ECCB 403 FINAL EXAM- ALL QUIZ AND EXAM QUESTIONS ACTUAL EXAM/
MOSTLY TESTED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS|
100% CORRECT SOLUTIONS/GRADE A+
Terms in this set (129) Original
True or False: According to the author of your
textbook (Krebs), descriptive ecology is the True
foundation of all ecological sciences.
What biological discipline(s) are closely related
to ecology?
A. Physiology
A and C
B. Sociology
C. Evolution
A and C
All of the above
True or False: Scientists use the scientific
method to prove that their hypotheses are False
correct.
Where can a scientific hypothesis come from?
Previous research
All of the above
Intuition
Inspiration
A and B
,All of the above
Recalling our discussion in class about the film
"Powers of Ten", if we wanted to stop the film
when we were looking at the most accurate
representation of reality, which of the following
images would we be looking at?
It depends on what we are interested in
The Planet Earth
The people on the beach
It is an impossible choice to make
It depends on what we are interested in
True or False: The scientific method involves
True
both inductive and deductive reasoning.
True or False: Three types of dispersal are
False
random, clumped, and uniform.
Which of the following are among the basic
characteristics that ecologists use to describe an
animal population?
Density All of the above
Pattern of dispersion
Age and sex ratios
Natality and mortality rates
All of the above
Based on the figure, which of the following
statements is correct?
The Type 1 curve represents an indefinite
lifespan
The Type 2 curve represents constant per
The Type 2 curve represents constant per capita
capita mortality across all ages
mortality across all ages
The Type 3 curve represents high survival to
old age
All three curves represent the age-specific mean
number of offspring produced
, None of the above
Based on the following life table, which of the
following statements is correct?
x. nx lx dx qx
0 1000
1 100
2 50
3 25
The value of qo is 0.1
The value of qo is 0.9
There are insufficient data to calculate qo
The value of qo is 1
Probable causes of the clumped (or
aggregated) patterns of dispersion exhibited
by many plants and animals include which of
the following?
The value of qo is 0.9 Environmental gradients
Preferred distance to closest individual of the
same species
Habitat heterogeneity
All of the above
None of the above
True or False: Emigration is the movement of
All of the above individuals into an area occupied by the
population.
Under what conditions will a static life table
and a dynamic life table be identical?
They never will be identical
They always will be identical
False When population size is constant and age-
specific per capita birth and death rates do not
change
When the population is at carrying capacity
When the population is at the inflection point
on the logistic growth curve
MOSTLY TESTED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS|
100% CORRECT SOLUTIONS/GRADE A+
Terms in this set (129) Original
True or False: According to the author of your
textbook (Krebs), descriptive ecology is the True
foundation of all ecological sciences.
What biological discipline(s) are closely related
to ecology?
A. Physiology
A and C
B. Sociology
C. Evolution
A and C
All of the above
True or False: Scientists use the scientific
method to prove that their hypotheses are False
correct.
Where can a scientific hypothesis come from?
Previous research
All of the above
Intuition
Inspiration
A and B
,All of the above
Recalling our discussion in class about the film
"Powers of Ten", if we wanted to stop the film
when we were looking at the most accurate
representation of reality, which of the following
images would we be looking at?
It depends on what we are interested in
The Planet Earth
The people on the beach
It is an impossible choice to make
It depends on what we are interested in
True or False: The scientific method involves
True
both inductive and deductive reasoning.
True or False: Three types of dispersal are
False
random, clumped, and uniform.
Which of the following are among the basic
characteristics that ecologists use to describe an
animal population?
Density All of the above
Pattern of dispersion
Age and sex ratios
Natality and mortality rates
All of the above
Based on the figure, which of the following
statements is correct?
The Type 1 curve represents an indefinite
lifespan
The Type 2 curve represents constant per
The Type 2 curve represents constant per capita
capita mortality across all ages
mortality across all ages
The Type 3 curve represents high survival to
old age
All three curves represent the age-specific mean
number of offspring produced
, None of the above
Based on the following life table, which of the
following statements is correct?
x. nx lx dx qx
0 1000
1 100
2 50
3 25
The value of qo is 0.1
The value of qo is 0.9
There are insufficient data to calculate qo
The value of qo is 1
Probable causes of the clumped (or
aggregated) patterns of dispersion exhibited
by many plants and animals include which of
the following?
The value of qo is 0.9 Environmental gradients
Preferred distance to closest individual of the
same species
Habitat heterogeneity
All of the above
None of the above
True or False: Emigration is the movement of
All of the above individuals into an area occupied by the
population.
Under what conditions will a static life table
and a dynamic life table be identical?
They never will be identical
They always will be identical
False When population size is constant and age-
specific per capita birth and death rates do not
change
When the population is at carrying capacity
When the population is at the inflection point
on the logistic growth curve
