#Question id: 10652
#Section 1: Ecology
Which factors (limited space or overcrowding; limited food; Predators; parasite and diseased) tend to act in a density-dependent manner; Tony Sinclair (1989) many studies of density dependence in 51 populations of insects, 82 populations of large mammals, and 36 populations of small mammals and birds. Which of the following observation is most likely true?
a) Insects showed a wide variety of causes of density dependence and no one density-dependent factor was of overriding importance
b) The lesser the amount of available food, the greater the mortality of large mammals
c) Space and social interactions were more important for smaller mammals and birds, because they are more territorial
#Question id: 3484
#Section 2: Evolution
Modern behavioral concepts relate the cost of a behavior to its benefit. Under which relationship might a behavior be performed?
A) cost is greater than the benefit
B) cost is less than the benefit
C) cost is equal to the benefit
#Question id: 4612
#Section 2: Evolution
The greatest number of endemic species is expected in environments that are ________.
#Question id: 4593
#Section 2: Evolution
Which of Darwin's ideas had the strongest connection to his reading of Malthus's essay on human population growth?
#Question id: 9162
#Section 2: Evolution
If the direction of Earth's rotation reversed, the most predictable effect would be ________.