Energy Transfer and Carrying Capacity Review

Multiple Choice

What is the producer in this food web?

• anchovy

• shrimp

• algae

• snail

Multiple Choice

How will competition affect the carrying capacity of an ecosystem?

• The carrying capacity will decrease

• The carrying capacity will Increase

• The carrying capacity will not change

• Competition does not exist in nature

Multiple Choice

When a population grows past the ecosystem's carrying capacity, what happens to the population?

• Continues to grow

• The population starts to die off to return to carrying capcity

• The population will go extinct due to lack of resources

• The population grows then finds a new carrying capacity

Multiple Choice

Water, sunlight, shelter, and space are resources that are often........

• abiotic limiting factors

• biotic limiting factors

Multiple Choice

An organism that obtains energy from eating meat

• Omnivores
• Carnivores
• Herbivores
• Animals 

Multiple Choice

An organism that obtains energy by consuming plants and animals.

• Omnivores
• Carnivores
• Herbivores
• Humans 

Multiple Choice

An organism that uses an outside source of energy like the sun to create energy-rich food molecules.

• Consumer
• Producer
• Decomposer
• Parasite 

Multiple Choice

If there is 1000 Kcal available in the producers in trophic level 1, how much energy is available in the herbivores in trophic level 2?

• 10 Kcal
• 1 Kcal
• 100 Kcal
• 1000 Kcal

Multiple Choice

In an energy pyramid, energy_______ as you move up the pyramid.

• Increases
• Decreases
• Stays the same
• Changes up and down

Multiple Choice

Biomass refers to

• Central Park Human Meatball

• How many carnivores

• Feedling level

• Total mass of living things

Multiple Choice

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%

Multiple Choice

The energy that is transfered from a lower trophic level to the next highest level is approximately:

• 1%
• 10%
• 100%
• 1000%

Multiple Choice

If there is 1000 Kcal available in the producers in trophic level 1, how much energy is available in the herbivores in trophic level 2?

• 10 Kcal
• 1 Kcal
• 100 Kcal
• 1000 Kcal

Multiple Choice

A carnivore eats plants and animals

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Homo sapiens are...

• carnivores

• omnivores

• herbivores

• primary consumers

Multiple Choice

A producer makes its own food.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Which statement best describes the term limiting factors?

• All the biotic and abiotic factors and the interactions among them in a given area

• A finite resource organisms in an ecosystem require

• The biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem

• The maximum number of organisms an ecosystem can support

Multiple Choice

During which day did this population reach carrying capacity?

• Day 2

• Day 11

• Day 23

• Day 35

Multiple Choice

Parasites and diseases will ______________ the size of a population, so the are examples of limiting factors.

• Increase

• Decrease

• Stay the same

Multiple Choice

What is the carrying capacity of the beetle population?

• 3

• 5

• 7

• 9

Multiple Choice

The population of deer in 1970 was about...?

• 8 deer per acre

• 12 deer per acre

• 20 deer per acre

• 30 deer per acre

Multiple Choice

The population of deer in 2000 was about...

• 3.5 deer per acre

• 1 deer per acre

• 8 deer per acre

• 2.5 deer per acre

Multiple Choice

About how many cases of Lyme disease were reported in Noble County in 1980

• 30

• 12

• 8

• 20

Multiple Choice

About how many cases of Lyme Disease were reported in 2010?

• 10

• 5

• 2

• 0

Multiple Choice

Consider the years between 1950 and 1980. What is the 'carrying capacity of the deer population' in Nobel County?

• About 8 deer per acre

• About 10 deer per acre

• About 12 deer per acre

• About 6 deer per acre

Multiple Select

What might have caused a decrease in the deer population beginning in about 1987?

• An increase in the maximum deer a hunter could 'harvest' (hunt).

• A disease that infected the deer population.

• An introduction of wolves to the Nobel County area.

• A severe drought that lasted many years.

• An introduction of bald eagles to Nobel County area.

Multiple Choice

Lyme disease cases seem linked to the deer population likely because...

• Deer Carry Lyme Disease and spread it to humans when they eat the meat.

• Deer carry the species of ticks that spread Lyme Disease to humans.

• Deer Carry Lyme Disease and spread it to humans when they bite hunters.

Multiple Select

During which set of years does it appear the deer population is in 'equilibrium?

• 1960 - 1965

• 1970 - 1975

• 1990 - 1995

• 2005 - 2010

Multiple Choice

Which seemed to occur first?

• Introduction of Deer to Nobel County

• The first cases of Lyme Disease in Nobel County

Multiple Choice

The carrying capacity of deer from 2000 - 2015 is about...

• 4 deer per acre

• 10 deer per acre

• 2 deer per acre

• 6 deer per acre

Multiple Choice

How many total cases of Lyme disease were likely reported between 1970 - 1979 (10 years)?

• 20

• 300

• 120

• 600

• 450

Multiple Choice

The year is 1980, a farmer has land that adds up to 10 acres typical land for Nobel County. About how many deer does he likely have on his land?

• 80

• 120

• 200

• 150

Multiple Choice

Which year does it seem that equilibrium first achieved in this population of deer?

• Between 1965 and 1970

• Between 1970 and 1975

• Between 1995 and 2000

• It was NEVER achieved in this graph.

Multiple Select

Which factor given below would likely INCREASE the Carrying Capacity of the deer population?

• A decrease in hunting limits,

• An increase in hunting limits.

• Good weather (plentiful rain)

• Poor weather (droughts)

• A fatal disease that affects the deer population.

Multiple Choice

What happened to the population of deer between 1960 and 1965?

• "Overshoot" in the carrying capacity.

• "Undershoot" in the carrying capacity.

• "Disequilibrium" in the carrying capacity.

• "Population Climax" in the carrying capacity.