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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.
Evolution by natural selection occurs when three (3) conditions are met. What are these three requirements? Briefly explain each, and provide a hypothetical example to illustrate and explain these r
How many of each genotype would you expect after one generation (given the starting point above).
Certainly industry has contributed to the Greenhouse effect. Would the Earth be habitable if the greenhouse effect was not taking place.
Identify two different types of organisms that you have seen interacting, such as bees and flowers. Now form a simple hypothesis about this interaction.
Ecosystems can change over time in a process known as natural succession. When an ecosystem is disturbed, both the physical (abiotic) and living.
Which BEST describes the reason for the very rapid growth of the human population in the last 8,000 years.
Why is the concept of carrying capacity difficult to apply to human populations? In reference to human population, should the concept be modified to include quality of life.
Choose one of the earth's major biomes. and in powerpoint create a very simple presentation, each slide containing 1-2 sentences.
In an ecosystem, interaction occurs between communities. Energy is transferred from one organism to another through the food chain.
You can take an actual historic case as an example. Actually described by Charles Darwin himself when he was part of the Beagle expedition and was visiting the Galapagos islands in the Pacific Ocean
Review the ecological properties that are displayed on the World Heritage in Danger List on the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Web
When a hawk eats a fish, does the hawk acquire all of the energy contained in the body of the fish? Why or why not.
Some organizations, such as the Ecological Society of America, are starting to envision a sustainable society, one in which each generation inherits sufficient natural and economic resources and a r
Approach this project from the perspective of someone searching for funding to support preservation programs.