ES Semester 1 Review

Multiple Choice

Which of these is a scientfic question you could ask about pillar coral in order to find out more about this animal?

• Should governments make sure that these animals are protected?

• Is this the most interesting type of coral in the ocean?

• How do zooxanthellae affect pillar coral?

• What do people like the most about pillar coral?

Multiple Select

Select ALL of the hypotheses.

• Coral eat the tiny larvae of many fish.

• Coral get food from the zooxanthellae insdie them.

• Can coral survive without zooxanthellae?

• Coral eat the tiny organisms called zooxanthellae.

• Coral get food by conducting photosynthesis.

Multiple Choice

You hypothesis that coral eat zooxanthellae. To test this, you will perform an experiment. Which empirical evidence would support your hypothesis?

Empirical evidence is based on observations.

• Coral with a plentiful supply of zooxanthellae grow larger than coral without.

• Coral without zooxanthellae grow larger than coral with it.

• The temperature of the water has increased over the course of your observation.

• You count the number of fish.

Draw

Match the names with their focus.

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Match the names with their focus.

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Match the names with their focus.

Multiple Select

Select the 2 reasons that liquid water can exist on Earth.

• gravity

• distance from the Sun

• age of the Earth

• climate change

Multiple Choice

Gravitational pull of the Sun and moon causes _______.

• waves

• deep sea currents

• surface currents

• tides

Multiple Choice

Differences in temperature and salinity causes _________

• waves

• deep sea currents

• surface currents

• tides

Draw

Match the plate boundary with its movement

Multiple Choice

Weathering __________ rocks/sediment, whereas erosion _________ rocks/sediment.

• breaks down/moves

• moves/breaks down

Multiple Choice

Which picture shows the direction that wind tends to move?

Draw

Sort the factors by "biotic" or "abiotic"

Multiple Choice

Which picture shows a species?

Multiple Choice

Which picture shows a population?

Multiple Choice

Which picture shows a community?

Multiple Choice

Which picture shows an ecosystem?

Open Ended

Contrast the ABIOTIC factors for the savanna and the mountains.

Multiple Choice

The graph shows two populations of the same species.

Which statement in supported by the graph?

• Area A has a higher carrying capacity.

• Area B has a higher carrying capacity.

• Area A is an older population.

• Area B has a faster growth rate.

Multiple Select

The graph shows two populations of the same species.

Which statements could explain the graphs?

• Area A has less predators.

• Area B has more resources.

• Area A has less disease.

• Area B has more competition.

• Area A has more food.

Multiple Select

Which of these can lead to a positive growth rate?

• immigration

• emigration

• births

• deaths

Draw

Trace a food chain through the food web.

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Circle the populations that would increase if the frog population decreased.

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Match the scenario with the type of species interaction.