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What is Ecology?

The study of the relationship between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment

How are sustainability and biodiveristy related?

For sustainability to presist, we need biodiveristy to be maintained.

What risk levels go before (less severe) and after (more severe) "threatened"?

1. Special Concern 2. Endangered

What is one activity that negatively impacts ecosystem sustainability?

E.g. overfishing reduces population of fish so drastically that many fish are not able to reproduce quickly enough to sustain its' population

Name three abiotic limiting factors

Amount of sunlight/water/soil, natural disturbances, human interferences

Describe the human niche.

Humans have a very board niche due to our intellectual and technological advancements. We are able to build, control, and expand in many different ecosystems!

What may happen to species if they overshoot their carrying capacity?

Extinction

When a species' population is declining below a certain level, they are classified as...

Species at Risk

Name one cascade that the re-introduction of wolves lead to in Yellowstone National Park.

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Name another cascade that the re-introduction of wolves led to in Yellowstone National Park.

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Describe top-down regulation.

A process where the abundance of organisms in higher trophic levels affect the abundance of organisms in lower trophic levels.

What is the term for any species that has been brought into and lives in an ecosystem where it was not found naturally?

Introduced Species

Name two types of human activities that cause habitat loss/change.

Deforestation, Agriculture, Urbanization, Trawling

Explain how climate change affects turtle population sustainability.

Rising temperatures cause more female turtles to be born and lower reproduction rates.

What is pollution?

Any substance that is added to the environment that produces a condition that is harmful to organisms.

How do invasive species negatively impact natural environments?

They outcompete naties species, likely because they have no natural controls in the new ecosystem.