WMAN 200 EXAM 1 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS
\Q\.What is restoration ecology? - ANSWER-✔This process involves management practices that
jumpstarts the recovery of an ecosystem with respect to its health, integrity, and sustainability.
\Q\.Name 3 natural and 3 human disturbances to ecosystems - ANSWER-✔Natural: floods,
hurricanes, and/or wildfires.
Human: buldings, roadways, and timber harvesting.
\Q\.What may also be required for restoration of severely damaged ecosystems? - ANSWER-
✔Removal of invasive species and/or reintroduction of native species.
\Q\.How did Gifford Pinchot initiate the forestry profession in the United States? - ANSWER-
✔No forestry classes were offered at any university within the United States so he took his
education to Nancy, France. He then started applying what he learned overseas to his new job
over in the US, then began to associate with the National Forest Commission.
\Q\.What makes a habitat?
a population?
a community? - ANSWER-✔Habitat: is the place where a particular species lives and grows. A
habitat includes both abiotic and biotic conditions that influence a species population.
A population is a group of organisms of a given species living in a given geographic area.
, A community includes the group of plant or animal species which cohabit within a given
geographic area. Members of a community can interact with each other in a variety of ways.
\Q\.Mutualism - - ANSWER-✔an interaction between two species that is beneficial to both.
\Q\.Predation - - ANSWER-✔an interaction between two species that is beneficial to one but
results in death for the other individual.
\Q\.Parasitism - - ANSWER-✔an interaction between two species that is beneficial to the
parasite but generally does not result in death for the other species.
\Q\.Biomass - - ANSWER-✔is the total living matter in a given place. The amount of biomass can
be compared between steps on a food web and between ecosystems.
\Q\.Flagship species - ANSWER-✔is a species chosen by society to represent a particular
environmental cause, such as the conservation of a particular ecosystem (e.g. old growth
forest).
\Q\.The number of organisms that can be supported by an ecosystem is called - ANSWER-
✔Carrying Capacity
\Q\.Name 3 nutrients that are essential for plant growth and can be extracted from both the
atmosphere and water: - ANSWER-✔Oxygen, Carbon, & Hydrogren
\Q\.Two main types of intraspecific relations - ANSWER-✔Cooperation, competition
\Q\.Species that serve as surrogates for the condition of environment are called: - ANSWER-
✔Indicator species
QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS
\Q\.What is restoration ecology? - ANSWER-✔This process involves management practices that
jumpstarts the recovery of an ecosystem with respect to its health, integrity, and sustainability.
\Q\.Name 3 natural and 3 human disturbances to ecosystems - ANSWER-✔Natural: floods,
hurricanes, and/or wildfires.
Human: buldings, roadways, and timber harvesting.
\Q\.What may also be required for restoration of severely damaged ecosystems? - ANSWER-
✔Removal of invasive species and/or reintroduction of native species.
\Q\.How did Gifford Pinchot initiate the forestry profession in the United States? - ANSWER-
✔No forestry classes were offered at any university within the United States so he took his
education to Nancy, France. He then started applying what he learned overseas to his new job
over in the US, then began to associate with the National Forest Commission.
\Q\.What makes a habitat?
a population?
a community? - ANSWER-✔Habitat: is the place where a particular species lives and grows. A
habitat includes both abiotic and biotic conditions that influence a species population.
A population is a group of organisms of a given species living in a given geographic area.
, A community includes the group of plant or animal species which cohabit within a given
geographic area. Members of a community can interact with each other in a variety of ways.
\Q\.Mutualism - - ANSWER-✔an interaction between two species that is beneficial to both.
\Q\.Predation - - ANSWER-✔an interaction between two species that is beneficial to one but
results in death for the other individual.
\Q\.Parasitism - - ANSWER-✔an interaction between two species that is beneficial to the
parasite but generally does not result in death for the other species.
\Q\.Biomass - - ANSWER-✔is the total living matter in a given place. The amount of biomass can
be compared between steps on a food web and between ecosystems.
\Q\.Flagship species - ANSWER-✔is a species chosen by society to represent a particular
environmental cause, such as the conservation of a particular ecosystem (e.g. old growth
forest).
\Q\.The number of organisms that can be supported by an ecosystem is called - ANSWER-
✔Carrying Capacity
\Q\.Name 3 nutrients that are essential for plant growth and can be extracted from both the
atmosphere and water: - ANSWER-✔Oxygen, Carbon, & Hydrogren
\Q\.Two main types of intraspecific relations - ANSWER-✔Cooperation, competition
\Q\.Species that serve as surrogates for the condition of environment are called: - ANSWER-
✔Indicator species
