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What is the best definition of a ecological community?
Group of populations living in the same place.
A college where people go to learn more about the world.
Many people living across the world.
One population living in a single spot.
2
If lightning strikes in a dry forest, it often causes
Monsoon
Volcanic Eruption
Wildfire
Hurricane
3
Which of the following is NOT an ABIOTIC factors in an ecosystem?
Plants
Light
Soil
Water
4
The best tool to show energy passing from ALL organisms in an ecosystem.
Food Store
Food Web
Food Chain
Food Line
5
What biome am I?
Tropical rainforest
Taiga
Dessert
Arctic Tundra
6
Name the Biome.
Woodland/Shrubland
Tundra
Taiga
Polar Ice Cap
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When an organism has adapted to fulfill a specific role in an ecosystem.
Habitat
Symbiosis
Niche
Occupation
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The first stage of succesion is
rotation
climax
competition
pioneer
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Burning fuel to produce energy, but also CO2 as a waste
Transpiration
Respiration
Combustion
Evaporation
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Which of the following is NOT a good example of a BIOME?
Taiga
Mountain range
Desert
Temperate forest
11
Nitrogen fixation is the process in the nitrogen cycle that...
Nitrogen is fixed into the atmosphere
Bacteria in the roots of plants turn N2 gas into usable form
Bacteria in the soil turn nitrogen back into N2 gas
Nitrogen is removed from dead organisms to be used
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Name the Biome.
Savanna
Tropical Rainforest
Woodland
Desert
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All of these are steps in the nitrogen cycle EXCEPT...
Decomposition of dead organic matter
Nitrogen fixation
Absorption by plants
Manifestation
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Name one characteristic of the tropical dry forest.
Deciduous plant life
Alternating wet and dry seasons
Nutrient-poor soils
Permafrost
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How are humans affecting the nitrogen cycle?
Runoff from fertilisers
They are not
Forest fires and deforestation
Mining Waste
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Tropical rain forests can usually be found
near the Arctic Circle
near the equator
in the desert
all over the world
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Why is the carbon cycle needed?
Because without carbon the Sun would run out of energy
Because carbon dioxide are needed for animals to breathe in
It's the basis of all organic materials
Because carbon is a key element in producing electricity
18
How do animals survive in a tropical dry forest during the dry season?
They save bottled water for the dry season.
Animals die off.
Animals migrate or go into estivation, a sleep state.
Deciduous animals hibernate.
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The correct order of water cycle...
runoff, precipitation, condensation, evaporation
precipitation, condensation, runoff, evaporation
condensation, runoff, evaporation, precipitation
evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff
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What are the three stages of the nitrogen cycle?
Evaporation, condensation, precipitation
Ammonification, fossilization, runoff
Combustion, fossilization, feeding
Nitrogen fixation, nitrification, and denitrification.
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What is the SMALLEST grouping of similar organisms called?
Community
Family
Species
Population
22
Which choice is NOT a usual reason for competition in nature?
Over shelter
Over food
Over mates
Over anger
23
What biome has permafrost
Grassland
Tundra
Temperate rainforests
Taiga
24
How do you call the animal hunted by a carnivore?
Microbe
Herbivore
Human
Prey
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The struggle between individuals or populations for a limited resource.
Symbiosis
Argument
Competition
Fight
26
Which is the proper order for the FIVE LEVELS that environments are organized into.
Biome, Organism, Ecosystem, Population, Community.
Biome, Ecosystem, Community, Population, Organism.
Community, Population, Organism, Biome, Ecosystem.
Organism, Ecosystem, Community, Population, Biome
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What does respiration have to do with the carbon cycle?
It turns water into ice.
It is a type of carbon atom.
It releases carbon into the air.
It is step three.
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The Carbon Cycle...
All of the above
Affected by volcanoes
Relies on decomposing organisms
Has Combustion through burning fossil fuels
29
What is the study of organisms and their environment called?
Psychology
Ecology
Geology
Biology
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What does adhesion do?
Hydrogen bonding make water molecules stick to certain surfaces
Hydrogen bonding makes water molecules stick strongly to one another
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The physical location that an organism lives
Biome
Niche
Ecosystem
Habitat
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abiotic factors of temperate grassland
moderate rainfall
grass
cold summers
warm winters
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Two organisms cannot occupy the same niche as one of them will eventually die out.
Ruling out principle
Big bang theory
Competitive exclusion principle
Niche eliminating principle
34
What is a stage of the carbon cycle?
All of the above
Respiration
Combustion
Photosynthesis
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This is the last question of the game, you feel...
good
ENERGETIC!!!
URGH
hungry
36
What plants does a grassland biome have?
Tall trees
Mini trees
Small shrubs
Only sands and rocks
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Which is INCORRECT for why birds and insects disappear during the winter?
Temperature is too cold
Little food available
Difficult to find unfrozen water
Too many people active
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Water vapor is released from liquid water
Precipitation
Transpiration
Evaporation
Evapotranspiration
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A negative result of organisms staying close together.
Can work together to find or catch food.
More likely to fight with other animals.
Difficult for predators to pick out one target.
Easier to find a mate.
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The living factors in an ecosystem
Biotic
Unbiotic
Rebiotic
Abiotic
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Which of the following is an example of PARASITISM?
A tick drinks blood from a dog
A vulture eats the remains of food after a lion
A hawk eats a fish
A bee drinks nectar and brings pollen to another plant
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Which of the following is an example of COMMENSALISM?
A tick drinks blood from a dog
A hawk eats a fish
A bee drinks nectar and brings pollen to another plant
A vulture eats the remains of food after a lion
43
What is cohesion?
When water molecules stick to other substances
When water molecules separate
Cohesion has no been proven to be a scientific law yet
When water molecules stick to each other
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Which one is a Biome?
Rainforest
Dessert
Tundru
Oceen
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Which word CANNOT be used to describe a PREDATOR?
Carnivoire
Consumer
Herbivoire
Heterotroph
46
A coniferous forest differs from a tropical dry forest because
It is drier.
It is cooler.
It is hotter.
It is rainier.
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Is This a Biome?
No
Yes
48
Which type of event would lead to secondary succesion?
Land after a volcanic eruption covers land in magma
The Formation of a new island from magma
Land after a glacier recedes
A forest after a fire
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Name the Biome.
Savanna
Woodland
Desert
Tropical Rainforest
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A group of the same species living in the same area at the same time
Population
Family
Density
Species
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Which of the following is an example of MUTUALISM?
A tick drinks blood from a dog
A vulture eats the remains of food after a lion
A bee drinks nectar and brings pollen to another plant
A hawk eats a fish
52
Why can't trees grow in Temperate Grassland
It is too dry
The soil is too thin
It is too wet
All of the above!
53
What is a grassland?
A small area with no grass, bad for farming.
A big area with sand everywhere.
A big area where food dances.
A big area covered with grass, good for farming.
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What species causes the beginning of primary succesion?
Plants
Snails
Deer
Lichen
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What is SYMBIOSIS?
A distant relationship
A close relationship
A greedy relationship
A jealous relationship
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What type of succesion is pictured below?
Secondary
Primary
None
Grassland
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Secondary succesion is
succession with a base level of soil
succesion in the primary form
succession with a base level of rock
succesion with a base level of phosphorus
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Tundra is...
Cold area of snow that has plants and some animals
Cold area of ice that has lots of life
Cold area of snow that has no life
Cold area of snow that has plants and nothing else
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What is the main difference between a CONIFEROUS tree and a DECIDUOUS tree
Coniferous tree never loose their leaves seasonally
Deciduous trees live in very cold places
Coniferous trees eat meat
Deciduous trees never loose their leaves seasonally
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What can lightning do, in terms of the nitrogen cycle?
Break the triple covalent bond of nitrogen gas
Make photosynthesis occur faster
Combust carbon dioxide in the air
Provide great photographs for photographers
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Which does NOT apply to primary succesion?
starts after retreating glacier, volcanic eruption
begin with weathering, lichen, pioneer species, then successional species
development of communities in area not recently inhabited by life
start with soil and seeds
