<p>Classification and Population Ecology NAME: ______</p><p>Study Guide</p><p>100 points</p><p>42 multiple choice</p><p>4 extended response questions</p><p>1. Contrast ecosystem, habitat, population, and community</p><p>2. Contrast carrying capacity and limiting factors</p><p>3. List density-dependent limiting factors</p><p>4. List density-independent limiting factors</p><p>5. Which graph cannot be sustained in nature: logistical or exponential? EXPLAIN in detail (using vocabulary) why.</p><p>6. What is the relationship between birth rate, death rate, and the size of a population? AND how does immigration and emigration affect the size of the population?</p><p>7. How is a parasitic relationship different from a traditional predator/prey relationship?</p><p>8. Contrast commensalism and mutualism</p><p>9. List three ways a population competes with itself</p><p>10. In detail (and using vocabulary), explain the history of human population growth over the past 10,000 years.</p><p>11. Population distribution is clumped, random, or uniform. Contrast each and provide an example organism for each.</p><p>12. Are highly competitive animals distributed in a uniform way? Why or why not.</p><p>13. How is zero population growth achieved? Could you show this in a mathematical equation?</p><p>14. Survivorship curves: graph the three survivorship curves and explain what is going on in each. Provide an example organism for each.</p><p>15. Deduct what may be occurring in each of the populations below (age structure diagrams): 16. Define taxonomy and state why it is important to ecologists</p><p>17. What is the name of Linnaeus’s two-name system of classification AND why did he create it?</p><p>18. Compare modern cladistics with the traditional (old) system of classifying organisms.</p><p>19. An ecologist says an organism’s growth will be exponential. What is this ecologist assuming about the organisms resources? </p><p>20. The same ecologist says an organism’s growth is logistical. What is he assuming about the organisms resources?</p><p>21. Construct a cladogram that contains five different organisms. Hypothesis the evolutionary history of the five by using your cladogram to guide your hypothesis. </p>