Ecology

Climate (BN ch 18)

100

Which of the following is an abiotic component of the

Biosphere?

• algae

• water

• lichen

• insects

What is water?

200

If Greenland’s ice sheet melted, how high would sea levels rise?

What is 23' ?

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?

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?

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 - 

1. precipitation

2. water percolation into soil

3. uptake by plants

4. transpiration

5. condensation

Zika (BN ch 19)

100

How is the Zika virus spread?

What are those blood sucking monsters the Mosquitoes?

200

A population is.....

What is a group of individuals in a single species located with a particular area called?

300

What are the symptoms of Zika?

What are fever, rash, headache, joint and muscle pains, red eyes, tiredness or nothing?

400

What is carrying capacity?

What is the maximum number of individuals in population that can be supported by the environment.

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?

Wolves (BN ch 20)

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?

200

Distinguish decomposers from detritivores.

Why do decomposers break dead things down with chemicals and detritivores eat dead things.

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?

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?

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)

Here & Gone (BN ch 21)

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.

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.

300

When was the first Secchi disk created and how does it work?

When was 1965? How does the depth and cloudiness affect visability?

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.

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.

Random (not all is ecology)

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

Are dinosaurs extinct?

What are BIRDS!!! (I raise tiny dinos)

300

What stage of mitosis is this, and what's happening?

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

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

What does Ms Tia never want us to do?

What is smoking?