Enviro Sci Final Review

Multiple Choice

How does carbon dioxide return to the atmosphere?

• Photosynthesis

• Combustion and Cellular Respiration

• Consumption

• Decomposition

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What is the main thing that carries out Nitrogen Fixation?

• Lightning

• Bacteria

• Plants

• Humans

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How do non-human living things affect the carbon cycle?

• animals do cellular respiration

• plants do photosynthesis

• Fires release carbon into the atmosphere

• All of the above

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What process removes carbon from the atmosphere?

• combustion

• cellular respiration

• photosynthesis

• decomposition

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Where is carbon stored in the environment?

• Fossil fuels

• Wood of trees

• Calcium carbonate (shells and bones)

• All of the above

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What 2 things does a plant make during photosynthesis?

• oxygen, glucose

• glucose, carbon dioxide

• useable energy, glucose

• oxygen, carbon dioxide

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What 3 things are made during cellular respiration?

• useable energy, water, glucose

• glucose, water, carbon dioxide

• oxygen, carbon dioxide, glucose

• carbon dioxide, water, useable energy

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Process where plants and animals release CO₂ back into the atmosphere through exhaling.

• Photosynthesis

• Decomposition

• Respiration

• Uplift

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Animals obtain nitrogen when they eat plants or other animals.

• True

• False

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Which nitrogen cycle process is occurring when plant roots absorb ammonium ions and nitrate ions for use in making molecules such as DNA, amino acids, and proteins?

• nitrogen fixation

• nitrification

• denitrification

• ammonification

• assimilation

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According to this diagram, plants use nitrogen to make _________________________

• carbohydrates

• cellulose

• proteins

• unsaturated fats

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Photosynthesis is an important part of the ______ cycle

• Carbon

• Water

• Phosphorus

• Nitrogen

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A particular golf course is using large amounts of nitrogen fertilizer. What process could move this nitrogen into a local stream?

• volatilization

• nitrogen fixation

• runoff

• ammonification

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What is the process of water droplets or ice crystals falling from the sky?

• evaporating

• condensing

• precipitating

• runoff

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What is this a picture of?

• Nitrogen cycle

• carbon cycle

• water cycle

• plant cycle

Multiple Select

The biosphere includes which of the following?

• Trees/Flowers

• Bacteria/Protists

• Water/Clouds

• Rocks/Minerals

• Insects/Arachnids

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Which meaning goes with the Latin prefix Bio-

• Living Things

• Air

• Land

• Water

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When plants draw nutrients from the soil, the interaction is between which two spheres? 

• The atmosphere and the geosphere 

• The geosphere and the hydrosphere 

• The hydrosphere and atmosphere 

• The biosphere and the geosphere 

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Geo = 

• Earth

• Sphere

• Life

• Water

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Which of the following describes all of the types of water found in the hydrosphere?

• all frozen water on the Earth

• all of the water on the Earth

• all of the fresh water on the Earth

• all of the water found on the surface of the continents

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An ocean bay food web is pictured.

Imagine a sea otter moves to the area. The sea otter eats crabs. What would happen to the ecosystem?

• The ecosystem would stay the same

• The sea duck population will decrease (go down)

• The crab population will increase (go up)

• The sea duck population would increase (go up)

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Pictured is a food web.

Which organism is an omnivore?

• Deer

• Berries

• Black bear

• Red Fox

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Pictured is a food web.

Which organism is a producer?

• Deer

• Berries

• Black bear

• Red fox

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Pictured is a food web.

Which organism is a herbivore?

• Deer

• Berries

• Black bear

• Red fox

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Decomposers are important in the food web because they

• Produce their own food using light from the sun

• Stop the flow of energy from one organism to another

• Break down dead organisms and recycle nutrients into the soil

• Are microscopic and other organisms eat them

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A food web is pictured.

What is the source of energy for the algae?

• Sun

• Rotifers, water fleas, and tadpoles

• Decomposers

• Algae does not need energy

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Willow trees get their energy from the sun. Willow trees are...

• Producers

• Consumers

• Decomposers

• Herbivores

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Pictured are gannets roosting on a cliff side.

Which of the following are limiting factors that gannets might experience?

• Nesting space

• Food

• Hurricane

• All of the above

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Which is a possible food chain based off the food web shown?

• Raspberry bush --> sparrow --> mountain lion

• Mountain lion --> fox --> rabbit --> raspberry bush

• Raspberry bush --> rabbit --> fox --> mountain lion

• Owl --> mountain lion --> hawk

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the number of people in a defined area such as a square kilometre

• population density

• birth rate

• death rate

• population

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Why don't populations grow indefinitely?

• limiting factors

• only biotic factors

• only abiotic factors

• none of the above

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The exponential graph is a graph that shows us population size increasing quickly, which one below shows us that

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(Im)migration is ...

• the movement into an area

• The movement out of an area

• The migration process

• exponential graph

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What is the carrying capacity mean?

• The number of individuals an area can carry

• the number of births

• The number of deaths an area has

• not sure

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parasites, disease, predators, are examples of what type of limiting factors?

• density dependent

• density independent

• survivorship

• type 1 curve

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Why don't populations grow indefinitely?

• limiting factors

• only biotic factors

• only abiotic factors

• none of the above

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What are survivorship curves?

• curves that describe the number of survivors over time

• curves that tell us what the limiting factors are

• curve that tells us about the carrying capacity

• a curve

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Emigration is

• the movement out of an area

• the movement into an area

• movement in and out of an area

• migration

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Which threat to biodiversity is being displayed?

• overexploitation

• invasive species

• pollution

• habitat fragmentation

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What point on the graph represents the carrying capacity?

• A

• B

• C

• D

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A population is...

• All members of one species in one area

• All members of all species that live in one area

• All of the living and nonliving things in an area

• None of these

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What is happening at the 'A' on the graph?

• the population overshoots above the carrying capacity

• the population stops growing

• growth begins to slow down due to limited resources

• growth is speeding up due to an abundance of resources

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To measure population density, you must divide the number of individuals living in a defined space by the

• area of the space

• birth and death rates

• carrying capacity

• height of the space

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Nesting birds often space themselves evenly from other nests. This pattern is called

• clumped dispersion.

• uniform dispersion.

• random dispersion

• scatter dispersion

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Lichens and mosses that first live in uninhabited areas are examples of

• secondary species

• non-native species

• pioneer species

• climax species

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Species that could become endangered in the near future are called

• unlucky

• extinct

• endangered

• threatened

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The sea otter is a(n) ___________ that influences the survival of many other species in its ecosystem.

• Cute furry creature

• endangered species

• keystone species

• important animal

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Introduced or invasive species are often difficult because:

• They contribute to habitat fragmentation

• They do not adapt well to new environments

• They increase biodiversity

• They often lack natural predators

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__________ growth shows growth of a population under environmental constraints (carrying capacity-K) that sets a maximum population size 

• logistic

• exponential

• niche

• uniform

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The number of females and males of each age contained in a population...

• limiting factor

• demography

• age structure

• logistic growth

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Name that population pyramid...

• Industrialized Country

• Country with Clean Water

• Developing Country

• Logistic Growth

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Name that population pyramid?

• Stable Growth

• Developing Country

• Exponential Growth

• Negative Growth

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Name that population pyramid...

• Rapid Growth

• Industrialized Country

• Declining Growth

• Stable Growth

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Which of the following occurred alongside the Industrial Revolution that led to rapid human population growth? Select all that apply.

• reliable food supplies

• improvements in sanitation

• the Bubonic Plague

• improvements in health and medicine

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____________ is when an individual joins a different population than what they were originally a part of. 

• emigration

• immigration

• importation

• negative growth

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Using the age structure diagrams, Which country has a greater population in the “reproductive” age group?

• United States

• Guatemala

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Which of the following describes the distribution of organisms around the watering hole in the Savanna?

• clumped distribution

• uniform distribution

• random distribution

• territorial distribution

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A human & a Tape Worm: The tape worm gets a place to live in the intestines of the human and food from the human. The human loses weight and nutrients from the tape worm.

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

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What type of symbiosis?  Hummingbirds feed on nectar from flowers.  The flowers are pollinated by hummingbirds as they move from flower to flower.

• commensalism

• mutualism

• parasitism

• predation

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Groups of different populations that live in a given area and interact are called a(n)...

• Community

• Colony

• Population

• Ecosystem

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What is the term for each step in the transfer of energy and matter within a biological community?

• energy path

• food web

• trophic level

• food pyramid

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diagram that shows the energy available to each trophic level in an ecosystem; 10% is passed on to upper levels, the rest is lost as heat

• succession 

• cellular respiration

• energy pyramid

• biochemical cycle

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Study of interactions between organisms and their environment 

• niche

• community 

• ecology

• ecosystem

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___ states that two species cannot exist together if they compete for the same resources. One will either die out or migrate, or they will adapt to separate resources.

• Hardy-Weinberg Principle

• Limiting Nutrient Principle

• Competitive Exclusion Principle

• Tolerance Principle

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Change over time...

• Evolution

• Nucleotide 

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To adjust to a changing environment

• Mutation

• Adapt

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The percentage of energy that is transferred from a lower trophic level to the trophic level above it.

• 10

• 1

• 100

• 2

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Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Extinction

• Artifical Selection

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this bee is pollinating the flower. this is an example of 

• mutualism

• commensalism

• parasitism

• interspecific competition 

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Which of the following best describes a niche?

• how many children the organism has

• the job an organism does in the community

• where an organism sleeps

• what types of food the organism eats

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The process when concentrations of a harmful substance increases in organisms at higher trophic levels in a food chain or food web.

• Biomagnification

• Predation

• Extinction

• Accumulation

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Identify the process shown in this diagram.

• Extinction

• Toxin Accumulation

• Pollution

• Biomagnification

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animals or plants that other parts of the ecosystem depend on

• prey

• pack

• keystone species

• predators

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Use the diagram to answer the question.
The trout is a source of food for the human and the eagle. When there are more than one organism vying for the same source we call this____?

• Population

• Resources

• Community

• Competition

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A collection of organisms that make up a community as well as all of the nonliving aspects of the environment.

• Population

• Community

• Habitat

• Ecosystem

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What is a keystone species?

• A species that helps to hold an ecosystem together

• A species that lives in or around rocks

• Keys and stones have nothing to do with ecology

• A keystone isn't a living thing, it's just a stone

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In the energy pyramid here, how much of the energy in each level gets lost as heat or used by the organism for survival?

• 80%

• 90%

• 10%

• 20%

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The efficiency of energy transfer from a lower trophic level to the next highest level is roughly

• 1%

• 10%

• 100%

• 1000%

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What effect does biodiversity have on a community?

• It makes destruction by insects impossible. 

• It makes primary succession more likely.   

•  It enables species to survive in a desert.

• It enables the community to withstand changes.

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The differences among a species, like different bird beaks, are called

• genes.

• variations.

• traits.

• theories.

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Organisms with the most beneficial traits will survive.  This is commonly known as

• theory of evolution.

• variations.

• survival of the fittest.

• ecosystems.

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Behavioral changes of individuals of a species that allow for better survival.

• Variation

• Adaptation

• Behavior

• Environment

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Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Extinction

• Artifical Selection

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Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

• Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.

• Because they come from dominant alleles.

• Because they come from recessive alleles.

• Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.

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Do organisms "decide" to evolve and change?

• Yes, they know they need to change to survive 

• No, a species changes over time because of natural selection

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Species that are clearly critical to the functioning of an ecosystem are known as

• biodiversity

• keystone species

• main species

• native species

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A species that is likely to become extinct if protective measures are not taken immediately is known as

• threatened species

• endemic species

• keystone species

• endangered species

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a species that is not native to a particular region and has no natural predators and little competition

• consumer species

• producer species

• invasive species

• adapted species

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Succession that occurs in areas that previously didn't support life, such as on rocks or ice

• tangential succession

• primary succession

• secondary succession

• quaternary succession

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Why is "A" less biodiverse than "B"?

• Image "A" is more biodiverse.

• Image "A" has many corn plants and this makes it have high "rich" biodiversity.

• Image "A" has a lot more plants than image "B"

• Even though "A" has a lot of corn plants they are all the same species and makes this a low "poor" biodiverse area.

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High biodiversity is 

• having a lot of the same organism.

• having a few of the same organism.

• having a lot of variety of different organisms.

• only having one of each organism. 

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Why is biodiversity important to ecosystems?

• It helps populations adapt to ecological changes.

• It increases at each level of the food chain.

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Define genetic diversity

• variation of genes within a species or population in a given area

• variety of ecosystems in a given area

• system made up of all the living and nonliving things in a given area

• disturbance in the environment conditions that cause genetic changes to occur in organisms

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Define ecosystem diversity

• variety of ecosystems in a given area

• variation of genes within a species or population in a given area

• variety of life in Earth's land, freshwater, and marine ecosystems

• changes to an ecosystem that affect how the parts of it interact

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Which of these is NOT true about the Endangered Species Act

• It protects all plants and animals on the endangered species list

• It is a law that must be obeyed around the world.

• Anyone who harms species covered by this act can receiver a fine ($)

• It is enforces by US Fish & Wildlife Service

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the stability of an ecosystem depends on 2 factors

• natural and human-caused disturbances

• weather and climate

• ecosystem resilience and resistance

• independent and dependent variables

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an ecological hotspot is

• an area where temperatures reach at least 120 degrees F

• an area of very high biodiversity

• an area where almost no species can be found

• a species that is only found in one part of the world

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A greater a habitat's biodiversity, the greater will be that habitat's -

• sustainability over time with varying conditions.

• consumption of energy in the form of sunlight.

• temperature ranges across the seasons.

• distance to the nearest water source.

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Why does biodiversity contribute to a habitat's sustainability?

• The more plants and animals in a habitat, the greater the biomass, which is how habitats store energy.

• The greater the number of species, the more competition there is for food between predators, which sustains their populations.

• Changing conditions that harm one species leave other species to survive and perhaps even thrive.

• Landforms change shape less frequently when there is a greater number of species using the land.

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Which of the following most likely supports the most sustainable ecosystem?

• The habitat with the greater number of green plants

• The habitat with the greatest variety of living things

• The habitat with the warmest average temperature

• The habitat with the greatest number of consumers

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How is the current decline in biodiversity different from the previous mass extinctions that Earth has experienced?

• It is happening much more slowly

• This time it is not really happening

• It is made worse by an asteroid hitting Earth

• This is being caused by humans

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Which of the following is NOT a way in which humans are destroying habitats?

• Gathering rain water to use to water crops

• Clearing out prairies to grow a single crop

• Cutting trees to use as toilet paper

• Building a shopping mall with a large parking lot

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Which of the following is NOT a cause for the current decline in the biodiversity of our ecosystem?

• over-exploitation of resources

• planting new forests to replace trees

• pollution of animal's water sources

• increasing human population

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What is genetic diversity?

• the variety of living things in an area

• the variety of DNA within a species

• the similarities within a species

• the similarities among species in an area

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What is species diversity?

• the different animals in an area

• the different habitats in an area

• the different plants in an area

• the different living things (plants and animals) in an area

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What is an invasive species?

• An organism that is new to an environment that has positive effects on the environment.

• An organism that is native to an environment that has negative effects on the environment.

• An organism that is new to an environment that has negative effects on the environment.

• An organism that is native to an environment that has positive effects on the environment.

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Which applies to this environmental problem:

The albatross are dying from eating plastic items that look like food.

• Habitat Loss

• Invasive Species

• Pollution

• Population Growth

• Overconsumption

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Which applies to this environmental problem:

The zebra mussel is outcompeting native species and causing damage in the Missouri River.

• Habitat Loss

• Invasive Species

• Pollution

• Population Growth

• Overconsumption

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Which applies to this environmental problem:

Only 10% of Madagascar's forests remain due to deforestation.

• Habitat Loss

• Invasive Species

• Pollution

• Population Growth

• Overconsumption

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Which applies to this environmental problem:

As more people are added to the Earth, more resources are required to meet their needs.

• Habitat Loss

• Invasive Species

• Pollution

• Population Growth

• Overconsumption

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Which of the following measures is most likely to help an endangered animal that roams over a large territory?

• creating an isolated preserve

• creating wildlife corridors

• selling hunting licenses

• building more zoos

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Which climate would you expect to have the highest biodiversity?

• Hot,Dry

• Warm,Moist

• Cold,Moist

• Cold,Dry

Fill in the Blank

Habitat loss is a major reason why species become ____________________, ____________________, or __________________.

Multiple Choice

Zoos and aquariums can help increase wildlife populations through

• captive breeding programs

• international biodiversity treaties

• conservation concessions

• wildlife corridors

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Which of the following is an example of a method for managing whole ecosystems and habitats?

• captive breeding

• cloning

• Species Survival Plans

• mapping biodiversity hotspots

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A plan to establish an 8000km long strip of land across eight SE Asian countries to rejoin fragments of habitats is an example of

• wildlife corridor

• world biodiversity treaty

• captive breeding program

• conservation concession

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The Sikhote-Alin Mountains, and the Siberian tigers living on them, are separated from other mountain regions in which the tigers could live. The mountains are an example of a(n)

• mass extirpation

• invasive species

• mass extinction

• habitat fragment

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The disappearance of a particular population from a given area, but not of the entire species globally, is called 

• extirpation

• extinction

• poaching

• fragmentation

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By far, the biggest cause of biodiversity loss today is 

• climate change.

• overharvesting.

• habitat change and fragmentation.

• pollution.

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In the United States, what is the major law that protects biodiversity?

• Convention on Biological Diversity

• Endangered Species Act

• U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

• Species Survival Plan

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Which of the following causes Earth's tectonic plates to move?

• Energy from the Sun

• Magnetic Pole Reversal

• Convection currents in the mantle

• Faults in Mountain Ranges

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What type of event will occur at this boundary?

• Earthquake

• Volcano Eruption

• Tornado

• Mountain Building

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What type of plate boundary is this?

• Plate

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

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A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....

• Pull apart

• Come together

• Slide past each other

• subducting

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Which of the following is the name of the ancient supercontinent formed 280 Million Years ago.

• Pangea

• Gondwanda

• Laurasia

• Neverland

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What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?

• Rift Valley

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Island Arc

• Flat land

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This layer is divided into pieces called tectonic plates.

• Mesosphere

• Asthenosphere

• Mantle

• Lithosphere

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A giant landmass that existed 200 million years ago

• Wegener

• Pangaea

• Archyopteryx

• Ammonite

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Which piece of evidence did Wegener use to prove continental drift?

• The shape of the continents

• Similar fossils found on separate continents

• Tree fossils found in odd places

• All of the above

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As you travel from the inner core to the crust, how would temperature, pressure and density of the material change?

• The would all increase

• The would all decrease.

• Nothing, the layers are made of the same material throughout

• Temperature would decrease, but pressure and density would increase

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The diagram shows what can occur when two continental plates collide.Which characteristic of the Indian Plate explains why it moves under the Eurasian Plate?

• It is larger.

• It is denser.

• It is molten.

• It is younger.

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Which statement best describes why fossils of the same land-dwelling species have been discovered in both South America and Africa?

• The organism migrated to two continents

• The organisms were separated by the formation of new mountain ranges

• The organisms became extinct due to climate change on these continents

• These organisms once lived on one large landmass that later split into two continents

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Rocky or rigid outer part of Earth consisting of the brittle crust and the top part of the upper mantle

• Lithosphere

• Oceanic Crust

• Continental Crust

• Asthenosphere

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Hot fluid or semi-fluid material below or within the earth's crust from which lava and other igneous rock is formed on cooling.

• Convection Current

• Lithosphere

• Core

• Magma

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In the region where two continental plates collide, what geological feature MOST often forms?

• an ocean

• a volcano

• a river valley

• a mountain chain

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The theory that the earth is broken into plates and are in motion due to convection currents in the asthenosphere (upper mantle).

• outer core

• inner core

• plate tectonics

• continental drift

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Process in which two plates collide and the denser plate descends below the other.

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

• subduction

• continental drift

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What type of plate boundary is shown in the picture?

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

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What type of plate boundary is shown in the picture?

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

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What landform would you most likely find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?

• Rift Valley

• Mountain

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Volcano

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What landform would you most likely find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?

• Rift Valley

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Mountain

• Ocean Trench

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According to Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift,

• Earth's surface is made up of seven major landmasses

• The continents were once joined together in a single landmass

• Earth is slowly cooling and shrinking

• the continents DO NOT move

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How was Wegener's theory received by other scientists at the time?

• They thought it was great

• They did not accept it

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Wegener found fossils of ancient ferns on Antarctica, this shows

• That some ferns can survive temperatures well below freezing

• That humans put ferns on Antarctica millions of years ago

• That Antarctica drifted from a warmer climate where plants could grow

• That fossils can be formed in cold climates

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Wegener noticed that the Appalachian Mountains and Caledonian Mountains line up and are made of the same rock types. This was a type of ....

• Fossil Evidence

• Rock Formation Evidence

• Climate Evidence

• Objective Evidence

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Why was Wegener's hypothesis not accepted?

• He could not explain what force was moving the continents

• He was a meteorologists, so no one took him seriously

• He did not have enough types of fossils to support his theory

• Because scientists thought Harry Hess' theory was better

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What were 2 kinds of evidence were used to prove that the seafloor spread?

• rock formations, WWII shipwrecks

• magnetic seafloor stripes, WWII ship logs

• magnetic seafloor stripes, age of rocks

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What technology was used during WWII to detect enemy submarines and produce the first map of the seafloor?

• Sonar

• Radar

• GPS

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Process by which new ocean crust forms.

• Seafloor spreading

• Continental drift

• Mid-ocean ridge

• Rift

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The OLDEST seafloor is located? 

• Closest to the mid-ocean ridge

• Farthest from the mid-ocean ridge

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What are Mid-Ocean Ridges?

• A chain of underwater waterfalls 

• A chain of underwater volcanos

• A chain of underwater mountains

• A chain of underwater rocks

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Why does oceanic crust sink below the continental crust during subduction

• oceanic crust is less dense

• oceanic crust is more dense

• oceanic crust is older

• oceanic crust is warmer

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Takes place when Earth's magnetic field changes

• magnetic reversal

• mid-ocean ridge

• normal polarity

• reversed polarity

• seafloor spreading

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Magnetic bands on the ocean floor are evidence that Earth’s magnetic field changes.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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How many grams of Carbon-14 will remain after 17,100 years- C-14 has a half life 5,730 so 17,100 is about 3 half lives?

• 32 g

• 16 g

• 8 g

• 4 g

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How do scientists figure out the age of the seafloor?

• They research it from ancient sea maps that trading vessels would use in the 1700s

• They use the moon phases and eclipses to calculate the age

• They use seismographs and the depth as well as location of earthquakes to calculate the age

• They take drill ships to many locations in the oceans and collect, then date, rock samples. 

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What causes convection currents?

• weight differences

• mass differences

• density and temperature differences

• rates of change

• age differences

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What are two (2) examples of hotspots?

• San Andreas Fault and earthquakes

• Mid-Atlantic Ridge and resulting subduction

• Hawaiian Islands and Yellowstone

• India and Mt. Everest

• South America and Africa