Semester Test 1 - Test Day

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An organism that can make its own food

• autobot

• heterotroph

• autotroph

• heterobot

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Small openings on the underside of a leaf through which oxygen and carbon dioxide can move. Where gas exchange occurs in a plant.

• nodules

• stomata

• chloroplasts

• chlorophyll

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Pigment which 'fills' chloroplast. This pigment absorbs sunlight.

• nodules

• stomata

• chlorine

• chlorophyll

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A process plants use to turn sunlight into food: Conversion of light energy from the sun into chemical energy (stored in glucose).

• toxoplasmosis

• photosynthesis

• aqua-synthesis

• homeosynthesis

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A gas that plants take in through small holes in their leaves for the process of photosynthesis.

• oxygen

• methane

• propane

• carbon dioxide

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Taken in by the leaves of the plant to give the chloroplasts energy for food production.

• chlorophyll

• oxygen

• water

• sunlight

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In this food web, the dragonfly would be a _________.

• Producer

• Primary Consumer

• Secondary Consumer

• Tertiary Consumer

• Fungi

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In this food web, the berries would be a _________.

• Producer

• Primary Consumer

• Secondary Consumer

• Tertiary Consumer

• Secondary Succ ession

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A rabbit gains energy from eating grass and vegetables. The rabbit is a __________.

• Producer

• Primary Consumer

• Secondary Consumer

• Tertiary Consumer

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Organisms that make their own food, often through photosynthesis.

• Producers

• Primary Consumers

• Secondary Consumers

• Tertiary Consumers

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The arrows in a food chain or web represents what?

• They point to the organism that is being eaten.
• It shows how sunlight flows within an ecosystem.
• They show what direction the energy is flowing between organisms. 
• They represent how water is transferred within a habitat.

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Where does all energy in food web originate from?

• Earth's Core

• Water

• Plants

• The Sun

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An organism that gets energy from breaking down dead organisms, non-living material or waste

• producer
• consumer
• decomposer
• autotroph

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A connection of producers and consumers with many food energy paths in an ecosystem is a ____________

• ecosystem

• food web

• food chain

• biome

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A tree is a ....

• composer
• decomposer
• producer

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Humans are considered...

• consumers
• decomposers
• producers

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Example of a decomposer

• fungus
• mouse
• plants
• frogs

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Which of the following is an example of a benefit of a flooded river?

• Burial and uprooting of plants

• Deposition of nutrients in the surrounding soil

• Removal of leaves from tall trees

• Increased formation of habitats for organisms

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What catastrophic event does this picture depict? 

• Tsunami
• Tornado
• Hurricane
• Earthquake

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What catastrophic event could cause contaminated water?

• Tornado

• Flood

• Forest Fire

• Volcanic Eruption

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A large wave created by an underwater earthquake is called a...

• Earthquake 
• Hurricane
• Tsunami 
• Flood

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What is a common characteristic among pioneer species?

• roots that break apart rocks

• long thick roots

• exposed surface roots

• soak up water quickly

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Which of the following best describes primary succession?

• Volcano wipes out ecosystem that gradually grows back from ash covered soil

• Volcano creates a new island of rock that must break down to form an ecosystem

• Forest fire burns down forest that must bounce back over time

• Tornado destroys a crop that must slowly grow back over time.

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How do pioneer species compare in primary and secondary succession?

• primary starts with grass and weeds, secondary starts with mosses

• primary starts with forest fire, secondary starts with volcano

• primary starts with a volcano, secondary starts with a forest fire

• Lichens and moss in primary, and grasses/ ferns in secondary

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Primary succession occurs in areas with:

• very little soil

• lots of soil

• no soil

• soil that has been disturbed

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What is ecological succession?

• A slow change in an environment
• A change that takes days in an environment
• No change
• Abiotic change

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Which progression best explains secondary succession?

• lichens>grass>shrubs>small trees> big trees

• mosses>creates soil>grasses>small trees> big trees

• Volcano destroys ecosystem>grasses>shrubs>small trees>big trees

• Volcano forms new island> lichens>grasses>shrubs>small trees>big trees

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What are examples of pioneer species in a primary succession?

• Bushes and Shrubs
• Oak trees
• Mossess and Lichens 
• A rose Bush

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A climax community is ….

• the beginning of a new ecological succession.
• the rocks in a new environment.
• the fire that will cause destruction.
• an area that reaches its greatest growing potential.

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the BREAKDOWN of rock into smaller pieces of the same rock without any change in its composition

• mechanical weathering
• chemical weathering
• erosion
• deposition

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the process in which sediment particles are picked up and MOVED from one place to another

• mechanical weathering
• chemical weathering
• erosion
• deposition

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oxidation produces rust on some rocks containing iron

• chemical weathering
• mechanical weathering
• erosion
• deposition

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Sand dunes are large piles of sand that can be found in the 
desert. What causes these sand dunes to form?

• Water
• Wind
• Ice
• Volcanoes

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Besides moving water, what other forces cause erosion?

• Wind, salt and gravity

• wind, ice and gravity

• wind, animals and storms

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Factors within and ecosystem that are NOT living. (Rocks/Water/Air)

• Biotic

• Watershed

• Abiotic

• Erosion

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Factors within an ecosystem that are living. (Plants/Animals)

• Biotic

• Abiotic

• Ecosystem

• Habitat

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What is a watershed?

• Water in an area
• Water that flows into a river or stream
• Land that water flows over and through
• Water that is salty

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Biome with many different species of cacti and reptiles and very little rainfall.

• Desert

• Temperate Rainforest

• Tropical Rainforest

• Arctic Tundra

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Type of forest biome near the equator; receives a lot of rain; temperatures are warm all year.

• desert
• tropical rain forest
• arctic
• temperate rain forest

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Which biome is represented by the rainfall amounts in letter C?

• desert

• prairie

• deciduous forest

• tropical rain forest

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The earth's coldest biome is the....

• Antartica
• Grasslands
• Tundra
• Freshwater

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The climate in a tropical rain forest can be described as

• cold and wet 
• warm and dry 
• cold and dry 
• warm and wet 

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This is the most important thing that makes each biome different from each other.

• Animals
• Location
• Climate
• People

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bears hibernate

• behavioral adaptations
• structural adaptations

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polar bears have thick white fur to blend in

• behavioral
• structural

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Plants grow towards sunlight to help them acquire as much sunlight as possible.

• behavioral
• structural

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When using a dichotomous key to identify organisms, what do we look at?

• physical features
• weather patterns
• environment
• diet

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What step do we always start with when using dichotomous keys?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

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What is the name of bird W?

• Certhidea
• Geospiza
• Camarhynchus
• Platyspiza

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What is a dichotomous key used for in science?

• To organize biomes
• Classify organisms
• Identify bacteria only
• None of these