Life Science

How can upwellings improve fishing for ocean fishermen?

• They cause the ocean water to get warmer.

• They cause ocean currents to remain calm.

• They bring nutrients from the cold, deep ocean waters

• They bring ocean currents from the equator.

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If a lake has excess levels of phosphates and nitrates in its water, what will most likely result?

• The temperature of the lake water will decrease.

• The turbidity levels of the lake will decrease.

• The dissolved-oxygen levels in the lake will increase.

• The growth of algae in the lake will increase.

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Which characteristic of water quality provides the most information regarding the health of a water system?

• clarity

• temperature

• concentration of heavy metals

• presence of indicator species

Which would most likely increase the genetic variation in a population of organisms?

• increase in diseases

• decrease in diseases

• increase in mutations

• decrease in mutations

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Which is the best evidence for evolution?

• new rock layers containing fossils of simple organisms

• new rock layers containing fossils unlike existing organisms

• old rock layers containing fossils unlike existing organisms

• old rock layers containing fossils of complex organisms

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Which is the most accurate way of determining the age of a fossil?

• radioactive dating

• relative dating

• dating index fossils

• dating the rock layers above the fossil

Which best describes uniformitarianism?

• The time it takes for erosion to occur has changed since Earth first formed.

• The movement of the continents no longer occurs because of changes in ocean currents.

• The processes that shape the Earth continue as they have since the Earth formed.

• The formation of rock layers has slowed because humans have altered the environment.

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If a bat, an alligator, and a bird evolved from a common ancestor, what most likely can be concluded?

• They have similar anatomical structures.

• They live in the same part of the world.

• They are in the same biological classification.

• They are able to survive changes in their environments.

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Recent changes in species can be found in the upper layers of rock. This provides a link between which two scientific ideas?

• cell theory and the theory of evolution

• the periodic nature of the elements and cell theory

• the theory of evolution and the Law of Superposition

• the Law of Superposition and the periodic nature of the elements

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Which example BEST represents an interconnection between an aquatic food web and a terrestrial food web?

• Fish eat insects that land on the surface of a pond.

• Snakes eat bird eggs.

• Bats eat mosquitos.

• Mountain lions catch and eat deer.

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