community ecology unit 1

What are the 3 approaches to ecology?

Descriptive

Functional

Evolutionary

How does levels of integration correlate to scientific understanding?

Decreases as integration (organization level) gets larger

Why does larger integration level ____ scientific understanding.

decrease; because at larger scales cannot control experiments to determine understanding

What are methods to approach in ecology?

Theoritcal

Laboratory

Field

Where does the scientific method start?

Natural observations

Is the result (evidence gained) from scientific method netural?

No it is opinioniated conclusions

What is induction vs. deduction?

• induction: general to specific

• deduction: specific to general

What are two key componets that effect scientific method?

Time and space

WHat are methods to siccessful learning?

• learning to misunderstand

• review

• mix up practice

• embrace difficulties

• avoid illusion of knowing

What are types of memories in learning?

• long term memory which is dynamic and evolving, retrieval and recreation

• shrt-term memory which is limited capacity

• working memory which draws from short and long, not stored permentaly

What does the 10^ power film represent? What point should you stop it?

Shows perspective based on spatial amount, helps demonstrate how we can never solve a problem unless we have framing. Stop it at your scale (how far)

Ecology is a ___.

science

What is physiological ecology?

study of internal changes in relation to their enviroment that effects survival and reproduction. physicological characteristics.

Descriptive is the ___ of ecology, Functional is the ___ of ecology, Evolutionary is the ___ of ecology.

what, how, why