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Fall Ecology Unit 1 – Essential Ecology TEST REVIEW
Complete the review below on separate sheets of lined paper.
1. What is the approximate age of the Earth?
2. How have major catastrophic events shaped Earth’s history over time?
3. Briefly, and very generally, describe how Earth (including the atmosphere, land masses,
and species) has changed over time.
4. What is ecological succession?
5. What is primary succession? Causes?
6. What are pioneer species?
7. What is secondary succession? Causes?
8. Be able to describe how a terrestrial environment may change over time.
9. What is ecology?
10.What are the levels of the biosphere from least inclusive to most inclusive?
a. What do those levels represent? (AKA define them)
b. NOTE: There are 5 levels (excluding the Biosphere)
11.What are the major biomes found across the globe?
12.Briefly describe the water cycle, including all major stages.
13.Briefly describe the carbon cycle, including all major sources from which CO2 enters the
atmosphere and sources from which CO2 is pulled out of the atmosphere.
14.Why are phosphorous and nitrogen important in terrestrial and aquatic systems?
15.What is the major source of energy for life on earth?
16.What is producer? Different types of producers/autotrophs?
17.What is a consumer/heterotroph? Different types of heterotrophs?
18.What is a decomposer? Examples?
19.What is the path/flow of energy in an ecosystem?
20.What’s the difference between a food chain and food web?
21.Be able to identify the trophic levels of a food web (primary, secondary, tertiary
consumers; producers; decomposers).
22.What % of energy is passed on from one trophic level to the next?
23.What are biotic factors?
24.What are abiotic factors?
25.Compare/contrast habitat and niche.
26.What is competition and under what circumstances does it occur in nature?
27.What is predation and what roles does it involve?
28.What is symbiosis? What are the 3 major types of symbiotic relationships?
29.Define mutualism and provide an example
30.Define commensalism and provide an example
31.Define parasitism and provide an example
Fall Ecology Unit 1 – Essential Ecology TEST REVIEW
Complete the review below on separate sheets of lined paper.
1. What is the approximate age of the Earth?
2. How have major catastrophic events shaped Earth’s history over time?
3. Briefly, and very generally, describe how Earth (including the atmosphere, land masses,
and species) has changed over time.
4. What is ecological succession?
5. What is primary succession? Causes?
6. What are pioneer species?
7. What is secondary succession? Causes?
8. Be able to describe how a terrestrial environment may change over time.
9. What is ecology?
10.What are the levels of the biosphere from least inclusive to most inclusive?
a. What do those levels represent? (AKA define them)
b. NOTE: There are 5 levels (excluding the Biosphere)
11.What are the major biomes found across the globe?
12.Briefly describe the water cycle, including all major stages.
13.Briefly describe the carbon cycle, including all major sources from which CO2 enters the
atmosphere and sources from which CO2 is pulled out of the atmosphere.
14.Why are phosphorous and nitrogen important in terrestrial and aquatic systems?
15.What is the major source of energy for life on earth?
16.What is producer? Different types of producers/autotrophs?
17.What is a consumer/heterotroph? Different types of heterotrophs?
18.What is a decomposer? Examples?
19.What is the path/flow of energy in an ecosystem?
20.What’s the difference between a food chain and food web?
21.Be able to identify the trophic levels of a food web (primary, secondary, tertiary
consumers; producers; decomposers).
22.What % of energy is passed on from one trophic level to the next?
23.What are biotic factors?
24.What are abiotic factors?
25.Compare/contrast habitat and niche.
26.What is competition and under what circumstances does it occur in nature?
27.What is predation and what roles does it involve?
28.What is symbiosis? What are the 3 major types of symbiotic relationships?
29.Define mutualism and provide an example
30.Define commensalism and provide an example
31.Define parasitism and provide an example