Ecology Review

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Which organisms are direct sources of energy for secondary consumers in a meadow food web? Options: Aphid, Bird, Rabbit, Ladybug, Fox, Dragonfly, Frog, Butterfly, Berries, Mouse, Snake, Hawk.

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Aphid, Bird, Rabbit

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How does the difference in foraging behavior between nuthatches and brown creepers affect them?

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Reducing competition between the birds for resources

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What role do microorganisms play in natural habitats when converting vegetable and paper scraps into fertilizer?

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The microorganisms help keep nutrients cycling through the ecosystems.

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Which stage of succession is likely to have the most species diversity? Options: A newly formed volcanic island, An agricultural field that has never been plowed, A temperate forest that has never been cleared by logging, A field that is regularly mowed

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A temperate forest that has never been cleared by logging

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Which organism would be placed at the top of the energy pyramid in a swamp ecosystem? Options: Grass carp, American Alligator, Eastern mud turtle, Great blue heron

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American Alligator

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During secondary succession, why do decomposing pioneer species give way to larger, more complex plant species, such as hardwood trees?

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Increased amounts of soil from decomposing pioneer species allow plants with more extensive root systems to become established.

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The ocean sunfish (Mola mola) is a large, flat fish that spends most of its time in deep water feeding mainly on jellyfish. Sunfish often have many species of copepods, small crustaceans, that bury their heads into the soft tissue of the sunfish. Sunfish will swim to the surface of the water and lie sideways, allowing seabirds to eat the copepods from their skin. Which describes the types of relationships the sunfish has with other marine organisms? Options: Seabirds, Jellyfish, Copepods

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Seabirds: mutualism, Jellyfish: predation, Copepods: parasitism

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Surtsey is an island located south of Iceland. The island was formed by a volcanic eruption and first appeared in 1963. The table below contains descriptions of changes in the population and diversity on Surtsey. Which of these lists the descriptions in the correct order of ecological succession on Surtsey? Options: I, II, IV, III, III, I, II, IV, IV, III, I, II, II, IV, I, III

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II, IV, I, III

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List only organisms that are secondary consumers in a terrestrial food web: mice, rabbits, herbivorous insects, and squirrels; spiders, foxes, owls, hawks, snakes; predaceous insects, toads, spiders, and foxes; insectivorous birds, seed-eating birds, owls.

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spiders, foxes, owls, hawks, snakes

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What is lost to the environment at each trophic level of a marine ecosystem?

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heat

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