Sampling
Populations
Species interactions
Food Webs and energy
Toss up
100
Sampling along the most accessible part of a trail in the forest would be what kind of sampling?
Convenience
100
What is the maximum population size an ecosystem can support?
Carrying capacity
100
What is the difference between a population and a community?
Population is only 1 species
100
Give an example of a closed system
Terrarium
100
What happens to the rest of the energy that is not transferred from trophic level to trophic level?
It gets lost as heat.
200
Sampling 5 random apples of each variety of apple grown in an orchard is what kind of sampling?
Stratified
200
What is an example of a population that grows exponentially?
Humans or invasive species
200
In "The Twelve Days of Christmas", what did my true love send to me on the fifth day?
5 golden rings
200
What is the common name for coagulated soy milk curd pressed into blocks?
Tofu
200
Grass → Mouse → Snake → Owl
Identify the tertiary consumer.
Owl
300
The US has shoreline along which oceans?
Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic
300
Give an example of a density dependent limiting factor.
Disease, parasites, competition, predator-prey, overcrowding
300
What is the difference between non-native and invasive species?
Harmful or not
300
What organisms would experience a population decline with the loss of the rabbit?
Fox and Hawk
300
On a medical diploma, what does D.D.S. stand for?
Doctor of dental surgery
400
When a grid is used to divide up a sampling area, what are each of the squares called?
Quadrat
400
What is both a type of bed and a layer of the rainforest?
Canopy
400
Acacia ants receive shelter from acacia trees and in exchange they defend the trees from herbivory. What is this an example of?
Mutualism
400
What are the 2 kinds of autotrophs?
Photo and chemo
400
What do we call movement of carbon between carbon sinks?
Carbon flux
500
What method is used to estimate population size for organisms that can move?
Capture-mark-release-recapture
500
Competition for mates is what type of interaction?
Intraspecific interaction
500
If a calculated chi squared value is 1 and the reference value is 3.84, what conclusion can be drawn about the null hypothesis?
Accept the null hypothesis
500
All organisms in a food web could have a arrow pointing from them to what type of organisms?
Decomposers
500
How much energy is available in the 4th trophic level is there is 475,000 kCal available in the first?
475 kCal