Biology - Environmental change

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  • Created on: 05-11-12 16:27
Is 'A change in the occurance of infectious diseases' a living or non-living factor?
Living factor
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Is 'A change in the number of predators' a living or non-living factor?
Living factor
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Is 'A change in the number of prey/availability of food sources' a living or non-living factor?
Living factor
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Is 'A change in the number/type of competitors' a living or non-living factor?
Living factor
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Is 'A change in average temperature' a living or non-living factor?
Non-living factor
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Is 'A change in average rainfall' a living or non-living factor?
Non-living factor
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Is 'A change in the level of air/water pollution' a living or non-living factor?
Non-living factor
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Give a example of population size increasing from environmental change...
Prey increases=more food for predator=more predators survive + reproduce=increase in population
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Give a example of population size decreasing from environmental change...
Less prey available, more disease, pesticides
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What does change of distribution mean?
A change im where a organism lives.
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Give a example of population distribution change from environmental change...
Number of birds may change due to temperature change.
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Is it living indicator or non-living indicators. Some organisms are sensitive to change in the environment so can be studied to see the effect of human activity...
Living indicator
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What organism can be used to check how clean the air is?
Lichen.Lichens like clean air.
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What organism can be used to check for polluted water?
Mayfly larvae. Mayfly larvae like clean water.
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What organisms can be used to check for pollution?
rat-tailed maggots and sludgeworms indicate high level of water pollution.
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Is it living indicator or non-living indicators. They use satellites to measure temperature of the sea surface and the amount of snow and ice cover.
Non-living indicator
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Is it living indicator or non-living indicators. Automatic weather stations tell us the atmospheric temperature.
Non-living indicator
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Is it living indicator or non-living indicators. They measure rainfall using rain gauges.
Non-living indicator
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Is it living indicator or non-living indicators. They use dissolved oxygen meters (concentration of dissolved oxygen) to discover the level of water pollution.
Non-living indicator
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