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Exam 4 Review Part I
Which of the following is not one of the four levels of ecological study?
a. Organism
b. Population
c. Community
d. Ecosystem
e. biosphere
What biotic factor influences organisms?
a. Sunlight
b. Precipitation
c. Nutrients
d. Vegetation
e. A and B
What abiotic factor can influence organisms?
a. Predators
b. Vegetation
c. Sunlight
d. Parasites
e. A and D
Exotic species brought to a new environment which compete with native species
are ________.
a. Introduced species
b. Invasive species
c. Convergent species
d. A and B
e. A and C
Solar intensity varies by _____.
a. Longitude
b. Latitude
c. Altitude
d. A and B
e. A and C
Which regions has no change in day length over the course of a year?
a. Temperate
b. Arctic
c. Coastal
d. Tropic
e. None of the above
Which of the following does NOT affect species dispersal?
a. Behavioral patterns
b. Dispersal timing
c. Climate
d. Predators
e. All of the above affect species dispersal
8. What drives heat transfer from tropics to the poles?
a. Global air circulation
b. Solar energy
c. Climate shifting
d. Ocean currents
e. Abiotic factors
9. Which of the following determines the climate of a region?
a. Solar energy
b. Ocean currents
c. Convection
d. Longitude
e. Community structure
10. Basic ecology examines ___.
a. Species dispersal
b. Human impact
c. Conservation
d. Environmentalism
e. Habitat restoration
11. What contributes to seasonality of a region?
a. Earth’s tilt
b. Earth’s revolution
c. Equinoxes
d. Longitude
e. Earth’s rotation
12. An ecosystem that covers a broad region is a ___.
a. Biosphere
b. Biome
c. Climate
d. Tundra
e. community
13. Which of the following is FALSE?
a. Warm air rises
b. Warm air has a greater ability to hold water
c. Warm air cools as it rises
d. Descending air absorbs moisture
e. Atmospheric air holds more water than air near Earth
14. One species in a given space and time is called a ___.
a. Population
b. Community
c. Ecosystem
d. Biome
e. Biosphere
15. What is the effect of artificial selection on microevolution by always harvesting
the “best”?
a. Drive production of better phenotypes
b. Drive production of worse phenotypes
c. Drive production for fit individuals
d. Drive production for unfit individuals
e. Drive speciation
16. Which of the following is not an example of intraspecific interactions?
a. Predation
b. Competition
c. Mating
d. Disease
e. None of the above
17. Which of the following dispersion patterns do wolves normally display?
a. Clumped
b. Random
c. Uniform
d. Bilateral
e. Symmetrical
18. Which of the following dispersion patterns do penguins normally display?
a. Clumped
b. Random
c. Uniform
d. Bilateral
e. Symmetrical
19. Which of the following dispersion patterns do dandelions normally display?
a. Clumped
b. Random
c. Uniform
d. Bilateral
e. Symmetrical
20. What is the study of factors that will change a population’s size through space and
time?
a. Ecology
b. Population ecology
c. Demography
d. Census
e. Mark and recapture
21. How much of Earth’s water is available freshwater?
a. 1%
b. 2%
c. 5%
d. 10%
e. 99%
Answers
1. E
2. D
3. C
4. D
5. B
6. D
7. E
8. D
9. A
10. A
11. A
12. B
13. E
14. A
15. B
16. A
17. A
18. C
19. B
20. C
21. A