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Smedes Unit 2 Study Guide Notes

The document covers key concepts in biodiversity, including ecological tolerance zones such as optimal range, zone of physiological stress, and zone of intolerance. It discusses natural ecosystem disruptions, adaptations, ecological succession, and the roles of keystone species in ecosystems. Additionally, it highlights the importance of genetic diversity in plant populations and the effects of Earth's orbital changes on climate.

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Smedes Unit 2 Study Guide Notes

The document covers key concepts in biodiversity, including ecological tolerance zones such as optimal range, zone of physiological stress, and zone of intolerance. It discusses natural ecosystem disruptions, adaptations, ecological succession, and the roles of keystone species in ecosystems. Additionally, it highlights the importance of genetic diversity in plant populations and the effects of Earth's orbital changes on climate.

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AP Environmental Science Unit 2

Biodiversity
2.4 - Ecological Tolerance
a. Define each of the following zones:
i. Optimal range:

ii. Zone of physiological stress:

iii. Zone of intolerance:

b. Explain the ecological range of tolerance a plant species has for soil moisture:

c. Describe how high genetic diversity in the plant population above would be advantageous in the
event of a drought:

2.5 - Natural Ecosystem Disruption 2.6 - Adaptations


a. Identify an example of a periodic, episodic, a. Define adaptation:
and random event:

b. Describe one way that earth’s orbit around


the sun changes naturally over time b. Describe the selective pressure that selected
for opposable thumb arrangement in Homo
habilis:

c. Explain how variation in earth’s orbit


influence global climate:

c. Describe an adaptation in a tundra species:


d. Identify the relationship between global
atmospheric temperature and sea level:

e. Explain one cause for the relationship you


identified above:

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AP Environmental Science Unit 2
Biodiversity
2.7 - Ecological Succession
a. Describe how moss and lichen are able to colonize bare rock:

b. Describe the central process of ecological succession:

c. Describe the difference between primary and secondary succession:

d. Describe the characteristics of pioneer species and provide an example:

e. Describe the characteristics of climax community species and provide an example:

f. Define keystone species:

g. Identify an example of a top predator keystone species and an ecosystem engineer keystone
species:

h. Describe one example of how the removal of a keystone species could destabilize an ecosystem:

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