General Ecology -- Test 6

Instructions:

  1. You may use your notes but not the text book.
  2. Take out a blank piece of paper.
  3. Write your full name.
  4. Write your student/810 id number.
  5. Write today's date.

  6. QUESTION 1. Would the following example be considered a case of intraspecific competition?
    The competition between a lion and a cheetah for a specific resource, such as buffalo meat.
    A. True
    B. False

    QUESTION 2. Which one of the following is not an idealized type that a survivorship curve falls into?
    A. When individuals live out their life span, survival rate is high throughout the life span followed by heavy mortality at the end.
    B. If survival rates do not vary with age, survivorship curve will be straight.
    C. If mortality rates are high in early life---the curve is concave.
    D. If survival rates do not vary with age, survivorship curve will be convex.

  7. Sign the bottom of the page.