Honors Ecology Review

Question 1

How much energy would the 4th level of a food chain contain if the primary producer had 200,000

Accepted Answer

200J

Question 2

Each species is evolving in response to the other. Which of type of reproductive pressure?

Accepted Answer

Co-Evolution

Question 3

What is the max number of levels in a food chain or web? Why?

Accepted Answer

4-5; there is not enough energy to continue passing on

Question 4

Which of the following is not part of the Second Law of Thermodynamics?

Accepted Answer

Heat energy never leaves the earth

Question 5

How efficient is energy transfer between trophic levels in food chain or web?

Accepted Answer

inefficient; 10% passes on & the rest is used for metabolism

Question 6

What is it called when the concertation of poison increases as you go further up the food chain

Accepted Answer

Biological magnification

Question 7

Which of the following biome trends is false?

Accepted Answer

light intensity increases towards the poles

Question 8

Pick a producer from the food web...

Accepted Answer

grass

Question 9

A species in an ideal environment with unlimited resources is growing straight up. Which type?

Accepted Answer

Intrinsic (Exponential)

Question 10

Which survivorship curve would be impossible?

Accepted Answer

B because no organism can spontaneously regrow

Question 11

A population that stays around the carrying capacity is what type of selective species?

Accepted Answer

K selective

Question 12

Which of these is a BIOTIC factor?

Accepted Answer

competing species

Question 13

How do consumers get their energy?

Accepted Answer

eating other organisms

Question 14

Which location has the greatest species richness?

Accepted Answer

B

Question 15

Which species in the food web would be a tertiary consumer?

Accepted Answer

Hawk and fox

Question 16

Which location has the greatest relative abundance?

Accepted Answer

A

Question 17

How is the tropical rainforest so productive and how does it support so many types of species?

Accepted Answer

lots of rain, light, and warm temperatures

Question 18

Which bacteria coverts NH3 to NH4 in the roots of plants in the nitrogen cycle?

Accepted Answer

Nitrogen fixing

Question 19

What type of succession occurs when soil already exists?

Accepted Answer

Secondary

Question 20

What is the difference in swamps and marshes?

Accepted Answer

Swamps have trees and marshes have reed grasses

Question 21

Pick a primary consumer from the food web...

Accepted Answer

rabbit

Question 22

Pick a tertiary consumer from the food web...

Accepted Answer

hawk

Question 23

If men are considered more important and more men live, what could be a future issue?

Accepted Answer

Less women to marry and men will be aggressive in competing

Question 24

Pick a secondary consumer from the food web...

Accepted Answer

weasel

Question 25

Plants live in the benthos (bottom) regions of bodies of water...

Accepted Answer

False

Question 26

How is acid precipitation formed and what does it do to plants?

Accepted Answer

Burning fossil fuels; leaches the nutrients from their roots

Question 27

How do producers get their energy?

Accepted Answer

photosynthesis

Question 28

If the grass was contaminated by a toxin, what would the effects on the food web be?

Accepted Answer

cosumers could die and the toxin would magnify each level

Honors Ecology Review

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Honors Ecology Review

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