Quiz about Environmental Review

Question 1

Which of the following will decrease carrying capacity of an environment?

Accepted Answer

Remove food sources

Answer

Increase plant diversity

Answer

Decrease predators

Answer

Maintain soil nutrients

Question 2

True or False Biodiversity helps maintain a stable ecosystem.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 3

Which of the following is a biotic factor?

Accepted Answer

Protists

Answer

Light

Answer

Soil

Answer

Water

Question 4

Which of the following is an abiotic factor?

Accepted Answer

Light

Answer

Protists

Answer

Bacteria

Answer

Plants

Question 5

Which of the following will increase carrying capacity of an environment?

Accepted Answer

Increase land territory

Answer

Increase predators

Answer

Increase numbers of offspring

Answer

Remove food sources

Question 6

True or False Carrying Capacity is the maximum population an environment can support.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 7

Which of the following does the graph represents?

Accepted Answer

Exponential Growth

Answer

Carrying Capacity

Answer

Logistical Growth

Answer

None

Question 8

True or False: An example of density independent factors are natural disasters.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 9

Which of the following could help increase the deer population

Accepted Answer

Decreasing the populations of predators.

Answer

Increasing the population of competitors in the area.

Answer

Preventing the deer to reproduce at a young age.

Answer

Decreasing the amount of native plants.

Question 10

True or False: Invasive species will cause native species to overgrowth.

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 11

Which of the following could an invasive species like zebra mussels which eat plankton could cause?

Accepted Answer

Diversity of organisms in the lakes decreased

Answer

Mussels became extinct due to winter

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Photosynthetic microorganisms increased in the lakes

Answer

Mussels moved to rivers

Question 12

True or False introducing foreign organisms into an ecosystems modifies the food webs.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 13

Which of the following is an example of population?

Accepted Answer

All the squirrels in the park

Answer

1 squirrel in the park

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squirrels and chipmunks living in the park

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Everything in the park

Question 14

Which of the following shows the levels of ecological organization in increasing order?

Accepted Answer

Community, ecosystem, biosphere

Answer

Community, biosphere, ecosystem

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Biosphere, community, ecosystem

Answer

Ecosystem, biosphere, community

Question 15

What would happen to a population if a virus begins to spread?

Accepted Answer

Death rates will increase

Answer

Food supplies will increase

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Transmission of the disease will decrease

Answer

Studies of the virus will decrease

Question 16

Look at the population pyramid, is this population projected to increase, decrease or stay the same?

Accepted Answer

Increase

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Decrease

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Stay the same

Question 17

Which of the following is correct.

Accepted Answer

Emigration = moves out

Immigration = moves into

Answer

Emigration = moves out Immigration = moves out

Answer

Emigration = moves into

Immigration = moves out

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Emigration = moves into

Immigration = moves into

Question 18

What will happen if a keystone species like the spider monkey is removed from the ecosystem?

Accepted Answer

Other species in the ecosystem will be negatively affected.

Answer

Other species in the ecosystems will be positively affected.

Answer

Nothing will change.

Question 19

What is the carrying capacity of the graph?

Accepted Answer

around 500

Answer

more than 500

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less than 500

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around 600

Question 20

When a population grows past the ecosystem's carrying capacity, what happens to the population?

Accepted Answer

The population starts to die off to return to carrying capcity

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Continues to grow

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The population will go extinct due to lack of resources

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The population grows then finds a new carrying capacity

Question 21

What point on the graph represents carrying capacity?

Accepted Answer

d

Answer

a

Answer

b

Answer

c

Question 22

What is ecology?

Accepted Answer

The study of the interactions (connections) among living things, and between living things and their environment.

Answer

The study of life

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The study of fossils, embryos, homologous structures and how they are evidence of our evolution from a common ancestor.

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The study of atoms, molecules, organelles, and cells

Question 23

What is a population?

Accepted Answer

group of the same species living in the same area

Answer

groups of different species living in the same area

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includes all of the organisms and non-living things in an area

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major regional or global community

Question 24

What is a community?

Accepted Answer

Different populations of organisms living in the same environment.

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One population of organism living in the same environment.

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Different populations of organisms living in more than two environments.

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One population of organism living in more than two environments.DD

Question 25

What is an ecosystem?

Accepted Answer

The interactions among living and non-living things in an environment.

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A type of organism that can only be seen with a microscope.

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A bunch of moving parts that do work.

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The newest craze in social media.

Question 26

In an ecosystem, living things are called ________ and non-living things are called ____________.

Accepted Answer

biotic, abiotic

Answer

abiotic, biotic

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organisms, decomposers

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herbivores, decomposers

Question 27

What is the initial (first or primary) source of energy in every ecosystem?

Accepted Answer

the sun

Answer

plants

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higher level consumers

Answer

decomposers

Question 28

Which of the following are abiotic factors (choose 3)?

Accepted Answer

the wind

Accepted Answer

the temperature

Accepted Answer

the amount of light in a place

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the number of trees in an area

Question 29

What are the abiotic factors in this image?

Accepted Answer

Water

Accepted Answer

air

Accepted Answer

sunlight

Answer

fish

Answer

plants

Question 30

What are the biotic factors in this image?

Accepted Answer

fish

Accepted Answer

plants

Answer

Water

Answer

air

Answer

sunlight

Question 31

Which of the following is a biotic factor?

Accepted Answer

mushroom

Answer

soil

Answer

rocks

Answer

sunlight

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