BIO 143 Exam 3 Review

Which atmospheric gas composes about 20% of the atmosphere?

What drives uniform spacing of organisms in a population?

Amensalism is a type of competition

The trade-off between investments in current reproduction and in growth that promotes future reproduction is

What type of parasite is the cuckoo bird that can be inferred?

The extinction of various species of animals 66 millions years ago due to the collision of an asteroid is an example of

When two species compete to be preyed on less by a common predator or parasite it is called

Metapopulations help stabilize a species because of the two advantages from the question above.

Which of these examples exhibits the law of tolerance

The palatable Viceroy (right) resembles the unpalatable Monarch (left). What type of adaptation is the Viceroy using?

 Arrange all of the following with an increasing order of the amount of stocks stored in them.

Cuckoo birds lay eggs in the nests of other birds. Cuckoo chicks then compete for food with the host's babies. This is:

 Which of the following describe when the responses of both organisms are (-)?

Which of the following must be true for a group of species to be considered a population?

Coffee plants use caffeine to ward off insects that would feast on their leaves and beans. They are using:

Which of the following is/are an example(s) of facilitation relationships?

A tape worm that lives inside the digestive tract of mammals would be considered what kind of parasite

Which of these is NOT a factor that would lead to a clumped organism distribution in a population?

If a primary producer stored 100 units of energy in its system, how much energy is passed down to a tertiary consumer?

According to the logistic growth model, what happens when population size (N) exceed carrying capacity (K)?

When energy changes form, some of it is lost in the form of heat because of

The answer to the previous question allows for which additional adaptation to evolve in other species?

Which of the following describe when the response of one organism is (+) while the other is (-)?

A dominant species cannot be a keystone species

When individuals compete for a common resource directly by force or intimidation it is called

The example of port-folio effect is associated with which of the following?

What is a possible outcome of a situation where two species in the same habitat share a nearly identical niche?

Species that utilize chemical defense to defend against predation usually also have what other characteristic?

Biotic potential is often associated with:

Which of the following species is responsible for providing structures for the ecosystem?

What can be a cause for a facilitation relationship to move from facultative to obligate?

A kleptoparasite lays its eggs inside of the host organism which results in the death of the host organism

A community and the nonliving factors with which it interacts is called a(n)

Which of the following is NOT an example of an exploitation relationship?

Heterotrophs are primarily

Which type of mutualism occurs when one organism spreads the pollen or seeds of another organism

The majority of the nitrogen available to use is inert and cannot take part in many biological processes.

Which of the following species has little abundance in the ecosystem despite the impact they have in the ecosystem?

Phenology refers to the timing of biological events such as reproduction

A bottom up effect might occur when

In the case of competition between two species within the similar niches, which of the following will most likely occur?

Which of the following are examples of both functional diversity and functional redundancy?

Bacteria on a plate of agar in lab is an example of r-selected species. What can we conclude about their distribution?

The host of a polyphagous parasite where the parasite develops to adulthood is referred to as the definitive host

A species with a high ‘r’ value will have what kind of growth curve

In most mutualistic relationships one of the organisms receives a nutrient benefit.

Nitrogen fixation is also known as which of the following process?

Random spacing usually occurs when which factors are present

Which of these is something populations do to deal with constraints on their environment?

‘r’ strategists emphasize efficient use of resources to maximize population growth

Prey species have acquired adaptations over time to avoid exploitation, but predators have not acquired very many

9. True or False The example of the different red, black, and yellow snake species is an example of Mullerian mimicry

What are the two big advantages to metapopulations

Individuals competing for a common resource, but not interacting with each other directly is called

New populations generally increase exponentially until they start to fill up the niche available to them

Which of the following is false of a known r-selected species?

A holoparasite requires the host organism to survive and produce nutrients in order for the parasite to survive.

Approximately how much energy from the first trophic level ends up in the third trophic level?

Which of the following is NOT a way of nitrogen fixation?

As the number of individuals (N) approaches the carrying capacity (K) in logistic growth model, (r) will

K selection is a better strategy than R selection because it takes into account the resource constraint factor

Following the previous question, what type of adaptation strategy is the Monarch butterfly using?

The diagram below shows the population size between two species. What can you infer about their relationship?

Which of these is an example of a density dependent factor

The Molly fish would be considered a __ and the sugar maple would be considered a __

Which of the following element is the currency of biological energy transfer?