Vocab
the scientific study of interactions between different organisms and between organisms and their environment or surroundings
A.Evolution
B.Biology
C.Ecology
D.Ecosystem
C. Ecology
What forms the base of an ecosystem?
A. Heterotrophs
B. Energy
C. Tertiary consumers
D. Biotic factors
B. Energy
Process by which water rises into the atmosphere, cools and becomes a liquid again.
A. Condensation
A.Precipitation
B.Transcription
C.Transpiration
A. Condensation
The largest geographic biotic unit, a major community of plants and animals with similar life forms and environmental conditions.
A.Biosphere
B.Biome
C.Habitat
D.Ecosystem
B. Biome
The process of evaporation from plant leaves
A. Transpiration
B. Run off
C. Condensation
D. Fog
A. Transpiration
non-living factors that influence
an ecosystem and an organisms life
A.A-biotic
B.Biotic
C.Organic
D.Terrestrial
A. A-Biotic
When an animal leaves a territory for another.
A. Emmigration
B. Immigration
C. Adaptation
D. Evolution
A. Emmigration
A student set up a terrarium, watered the soil, and covered the terrarium tightly with a lid. The next day, the student observed water droplets on the inside of the lid.
The droplets provide evidence that which of the following steps of the water cycle had occurred in the terrarium?
A. runoff and evaporation
B. precipitation and runoff
C. evaporation and condensation
D. condensation and precipitation
C. evaporation and condensation
Which of the following is not a terrestrial biome?
A.Taiga
B.Savannah
C.Tropical Rain Forest
D.Coral Reef
D. Coral Reef
Which of the following roles do nitrogen-fixing bacteria serve in the nitrogen cycle?
A. They concentrate nitrogen in the atmosphere.
B. They absorb nitrogen from the wastes of animals.
C. They convert nitrogen into a form that plants can use.
D. They release nitrogen from the bodies of decaying organisms
C. They convert nitrogen into a form that plants can use.
The portion of Earth that supports life.
A.Biome
B.Biosphere
C.Ecosystem
D.Habitat
B. Biosphere
The ecological relationship between a hawk and a rabbit is the same type of relationship as that between
A. a tick and a deer.
B. a frog and an insect.
C. a mouse and a chipmunk.
D. a bee and a flowering plant.
B. a frog and an insect
The atmosphere contains about 80% nitrogen gas, but nitrogen in this form cannot be used by plants. Which of the following processes converts atmospheric nitrogen to a useful form for plants?
A. nitrogen decomposition
B. nitrogen fixation
C. photosynthesis
D. transpiration
B. nitrogen fixation
As many as 50% of all the world’s animal species may be found in this biome.
A.Desert
B.Grassland
C.Tropical Savannah
D.Tropical Rain Forest
D. Tropical Rain Forest
Which of the following best explains why tropical insects may be at greater risk for extinction from global warming than insects from higher latitudes?
A. Many tropical insects lay eggs year-round.
B. Tropical insects include more pollinator species.
C. Many tropical insects are herbivores rather than carnivores.
D. Tropical insects have narrower ranges of tolerance for temperature changes.
D. Tropical insects have narrower ranges of tolerance for temperature changes
the role that an organism has in an ecosystem
A.Habitat
B.Niche
C.Biome
D.Community
B. Niche
In which of the following ways do producers in an ecosystem obtain energy?
A. by consuming other producers
B. by living parasitically on animals
C. by using sunlight to make sugars
D. by breaking down dead organisms
C. by using sunlight to make sugars
In the past 100 years, levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide have increased as the result of the burning of fossil fuels. Other processes in the carbon cycle have absorbed some of the carbon released by this combustion.
Which of the following most likely have absorbed excess carbon released by combustion?
A. animals
B. glaciers
C. plants
D. rocks
C. plants
This Biome is found on the west coast of continents and is extremely resistant to drought and weather events
A.Temperate Deciduous Forest
B.Chaparral
C.Grassland
D.Temperate Boreal Forest
B. Chaparral
In traditional landscaping, leaves are raked off the ground and bagged. In which of the following ways does this practice most significantly disrupt natural nutrient cycling?
A. It carries away microorganisms that can perform nitrogen fixation.
B. It reduces the rate of oxygen and carbon cycling via photosynthesis.
C. It prevents carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen from being returned to the soil.
D. It increases the amount of carbon dioxide that is released to the atmosphere
C. It prevents carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen from being returned to the soil.
When one member of the association benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
A.Mutualism
B.Parasitism
C.Symbiosis
D.Commensalism
D. Commensalism
A group of organisms, all of the same species, which interbreed and live in the same place at the same time.
A.Community
B.Ecosystem
C.Habitat
D.Population
D. Population
Cellular respiration, decomposition, combustion, and photosynthesis are processes that drive which of the following cycles in ecosystems?
A. the carbon cycle
B. the nitrogen cycle
C. the phosphorus cycle
D. the water cycle
A. the carbon cycle
This Biome is home to treeless or marshy plain. Characterized by permafrost – permanently frozen soil starting as high as a few centimeters below the surface – which severely limits plant growth.
A.Temperate Boreal Forest
B.Tundra
C.Chaparral
D.Grassland
B. Tundra
All the populations of different species that live in the same place at the same time.
A.Community
B.Ecosystem
C.Niche
D.Biosphere
A. Community