IB ESS Topic 2

The kangaroo rat is able to get all of the water it needs through its food and therefore, never needs to drink liquid. This animal has adapted to survive in which biome?

• Forest

• Tundra

• Desert

• Grassland

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The most important abiotic factors when studying biomes are...

• Food and Water

• Rain and Sunlight

• Temperature and Oxygen

• Precipitation and Temperature 

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The biome known for trees with broad leaves that fall off the trees in the winter.

• Taiga/Boreal/Coniferous Forests

• Temperate Seasonal (Decidious) Forests

• Deserts

• Tropical Rain Forests

Plants with spines and waxy leaves are well suited for life in which environment?

• Desert

• Temperate forest

• Grassland

• Tropical Rainfroest

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

A large region characterised by a specific type of climate and certain type of plants is known as.

• boreal forest (taiga)

• climate

• biome

• canopy

__________ primary productivity = the organic materials that remain after photosynthetic organisms in the ecosystem have used some of these compounds for their cellular energy needs (cellular respiration).

• Gross

• Total

• Net

• Secondary

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The biomass available for consumption by the herbivores and the decomposers is called

• Net primary productivity

• Secondary productivity

• Standing crop

• Gross primary productivity

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Approximately how much of the solar energy that falls on the leaves of a plant is converted to chemical energy by photosynthesis?

• Less than 1%

• 2-10%

• 30%

• 50%

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

During the process of ecological succession the changes that take place in communities are

• Orderly and sequential

• Random

• Very quick

• Not influenced by the physical environment

The zone at the edge of a lake or ocean which is alternatively exposed to air and immersed in water is called

• Pelagic zone

• Benthic zone

• Littoral zone

• Lentic zone