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QUADRUPLE BONUS!!!!!! Which of the following is the best example of a niche? a fox chasing and then eating a rabbit; sunlight illuminating a forest floor; fog rising from a cold mountain lake; a deer standing motionless at the forest's edge.
What is a fox chasing and then eating a rabbit? A species' niche includes all of its interactions with the biotic and abiotic factors of its environment.
100
Organisms that manufacture their own food and supply usable energy to other organism are called this.
What are producers?
100
Organisms that are active at night are called this.
What is nocturnal?
100
Changes in an ecosystem that take place once per year is called this type of rhythm.
What is seasonal rhythms?
100
QUADRUPLE BONUS!!!!! An example of an artificial ecosystem is: Sumter National Forest; Lake Huron; Jenny's garden; the Missouri River.
What is Jenny's garden?
200
Individual plants that can survive year after year are called this.
What are perennials?
200
Decaying plant and animal materials is called this? And no, it is not used with pita bread.
What is humus?
200
The study of organisms in their habitats is called this.
What is ecology?
200
An area where an organism lives is called this.
What is habitat?
200
The stable result of succession is called what type of community?
What is a climax community?
300
Precipitation that enters the soil is called this.
What is groundwater?
300
All the living organisms in an ecosystem is called this.
What is a biotic community?
300
QUADRUPLE BONUS!!! The abiotic environment of an ecosystem may contain all of the following except: substrate; water; plants; light.
What is plants?
300
An organism's role or function in an ecosystem is called this.
What is a niche?
300
Most woody plants use this to protect their growing tips during the winter.
What are dormant buds?
400
A factor in a habitat that restricts the growth or existence of an organism is known as: a controlling factor; a limiting factor; an aquatic factor; a biotic factor.
What is a limiting factor?
400
The oxygen that enters Raystown Lake comes from: a) the photosynthesis of aquatic plants and algae; b) atmospheric oxygen that enters the surface water; c) both A and B; d) neither A or B.
What is C?
400
Which of these does not make some nitrogen available to plants? lightning; soil bacteria; rain; transpiration
What is transpiration?
400
Hibernation does not involve: lowered body temperature; slowed metabolism; seasonal rhythms; easy waking
What is easy waking?
400
These two cycles involve the relationship between photosynthesis and cellular respiration.
What are the carbon and oxygen cycles?
500
QUADRUPLE BONUS!!! Which of the following cannot be an ecosystem? a fox chasing a rabbit; Jonah's aquarium; a mountain valley; Hannah's Pond
What is a fox chasing a rabbit?
500
In the environment, fire can: be a physical factor; never be beneficial; be a biotic factor; never be significant.
What is be a physical factor?
500
Consumer organisms: consume only producers; consume only consumers; include some organisms that consume producers, consumers or both; include only those organisms that can obtain their energy directly from the sun.
What is include some organisms that consume producers, consumers or both?
500
All the brook trout living in Sideling Hill Creek are: a species; an ecosystem; a biotic community; a population.
What is a population?
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QUADRUPLE BONUS!!! Which of the following is not part of the biotic community in a lake? fish; water; bacteria in the mud; aquatic plants.
What is water?