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