The Nature of Ecology
What tool allows Ecologists to make predictions about how nature works using a set of explicit assumptions?
A model
Systematic patterns of water movement are known as?
Currents
What is completely absent in the profundal zone?
Light
This biome type is defined solely based on the lack of precipitation and can be found in either hot or cold regions globally.
What is a common strategy/behavior that animals along sand shores do?
Burrowing
Name one of the Universities that I received my PhD from.
University of Rome or University of Gran Canaria
In the Northern Hemisphere objects in motion will have a clockwise veering while in the Southern Hemisphere they will have a counter-clockwise veering due to the spin of the earth. What is this effect called?
Coriolis
The most important feature driving adaptive differences among aquatic ecosystems is?
salinity
The greatest diversity of plant and animal life occurs in _______.
Tropical rainforests
Mangrove forests are found primarily in the ______?
Tropics
Because Ecology draws from various fields of science such as geology, hydrology, and meteorology it is considered a __________ science.
Interdisciplinary
Precipitation tends to be greater on the windward slope of a mountain range than the leeward slope, resulting in ________effect
rain-shadow
The dominant autotrophs of open water ecosystems are
_________ _________ _________ is a basic measure of soil quality and increases with higher clay and organic matter content
Cation Exchange Capacity
This zonation is driven by how frequently and how long water covers sediments/soils.
Horizontal zonation
What are the 6 hierarchal categories of Ecology in order starting from the smallest unit.
Individual, Population, Community, Ecosystem, Biome, Biosphere
Forests absorb more solar radiation and thus have a lower ______ compared to grasslands or tundra.
Albedo
A stream is an example of which type of system?
Lotic
The smallest particle occurring in soil and that have high water retention are called what?
What kind of marsh habitat are found mostly in temperate latitudes?
Salt marshes
Who is famous for their biological illustrations and stating that "all models are bad models, but some are useful."
Ernst Haeckel
3 cycles of long-term climatic variations known as eccentricity, obliquity, and precession are referred to as what?
Milankovitch cycles
When lakes are stratified the upper layer of warm low density water is called the ________.
Epilimnion
Grassland ecosystems are characterized by a thin top-layer (horizon A) of litter (raw organic matter) and a thick layer in horizon B of ________ (decaying organic matter).
Humus
Compared to a hermit crab being an example of epifauna what is an oligochaete an example of?
Infauna