Species
This type of species generally has high parental involvement and has a sigmoidal shaped growth curve.
What is a K-selected species?
This type of hazard includes things like smoking or eating high salt or high fat foods.
What are cultural hazards?
These are the top 3 crops grown in the world.
What are corn, wheat and rice?
This large African animal has been effectively brought back from being nearly extinct in the wild to numbers around 16,000 and is thought to be a major success story.
What is the white rhino?
More than 8 billion
What is the current world population?
This type of species exhibits a j-shaped growth curve and has a fast reproduction time.
What is an r-selected species?
This group of people is especially susceptible to pesticide poisoning.
Who are agricultural workers?
These are used to kill weeds in a field.
What are herbicides?
Their role is disproportionate to their abundance in the community.
What is a keystone species?
The population number at which a population tends to hover around.
What is carrying capacity?
He traveled in the HMS Beagle around the world, stopping in the Galapagos Islands and developed the theory of evolution
Who is Charles Darwin?
This pesticide lead to Rachel Carson writing Silent Spring as it magnifies as it goes up the food chain and was resulting in widespread decline of birds.
What is DDT?
This term for a specific type of agriculture is for when a family grows most of their own food.
What is subsistence agriculture?
These areas have both high endemism and are under less threat (<30% of original habitat cover lost).
The abbreviation for these terms in population dynamics is B.I.D.E.
What are Births, Immigration, Deaths and Emigration?
This is when harmless species evolve warning coloration of a harmful species to gain protection.
What is batesian mimicry?
What we have in our body that has accumulated over time from exposure via air, water, diet and environment.
What is body burden?
During this time period, there was a major boom in agricultural productivity, led initially by Norman Borloug.
What is the Green Revolution?
This analogy is about the role of individual species for the function of the ecosystem.
What is the airplane-rivet analogy?
What are developing countries?
This insect can go from a relatively solitary organism to grouping in swarms that can wipe out crops.
What is a locust?
What type of diseases are more common in developing countries?
What are communicable diseases?
This type of plant is from specific breeding for a specific desired trait.
What is a hybrid?
This list includes the status of endangered and threatened species.
What is the IUCN Red List?
This total fertility rate would lead to stable populations (neither growing nor shrinking).
What is 2?