Unit 1 APES

Which of the following describes the most likely change to terrestrial biomes resulting from warmer average global temperatures?

• The global distribution of midlatitude biomes, such as grasslands and temperate rain forests, would increase.

• Deciduous trees found in temperate seasonal forests would flower later in the year.

• The latitude range of tropical rain forests would narrow closer to the equator.

• High-latitude biomes, such as the tundra, would experience a decrease in net primary productivity.

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Which of the following processes is illustrated by the downward arrows from the atmosphere that show the conversion of nitrogen gas into usable forms available to producers?

• Nitrogen Assimilation

• Nitrogen Fixation

• Photosynthesis

• Weathering

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Which of the following biogeochemical cycles does not have an atmospheric phase?

• Hydrolic Cycle

• Nitrogen Cycle

• Sulfur Cycle

• Carbon Cycle

• Phosphorous Cycle

Energy enters a system as sunlight and a producer is able to produce 10 kilograms of tissue. If eaten, the producer would produce about ___ kilograms of a consumer tissue that would provide about ____ kilograms of tissue for a secondary consumer

• 100; 10

• 10; 1

• 100; 1

• 1; 0.1

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Productivity in an ecosystem has to do with

• Efficiency of its primary producers

• The number of different species living in the ecosystem

• Its longevity

• Its rate of producing biomass

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An ecosystem consists of

• A physical environment within which a biological community lives

• The species with which a biological community interacts

• A biological community and its physical environment

• the primary producers within a biological community

Producers rely on _____ to release chemical energy and consumers rely on ____ to release chemical energy.

• Cellular Respiration; photosynthesis

• Cellular Respiration; cellular respiration

• photosynthesis; cellular respiration

• photosynthesis; photosynthesis

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Ecologists study....

• Living things and their genetic makeup

• Genetic Patterns and the chemistry in them

• The physical world and its processes

• Relationships between organisms and their environment

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In the Nitrogen cycle, what is one Natural way that Nitrogen gets into our soil?

• Fertilizers

• Human Waste through septic tanks

• Decomposing animals

• Industrial waste

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Select the two characteristics that determine which type of biome an ecosystem is.

• Climate

• Temperature

• Elevation

• Precipitation

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