APES Test Review - Shope

• vocabulary
o species
o population
o community
o habitat
o niche
o fundamental niche
o realized niche
o native / nonnative species
o indicator species
o keystone species
o resource partitioning
o niche overlap
o interspecific competition
o predation
o symbiosis
o mutation
o commensalisms
o primary succession
o secondary succession
o allogenic
o autogenic
o pioneer species
o early succession
o mid-succession
o late succession
o climax community
o speciation
o genetic persistence
o gene pool
o coevolution
o mass extinction events

• topics
o know the Hardy-Weinberg principle
o be able to compute gene frequency
o be able to describe natural selection
o be able to explain symbiosis
o know the four major geologic eras