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In contrast to bioremediation, which is a strategy for ___, biological augmentation ____ a degraded ecosystem.

How can biodiversity affect the way we decontaminate industrial sites? I) Bacteria have been found to be able to detoxify certain chemicals; perhaps there are more. II) Trees produce sawdust, which can be used to soak up chemicals. III) Species evolving in contaminated areas could adapt and detoxify the area.

The first step in ecosystem restoration is to _____.

The goal of restoration ecology is to _____.

The discipline that applies ecological principles to returning degraded ecosystems to a more natural state is known as _____.

Which of the following would be considered an example of bioremediation?

The number of habitat types ___ when ecosystem diversity increases.

Low genetic diversity within a species ___ the likelihood that the species may go extinct.

A human activity such as draining a wetland ___ ecosystem diversity.

Extinction ___ species diversity

High genetic diversity within a species ___ the likelihood that the species can adapt to new environmental conditions.

Examples of habitat loss and fragmentation

Examples of exotic species

Examples of overexploitation

Most biodiversity hot spots are in the _____

_____ is the increase in pesticide concentration as the pesticides pass up a food chain

What kind of learning is thought to form the origin of culture?

When Drosophila were exposed to a particular odor and electric shock at the same time, they started to avoid the odor. This is an example of __________.

Pheromones are examples of __________

What signals might be best employed by a nocturnal forest animal seeking to identify its territory?

Pheasants do not feed their chicks. Immediately after hatching, a pheasant chick starts pecking at seeds and insects on the ground. How might a behavioral ecologist explain the ultimate cause of this behavior?

Ants carry dead ants out of an anthill and dump them on a "trash" pile. If a chemical from a dead ant is applied to a live ant, other ants will carry it, kicking and struggling, from the anthill, until the substance wears off. Which of the following explains this behavior?

Which of the following is a fixed action pattern?

Watching squirrels in the park, you start to wonder why they act so oddly. One squirrel bit the tail of another. Which of the following is a question about the proximate cause of this behavior?

Which of the following is an example of a circannual rhythm?

Honeybees have a remarkable way of transferring information about the location of a food source to other members of the hive. The worker bees conveying this information use __________ communication to relay this information.

Graylag geese learn to follow their mothers. This is an example of __________.

An aquaculture facility hatched salmon eggs and released young fish into a river leading to the ocean. The fish fed and grew in the ocean, and in a few years they returned to the facility. Because the number of returning fish was low, a scientist suggested adding a chemical to the river that would __________.

A blackcap warbler from a captive migratory population is mated with another blackcap warbler from a captive nonmigratory population. The lab-reared offspring exhibit a modest amount of migratory restlessness. This behavior, which is intermediate between that of the two parents, could be interpreted as evidence for which of the following statements?

In __________, an animal learns to associate one of its behaviors with reward or punishment.

Which process is not a natural threat to biodiversity?

How does the rate of species extinctions now compare with those evidenced in the fossil record?

Which process results in habitat destruction?

True or false? Biologists studied the effects of forest fragmentation by calculating the difference between the amount of plant biomass in the edges of forest fragments and the interiors of unfragmented forest.

Which of the following statements about the effects of forest fragmentation on plant biomass and species diversity is true?

Which of these would NOT contribute to a global increase in temperature?

Switching from fossil fuels to _____ energy would significantly decrease the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

One of the most severe consequences of habitat degradation is the _____ of a population.

A sink habitat is where a subpopulation's death rate is _____.

Fertilizer runoff can result in _____ a lake.

What environmental problem is being addressed by the use of bio swales, large vegetated ditches or depressions, on the campus of Georgia Southern University?

If a local population of a species goes extinct, which of the following outcomes is/are possible?

Suppose your friend says to you, "It doesn't matter so much anymore if species go extinct, as long as we figure out the genome of each species before it goes extinct." Which of the following statements correctly explain why species conservation still matters?

Biological magnification means that _____.

What are the effects of fertilizer input into lakes?

The ultimate source of energy that drives wind power is __________.

Electricity in a wind turbine is generated __________.

Producing electricity using wind instead of fossil fuels __________.

The single greatest current threat to biodiversity is _____.

What is the biological significance of genetic diversity between populations?

Which of the following strategies would most rapidly increase the genetic diversity of a population in an extinction vortex?

The main purpose of wildlife (movement) corridors is to _____.

Locating new nature preserves in biodiversity hot spots may not necessarily the best choice because _____.

Movement (wildlife) corridors can be harmful to certain species because they _____.

Brown-headed cowbirds utilize fragmented forests effectively by _____.

Fundamental niche

Realized niche

directional selection

disruptive selection

stabilizing selection

In an open and grassy pine savannah, fires _____.

Which of the following statements is consistent with the principle of competitive exclusion?

Which of the following is an example of cryptic coloration?

Which of the following is an example of Batesian mimicry?

Which of the following is an example of aposematic coloration?

Resource partitioning would be most likely to occur between _____.

Keystone predators can maintain species diversity in a community if they _____.

What is the main advantage of controlled burnings of forested areas? Controlled burnings _____.

Why do moderate levels of disturbance result in an increase in community diversity?

Based on the intermediate disturbance hypothesis, a community's species diversity is increased by _____.

In terms of community ecology, why are pathogens often more virulent now than in the past?

Which of the following studies would shed light on the mechanism of spread of H5N1 virus from Asia?

Which of the following is a behavioral pattern that results from a proximate cause?

Which scientist formulated four questions that motivate the modern study of animal behavior?

In the territorial behavior of the stickleback fish, the red belly of one male elicits attack from another male by functioning as

The evolution of mating systems is most likely affected by

You discover a rare new bird species, but you are unable to observe its mating behavior. You see that the male is large and ornamental compared with the female. On this basis, you can probably conclude that the species is

Which of the following statements about evolution of behavior is correc

Feeding behavior with a high energy intake-to-expenditure ratio is called

In the evolution of whelk-eating behavior in crows, which of the following did natural selection minimize?

The presence of altruistic behavior is most likely due to kin selection, a theory maintaining that

The central concept of sociobiology is that

Female spotted sandpipers aggressively court males and, after mating, leave the clutch of young for the male to incubate. This sequence may be repeated several times with different males until no available males remain, forcing the female to incubate her last clutch. Which of the following terms best describes this behavior?

Which term describes the behavior exhibited by a moth attracted to light?

The use of echoes to orient movement is

If the U.S. Navy could stop the use of what is considered most harmful to sea creatures, which of the following would be eliminated?