WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES OF DEVELOPMENT IN THE ARCTIC TUNDRA?

1.WHAT IS AN EPIPHYTE?

2.  WHAT ADVANTAGES DO EPIPHYTES HAVE IN A TROPICAL RAIN FOREST HABITAT?

3.  WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES OF RAIN FOREST DESTRUCTION TO HUMANS.  PLEASE EXPLAIN YOUR REASONING.

4.  WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES OF DEVELOPMENT IN THE ARCTIC TUNDRA?

 

2.For this assignment you will write a three to four-page (between 1000 and 1400 words) Position Paper identifying an important problem or issue in your field and proposing a specific solution to address this problem or issue. In order for your Position Paper to be successful, both your problem and solution should be as specific as possible, and your paper should be written with a specific audience in mind. You may want to imagine that you are trying to convince a particular audience to adopt a new technique or tool, approach, or method. You must include a clear process description and at least one figure or table in your Position Paper.

3.Examine slide #5.  List 5 DIFFERENT reasons, one each from society, culture, economics, biology, and politics, why a human female never reaches the biotic potential calculated for her in the example in the slide.  Please explain EXACTLY how each reason you listed affects her biotic potential.

2. In slide #10, the age structure for the US was a pyramid indicating that our population is still growing.  Give one reason why our growth is slowing and one reason why we are still have a pyramid age structure.

3. Explain why organisms like trees and sea turtles have a Type III survivorship curve while most mammals have a Type 1 survivorship curve.

4.  Give 4 reasons why humans might have either a Type I or Type III survivorship

curve.

5.  Examine slides #22 and 23.  For each distribution pattern in slide #23, list the factors from slide #22 that would account for that pattern (example 1a, 2b, 3a) for each of the three patterns

6.  What might account for a developed nation having a pyramid age structure?