1. Ecology Review
November 3, 2014

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. Succession
Identify what type of succession is this and why.

7. Succession
Identify what type of succession is this and why.

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

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

10. Symbiosis
Mistletoe extracts water and nutrients from a spruce tree.

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

12. Symbiosis
A flea feed on a mouse's blood.

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