Ecology Part 2 Practice

What is eutrophication?

• A period in an organism's life cycle when growth and development are temporary stopped

• excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water which cause a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen

• a change in global or regional climate patterns

• movement of a plant toward light

TRUE OR FALSE: Water, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Carbon and other limited resources disappear after we use them

• TRUE

• FALSE

TRUE OR FALSE: All life on Earth is dependent on other life on Earth to survive

• TRUE

• FALSE

Which of the following is an EXAMPLE of interdependence?

• Humans ignoring each other

• Humans getting their oxygen from plants

• Humans travelling to Mars

• Humans getting their oxygen from other humans

The plants on Ms. Bell's windowsill gradually grow towards the window, even if she plants them facing away from the window. This is an example of...

• Eutrophication

• Globalization

• Cooperation

• Phototropism

What do we call it when organizations work together to achieve the same goal together?

• Cooperation

• Competition

Organisms compete with each other for...

• Food

• Shelter

• Mates

• All of the above

Fill in the Blank: All the primary consumers in this food web are on the same _______ level

• Trophic

• Tropical

• Biome

• HIbernation

Fill in the blanks: In the winter, bears go into ____________, and the grass goes into ____________.

• phototropism; eutrophication

• hibernation; dormancy

• hibernation; eutrophication

• dormancy; hibernation

What is climate change?

• When it's really, really hot outside

• When it's really, really cold outside

• a change in global or regional climate patterns, thought to be caused by the increased levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere

• When someone moves from a dry biome, like the Desert, to a wet biome, like the Rainforest.