Exam 8: Patterns of Life: Biogeography

The degree of competition among organisms depends on how similar their niches are.

A tertiary consumer receives about __________ percent of the available energy when it consumes a secondary consumer.

Intra-range dispersal is usually lethal.

An organism that consumes only other animals is a(n) __________.

Non-native organisms are those that have been taken outside their original geographic range by people.

-According to the graph, approximately how many square kilometers is the island of Montserrat?

__________ are the best technique to track the migration of mid-sized birds.

What group of plants has no woody tissue and reproduces with spores?

The relationship between humans and the coconut is best described as __________.

Which is not an example of a limiting factor?

Explain how non-native organisms can be economically beneficial to people.

The species-area curve states that larger areas tend to have fewer species than smaller areas.

Hawai'i has a particularly serious problem with non-native organisms because of its extreme geographic isolation.

-In this figure, what is the climax community?

The mesquite that grows in the North American desert copes with water stress mainly by __________.

Europeans brought the coconut to what ocean basin where it did not grow before?

An organism that consumes both plants and animals is a(n) _________.

In the process of photosynthesis, plants use __________ to make sugars.

__________ occurs when an organism successfully establishes outside its current geographic range on its own without the help of people.

Which would be a "push" factor that might result in species migration?