APES EXAM REVIEW Units 1-2

Which of the below is undergoing secondary succession?

The warmest month is

Cold, little snow, short summer season; polar bears, the musk ox, penguin; Arctic and Antarctic

Water moves from aquatic/land systems to air

Primary Productivity is influenced by

All of the following increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere except

Which of the following would be categorized as a regulating ecosystem service?

Which is true of an organism's range of tolerance?

warm, nutrient-rich, shallow water that contains 90% of all marine species

Ecological succession is

An ecosystem includes

Conifer trees; Canada, Eurasia; Winters long & cold, short growth season; grizzly bear, moose

Lack of genetic diversity leads to

Organisms that are found in only one specific part of the Earth and no where else

Which island will have higher species richness?

What is the major reservoir of nitrogen?

Which law states energy cannot be created or destroyed, only converted to other forms

Which of the following would most likely occur if decomposers became extinct?

the most important abiotic factor in determining a biome is

A bumblebee transports pollen from one flower to another helping it reproduce as it gets nectar

Which tree species is a late-successional species?

A non-native species

Atmospheric nitrogen gas is converted to ammonia by bacteria in the soil or by lightning

What is the major reservoir of phosphorus?

Habitat or wildlife corridors

Which is an economic service of marine ecosystems?

A keystone species

Red-headed woodpeckers forage for insects deep in a tree while warblers travel up tree trunks

An indicator species

Introduced species often become pests because they

Logging, mining, building of roads, and urban development

An abiotic factor includes all of the following except

Decomposers are essential to life on Earth because they

Which organism listed below is correctly paired?

Which is true of generalists and specialists?

Domestication can lead to

Use the food web to answer the question. What is the role of the fox?

Two robins fight over a worm in a backyard garden

Only cycle that does not have an atmospheric reservoir

What is the best way to limit the harmful impacts of nonnative species?

Which community is more biodiverse?

Northern Hemisphere; maple, oak trees; long warm growing season & cold winter; Squirrels

Which biome would have the slowest cycling of nutrients?

Resource partitioning can be accomplished through

Who are the first organisms to colonize a barren area

Which characteristic can put a species in greater danger of becoming extinct?

Plants get 100 units of energy, __ units support herbivores, and __ units support carnivores

Prairie; Bison, prairie dogs hawks; fertile soil; plains of North America, steppes of Eurasia

Which is an ecological service of forest ecosystems?

Process of converting carbon dioxide into glucose

Seeds harmlessly stick to what brushes on them: feathers, fur, clothing to spread their seeds

When organisms die, their nitrogenous organic compounds are converted to ammonia

Acceptable means of controlling introduced invasive species include

Elephants are hunted for their ivory tusks which can be sold for thousands of dollars

What do primary consumers eat?

Which type of succession is shown?

Dry; Daytime can reach 131 degrees, drop to near freezing; camels; date palm trees and cacti

What is one major way in which humans negatively impact the water cycle?

Most biologically diverse; near the equator; lush vegetation; high temperature and rainfall

In this energy pyramid, the snake is a ___________consumer?

The loss of this species and cause other populations in the ecosystem to collapse

Warm year round; wet & dry; E. Africa, Brazil; lions, Zebras; elephant grass, African daisies

A treaty controlling the international trade in endangered species

Evergreen shrubs; California; mild, wet winters & warm, dry summers; kangaroo, gemsbok

Non-native Burmese pythons are out-competing native species in the Florida Everglades

Global climate change will affect animals by

Salamander densities in the mature forests were 5 times higher than those in the recently logged forests

The driest month is

A change in a population over time as the environment changes

Which of these animals eats on the lowest trophic level?

Which community will be more resilient in the event of an environmental stressor?

A bobcat stalks, captures and consumes a rabbit.

Two species have the same niche. When placed together, Species A survived while Species B died

Different birds compete for food along the river shore

What causes biodiversity loss?

Ammonium ions are converted to nitrite ions and nitrate ions which can be used by plants

Plant-like organisms that support marine food webs

Two ways in which humans have most interfered with the carbon cycle are

Organic nitrate is used as nutrients for plants which are eaten by animals

What year post-disturbance had the greatest species richness?

Which tree species is a pioneer species?

Any heritable trait that helps an organism survive in a particular environment

US law that prohibits the collecting, hunting, killing or habitat loss of endangered species

Adaptations that help prey evade predators are

In a population of moths living on light colored trees in a forest, an adaptive trait would be

Which is an ecological service of marine ecosystems?

Which law explains the diagram below

NPP is 10,000 kcal/m2 per year. If respiration is 4,000 kcal/m2, what is the GPP of the ecosystem?

Adaptations that benefit predators

Evolution by natural selection is when genes ____, individuals ____, and populations ____.

The process by which organisms become adapted to their environment over time

Nitrate is converted to nitrogen gas by soil bacteria

What is the major reservoir of carbon?

A leech attaches to the leg of a human to feed off blood while swimming in a local waterway.

Which type of succession is shown?

What is the equation for percent change?

Photosynthesis is the major source of which of the following gases in Earth’s atmosphere?

What is the major reservoir of water?

Generalist species

Chemosynthesis