1. Ecology Jeopardy Review! General TermsPractice problemsPopulation dynamics and limitations 200 400 600 800 1000

2. Terms-200 This is the definition of a population.

3. Answer: Terms 200 What is a group of the same species in the same area? HOME

4. Terms 400 These are the living and non-living components of ecology

5. Answer: Terms 400 What are biotic and abiotic components? HOME

6. Terms 600 Ecology is the study of ___________________

7. Answer: Terms 600 What are interactions between organisms and their environment? HOME

8. Terms 800 This is the number of offspring in a female’s brood

9. Answer: Terms 800 What is fecundity? HOME

10. Terms 1000 Demography is the study of what?

11. Answer: Terms 1000 What is the study of populations and population processes? HOME

12. Practice Problems 200 Farmer Morris has 20 cows. In one year, 8 die, 4 are born and none immigrate or emigrate. What is the new population size?

13. Answer Practice Problems: 200 What is 16 cows? HOME

14. Practice Problems 400 Consider the following: a bee hive with 1257 members hatches 1580 new bees, in which 237 die and 30 bees leave to start a new hive. The new population size is _________

15. Answer Practice Problems: 400 What is 2570 bees? HOME

16. Practice Problems 600 Ken has 18 fish in his fish tank. 2 of his guppies have babies. The next day 3 fish die by eating themselves to death, and 4 of the guppy fry were eaten. The new population is 30 members. How many babies did the guppies have, counting the 4 that died?

17. Answer Practice Problems: 600 What is 19 fry/babies? HOME

18. Practice Problems 800 There is a school of 245 fish in the ocean. A pod of dolphins swims through and eats approximately 52 fish total. In the mayhem, 70 fish swim off and start a new school far away from the dolphins. Assuming there were no births, what is the new population of the fish?

19. Answer Practice Problems: 800 What is 123 fish? HOME

20. Practice Problems 1000 There is a population of 75 elephants in Africa. A group of poachers kill 41, and the populations split into 2 even populations as they panic and escape. In new population 1, 3 elephant calves are born. In new population 2, 5 are born, but one dies shortly after birth. What is the size of each population?

21. Answer Practice Problems: 1000 What is 20 elephants in population 1 and 21 elephants in population 2? HOME

22. Population Dynamics and Limiting Factors 200 These are the three factors that all populations have.

23. Answer: Population Dynamics and Limiting Factors 200 What is density, distribution and age structure? HOME

24. Population Dynamics and Limiting Factors 400 Humans fall on this type of survivorship curve.

25. Answer: Population Dynamics and Limiting Factors 400 What is a type I curve? HOME

26. Population Dynamics and Limiting Factors 600 These are the two types of population growth models.

27. Answer: Population Dynamics and Limiting Factors 600 What is exponential curve and logistic curve? HOME

28. Population Dynamics and Limiting Factors 800 What are the four types of age structures, and what is an example of each?

29. Answer: Population Dynamics and Limiting Factors 800 HOME What is rapid growth, slow growth, zero growth and negative growth? Rapid growth- Guatemala, Suadi Arabia, or Nigeria Slow growth- United States, Canada, or Australia Zero growth- Spain, Austria, or Belgium Negative growth- Germany, Bulgaria, or Sweden

30. Population Dynamics and Limiting Factors 1000 This is the equation for estimating a population size at any point in time.

31. Answer: Population Dynamics and Limiting Factors 1000 What is “G= Initial Population + (B-D) + (I-E)”? HOME