Evolution occurs due to four factors, which is the exception

Mutations in body cells get passed down to offspring

Which 2 things give variations in organisms

New combinations of existing genes and mutations in gametes

What are 2 factors that promote natural selection

Competitions and the changing environment

Which of the following is not a part of Darwins theory of natural selection

Modifications organism acquires during its lifetime can be passed to offspr

Why do you sometimes shiver when you’re cold?

Your muscles are contracting and creating friction to give off heat

Which phrase best defines evolution by natural selection

A process of change in species over time

All of these factors are examples of how carbon moves through the carbon cycle except

Biological processes like eutrophication and transpiration

On hot days how does the plant respond to not having enough water in the plant

Closes stomata so transpiration can not occur

According to Darwin’s theory of natural selection, the individuals that tend to survive are those that have

Variations best suited to the environment

How do biochemical or genetic similarities show evolutionary relationships

Fewer mutations in DNA when comparing organisms the more recent com. Ancest

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1
Which process is letter K
Nitrogen gas
Transpiration
Eutrophication
Dentrification
2
Evolution is due to all of the following except
Gene flow
Genetic drift
Natural selection
Random mating
3
Organisms that obtain nutrients by breaking down dead and decaying plants and animals are called
Autotrophs
Producers
Omnivores
Decomposers
4
The ____ carries water and nutrients up the plant and ____ carries sugars down the plant
Xylem, hypha
Hypha, xylem
Phloem, xylem
Xylem, phloem
5
Which is not a potential threat or danger to biodiversity
Mutations
Pollution
Invasive species
Habitat destruction
6
All of these organisms have what characteristics in common
Bony skeleton
Vertebrae
Eggs with shells
Hair
7
Evolution occurs due to four factors, which is the exception
Mutations in body cells get passed down to offspring
Heritable variation
Individual survive and reproduce that are best suited for the environment
Competition for limited resources
8
What would be step 2 in this cycle
Condensation
Transpiration
Nitrogen fixation
Evaporation
9
What percentage of energy is passed to the next tropic level
20%
10%
30%
50%
10
Variation is caused by all of the following except
Mitosis
Meiosis
Environmental mutations
Replication errors
11
Variation within a species is caused by all the following except
Sexual reproduction
Asexual reproduction
Mutations of genes in gametes
Crossing over
12
Which 2 things give variations in organisms
New combinations of existing genes and mutations in gametes
Asexual reproduction and survival of the fittest
Competition and changing environments
Errors during replication and homeostasis
13
In order to keep the world in order, it needs a continuous input of
Energy
Water
Oxygen
Heat
14
What expands when an organism is to hot
Blood vessels
Sweat glands
Muscles of heart wall
Stomach
15
What are two human actions that affect life and biodiversity?
Farming and working in factories
Deforestation and pollution
Racing animals on farms and eating them
Weather and natural disasters
16
Which of the following decreases carrying capacity
Predators creating commensalism
Prey creating competition
Predators creating competition
Prey creating commensalism
17
The internal environment of a house to a thermostat as the human body is to
Liver
Hypothalamus
Pancreas
Skin
18
Bacteria in a persons digestive system feeds and breaks down the food, which the person is then able to absorb
Commensalism
Parasitism
Predation
Mutualism
19
What is the process that results in adaptation of a population to the biotic and abiotic environment
Gene flow
Artificial selection
Genetic drift
Natural selection
20
Ecosystems change due to the effect of all of these following except
Localized evolution
Migration
Succession
Spreading disease
21
What’s this entire diagram called
Food web
Food chain
Web of organisms
Cladogram
22
Which factor is not used to describe a population?
Density and distribution
Predator
Age structure
Geographic range
23
Which of the following is not a way that invasive species affects an ecosystem
Take nutrients away from other organisms
Reduce the amount of habitat for other organisms
Add nutrients to an ecosystem
Reduce the amount of sunlight for other plants
24
What are 2 factors that promote natural selection
Competitions and the changing environment
Predators and prey
Producers and consumers
Genetic drift and gene flow
25
Which of the following is not a part of Darwins theory of natural selection
Modifications organism acquires during its lifetime can be passed to offspr
Individuals of a population vary
Organisms tend to over-reproduce themselves
Variations possessed by individuals of a population are heritable
26
A frog that has eaten an insect that fed on a plant is
First level consumer
Third level consumer
Second level consumer
First level producer
27
How do advantageous traits become more common in a population
Genetic drift
Natural selection
Gene flow
Artificial selection
28
What process is letter B
Decomposition
Nitrogen fixation
Transpiration
Eutrophication
29
All of the following are involved in regulating the process of homeostasis except
Glands
Muscles
Bones
Nerves
30
In the diagram, which organism provides nutrients for the largest number of other organisms
Grasses
Grasshopper
Grains
Fox and owl
31
Which of the following gasses is produced from fossil fuel combustion and deforestation and leads to greenhouse effect
Methane
Oxygen
Nitrogen
Carbon dioxide
32
All of the following can effect population size except
Death rates
Age structure
Gene flow
Birth rates
33
What is an example of homeostasis in a multicellular organism
Regulating body temp
Building a nest
Inheriting a trait
Growing larger and stronger
34
Why do you sometimes shiver when you’re cold?
The lack of heat causes your skin to tighten and become stiff
Your muscles are contracting and creating friction to give off heat
Your muscles are shaking off excess water to release heat
It causes blood to rush to the surface of your skin and release heat
35
Which concept includes the other 3
Competition
Survival of the fittest
Natural selection
Overproduction of offspring
36
Which of the following statements about mutualism is true
Both organisms are harmed
One benefits one is harmed
Both organisms benefit
One benefits one is unaffected
37
What systems are involved in maintaining pH balance in our body
Digestive and muscular
Excretory and reproductive
Circulatory and respiratory
Integumentary and endocrine
38
Which phrase best defines evolution by natural selection
Sudden replacement of one population by another
An adaptation of a species to its environment
A process of change in species over time
Change in a species as it becomes more perfect
39
What happens to a population that lacks advantageous heritable traits
Increases then decreases
Stats the same
Increases
Decreases
40
The process by which organisms keep their internal conditions relatively stable is called
Homeostasis
Evolution
Succession
Metabolism
41
All of these factors are examples of how carbon moves through the carbon cycle except
Human activities like mining and deforestation
Biological processes like eutrophication and transpiration
Geochemical processes like erosion and volcanic activity
Biological processes like photosynthesis and respiration
42
On hot days how does the plant respond to not having enough water in the plant
Opens stomata so transpiration can occur
Closes stomata which creates more pressure to bring water up from roots
Closes stomata so transpiration can not occur
Opens stomata to bring in more oxygen so water can be made
43
According to Darwin’s theory of natural selection, the individuals that tend to survive are those that have
Characteristics that plant and animal breeders value
Characteristics their parents acquired by use and disuse
The greatest number of offspring
Variations best suited to the environment
44
Which organisms have four legs, jaw bones, and vertebral column
Salamander and turtle
All of the organisms
Salamander turtle and wolf
Grouper ,salamander, turtle, and wolf
45
What is essential for evolution to occur
Genetic variation
Acquired characteristics
Artificial selection
Organisms move towards perfection
46
In this food chain, what percentage of the original energy gathered by the producer would the frog receive
1%
0.1%
0.01%
100%
47
All of the following are types of matter that get recycled through our ecosphere except
Oxygen
Water
Nitrogen
Energy
48
What systems are involved in maintaining water balance
Circulatory and excretory
Digestive and muscular
Skeletal and integumentary
Reproductive and respiratory
49
Which of the following is NOT a part to Darwins theory
Acquired traits are passed on
Survival of the fittest
Natural selection
Common descent
50
All of the following are primary sources of water pollution except
Biochemicals
Sewage
Agricultural chemicals
Industrial chemicals
51
How do biochemical or genetic similarities show evolutionary relationships
When organisms share the same habitat
Fewer mutations in DNA when comparing organisms the more recent com. Ancest
The greater the physical characteristics between 2 organisms more rec com a
More mutations in DNA when comparing organisms the more recent comm. Ancest
52
Which one of the following is not an agent of natural evolutionary change
Mutation
Genetic drift
Artificial selection
Non random mating
53
When a dog is hot, it breathes out heavily with its tongue out which cools the dog down. This is an example of
Sustainability
Homeostasis
Speciation
Symbiosis
54
What Group of tortoises has approximately 5% of the population
Females ages 41-60
Males age is 81 through 100
Males age 41-60
Females ages 81- 100
55
All the following are abiotic except
Fungus
Air
Rocks
Water
56
What is the percentage of the population that are female and under the age of 20
22
15
19
20
57
Sheep and pigs have more enzymes in common than sheep’s and frogs do. This finding may indicate that
Frogs are not related to pigs
Frogs are more closely related to sheep than pigs
Sheep are more closely related to pigs than frogs
None of these animals are related
58
Which of the following is not evidence used to show probable evolutionary relationships & common ancestry in classifica
Fossil record
Embryological development
Physical characteristics
Homologous structures
59
Which level of organization is in the correct order from smallest to largest
Community, biome, ecosystem, biosphere
Population, ecosystem, biosphere, biome
Population, community, ecosystem biosphere
Biosphere, ecosystem, community, population
60
Matter is different from energy because
Matter is released as heat and energy is formed into different forms
Matter is formed into different forms an energy is released as heat
Matters used up an energy changes forms
Matter is used up an energy gets recycled
61
What would be 5 in this diagram
Transpiration
Decomposition
Cellular respiration
Photosynthesis
62
In the early stages of development, embryos of dogs, pigs and humans resemble one another this suggests the animals may
Have similar habitat requirements
Have a common ancestry
Have the same blood components
Have a similar number of chromosomes
63
Because there’s more oxygen in the lungs than the blood around the, oxygen diffuses
From veins in blood into arteries in blood
From veins into lungs
From arteries into lungs
From lungs into veins
64
How is a new species formed?
Reproductive isolation
Gene flow
Large population
Random mating
65
A snake that eats a frog that has eaten an insect that fed on a plant is a
First level consumer
Producer
Herbivore
Carnivore
66
Why is it important to maintain a constant body temperature?
To stop the multiplication of bacteria in the body
To maintain the optimum temperature for enzyme
So that we don’t get cold
So we have enough energy to move
67
Homeostasis regulates all of the following bodily processes except
Production of gametes
Your body temp
Pulse rate
Breathing
68
What would letter F represent in the carbon cycle
Photosynthesis
Transpiration
Cellular respiration
Eutrophication
69
As resources in a population become less available the population
Enters a phase of exponential growth
Declines rapidly
Increased slowly
Reaches carrying capacity
70
Why has group behavior evolved over time
It’s due to gene flow
It decreases fitness
It’s due to genetics drift
It increases survival and reproduction of a species
71
Which of the following statements about commensalism is true
Both organisms benefit the same
One organism benefits and the other is unaffected
One organism benefits the other benefits more
One organism benefits and the other is harmed
72
What do the arrows in the diagram represent?
Evolutionary relationships
Direction of energy flow
Fundamental niche
Parasitism
73
What is the digestive system regulated by
Nerves and hormones
Hormones and amount of water in the blood
Nerves and the amount of food you eat
Hormones and nutrients in the blood
74
One benefit of wetlands is that they support a wide variety of plants and animals, which means wetlands have great
Biodiversity
Symbiosis
Sustainability
Homeostasis
75
All of the following are evidences of climate change except
Number of fires and hurricanes increasing
Sea levels rising
Shrinking ice sheets
Glaciers getting thicker
76
If a population grows larger than the carrying capacity of the environment, the
Birth rate may fall
Death rate may fall
Birth rate may rise
Death rate may rise
77
What system controls the balance of internal and external environments
Endocrine
Excretory
Nervous
Circulatory
78
Which of the following phrases best describes the results of natural selection
The natural variation found in all populations
The struggle for existence undergone by all living things
Unrelated but similar species living in different locations
The changes in the inherited characteristics of a population
79
Of the remaining energy that is not passed on to the next tropic level, where does it go
Stored as fat
Used for reproduction
Stored as body tissues
Eliminated as heat
80
Changes in environmental conditions may result in all of these except
Extinction of other species
Increase in number of individuals of the same species
Invasive species
Emergence of new species
81
Which concept is part of the modern evolutionary theory but not Darwins original theory
The environment is responsible for eliminating less fit individuals
Variations in traits are caused by mutations and crossing over
Species tend to produce more offspring than can survive
Better adapted individuals survive to produce more offspring
82
Who/what is leaving behind the greatest ecological footprint
Viruses
Human
Bacteria
Plants
83
What should there be the most of in a pyramid of biomass?
Primary consumers
Decomposers
Producers
Secondary consumers
84
A factor that is necessary for the formation of a new species is
Reproductive isolation
Bottleneck effect
Genetic drift
Succession
85
All of the following factors affect the carrying capacity of an ecosystem except
Fresh water
Light
Homeostasis
Food and nutrient availability
86
Which of the following is an example of a detritivore
Bear
King vulture
Shrimp
Fungus
87
All of the following organisms capture sunlight for photosynthesis except
Fungi
Cyanobacteria
Algae
Plants
88
What would the snake represent in this food chain
Secondary consumer
Primary consumer
Tertiary consumer
Producer
89
What is this diagram called
Punnet square
Molecular clock
Food web
Cladogram
90
How many animals have amniotic eggs
4
5
3
2

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