Chapter 1 Practice Quizzing

1.Physiological ecologists study the ways in which animals use behavior to deal with physical and social variation in their environment.

A)TRUE
B) FALSE

2.A_______ecologist would study the distribution of American sycamore in riparian communities in the grasslands of the American Midwest.

3.Which branch of ecology would focus on the cycling of phosphorous in temperate wetlands?

A)Community ecology
B) Ecosystem ecology

C)Population ecology
D) None of the above

4.The notion that several species of fish are able to coexist in a single stream because each species feeds on organisms living in different zones within the stream is an example of a hypothesis.

A)TRUE
B) FALSE

5.The three ways to test hypotheses are observation,_______, and modeling.