CONSERVATION BIOLOGY EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS
what do cooper's hawks, merlins and peregrine falcons eat? where are they found? -
foraging behavior - Answer-the accumulation of foods by animals, involving storing,
territory
how to define species - Answer-morphology, evolutionary, biologically
ways to consider species diversity - Answer-alpha, beta, gamma
ecological-geographic perspective of diversity - Answer-# of species w/i an
ecosystem or geographic area
taxonomic-evolutionary perspective of diversity - Answer-# of species w/i a
taxonomic group
5 kingdoms - Answer-Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia
3 domain classifaction - Answer-archaea, bacteria, eukarya
errors with taxonomy - Answer-unequal knowledge of groups and areas,
simultaneous species discoveries and extinctions
plantae kingdom - Answer-seedless plants, gymnosperms (naked seeds),
angiosperms (flowering)
animalia kingdom - Answer-invertebrates, vertebrates, monotremes (egg laying
mammals), birds, amphibians, reptiles, chiroptera (bats), lgomorpha (hares), even
toed ungulates, odd toed ungulates, carnivores, primates
alpha diversity - Answer-diversity within an ecosystem
species richness - Answer-number of species
species evenness - Answer-proportions of individuals or biomass among the species
present
beta diversity - Answer-rate of change of species composition between 2 or more
ecosystems
gamma diversity - Answer-species richness for a large geographic region
encompassing multiple types of ecosystems
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS
what do cooper's hawks, merlins and peregrine falcons eat? where are they found? -
foraging behavior - Answer-the accumulation of foods by animals, involving storing,
territory
how to define species - Answer-morphology, evolutionary, biologically
ways to consider species diversity - Answer-alpha, beta, gamma
ecological-geographic perspective of diversity - Answer-# of species w/i an
ecosystem or geographic area
taxonomic-evolutionary perspective of diversity - Answer-# of species w/i a
taxonomic group
5 kingdoms - Answer-Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia
3 domain classifaction - Answer-archaea, bacteria, eukarya
errors with taxonomy - Answer-unequal knowledge of groups and areas,
simultaneous species discoveries and extinctions
plantae kingdom - Answer-seedless plants, gymnosperms (naked seeds),
angiosperms (flowering)
animalia kingdom - Answer-invertebrates, vertebrates, monotremes (egg laying
mammals), birds, amphibians, reptiles, chiroptera (bats), lgomorpha (hares), even
toed ungulates, odd toed ungulates, carnivores, primates
alpha diversity - Answer-diversity within an ecosystem
species richness - Answer-number of species
species evenness - Answer-proportions of individuals or biomass among the species
present
beta diversity - Answer-rate of change of species composition between 2 or more
ecosystems
gamma diversity - Answer-species richness for a large geographic region
encompassing multiple types of ecosystems
