Ecology Answers

Questions 6-10 relate to the Digging the Fossil Record on the Smithsonian website. Each complete and correctly answered question is worth 2 points.

6. Where is your virtual dinosaur dig happening? Describe the conditions at the dig site.

7. Look at the pictures. What are the different tools used at a dig site and what are their uses?

8. What kind of animal did you uncover in your dinosaur dig?

9. How are fossils protected for transport?

10. After the dig, give the following information: When did it live and where was this specimen found?

Heres the Smithsonian website: http://nmnh.typepad.com/smithsonian_fossils/2016/10/from-the-field-dinosaur-dig.html

What do the age-sex distribution diagrams convey?

differentiate between internal budget and external budget

Diagrammatic representation of ecotone.

Clear and labelled diagram of Resource partitioning of soil by desert plants.

Describe the qualitative and quantitative characters used for the study of a community.

How might a measure of population density be more useful than a simple population estimate? If I told u that there were 50 oak trees is that a large number or a small number of oak trees?
Explain

In Ulothrix, reduction division takes place at the time of
germination of zygote
formation of spores
formation of gametes
formation of zoospores

Structural features in terrestrial plants that affect the rate of transpiration