Environmental Science Semester 1 Review - Part 2

Overfishing of grouper of the coast of Florida could cause which of the following.

• Alligator population to rise
• Dolphin population to decrease
• Bird population to decease
• Manatee population to rise

Depletion of natural resource is often caused by ____.

• new environmental laws and regulations
• human population growth
• reforestation
• recycling

“organisms best adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and pass on their traits to their offspring”, is theory called which of the following

• evolution
• adaptation
• natural selection
• endangered species

Speciation can be cause by ___

• geographic isolation
• sympatric isolation
• natural selesction
• all of the above

Two fox families got separated by a mountain and changed over time so that they were two separate species unable to reproduce this is an example of...

• geographic isolation
• sympatric isolation
• natural selection
• population growth

Which of the following is not an abiotic factor

• hurricane winds
• dessert sand
• forests growth
• ocean currents

When two organisms benefit from a symbiotic relationships

• mutualism
• commensalism
• predation
• parasitism

A symbiotic relationship in with one species benefits and the other in unharmed and indifferent.

• mutualism
• commensalism
• parasitism
• predation

All fungi breakdown organic mater and are considered

• autotrophs
• chemotrophs
• decomposers
• preadtors

An autotroph

• hunts for it's food
• makes its own food