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Select the response that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Living things do all of the following except
Answer: a. make adjustments to nonliving factors around them
2. Which of the following shows a response to a stimulus?
Answer: b
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3. Cougars are predators that often eat weakened or diseased animals. This is a
description of the ________________ of cougars.
Answer: c. niche
4. Referring to the following diagram, suppose 10,000 units of energy are available at the
level of the grasses. What is the total number of energy units lost by the time energy
reaches the wolf?
Answer: d. 9990 units
5. In the energy pyramid shown in this diagram, which level contains primary producers?
Answer: d. grass
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6. Which of the following information could be included in the description of a
grasshopper’s niche, but not in a description of its habitat?
Answer: b. the locations where it shelters
7. Jamie Knox is a researcher studying reproduction in Taraxacum officinale, the
dandelion. She decides to measure only soil temperature. You think her study is poorly designed.
Why?
Answer: a. Biotic factors probably play a larger role in dandelion reproduction.
8. This graph is probably showing which of the following?
Answer: a. the amount of biomass at three trophic levels in a
particular community
9. The easiest way to diagram predatory and parasitic relationships between several
species would be to use a
Answer c. food web.
10. Which process describes nitrogen fixation?

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Answer: b. Bacteria take nitrogen from the air and convert it into a form usable by plants.
11. A student notices that her guppies reproduce most when her fish tank water is slightly
alkaline. They stop reproducing if the water becomes acidic or if the water becomes too
alkaline. This is an example of
Answer b. zones of tolerance.
12. Ling fed her guppies one-half teaspoon of fish food every day and her average guppy
population in her aquarium over a four-month period was 38 guppies. She increased the
food to one teaspoon per day and after a four-month period, the average population
increased to 53 guppies. Which factor influenced the growth of her guppy population?
Answer c. limiting nutrient
Use the following diagram to answer questions 13-15.
13. According to the diagram, where will you most likely find the greatest diversity?
Answer: c. C
14. According to the diagram, which section would have a lack of organisms due to an
overabundance of resources?
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Answer: d. D
15. According to the diagram, which section would account for a decreased number of
organisms near the bottom of a pond due to a short supply of oxygen and sunlight?
Answer: a. A
16. At which stage in this diagram are the most pioneer species found?
Answer: d.D
17. What type of species would be most likely
found in the area labeled D in this diagram?
Answer: d. decomposers that feed on dead
organisms
18. What single feature is primarily responsible for the variation of climate in different parts
of the world?
Answer: d. amount of precipitation
19. Climate characteristics of a biome vary depending on elevation. Which of the following
would have the same effect on temperature as an increase in altitude?

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Answer: a. an increase in precipitation
20. Which of the following hypotheses is most valuable in explaining the trends seen in the
data?
Answer: d. Nereis occidentalis is more resistant to salinity than Neanthes succinea.
21. If the ecologists were to take a population sample of Neanthes succinea in an area 65
meters from the river mouth with 30% salinity, what do you infer that they would find?
Answer: c. fewer than 5 individuals
22. Some coral reefs off the east coast of South America are starting to die off. Satellite
images reveal great plumes of sediment washing out of the mouths of rivers. What can
you conclude, if anything, about the relationship between these two factors?.
Answer: c. Deforestation on land allows erosion to wash away topsoil, creating sediment
which smothers the reefs.
23. What is the distinction between a range of tolerance and limiting factors?
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Answer: a. Limiting factors are biotic or abiotic factors that limit the growth of a species, while
24. Which of the following does not affect the spatial distribution of a population?
a. the carrying capacity of a population
b. the distribution of food and other resources
c. abiotic conditions such as rainfall and sunlight
d. the existence of predators or parasites
25. Which of the following statements is correct?.
Answer: c. Disease is density-dependent because transmission occurs more easily when a
population is large.
26. How does the logistic model of population growth differ from the exponential model?.
Answer: b.The logistic model considers the environment’s carrying capacity.
27. A fruit fly that has a short life span and produces many offspring can be classified into
which reproductive strategy?
Answer: a. r-strategist

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28. Which characteristic is typical of a k-strategist?
Answer: c. produces many offspring
29. Which of the following methods might be used to decrease the rate of approach to
carrying capacity by the developed world?
Answer: c. decrease resource use
According to the data in the table, which species has the highest average population
size?
Answer: a. Species W
31. If the four areas listed in the table were the only places in the world to find these
organisms, which species most likely faces the greatest chance of extinction?
Answer b. Species X
32. Which area in the table has the greatest biodiversity?
Answer: a. Area A
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33. If all four areas in the table had identical climate and geology, which one would probably
have the smallest area?
Answer a. Area A
What effect did the loss of species B have on species A and D?
Answer: a. The loss of species B caused the populations of A and D to decrease.
35. Which species were not affected by the loss of species B?
c. species C only
36. Which of the following actions would most likely restore the ecosystem represented by
the graph?
Answer: c. Reintroduce species B and D to the ecosystem.
What would most likely happen to the organisms in this food web if the robin began to
disappear?
Answer: d. There would be an overpopulation of caterpillars, which would kill many elm trees.
38. What would most likely happen to the organisms in this ecosystem if the algae began to
disappear?
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Answer: c. The dragonfly population would likewise begin to disappear.
39. Suppose an herbicide is used to kill some of the algae in this ecosystem. The herbicide
does not break down in the environment. Inside the cells of which organism would you
expect to find the highest amount of herbicide?
Answer: b. cougar
40. The disappearance of which of the following pair of species would result in the total
collapse of the food web?
Answer: b. algae and elm trees
41. Decomposes organic material and returns the nutrients to the soil, air, and water
Answer: detritivore
42. a large group of ecosystems that share the same climate and have similar types of
communities
Answer: Biome
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43. the living factors in an organism’s environment
Answer: Biotic
44. a consumer that gets its energy from consuming other organisms
Answer: heterotroph
45. the nonliving factors in an organism’s environment
Answer: Abiotic
46. the maximum number of individuals in a species that an environment can support
Answer: Carrying capacity
47. a stable mature community that results when there is little change in the composition of
a species
Answer: Climax community
48. the study of the size, density, distribution, movement, and birth and death rates in
human populations
Answer: demography
49. the change in an ecosystem when one community replaces another
Answer: Ecological succession

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50. species that are found only in that specific geographic area
Answer: endemic

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1. Living things do all of the following except

Answer: a. make adjustments to nonliving factors around them

2. Which of the following shows a response to a stimulus?

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description of the ________________ of cougars.

reaches the wolf?

Answer: d. 9990 units

6. Which of the following information could be included in the description of a

grasshopper’s niche, but not in a description of its habitat?

Answer: b. the locations where it shelters

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7. Jamie Knox is a researcher studying reproduction in Taraxacum officinale, the

Answer: a. Biotic factors probably play a larger role in dandelion reproduction.

8. This graph is probably showing which of the following?

Answer: a. the amount of biomass at three trophic levels in a

species would be to use a

Answer c. food web.

10. Which process describes nitrogen fixation?

alkaline. This is an example of

Answer b. zones of tolerance.

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Answer c. limiting nutrient

Use the following diagram to answer questions 13-15.

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17. What type of species would be most likely

found in the area labeled D in this diagram?

Answer: d. decomposers that feed on dead

Answer: d. amount of precipitation

would have the same effect on temperature as an increase in altitude?

Answer: a. an increase in precipitation

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Answer: d. Nereis occidentalis is more resistant to salinity than Neanthes succinea.

Answer: c. fewer than 5 individuals

which smothers the reefs.

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a. the carrying capacity of a population

b. the distribution of food and other resources

c. abiotic conditions such as rainfall and sunlight

d. the existence of predators or parasites

25. Which of the following statements is correct?.

Answer: c. Disease is density-dependent because transmission occurs more easily when a

Answer: b.The logistic model considers the environment’s carrying capacity.

which reproductive strategy?

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28. Which characteristic is typical of a k-strategist?

Answer: c. produces many offspring

carrying capacity by the developed world?

Answer: c. decrease resource use

32. Which area in the table has the greatest biodiversity?

have the smallest area?

What effect did the loss of species B have on species A and D?

Answer: a. The loss of species B caused the populations of A and D to decrease.

35. Which species were not affected by the loss of species B?

Answer: c. Reintroduce species B and D to the ecosystem.

Answer: c. The dragonfly population would likewise begin to disappear.

expect to find the highest amount of herbicide?

collapse of the food web?