- What is the difference between population size and population density?
- How can mark and recapture be used to sample population size?
- How can a quadrant be used to sample population size?
- What is the difference between random, clumped and uniform distribution patterns?
- What are some statistics that may be included in life tables?
- What is the difference between Type I, Type II and Type III survivorship curves?
- What is exponential growth? What shape curve does this produce?
- What is logistic growth? What shape curve does this produce?
- What is the difference between density-dependent and density-independent factors?
- How was density-dependent regulation studied using wild donkeys?
- Why did the woolly mammoth become extinct?
- What is the difference between K-selected and r-selected species?
- Describe the most often cited-example of predator-prey population dynamics?
- What are some mechanisms that organisms have evolved to prevent predation?
- What are some mechanisms that plants have evolved to prevent herbivory?
- What type of growth is the human population experiencing?
- What type of countries have rapid growth in human population? Which have slow growth?
- What are some consequences of the increases in human population growth?
- What is the predator-prey interaction?
- What are some examples of mimicry?
- Give an example of a commensalism, a mutualism, and a parasitism. What do these mean?
- What is a foundation species? Give an example.
- What is a keystone species? Give an example.
- What is an invasive species? Give an example.
- What is a pioneer species? Give an example.
- What is the difference between primary and secondary succession?
- Describe secondary succession in forests that experience wildfires.
- Be familiar with the vocabulary in the chapter. You can use the last slides in the PPT as a guide. You do not need to define all the words to receive full credit for this study guide. You must answer 1-27 to receive credit (5 points).