Biology and Evolution Quiz

Question 1

What causes biodiversity loss?

Accepted Answer

Habitat destruction, pollution, overexploitation, invasive species

Question 2

What are two causes of environmental problems?

Accepted Answer

Population growth and resource consumption

Question 3

What is the difference between primary and secondary succession?

Accepted Answer

Primary: starts on bare rock; Secondary: starts after disturbance

Question 4

How does reproductive isolation occur?

Accepted Answer

Barriers prevent interbreeding between populations

Question 5

What are the levels of organization in the environment (start with the individual)?

Accepted Answer

Individual, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere

Question 6

What are the general steps of meiosis?

Accepted Answer

Prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase (twice)

Question 7

What are the categories of animal behavior?

Accepted Answer

Innate, learned, social, reproductive

Question 8

Explain food chains/webs. What organisms are found at each level? How is energy transferred?

Accepted Answer

Producers, consumers, decomposers; energy flows from producers up

Question 9

What are the types of population growth? What do these graphs look like?

Accepted Answer

J-shaped and S-shaped curves, Exponential and logistic growth

Question 10

How do humans impact the biogeochemical cycles on earth?

Accepted Answer

By altering cycles through pollution, deforestation, and resource use

Question 11

Compare density independent and density dependent limiting factors.

Accepted Answer

Affected by population size vs not affected by population size

Question 12

What factors affect population growth?

Accepted Answer

Birth rate, death rate, immigration, emigration

Question 13

What are the categories of environmental problems (3 main ones)?

Accepted Answer

Resource depletion, pollution, loss of biodiversity

Question 14

What is the definition of environmental science?

Accepted Answer

The study of interactions between humans and the environment

Question 15

What are keystone species and why are they important?

Accepted Answer

Species that have a large impact on ecosystem structure

Question 16

Compare biotic and abiotic.

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Biotic: living; Abiotic: nonliving

Question 17

What is a karyotype? Why are they used?

Accepted Answer

A chart of chromosomes used to detect genetic disorders

Question 18

How have the classification systems changed over time?

Accepted Answer

From simple to more complex systems based on new information

Question 19

How are earth’s resources managed?

Accepted Answer

Through sustainable practices in forestry, mining, and agriculture

Question 20

What is the reason both mitosis and meiosis occur?

Accepted Answer

To create new cells for growth, repair, or reproduction

Question 21

How can natural selection change a population?

Accepted Answer

By shifting traits in a population over time

Question 22

What is a tree diagram showing about an organism's relationships and evolution?

Accepted Answer

Evolutionary relationships among species

Question 23

How many cells are produced in mitosis and meiosis? Are they genetically identical?

Accepted Answer

Mitosis: 2 identical cells, Meiosis: 4 non-identical cells

Question 24

What are the rules of binomial nomenclature?

Accepted Answer

Genus capitalized, species lowercase, both italicized or underlined

Question 25

What can cause speciation?

Accepted Answer

Geographic isolation, genetic drift, mutation

Question 26

Why is the concept of biomagnification important?

Accepted Answer

It explains how toxins increase in concentration up the food chain

Question 27

How are anatomy, embryology, and DNA/amino acid sequences used to explain how organisms are related to each other?

Accepted Answer

Similarities and differences that indicate evolutionary relationships

Question 28

What are the spheres of the Earth? How do they interact with each other?

Accepted Answer

Atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, biosphere interact through cycles

Question 29

What are non-market values?

Accepted Answer

Values not included in the price of goods, like ecosystem services

Question 30

Why do we classify organisms?

Accepted Answer

To organize and understand diversity of life

Question 31

Explain the relationship between plants and pollinators.

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Pollinators help plants reproduce by transferring pollen

Question 32

What is the difference between vascular plants and nonvascular plants?

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Vascular plants have specialized tissues for transport; nonvascular do not

Question 33

What is the definition of species?

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A group of organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring

Question 34

Why is biodiversity important?

Accepted Answer

It supports ecosystem stability and human well-being

Question 35

What are some ways bacteria are both harmful and helpful?

Accepted Answer

Cause disease and aid digestion

Question 36

How are plants important?

Accepted Answer

They produce oxygen and food, provide habitat, and regulate climate

Question 37

Explain the 5 types of species interactions.

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Competition, predation, mutualism, commensalism, parasitism

Question 38

Identify parts of the flower.

Accepted Answer

Stamen, pistil, petals, sepals

Question 39

What is sustainability?

Accepted Answer

Meeting needs without compromising future generations

Question 40

What is natural selection? How does it occur?

Accepted Answer

Organisms better adapted to environment survive

Question 41

What are the 7 major taxonomic groups?

Accepted Answer

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

Question 42

What is carrying capacity? Why is it important?

Accepted Answer

Maximum population size an environment can support

Question 43

What is the lytic and lysogenic life cycle of viruses?

Accepted Answer

Lytic: virus destroys host cell; Lysogenic: virus integrates into host DNA

Question 44

In what cells do mitosis and meiosis occur?

Accepted Answer

Mitosis in somatic cells, meiosis in gametes

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