Biodiversity Definitions
Measures the number of different species in an ecosystem.
Species richness
Non-living physical and chemical factors
Abiotic
Breeding prioritises fewer offspring, larger lize, late maturity.
K selection species
Australia's head of state
King Charles
Name the founding farm of Mackay
Greenmount
Write the Lincoln Index formula
N=M*n/m
Exponential, infinite growth with unlimited resources
J Curve
List 4 kingdoms in the Linnean Classification System
Animal, plant, fungi, protist, archea, eubacteria
This person's assassination started WW1
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Name the river Mackay is built on
Pioneer
How common or equally distributed a species is relative to its ecoysytem
Species Evenness
Name 3 limitations of the biological species concept model
- asexual organisms
- interspecific hybrids
- Breedable isolated populations
Fossils
A gridded square that allows analysis of biodiversity within for %
Quadrats
Name a country from the fertile cresent
Egypt, Israel, Iraq, Iran
Coral Sea
Write the Simpson's Diversity Index
SDI = [Sum of n(n-1)]/N(N-1)
Living organisms that affect ecosystems
Biotic
Reproduction that prioritises quantity and low parental investment
r selection species
Name the supercontinent Australia was a part of, after Pangea.
Gondwanaland
Is Mackay north or south of the Tropic of Capricorn
North
List the 8 Linnean Classification system
Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
Define: Biological Species Concept
Interbreed to produce fertile/viable offspring
In the Lincoln Index what does 'm' equal
Marked individuals in second sampling
Who wrote 'The Communist Manifesto' and 'Das Kapital'
Karl Marx
What fraction of Australia's sugar does Mackay produce
~1/3