APES Midterm Review

Examples of adaptations that help organisms acquire

energy from the environment include which of the following?

• The dark, heat-absorbing coloration of a reptile

• The light coloration of a peppered moth

• The fangs and claws of a lion

• the ability to burrow below ground

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age structure diagrams representing a population that most likely has a negative growth rate will

• be bottom heavy

• be smaller at the bottom

• be biggest in the bottom and middle

• be equal throughout all age groups

biomes containing plants that are adapted to prevent water loss due to the low average rainfall

• Deserts only

• Desert and Tundra

• Tundra and temperate rainforests

• dessert and temperate forests

toxic compounds ingested and retained in fat tissue and passed through the food chain

• Biomagnification

• biotic potential

• compound contamination

• Threshold effect

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Represents the carrying capacity

• A

• C

• D

• E

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Represents the biotic potential of a species

• A

• B

• C

• D

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Represents the growth of a population predicted by the logistic model

• A

• C

• D

• E

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Guano is a commercial source of this element

• Potassium

• Phosphorus

• Sodium

• Nitrogen

Chemical compound that can cause algal blooms and cultural eutrophication in streams

• Carbon Dioxide

• Chlorofluorocarbons

• Nitrogen oxides

• Nitrates

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What could have occurred in an area if soil has an abundance of nitrogen compounds

• Bacteria in root nodules converted free nitrogen into nitrogen compounds.

• Bacteria in soil converted nitrogen compounds into free nitrogen

• ammonia is converted from free nitrogen by mushrooms

• nitrates in water seeped in and was converted to free nitrogen

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