Populations and Communities
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Populations and CommunitiesQuestions
- What is population dynamics?
- How can the carrying capacity of an ecosystem change?
- If you study how two species of finches compete for food, are you dealing with community ecology, population ecology, organismal ecology, or ecosystem ecology?
- What are examples of a population?
- What are three different shapes of population pyramids?
- Which of the following includes the other three: ecosystem, population, biosphere, community?
- Would the wood of a rotting log be considered an ecosystem?
- What is a community composed of?
- What are the advantages/disadvantages of a high population density?
- Are all the organisms of one species that live in one place a definition of community or population?
- What is the simplest grouping of more than one kind of organism in the biosphere called?
- How do limiting factors affect the population of the arctic tundra?
- What is the role of population dynamics?
- What is the difference between population size and population density?
- What are coral reefs, forests, and ponds examples of?
- What is a group of organisms of different species living together in a particular place is called?
- What are the factors affecting the rate of ecological succession?
- Would you consider a large city to be a population or a community?
- How would you distinguish between a community and a population?
- Is a school of fish considered a community or a population?
- How would you explain the following statement: "Natural selection acts on populations, not individuals."?
- How do organisms in an ecosystem interact?
- What is the difference between a population, community, and an ecosystem?
- What is the biological definition of a population?
- How does a population differ from a community?
- What is the relationship between the biosphere, a biome, and an ecosystem?
- What do mutation, genetic recombination, and gene flow add to a population?
- Why are there no snakes in New Zealand?
- How do scientists count a species' population?
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- How do biological communities get to be the way they are?
- What is the difference between a species and a population?
- What is a population? What is a community?
- How do urban communities compare to rural communities?
- What is a species?
- Why would limiting population size help the quality of life?
- What would happen to a population of rabbits if the number of foxes, a predator of rabbits, increased?
- What is the community of plants and animals living in an area called?
- What is a habitat?
- What is the biological definition of a population? How is population size kept stable?
- Are both biotic and abiotic factors considered part of a population?
- Ants and aphids often live near each other. The ants feed on the wastes produced by the aphids, and the aphids are protected from predators by the presence of the ants. What type of relationship is this?
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- What was Malthus’ theory of population growth? Do you think he was correct?
- What is the relationship between a population and a community?
- Does a community include abiotic factors? Explain.