Population Regulation - Ecology Evolution Application Integration | Biology+

Course

Ecology

Study Pack

Set 1: Introduction to Ecology

Set 2: Adaptation and Evolution

Set 3: Adaptations to the Physical Environment

Set 4: Terrestrial Communities

Set 5: Fresh-water and Marine Communities

Set 6: Behavioral Ecology

Set 7: The Ecology of Intraspecific Variation

Set 8: Demography

Set 9: Population Regulation

Set 10: Life History Strategies

Set 11: Competition

Set 12: Coevolution I Exploitative Interactions

Set 13: Mutualism

Set 14: The Structure of Communities

Set 15: Ecological Succession

Set 16: Species Diversity

Set 17: Energy Flow and Trophic Structure

Set 18: Biogeochemical Cycles

Set 19: Conservation Biology

Set 20: Landscape Ecology

Set 21: Human Global Ecology

Set 9 Population Regulation

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Set 9 Population Regulation

(Multiple Choice)

Free

The effect of wolves on elk in Yellowstone is an example of

A) a bottom-up interaction.
B) a top-down interaction.
C) symbiosis.
D) trophism.
E) none of the above

Answer

(Multiple Choice)

Free

Which of the following are characteristics of biological control agents?

A) a broad host range
B) low reproductive pontential
C) life-cycle synchrony
D) bottom-up control
E) none of the above

Answer

(Multiple Choice)

Free

In the equation dN/dt = rN(1-N/K),

A) r is the net reproductive rate.
B) K is the carrying capacity.
C) dN/dt is simplified to N/t.
D) the term 1-N/K models top-down effects.
E) none of the above

Answer