Download APES review guide for Exam II (chapters 4 and 5) Name: Exam date

APES review guide for Exam II (chapters 4 and 5)
Exam date:
Name: _______________________
Date: __________ Hour: _______
Exam I will be worth 100 points and consists of two parts.
 Part I: 60 multiple choice & true/ false questions (1 point each)
 Part II: 4 constructed response questions (10 points each).
 Extra-credit reports are due the day of the exam.
1. Relate tolerance limits to the survival of an organism.
2. Explain the concept of natural selection and understand how adaptation plays a role in
evolution.
3. Distinguish between habitat and niche.
4. Explain the following species interactions and give examples of each: competition,
predation, parasitism, mutualism, commensalism, coevolution.
5. Define keystone species and give examples.
6. Differentiate between Batesian and Mullerian mimicry.
7. Relate competition to the survival of individual organisms and to species survival.
(Characterize resource partitioning as a way to avoid competition).
8. Relate the primary productivity of an ecosystem to its diversity.
9. Summarize ecological succession. Differentiate between primary and secondary
succession.
10. Describe the potential damage to an ecosystem and indigenous species when an
invasive species is introduced. (Provide examples)
11. Outline the temperature and precipitation conditions in each biome.
12. Explain the characteristics of each of the biomes.
13. Recognize the adaptations characteristic of the flora/ fauna found in each of the biomes.
14. Recognize the characteristics of major aquatic biomes
15. Understand how and why marine environments vary with depth and distance from shore.
16. Identify and describe a variety of nearshore environments and wetland environments.
17. Summarize the overall patterns of human disturbance of world biomes.
KEY TERMS
Chapter 4
Chapter 4
Chapter 4
Allopatric speciation
Climax community
Coevolution
Commensalism
Competition
Complexity
Critical factor
Diversity
Ecological niche
Ecological succession
Edge effect
Evolution
Generalist
Geographic isolation
Habitat
Interspecific competition
Intraspecific competition
Invasive species
Keystone species
Natural selection
Mimicry
Mutualism
Parasitism
Pioneer species
Predation
Primary productivity
Primary succession
Resource partitioning
Secondary
succession
specialist Stability
Symbiosis
Sympatric speciation
Territoriality
Tolerance limits
Chapter 5
Barrier islands
Benthos
Biome
Chaparral
Cloud forest
Coniferous forest
Coral reef
Deciduous forest
Desert
Estuary
Chapter 5
Grassland
Mangrove
Pelagic
Savanna
Taiga
Temperate forest
Tropical rainforest
Tundra
Wetland
Constructed Response
1. An ecologist from Northern California who specializes in temperate forest ecology,
specifically the temperate rainforests of the Pacific-northwest, has arrived at the field
station where you are employed as a guide. Your station is in middle of the tropical
rainforests of Peru and the ecologist requests a tour. While exploring the trails
surrounding the field station, the ecologist comments on the similarities and differences
she notices between this ecosystem and the temperate rainforest ecosystem she is
familiar with. Describe three differences and three similarities that she noted.
2. Explain how predators affect the adaptations of their prey. (Suggested vocabulary to
include in your response: natural selection, coevolution)
3. Part I: Discuss the dangers posed to existing community members when new species
are introduced into ecosystems.
Part II: Which sorts of species are more likely to become problematic invasive species?
Explain.
4. Species Competition
This constructed response question will require you to read graphs and form conclusions
based on the data that you analyze. I have not provided the actual questions that I will
ask about the graphs, but you can prepare yourself for this particular constructed
response question by reading the background information below and analyzing the data
found in the graphs. In the space below the graph, Identify trends and make a
conclusion of your findings. Here is a sample of the questions I might ask to get you
stated:
Describe how these data exemplify the competitive exclusion principal.
Background information
Data
INSERT BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND DATA FROM PAGE 97 IN TEXTBOOK
** See page 97 in text book for the graph and background information! **