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Test #3 Review
1. What are the characteristics of mass extinction and species longevity?
2. What is the relationship between speciation, extinction, and biodiversity?
3. What is the difference between a population, community, and ecosystem?
4. What are endemic, native, and non-native species?
5. What is the difference between fundamental and realized niche?
6. How can population density affect organisms?
7. What are the factors that determine population growth?
8. What is the difference between exponential and logistic growth?
9. What is the relationship between carrying capacity and environmental resistance?
10. What is the difference between density-dependent and independent?
11. What are the characteristics of r and K species?
12. What is the difference between allopatric and sympatric speciation?
13. What is the difference between artificial and natural selection?
14. How does the process of adaptation affect evolution?
15. What is the difference between random, uniform, and clumped dispersion?
16. What is the difference between stabilizing, directional, and disruptive selection?
17. What is the difference between types I, II, and III growth curves?
18. Characteristics of generalists and specialists?
19. Difference between resource partitioning and competitive exclusion.
20. Characteristics of predation, parasitism, mutualism, and commensalism.
21. Characteristics of producers, primary and secondary consumers, and detritivores
22. What is primary and secondary succession?
23. Basic characteristics of the different biomes.
24. What are a pioneer and climax communities?
25. What are the pros and cons of invasive species?
26. How can global climate change affect biomes?
27. How does energy transfer affect organisms in different trophic levels?
28. What is the trophic cascade?
29. What is the rainshadow effect?
30. Food webs and trophic levels.