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Population dynamics
- Define ecology
- Biotic & abiotic environmental factors
- Ecological techniques
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Ecophysiology
- Understand what ecophysiology is
- Describe Shelford’s law of tolerance
- Explain the importance of ecophysiology and environmental variation in determining the geographic range of species
o Determine the tolerances of organisms to a range of environmental factors
o Clarify role and importance of physiological processes of species in their natural habitat
o Importance of individual variation (genotype) within a population (genetic variation)
12
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Biomes
Name the 8 main biomes,
Define a biome,
What are the 2 main factors acros...
15
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Exploitation
Give 4 types of prey defence agai...,
Give 3 behavioural predatory hunt...,
Give 3 secondary chemical compoun...
18
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Behavioural ecology
What is the difference between th...,
What are derived traits,
What is an evolutionary stable st...
9
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Life histories
Describe the life history of the ...,
Decribe the life history of the s...,
Define life history
26
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Population growth
What is the difference between an...,
What does lamba represent in the ...,
What are the 2 assumptions of the...
5
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Landscape ecology
What did alfred russel wallace do...,
Why are island population distinct,
What is the founder effect
20
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Human ecology
What was the neolithic revolution,
Give the definition for human eco...,
Describe 2 other 18th century rev...
10
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Community diversity
How did charles elton describe a ...,
How did robert whittaker describe...,
How did robert rickleaf describe ...
30
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Energy flows
Give the 2 types of energy in a f...,
Give the 2 laws of thermodynamics,
Define primary productivity
22
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Nutrient cycling
What are the 5 essential elements...,
Define nutrient pool,
Define nutrient flux
11
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Species explosion & extinction
Briefly describe what happened in...,
When did vertebrates evolve accor...,
What was the most important devel...
15
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Coevolution & arms races
Define coevolution,
Define arms race,
What are the 2 types of camouflag...
10
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Conservation ecology
Give the 6 causes of genetic vari...,
Which types of selection increase...,
What is meiotic drive and how doe...
20
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Succession
Define succession,
Define primary succession,
Define secondary succession
12
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SOES2011 Dinosaurs
What 2 structures allowed marine ...,
Whats an amniota,
Define seymouria
35
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Good fungi
Give 4 nutritional facts about fungi,
Describe yeast growth,
Give the two pathways for yeast t...
16
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Bad fungi
Give 3 threats from fungi to humans,
What is fly agaric,
Name two of the most poisonous mu...
12
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Microsporidia
How many described species of mic...,
What type of microorganism is mic...,
How big is the microsporidia genome
12
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