Hierarchy of Life Review
If there are more levels below it, why is cell called the smallest hierarchy level of life?
Because living things are composed of cells to function
Name 3 important things to remember in drawing a food web diagram
Food web isn't linear like food chain, must be branching, direction of arrows must go to the direction of energy transfer, include producers, consumers, and decomposers, etc
Amazon Rainforest protection efforts focus on preserving species richness. What concept is being protected?
Biodiversity
Sumatran tiger population decline puts the species at high risk. What is its status?
Endangered
What's the difference between ecosystem and ecology?
Ecosystem is the interconnected system of organisms affecting each other, ecology is the study of it
What is the main difference between a population and a community?
Population includes only one species, community includes multiple species
Keystone species: Create an example showing how one species can strongly affect an entire ecosystem
(Student name their example)
In Madagascar, forests are divided into small patches due to agriculture, isolating lemur populations. What phenomenon is this?
Habitat fragmentation
Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre (Malaysia) protects and rehabilitates a specific species. What type of place is this?
Wildlife sanctuary
Virus sample on a rock is an example of which hierarchy of life level?
None, its fully abiotic since virus isn't a living thing
Why is an ecosystem considered a system?
Because its components interact and interdependent of each other
Carrying Capacity:
Create a situation where a population exceeds its environment’s limit.
(Students name their example)
Loess Plateau restoration (China) transformed degraded land into green ecosystems. What process is this?
Ecosystem restoration
Give example of how our SOI can be applied to other subjects?
(Students give their example)
Name an example of known biosphere other than Earth
Trick question, there's no proven life other than on Earth
Choose one cryptid or extinct species. What role would it most likely have in a food web?
(Students name their example)
In Yellowstone after wolf return, river paths and vegetation changed due to changes in food web. Is this food web stability or keystone species?
Keystone species
Is Jurassic Park/World an example of in situ or ex situ conservation?
Ex situ, since the dinosaurs' original ecosystem has gone despite still located in a natural island
An entire group of kuntilanak, not pocong, are observed in a field. Which hierarchy of life level is this?
Trick questions, they are not alive
(Students name their food chain)
In Norway’s salmon farming, fish are raised in controlled environments before being used for food supply. What method of animal use is this?
Monoculture farming
Earth is a zoo for mankind, built by unknown cosmic power. Do you agree? Name the examples to support their argument
(Students present their argument)
Which three ecosystem behaviors or roles displayed in the Dark Forest Theory of the universe?
Predator-prey, consumers, apex predators, etc (students present their argument)