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Name ________________________ Date _________________________ Period _______________________ APES Ch. 8 Cornell Notes Answer the questions on the left in the spaces on the right. It is NOT necessary to use complete sentences - be as brief as possible while still completing your thoughts. ____________________________________________ How many baby Burmese pythons have been imported into the US in recent years? Why have so many been imported?. ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Why do so many people want to get rid of their pet Burmese pythons? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Why is it a problem for people to ____________________________________________ release pythons into the everglades? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ What is the scientist Carl Linneaus known for? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ What is the scientist Alfred Russell Wallace know for? What are Wallace’s 6 realms, and how were they divided? Put a star next to the realm we live in. ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ What is the hierarchy of taxa for living organisms? (Start with Kingdom, don’t worry about Division.) ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ What are biotic provinces, and how are their boundaries defined? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ How might plate tectonics play a role in creating the variety of biotic ____________________________________________ provinces? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Summarize in 2-4 statements why introducing species from other parts of the world to a biotic province may be a problem. ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ What is the “rule of climatic similarity”? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ How has convergent evolution lead to the development of similar plants in the deserts of California and the deserts of Africa? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ BRIEFLY explain the difference between a biotic province and a biome. ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ What are the 2 most important climatic factors for influencing biome type? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Sketch the diagram in figure 8.6 in the graph provided. Be sure to label your axis!!! How has divergent evolution lead to the development of emus, ostriches, and rheas? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Which types of organisms are more ____________________________________________ closely related, a pair of organisms that have undergone convergent ____________________________________________ evolution, or a pair of organisms that have undergone divergent evolution? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ How has plate tectonic contributed to ____________________________________________ variations in life within continents, not just between continents? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ List 3-5 physical factors that can affect the life forms found on a continent. ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Chose 3 areas that are described, and BRIEFLY discuss how geography affects their climate. ______________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ What are the 2 general concepts about biogeography that related to the stressfulness of an ecosystem? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Island have _______________ species than continents. Fill in the blanks.... The smaller the island, the_____________ the species. The farther an island is from a continent, the ________________ species it has. ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ What is adaptive radiation? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ What are 3 generalizations we can make about species diversity on islands? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ What are 3 possible challenges faced by life on a small island that may not be an issue on a large island? _____________________________ _____________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Why do islands farther from a mainland usually have less species on them? ____________________________________________ Draw and label figure 8.11. Describe the type of island that should have relatively few species of organisms. ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ What is an ecological island? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Why do Centennial park and the Nature Center form an ecological island? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ What are 3 ways that people have altered biodiversity? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ What are 2 important positive affects of the importation of exotic species? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Summarize the 2 general rules given regarding the importation of exotic species. What is the 1st rule of moving species around the planet? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ What is the 2nd rule of moving species around the planet? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ What is the 3rd rule of moving species around the planet? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ How are biomes usually named? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ What 2 abiotic factors have the largest effect on biomes? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ What happens to biodiversity as latitudes increase? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ How might the variability of climate affect biodiversity? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Give at least 3 facts you find interesting about the Tundra. ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Give at least 3 facts you find ____________________________________________ interesting about the Taiga, or Boreal Forest. ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _ ____________________________________________ Give at least 3 facts you find interesting about Temperate Deciduous Forests. ____________________________________________ What does deciduous mean? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Give at least 3 facts you find interesting about Temperate Rain Forests. ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Give at least 3 facts you find interesting about the Temperate Woodlands. ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Give at least 3 facts you find interesting about the Temperate Shrublands. ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Give at least 3 facts you find interesting about the Temperate Grasslands. ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Give at least 3 facts you find interesting about the Tropical Rain Forests. ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Give at least 2 facts you find interesting about the Tropical Seasonal Forests and Savannas. ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Give at least 3 facts you find interesting about Deserts. ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ _____________________________ ____________________________________________ _____________________________ ____________________________________________ _____________________________ Give at least 3 facts you find interesting about the Wetlands. _ ____________________________________________ Give at least 3 facts you find interesting about Freshwater Biomes. ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Give at least 3 facts you find interesting about the Intertidal Areas. ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Give at least 2 facts you find interesting about the Open Ocean. ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Give at least 2 facts you find interesting about Benthic Biomes. ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Give at least 2 facts you find interesting about Upwellings. ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ How does upwelling relate to productive fisheries off the coast of California? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Give at least 3 facts you find interesting about the Hydrothermal Vents. ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________