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Decks in this class (21)

Week One: Introduction to Ecology and Conservation
Define the term ecology 1,
Abiotic interactions 2,
Biotic interactions 3
14  cards
Week One: Ecological Conditions and Resources
Define the term condition 1,
Define the term resource 2,
What are the abiotic factors that...
58  cards
Week Two: Water as an Environmental Resource
What are provisional ecosystem se...,
What are supporting ecosystem ser...,
What are regulatory ecosystem ser...
56  cards
Week Two: Ecological Features of Freshwater Systems
What does lentic mean and give ex...,
What are key characteristics of l...,
Where do nutrients and organic ma...
50  cards
Week Three: Nitrogen and Phosphorus Systems
Why is nitrogen essential for liv...,
Why is phosphorus essential for l...,
What makes atmospheric nitrogen n...
47  cards
Week Three: Threats and Solutions
What are common issues with waste...,
What happens when treatment works...,
What are csos 3
62  cards
Week Four: Mersey River Basin
How many tributary rivers are the...,
What is the size of the catchment...,
What is the total stretch of rive...
13  cards
Week Four: Grasslands as a Biome
What are the two types of biomes 1,
Why do grasslands have such a lar...,
What are the climatic conditions ...
27  cards
Week Five: Conservation Challenges of Grasslands
What is a neophyte 1,
What is an archeophyte 2,
What was the basis for the case s...
20  cards
Week Five: Populations and Individuals
What is a population 1,
What is an individual 2,
What is a unitary organism 3
27  cards
Week Seven: Population Growth Models
What process controls evolution 1,
How does natural selection preven...,
What factors may cause organisms ...
21  cards
Week Seven: Interspecific Competition
What is intraspecific competition 1,
What is interspecific competition 2,
What is the competitive exclusion...
21  cards
Week Eight: Competition and Predation
What is the lokta volterra equati...,
What do the alpha and beta terms ...,
How does the lokta voltera equati...
17  cards
Week Eight: Molecular Ecology
What is molecular ecology 1,
What are the two main objectives ...,
What are some markers in molecula...
34  cards
Week Nine: What Level Should Conservation Act
What is an umbrella species 1,
What is a sentinel indicator spec...,
What is a keystone species 3
15  cards
Week Nine: Human Ecology and Population Growth
What three factors have increased...,
How has the population changed fr...,
How has the global gdp changed fr...
30  cards
Week Ten: Human Ecology and Agriculture
What are the steps in the intensi...,
When was the haber process develo...,
What are some methods of increasi...
23  cards
Week Ten: Human Impacts on Biodiversity
Why have humans had such a large ...,
Where is half of the world s popu...,
What is the projected increase ac...
25  cards
Week Eleven: Biogeography and Distribution of Diversity
What is the cover of tropical rai...,
What does conservation biogeograp...,
When and by who was the term biog...
28  cards
Week Twelve: Protected Areas
What is the theory of reserve des...,
What are the two main considerati...,
What is island biogeography 3
14  cards
Week Twelve: People and Conservation
What is white man s burden 1,
What is colonialism 2,
What is neocolonialism 3
5  cards

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