Mid-term exam
• Date: Content: Chapters 1,3,4,5,6 (lecture notes 1,2,3,4,5)
• 4 parts:
- Multiple choice: 20 questions (40 points)
- True/false: 10 questions (20 points) + correction
- Matching: 10 questions (20 points)
- Writing: 2 questions (20 points)
Closed-book, offline examination
ONLY ONE A4- size, double-sided, hand-written note is allowed to bring
Environmental limit Exponential
resistance Tragedy of common Unsustainable Interspecific competition Native species
growth, J/S-shape Ecological footprint resource use Predation Non-native species
Poverty Prey-predator
Carrying capacity Indicator species
Population size Parasitism
Adaptation Pollution Keystone species
Environmental Mutualism
Affluence per person (Adaptive traits) Degradation Commensalism Endemic species
Impact
Technology Natural selection Generalist species
Genetic diversity Specialist species
Speciation Reproductive capacity Species diversity
Costs and Prices
Evolution Ecosystem diversity
Birth rates Coevolution Functional diversity
Biological extinction
Total fertility rate Local extinction Consumers (Primary, Interaction, Niche
Death rates Background extinction Secondary, Tertiary) Food chain, Food web
Infant mortality Mass extinction Components of the ecosystem
Decomposers
Immigration (from Atom to Biospheres)
Producers
Emigration e at
decrease in H
Demographic Biodiversity provides
species diversity 03 principles of sustainability
transition natural/ecological
Age structure services
Life depends on Chemical/nutrient cycling means Natural capital
solar energy Natural resources
that there is little waste in nature
Different among Primary ecological succession Water cycle Nitrogen cycle Gross Primary Productivity,
countries Secondary ecological succession Carbon cycle Phosphorus cycle Net Primary Productivity
Persistence Sulfur cycle
Resilience
