Climate (BN ch 18)
Zika (BN ch 19)
Wolves (BN ch 20)
Here & Gone (BN ch 21)
Random (not all is ecology)
100
Which of the following is an abiotic component of the
Biosphere?
algae
water
lichen
insects
What is water?
100
How is the Zika virus spread?
What are those blood sucking monsters the Mosquitoes?
100
Remoras hitch a ride on sharks to travel without having to expel energy and they feed off the shark's leftovers. What type of species interaction exists between remoras and sharks?
What is commensalism?
100
What is this & what does it show
What is the energy pyramid that shows how energy decreases as it moves from one trophic level to the next in an ecosystem.
100
What is the whale's oldest cousin (this was mentioned in Bio Now)?
What are INDOHYUS!!!
https://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/G204/lectures/204whales.html - GEOL 204 Dinosaurs, Early Humans, Ancestors & Evolution:
The Fossil Record of Vanished Worlds of the Prehistoric Past - Spring Semester 2023
Drawing Out Leviathan: The Origins of Whales
200
If Greenland’s ice sheet melted, how high would sea levels rise?
What is 23' ?
200
A population is.....
What is a group of individuals in a single species located with a particular area called?
200
Distinguish decomposers from detritivores.
Why do decomposers break dead things down with chemicals and detritivores eat dead things.
200
Define an ecosystem and explain how it differs from an ecological community.
What is an ecosystem that all the living things and the nonliving things in an area working together.
What is an ecological community that comprises just all the living things in that area.
200
Are dinosaurs extinct?
What are BIRDS!!! (I raise tiny dinos)
300
Are any of the following not a greenhouse gas?
water vapor
methane
carbon dioxide
These are all greenhouse gases.
Are all of them greenhouse gases?
300
What are the symptoms of Zika?
What are fever, rash, headache, joint and muscle pains, red eyes, tiredness or nothing?
300
How has the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone affected the entire ecosystem?
Why have the elk been controlled and the ecosystem is now in balance?
300
When was the first Secchi disk created and how does it work?
When was 1965? How does the depth and cloudiness affect visability?
300
What stage of mitosis is this, and what's happening?
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What is Anaphase?
What is the stage of mitosis or meiosis in which sister chromatids separate and move to opposite poles of the cell, driven by spindle fibers and microtubule shortening?
400
Plants help move water through the ___________ by absorbing water through their roots and releasing it into the atmosphere through transpiration.
What role do plants play in the hydrological cycle?
400
What is carrying capacity?
What is the maximum number of individuals in population that can be supported by the environment.
400
Low-abundance species that has a large effect on the composition of an ecological community, especially when removed from that community, is called a
(a) predator.
(b) herbivore.
(o) keystone species.
(d) dominant species.
What is a keystone species?
400
How is phytoplankton biomass measured?
How is it measured by checking how much chlorophyll is in the water, since chlorophyll shows how many phytoplankton are present.
400
Who was the scientist with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation that we learn about in chapter one of Bio Now that worked with the infected bats.
Who is Alan Hicks?
500
Are the components of the hydrologic cycle in the correct order, beginning with precipitation.
precipitation
uptake by plants
transpiration
water percolation into soil
condensation
What is the order -
precipitation
water percolation into soil
uptake by plants
transpiration
condensation
500
What treatment plan to control mosquito populations of Florida was utilized in 2016 to 2017?
Did the Florida Department of health make a concerted effort to control mosquito populations by using insecticides and eliminating standing water?
500
What are the four major kinds of species interactions?
and what are they?
Whare are
Predation (one organism eats another)
Competition (organisms compete for resources)
Mutualism (both organisms benefit)
Parasitism (one benefits, the other is harmed)
500
Why are phytoplankton populations decreasing, and how will this change impact ocean ecosystems?
Why are Plankton are decreasing because of warmer ocean temperatures, pollution, and changes in nutrients in the water.
This affects ocean ecosystems because plankton are the base of the food web, so fewer plankton means less food for fish, whales, and other marine animals, which can cause the whole ecosystem to shrink or become unbalanced.
500
What does Ms Tia never want us to do?
What is smoking?