Study Guide Part 1

An area where biological communities interact with their physical environment is called:

• Ecosystem

• Community

• Biomes

• Regions

An organism that uses an outside source of energy like the sun to create energy-rich food molecules is a(an) ___________.

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer

• Autotroph

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For the following organisms, choose the correct order of increasing trophic level.

• Fungi, deer, wolf,and grass

• Fungi, grass, wolf, and deer

• Grass, deer, wolf, and fungi

• Grass, fungi, wolf, and deer

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Paleoclimate records are studied to understand _______.

• Earth's past climate

• Earth's past weather

• Earth's current climate

• Earth's current weather

During a global warming period, global ocean levels are projected to increase because of ______________.

• Extreme weather events

• Melting glaciers and ice sheets

• Water retained in the atmosphere being released

• All of the above

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Tapeworms reside in human intestine and take nutrients from the human is ___________.

• Symbiosis

• Parasitism

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

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Vines grow on a tree. The vines get light, but the tree is not affected. What kind of relationship is this?

• Competition

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

What results from livestock and other agricultural practices and by the decay of organic waste in municipal solid waste landfills?

• Carbon Dioxide

• Methane

• Water Vapor

• Nitrous Oxide

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How does the rate of modern warming compare to other period?

• It is slower than the rate in the Cretaceous and Paleocene–Eocene periods.

• It is equal to the rate in the Cretaceous and Paleocene–Eocene periods.

• It is faster than the rate in the Cretaceous and Paleocene–Eocene periods.

• None of the above

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When CO₂ levels were low, temperatures were ________ and Earth was _____________.

• cooler; in an ice age (glacial period)

• cooler; warming (interglacial period)

• warmer; in an ice age (glacial period)

• warmer; warming (interglacial period)

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