Ecology Worksheet I
1) What is ecology?
2) What is the difference between ecology and environmentalism?
3) What are the levels of ecology?
4) What is biogeography?
5) Explain what a transplant experiment is.
6) What is the Tens Rule and how is it connected to exotic species problems?
7) Give some biotic and abiotic factors that limit dispersal.
8) Explain the cause of the seasons on Earth. (include the way the Earth tilts, how far the Earth is from the sun during the year, and when the solstices and equinoxes occur)
9) What is climate and what factors affect climate?
10) Give examples of macroclimate and microclimate.
11) Explain why rain forests are located near the equator and deserts are around 30o latitude.
12) What is the Lake Effect?
13) What are rain shadows?
14) What is a biome and what two things account for the differences in biomes?
15) Why are there no biomes that have very high precipitation and very low temperatures?
16) T/F Terrestrial biomes are the largest portion of earth.
17) What is the difference between freshwater and marine water? What is the water called if it lies between these two?
18) What is the difference between photic and aphotic?
19) Draw the zonation of a lake and label the photic, aphotic, littoral, limnetic, profundal, and benthic zones.
20) What is the difference between oligotrophic and eutrophic lakers?
21) What are estuaries?
22) Draw the zonation of an ocean and label the photic, aphotic, intertidal, neritic, oceanic, pelagic, benthic, and abyssal zones.
23) List and give characteristics of the terrestrial and aquatic biomes given in class.