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,TABLE OF CONTENTS
Test Bank: Ecology Concepts and Applications, 9th Edition
Authors: Anna Sher, Manuel Molles
Chapter 1. Introduction to Ecology: Historical Foundations and Developing Frontiers
Section I. Natural History and Evolution
Chapter 2. Life on Land
Chapter 3. Life in Water
Chapter 4. Population Genetics and Natural Selection
Section II. Adaptations to the Environment
Chapter 5. Temperature Relations
Chapter 6. Water Relations
Chapter 7. Energy and Nutrient Relations
Chapter 8. Social Relations
Section III. Population Ecology
Chapter 9. Population Distribution and Abundance
Chapter 10. Population Dynamics
Chapter 11. Population Growth
Chapter 12. Life Histories
Section IV. Interactions
Chapter 13. Species Interactions and Competition
Chapter 14. Exploitative Interactions: Predation, Herbivory, Parasitism, and Disease
Chapter 15. Mutualism
Section V. Communities and Ecosystems
Chapter 16. Species Abundance and Diversity
Chapter 17. Species Interactions and Community Structure
Chapter 18. Primary and Secondary Production
Chapter 19. Nutrient Cycling and Retention
Chapter 20. Succession and Stability
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,Section VI. Large-Scale Ecology
Chapter 21. Landscape Ecology
Chapter 22. Geographic Ecology
Chapter 23. Global Ecology
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Student name:
TRUE/FALSE - Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
1) Norris and colleagues found that warblers using different habitats did not have different
carbon isotopes in the tissues.
⊚ true
⊚ false
2) Field studies and laboratory studies are mutually exclusive.
⊚ true
⊚ false
3) Temperate and tropical rain forest trees extract nutrients from epiphytic mats.
⊚ true
⊚ false
4) Stable isotope analysis uses variation in element masses to better understand ecological
phenomena.
⊚ true
⊚ false
5) Margaret Davis' studies on lake pollen sediments indicate that the forests of eastern North
America did not change with the changing climate.
⊚ true
⊚ false
6) Ecology can be defined as the study of the impact of human activity on the environment.
⊚ true
⊚ false
7) Ecology is a modern science of which ancient man had no knowledge.
⊚ true
⊚ false
8) Even though ecologists would like to study isolated levels of the environment, that would be
difficult since all levels are interconnected.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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,TABLE OF CONTENTS
Test Bank: Ecology Concepts and Applications, 9th Edition
Authors: Anna Sher, Manuel Molles
Chapter 1. Introduction to Ecology: Historical Foundations and Developing Frontiers
Section I. Natural History and Evolution
Chapter 2. Life on Land
Chapter 3. Life in Water
Chapter 4. Population Genetics and Natural Selection
Section II. Adaptations to the Environment
Chapter 5. Temperature Relations
Chapter 6. Water Relations
Chapter 7. Energy and Nutrient Relations
Chapter 8. Social Relations
Section III. Population Ecology
Chapter 9. Population Distribution and Abundance
Chapter 10. Population Dynamics
Chapter 11. Population Growth
Chapter 12. Life Histories
Section IV. Interactions
Chapter 13. Species Interactions and Competition
Chapter 14. Exploitative Interactions: Predation, Herbivory, Parasitism, and Disease
Chapter 15. Mutualism
Section V. Communities and Ecosystems
Chapter 16. Species Abundance and Diversity
Chapter 17. Species Interactions and Community Structure
Chapter 18. Primary and Secondary Production
Chapter 19. Nutrient Cycling and Retention
Chapter 20. Succession and Stability
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,Section VI. Large-Scale Ecology
Chapter 21. Landscape Ecology
Chapter 22. Geographic Ecology
Chapter 23. Global Ecology
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, Chapter 1
Student name:
TRUE/FALSE - Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
1) Norris and colleagues found that warblers using different habitats did not have different
carbon isotopes in the tissues.
⊚ true
⊚ false
2) Field studies and laboratory studies are mutually exclusive.
⊚ true
⊚ false
3) Temperate and tropical rain forest trees extract nutrients from epiphytic mats.
⊚ true
⊚ false
4) Stable isotope analysis uses variation in element masses to better understand ecological
phenomena.
⊚ true
⊚ false
5) Margaret Davis' studies on lake pollen sediments indicate that the forests of eastern North
America did not change with the changing climate.
⊚ true
⊚ false
6) Ecology can be defined as the study of the impact of human activity on the environment.
⊚ true
⊚ false
7) Ecology is a modern science of which ancient man had no knowledge.
⊚ true
⊚ false
8) Even though ecologists would like to study isolated levels of the environment, that would be
difficult since all levels are interconnected.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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