Exam 8: Patterns of Life: Biogeography

A __________ is adapted to limited amounts of water.

Plants that go to seed and then die each year are called annuals.

-According to the graph, approximately how many species does Hispaniola have?

Compare the process of natural selection to artificial selection.How are they the same and how are they different?

By definition, when people move an organism to a new place, that organism is non-native.People brought the coconut to Hawai'i over one thousand years ago.Because that was so long ago, do you think enough time has passed that we can consider this plant native to Hawai'i now? Explain.

Which is most likely to create primary succession?

A bat is more closely related to a whale than it is to a bird.

Seeds dispersed by the wind are called anemochores.

The yellow-eared parrot provides an example of __________.

The Hawaiian honeycreepers provide an example of __________.

An ecological niche refers to where a species lives.

In the process of photosynthesis, plants release __________ to the atmosphere.

A species that is found on every continent is called __________.

What group of plants possesses woody tissue and reproduce with spores?

The removal of a keystone species from an ecosystem can create ecological disturbance.

Scientists see most vegetation communities as climax communities that rarely change.

-In this figure, what is the third sere?

Which occurs at the smallest spatial scale?

A group of organisms that interbreed in the same geographic area is called a(n) __________.

The process of __________ creates new species.