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In an ecological investigation of an area of European grassland, the energy values of organisms in the ecosystem were found.
Create a food web diagram in which you illustrate the energy flow among the organisms of a food chain within a particular ecosystem, the Everglades.
Create a food web diagram in which you illustrate the energy flow among the organisms of a food chain within the ocean. Then, determine the interdependency of life in your selected ecosystem by exam
Review the following statements and choose one that best describes your feelings towards wildlife. Defend the statement you choose by providing at least three reasons for your point of view.
What is an adaptive radiation? Whey did reptiles undergo an adaptive rediation about 250 million years ago? What anatomical and physiological characterics, which amphibians don't possess, enabled re
Explain how the animal is able to defend itself. (How does the animal use its habitat to defend and protect itself and its family?) What special features or behaviors does the animal have to escape
What is biodiversity and how are humans impacting it? Is maintaining biodiversity essential for human sustainability.
Every organism in an ecosystem is affected by the other organisms within the community it lives. Create a sample community and complete all of the following points about your community.
Describe the ecosystem in Pennsylvania in terms of plant life, animal life, and geology. What populations and communities are present? How dependent is Pennsylvania on this ecosystem? What are the l
What is the current estimate of the worldwide human population at this moment? Describe how this number is changing moment-to-moment, day-to-day, and from one year to the next.
Describe the main functions that you expect the organisms to perform. List the types of organisms you would select, and explain why you chose them.
Briefly describe the three levels of organization ecologists' use: population, community, and ecosystem. Give an example of each using a well-known city.
A fire destroys a large swath of Yellowstone National Park, but it turned out to be beneficial in the long run. Explain why. What type of succession has occurred there.
What are the characteristics that classify all the species you have selected in the Kingdom Animalia.
Post your response to the following: Describe the plant life, animal life, and geology of the ecosystem in the area in which you live. What populations and communities are present.
What steps would you take to restore your community's economy and environment.
Explain what an ecosystem is and what components make it up. Name two effects of human activities on ecosystems. What are some of the new policies designed to protect the environment in your communi
A company wants to expand onto a wetland adjacent to its current facility. It has offered to buy and preserve a large nature reserve in a different area to make up for the wetland it is destroying.
Pick a plant and an animal and tell me how these how plants and animals arrive, find, migrate or develop their habitat, respond to the food chain, climate and other living and non living factors. Gi
Can you please describe the term "Survival of the Fittest" in terms of Natural Selection. Can you please also give an example of survival of the fittest, i.e. the development of antibiotic resistant
Who were a three scientist whose work was fundamental to Darwin's theory? How did their thinking influence his.
What is an environmental impact statement (EIS)? List what each EIS must include. How does an environmental impact statement provide protection for the environment.
Briefly explain what is meant by the terms directional selection, stabilizing selection, and disruptive selection. Give an example of each.
At least some of the differences among members of a population are due to characteristics that may be passed from parent to offspring. That is, they are heritable or genetic.
Permethrin is used to kill lice; individual lice change in order to survive; most lice become resistant to permethrin.