epiphyte tolerance range24. Contrast: Annual and perennial Arctic and Alpine tundra Climate and weather Detritus feeder and decomposer Ectoparasite and endoparasite Evergreen, deciduous, and succulent Native and Nonnative indicator and keystone species habitat and niche immigration, emigration, and migration interspecific and intraspecific competition J-shaped (exponential) and S-shaped (sigmoid) growth curves latitude and altitude primary and secondary succession specialist and generalist species territory and home range parasite and host predator and prey