Ecology Review November 3, 2014

Population Growth Identify the following types of growth as logistic or exponential. a. b. c.

Population Growth For the logistic growth graphs estimate the carrying capacity.

Energy Flow Assume the plant has 1000 energy units available. How much energy does the rabbit get from the plant? How much energy does the lynx get from the plant?

Energy Flow Identify each consumer as a herbivore, omnivore, or carnivore. What role do the decomposers play?

Succession Identify what type of succession is this and why.

Succession Identify what type of succession is this and why.

Symbiosis Identify each of the following relationships as either mutualism, commensalism, or parasitism.

Symbiosis Yucca flowers are pollinated by yucca moths. The moths lay their eggs in the flowers where the larvae hatch and eat developing seeds.

Symbiosis Mistletoe extracts water and nutrients from a spruce tree.

Symbiosis Barnacles create home sites by attaching themselves to whales. This relationship neither harms nor benefits the whale.

Symbiosis A flea feed on a mouse's blood.

Symbiosis Orchids grow inside another plant. The orchid obtains water and nutrients from the other plant, but does not harm it.