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Question: Growth in response to light,
touch and gravity is called________.
A.
Phototropism, geotropism, and
thigmotropism
B.
Phototropism, thigmotropism, and
geotropism
C.
Phototropism, hydrotropism, and
geotropism
D.
Geotropism, thigmotropism, and
phototropism
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Ecology for 500 dollars
Answer: B. Phototropism,
Thigmotropism, and
Geotropism
Reason: Light=Photo
Geo=Gravity
Thigmo=Touch
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Ecology for 500
Question: What would cause a
population to decrease?
A. Increase in growth rate
B. No limiting factors
C. Less predation
D. Competition from another
species
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Ecology for 500
Answer: D. Competition from
another species
Reason: Competition will cause
a decrease in the amount of
food and space and the
population will decrease
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Ecology for 500
Question: Global Warming causes
flooding because _____________.
A. Glaciers melt
B. Ocean becomes more salty
C. There is an increase in carbon
dioxide
D. Fossil fuels are burned
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Ecology for 500
Answer: A. glaciers melt
Reason: Glaciers melting
due to an increase in
global temperatures in
areas below sea level will
flood
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Ecology for 500
Question: When pesticides enter a
food chain as they move up the
food chain concentrations of the
pesticide INCREASE due to
A. Habitat Fragmentation
B. Biodiversity
C. Deforestation
D. Biomagnification
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Ecology for 500
Answer: D. Biomagnification
Reason: When organisms eat
other organisms the pollutants
become more concentrated at
each level
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Ecology for 500
Question: Fossil Fuels are considered
_____________.
A.
Renewable because they are easily
replaced.
B.
Nonrenewable because they take millions of
years to form.
C.
Renewable because they take millions of
years to form.
D.
Nonrenewable because ecosystems change
forever when they are burned
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Ecology for 500
Answer: B. Nonrenewable
Resource that takes
millions of years to form
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Nature of Science for 400
Question: A scientist is studying the
effects of sunlight on plant growth in
the bottom of a lake
What is the independent variable?
A.
Amount of sunlight
B.
The growth of the plants
C.
The type of plants
D.
The amount of water
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Answer: A. The amount of
sunlight
Reason: That is the
variable that you changed
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Ecologyfor 400
Question: Which of the following is
a reason that carbon cycle is
being damaged?
A.
The depletion of the ozone layer
B.
The introduction of exotic species
C.
The burning of fossil fuels
D.
Acid Rain
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Answer: C. Burning fossil fuels
Reason: When factories, cars
and power plants burn fossil
fuels they release carbon
dioxide into the atmosphere.
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Ecology for 400
Question: What type of population
growth does the graph show?
1.
Exponential Growth
2.
J Curve
3.
Logistic Growth
4.
U Curve
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Answer: C. Logistic Growth
Reason: The graph shows a period
of exponential graph and then a
slowing and eventually stop to
population growth
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Ecology for 400
Question: Chemicals combine
with water vapor to form
A. Acid Rain
B. Smog
C. CFC’s
D. DDT
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Ecology for 400
Answer: A. Acid Rain
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Ecology for 400
Question: Which one of the following
is NOT a density dependent
factor?
A.
Disease
B.
Predation
C.
Competition
D.
Natural Disasters
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Ecology for 400
Answer: D. Natural
Disasters
Reason: Do not depend on
the population they have
the same effect on any
size population
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Nature of Science for 300
Question: What type of succession is this
and what is the climax community?
A. Primary
Moss Stage
B. Secondary
Moss Stage
C. Primary
Forest
D. Secondary Forest
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Answer: C. Primary and
Forest
Reason: It starts on Bare
rock so it is primary and
the climax community is
the last stable species
the forest
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Nature of Science for 300
Question Cacti provide a home for
the woodpecker this is an
example of_____________.
A. Symbiosis
B. Mutualism
C. Commensalism
D. Parasitism
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Answer: C.
Reason: CommensalismThe Cacti is unaffected
and the woodpecker
benefits
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Ecology for 300
Question: Question: Cactus have
stems instead of leaves to store
water because they are found in a
desert biome. This is an example
of a (an)?
A. Limiting factor
B. Biome
C. Adaptation
D. Density Dependent Factor
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Answer: C. Adaptation
Reason: This is an example of
an inherited characteristic that
allows the cactus to survive in
the desert.
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Ecology for 300
Question:
___________________ is the largest number of
organisms an environment can hold.
A.
Density Dependent Limiting Factor
B.
Population Growth
C.
Population Density
D.
Carrying Capacity
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Ecology for 300
Answer: D. Carrying
Capacity
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Ecology for 300
Question: Nitrogen Fixation is
_____________
A.
The conversion of a useable form of
Nitrogen into Nitrogen gas
B.
The conversion of Nitrogen gas into
a useable form of Nitrogen
C.
The breaking down of organisms
D.
The release of Carbon Dioxide into
the atmosphere
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Ecology for 300
Answer: B. Conversion of
Nitrogen gas into a useable
form of Nitrogen
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Nature of Science for 200
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Question: If a grasshopper eats grass
and the grasshopper is eaten by a
bird. What is the bird’s trophic level
in the food chain?
A.
Producer
B.
Tertiary Consumer
C.
Primary Consumer
D.
Secondary Consumer
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Answer: Secondary
Consumer
Reason: It eats the primary
consumer that ate the
producer
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Nature of Science 200
Question: The biome that has the
greatest biodiversity is _____.
A. Rainforest
B.
Taiga
C. Temperate Deciduous Forest
D. Dessert
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Nature of Science for 200
Answer: A. Rainforest
The rainforest has the
most variety of plants and
animals
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Ecology for 200
Question: A biome that has
permafrost, low
precipitation, and no trees is
called _________.
A. Temperate Forest
B. Tropical Rainforest
C. Tundra
D. Boreal Forest
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Answer: C. Tundra
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Ecology for 200
Question:
A series of changes that occur in a
community over time is called
___________ and erupting volcano is
an example of _________________.
A.
Climax Community, Primary
B.
Succession, Primary
C.
Succession , Secondary
D.
Pioneer Species, Secondary
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Ecology for 200
Answer: B. Succession,
Primary Succession
Reason: Lava creates
bare rock or an
environment with no soil
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Ecology for 200
Question: Which
trophic level has the
most energy?
What percentage of
energy moves on to
the next trophic
level?
What happens to the
the energy that is
not used for life
processes or passed
to the next level?
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Ecology for 200
Answer: Producer
10%
Lost as heat
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Nature of Science 100
Question: The combined
portions of Earth in which
all living things exist?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Biosphere
Ecosystem
Population
Community
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Answer: A. Biosphere
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Question: An orchid would be an
example of _________.
A. heterotroph
B. consumer
C. herbivore
D. autotroph
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Answer: D.
Reason: An autotroph makes
its own food by the process
of photosynthesis using the
sun.
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Question: 1 type of species living in
a certain area is called
___________.
A. Population
B. Biosphere
C. Ecosystem
D. Biome
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Ecology for 100
Answer: D. Population
Reason: Organisms make
up populations and
populations make up
communities
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Ecology for 100
Question: What is the first species to
populate an area called during
succession and what is an example
of one in primary succession?
1.
Climax Community and Lichen
2.
Pioneer Species and Grass
3.
Climax Community and Grass
4.
Pioneer Species and Lichen
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Ecology for 100
Answer: D. Pioneer
species and lichen
Reason: Lichen can grow
when there is no soil
grass cannot
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Ecology for 100
Question: The deer in the food
chain is called?
1.
Primary Consumer
2.
Producer
3.
Carnivore
4.
Secondary Consumer
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Ecology for 100
Answer: A. Primary
Consumer
Reason: They eat the
producers and get eaten
by the secondary
consumers
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