Wild Life Ecology Week 2 Assignment Answers

1. Hierarchy emerges almost inevitably through a wide variety of evolutionary processes, for thesimple reason that hierarchical structures are……….

  • perfect
  • imperfect
  • stable
  • unstable
Answer : c

2. The hierarchical system was given by

  • Simon
  • Watson
  • Hutchinson
  • Humboldt
Answer : a

3. The emergent principle can be stated as

  • Whole = sum of parts
  • Whole < sum of parts
  • Whole > sum of parts
  • None of these
Answer : c

4. “the diversity that exists within an ecosystem” is

  • alpha (α) biodiversity
  • beta (β) biodiversity
  • gamma (γ) biodiversity
  • delta (δ) biodiversity
Answer : a

5. The mitochondrion is a / an

  • Sub-cellular organelle
  • Cell
  • Tissue
  • Organ
Answer : a

6. For more biodiversity, the level of disturbance should be

  • less
  • intermediate
  • more
  • none of these
Answer : b

7. There is more biodiversity in areas with

  • less competition, less predation
  • less competition, more predation
  • more competition, more predation
  • more competition, less predation
Answer : c

8. “the diversity that exists among different geographies” is

  • alpha (α) biodiversity
  • beta (β) biodiversity
  • gamma (γ) biodiversity
  • delta (δ) biodiversity
Answer : c

9. The laboratory approach to Ecology uses

  • equations
  • models
  • observations
  • experiments
Answer : d

10. “groups of actually or potentially interbreeding natural populations, which are reproductively isolated from other such groups” is a definition of

  • cells
  • species
  • ecosystems
  • biomes
Answer : b