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What is conservation biology?
When does symbiosis occurs?
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When does symbiosis occurs?
One organism is helped and the other is harmed
One organism is helped and the other isn’t hurt or helped
All of them
When two different organisms live together in a close relationship
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What is conservation biology?
keeping humans out of natural areas
the same as preservation biology
The sustainable use and management of natural resources
all of the above
3
A trophic pyramid shows...
photosynthesis
nutrients in a food chain
the carbon cycle
energy in a food chain
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mutualism, commensalism or parasitism
parasitism
commensalism
mutualism
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secondary succesion
establishment of intact ecosystem where soil was left outact
succesion in the primary form
reestablishment of a damaged ecosys. where soilwas left intc
establishment formmat
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Density independent factors tend to be...
Biotic
Abiotic
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In mutualism:
One benefits while harming the other
Neither benefits
One benefits while not harming the other
Both organisms benefit
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what is an autotroph?
biotic
capture energy and convert to "food"
abiotic
heterotroph
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A volcano destroying an ecosystem just for the area to be recolonized in the next 50 years is an example of?
Adapatation
Secondary Succession
Primary succession
Evolution
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Secondary succession starts with ...?
Animals
Soil
Rocks
Trees
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According to the graph below what biome has an average temperature of 25°C and an annual precipitation of 200 cm
Boreal forest
Tropical seasonal forest
Temperate forest
Grassland
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Density independent factors tend to be...
Biotic
Resources
Migration
Weather and natural disasters.
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A secondary consumer is...
Something that eats only producers.
Something that makes its own food via photosynthesis.
I don't know
Something that eats primary consumers.
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Which does NOT apply to primary succesion?
starts after retreating glacier, volcanic eruption
start with soil
begin with weathering, lichen, pioneer species, then successional species
development of communities in area not recently inhabited by life
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Why do some populations grow exponentially?
They grow past their carrying capacity.
Unlimited resources.
They don't have a limiting factor.
They don't level off.
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The arrows on a food web...
...shows who is the predator.
...shows the direction the energy is moving to
...show who is the prey.
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What is the 10% rule?
10% of the world needs to recycle
10% of energy is dissipated as heat
10% of the U.S. budget goes toward the environment
Only 10% of energy moves up each trophic level
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A dog and a human is what type of symbiosis?
Commensalism
Mutualism
Parisitism
Emotional Suppport
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According to the graph below what biome has an average temperature of 10°C and an annual precipitation of 150 cm
Temperate forest
Tropical seasonal forest
Grassland
Boreal forest
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What is ecology?
Study of relationships of organisms with their environment and each other.
A class I have to take but don't want to?
How people change over time.
The study of money and how it changes.
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What legendary Pokemon is this
Zapdos
Articuno
ELECTIC BIRDIMON
Moltres
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Seasons affect carrying capacity.
False
True
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Density dependent factors tend to be
Availability of resources, preditaiton, disease, and migration.
Small population only.
Weather and natural disasters.
Large population only.
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What is land degradation?
Animals changing the land
Building structres on arable land
The value of land declining due to human activity.
Soil becoming manageable
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According to the graph below what biome has an average temperature of 10°C and an annual precipitation of 250 cm
Grassland
Temperate forest
Boreal forest
Temperate rain forest
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What is a niche?
Any necessity og life, such as water, nutrients, light, food, or space
It describes what a organism does and how it interacts with the environment
A niche describes a general place an organism lives?
A species tolerance for environmental conditions.
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Rocks are a biotic factor.
True
False
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Parasitism is when...
one organism benefits and the other is harmed
turtles eat cheesecake
both organisms benefit
both organisms benefit
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What is an abiotic factor?
Organisms
Non-Living
Plants
Living
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What does a Pyramid of Biomass show
Shows how much biomass is located on each continent
Shows how much biomass is located at each trophic level
Shows how much biomass is located on earth
Show how much each animal weighs
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What is a trophic level?
The ultimate energy source
The transfer of energy
The direction energy and matter is transferred
Each step in a food chain
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The secondary consumers in this food web are...
Grasses
Shrew, frog
Grasshopper and cricket
Snake, shrew, frog
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What is biodiversity?
Study of animal behavior
The regions of the Earth
The concentration of toxins in an organism.
The variety of life that can be found on earth.
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What is the carrying capacity of this species
1 million
1850
2 million
1.5 million
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What is secondary succession?
The type of animals that live in an ecosystem
Growth of oak trees a year
The way plants reproduce
plants and animals recolonize a habitat after a major disturbance
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What is a Population?
Both A and C
Group of Organisms of 1 species that live in the Same Area
Group of Organisms of multiple species that in the Same Area
A group of People
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whos that pokemon
snivy
ivysaur
venasaur
bulbasaur
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According to the graph below what biome has an average temperature of 10°C and an annual precipitation of 50 cm
Temperate forest
Boreal forest
Tropical seasonal forest
Grassland
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A tree is a biotic factor
True
False
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Identify the PRODUCERS in the food web:
Marsh Grass
Marsh grass and Cattail
Cattail
Marsh grass and grasshopper
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Lava flow: density independent or dependent factor?
Density dependent factor
Density independent factor
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According to the graph below what biome has an average temperature of -3°C and an annual precipitation of 100 mm
Boreal forest
Grassland
Tropical seasonal forest
Temperate forest
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What type of symbiosis involves a host?
mutualism
commensalism
parasitism
consumer
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What Carrying Capacity?
The lowest amount a population can be support in an ecosystem
How many things you can carry
The highest amount a population can be support in an ecosystem
The average number of population an ecosystem can support
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What is Symbiosis?
Symbiosis is the relationship of 2 different organisms
Symbiosis is when the fish are not related
symbiosis is when cats get coronavirus
Symbiosis is when pigs have a relationship with fish
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whats a limiting factor
something found in nature that enhances the living parts
a nonliving part of an organism's habitat
an environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
all the different populations that live together in a certain area
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What is Biotic Factor
The living things in an ecosystem
The non-living things in an enviornment.
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What is Population Density?
What the population is made of
The number of people in a given area
The amount people weigh
What humans are made of
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What is a food chain?
An imaginary chain
Blank answer
A string of animals that eat other things.
A chain made of food
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The climax community is
the limiting factor for the community
a long lasting and apparently stable plant community
always changing
the animal species at the top of the food chain
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Why do we usually NOT see populations grow exponentially?
Because populations can only grow until they reach their carrying capacity
Populations can't grow like that.
We do see all populations growing like this.
Populations used to grow like that, but they no longer do.
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The major effects of habitat fragmentation are:
pollution and increase in biodiversity
loss of biodiversity, blocking of animal migration routes
loss of biodiversity, increase in fossil fuel emissions
climate change and pollution
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Invasive species are...
Non-native species to an area
A non-native species to an ecosystem that causes harm
A species that causes harm to an ecosystem
A species from another country
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what is primary succesion?
a food chain
biological and ecological succesion of plant life
a shift
where plants and animals recolonize a habitat after a major disturbance
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Flood: density independent or dependent factor?
Density dependent factor
Density independent factor
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habitat fragmentation
separation of an ecosystem into small pieces of land
the disruption of habitat
the process in which a habitat cannot be removed
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Which is a tertiary consumer?
Frog
Grasshoper
Berries
Fox
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what is a heterotroph?
meat eaters
an organism getting its nutrition from complex organic substances.
autotroph
food web
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What is the single biggest cause of habitat degradation?
the weather
humans
animals
climate change
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whos that pokemon
Tappat
Mr. Mime
Mr. Rime
Alolan Sandslash
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Secondary Consumer
A a plant that makes its own food.
Breaks down dead matter.
Animals that eat primary consumers
Eats producers
