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Practice Quiz (Chapters 5, 6, 26, 27, 28)
MULTIPLE CHOICE
Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. In which type of transport would potassium ions move across transport proteins
from low to high concentration?
a. Simple Diffusion
b. Facilitated Diffusion
c. Osmosis
d. Active Transport
e. Endocytosis
2. In what type of interaction is one individual benefiting and the other being
harmed?
a. Mutualism
b. Predation/Parasitism
c. Competition
d. Commensalism
e. None of the above; this type of interaction does not exist
3. Glycoproteins on our blood cells, which determine whether we are type A, B, AB,
or O blood, are what type of proteins?
a. Transport proteins
b. Receptor proteins
c. Recognition proteins
d. Enzymatic proteins
e. Attachment proteins
4. Salt-water fish have many physiological adaptations to deal with a big problem.
They live in an environment where the water is ______________. Fish not
adapted to salt water would surely die of dehydration.
a. passive
b. active
c. hypertonic
d. hypotonic
e. isotonic
5. What type of organic molecule are enzymes?
a. carbohydrates
b. lipids
c. proteins
d. nucleic acid
e. inorganic
6. A seal and a bird are both trying to catch fish from the same area of the ocean.
What type of interaction do the seal and bird share?
a. Mutualism
b. Intraspecific Competition
c. Interspecific Competition
d. Parasitism
e. None of the above. A bird would never eat the same food as a seal.
7. This group of organisms is considered the ‘self feeders’
a. detrivores
b. parasites
c. autotrophs
d. heterotrophs
e. proteins
8. A major ecological concern, the Greenhouse Effect, is caused by
a. the release of heat energy from burning fossil fuels
b. the release of carbon dioxide from the burning of wood, coal, and oil
c. the destruction of ozone in the upper atmosphere
d. the introduction of pesticides into the atmosphere
e. none of the above; global warming is not happening
9. What type of reaction is this?
CO2 + H2O + Light Energy  C6H12O6 + O2
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Endergonic reaction
Exergonic reaction
Coupled reaction
Transport reaction
Osmosis
MATCHING
Choose the word that best matches each statement or definition.
10. Two or more populations of different species living and
interacting in the same area.
11. A group of individuals of the same species living in a
particular geographic area
a. population
b. community
c. ecosystem
d. species
e. biology
12. A community together with its nonliving surroundings (has biotic and abiotic
components).