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Describe the characteristics
of animals that differentiate them from the other kingdoms of organisms.
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List the characteristics of
sponges.
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Understand why the advent of
bilateral symmetry is important.
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Describe the characteristics
and list some examples of flatworms.
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Explain the advantages of
having an internal body cavity.
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Describe the characteristics
and list some examples of roundworms.
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Describe the characteristics
and list some examples of mollusks.
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Describe the characteristics
and list some examples of annelids.
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Describe the characteristics
and list some examples of arthropods.
á Describe the characteristics and list some examples of echinoderms.
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Define ecology.
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Define the term Òpopulation.Ó
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Understand population size,
density, and the 3 patterns of dispersion.
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Understand exponential growth
and logistic growth.
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Understand how nearing the
carrying capacity of the habitat means increased density-dependent effects for
the population.
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Contrast r-selected
population with K-selected populations.
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Know the various demographics
you might determine for a population.
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List density-dependent and
density-independent factors that influence population density.
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Describe the three different
survivorship curves and give suitable examples of each.
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Describe the various
trade-offs in the life history of a population.
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Define Òcommunity.Ó
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Describe Òniche.Ó
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Understand how competition
can change an organism's fundamental niche to a realized niche.
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Explain what occurs during
competitive exclusion and resource partitioning.
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Give examples of
coevolutionary relationships in communities.
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Discuss the three types of
symbiotic relationships that have coevolved over time and give examples.
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List plant defenses against
herbivores.
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Describe animal defenses
against predators.
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Explain how populations of
predators cycle with those of their prey.
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Discuss the different types
of mimicry.
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Describe the process of
succession (both primary and secondary), and know what determines the nature of
the climax community.
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Describe the components of an
ecosystem.
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Know the trophic levels.
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Discuss the elements of a
food chain.
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Explain the relationship
between net primary productivity and biomass in an ecosystem.
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Describe how the different
type of pyramids can describe trophic efficiency.
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Know the 2 most productive
ecosystems and why each is so productive.
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Understand why food chains
and webs can rarely have more than four trophic levels.
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Describe how water cycles
through an ecosystem.
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Explain briefly how carbon is
cycled through an ecosystem.
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List the main features of the
nitrogen cycle.
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Know the features of the
phosphorus cycle listed in the lecture notes.
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Discuss how changes in the
phosphorus cycle have caused eutrophication of waterways.
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Describe how climate affects
the global distribution of ecosystems
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Know the difference between
weather and climate.
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Know why the EarthÕs surface
is unevenly heated.
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Explain how the uneven
heating of the EarthÕs surface determines ecosystem locations.
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Explain how elevation and
latitude mirror each other.
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Explain the effect of nearby
bodies of water on the nearby land.
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Explain the rainshadow
effect.
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Discuss the unique features
of the ocean's ecosystems.
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Be able to label these
images:
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http://www.zo.utexas.edu/faculty/sjasper/images/50.22.gif
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Fig 37.23 from your textbook
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Explain what leads to thermal
stratification in temperate lakes and what the result of that can be.
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Understand productivity
categories of lakes
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What are biomes and what
characterizes them.
á Describe the major characteristics listed in the lecture notes of the world's seven dominant land biomes: tropical rain forests, savannas, deserts, temperate grasslands, temperate deciduous forests, taiga or coniferous forests, temperate evergreen forests, chaparral, and tundra and polar ice.
DonÕt need to know tropical upland forests, semedesert or Texas ecoregions.
