APES unit 1 study

Human activities such as the ____ release large amounts of Carbon into our atmosphere.

• Burning of fossil fuels

• burning of wood

• use of synthetic fertilizers

• use of detergents

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Which of the following biogeochemical cycles does not have an atmospheric phase?

• Hydrolic Cycle

• Nitrogen Cycle

• Sulfur Cycle

• Carbon Cycle

• Phosphorous Cycle

Energy enters a system as sunlight and a producer is able to produce 10 kilograms of tissue. If eaten, the producer would produce about ___ kilograms of a consumer tissue that would provide about ____ kilograms of tissue for a secondary consumer

• 100; 10

• 10; 1

• 100; 1

• 1; 0.1

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Productivity in an ecosystem has to do with

• Efficiency of its primary producers

• The number of different species living in the ecosystem

• Its longevity

• Its rate of producing biomass

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An ecosystem consists of

• A physical environment within which a biological community lives

• The species with which a biological community interacts

• A biological community and its physical environment

• the primary producers within a biological community

The length and complexity of a food web in the Arctic would be ____ when compared to one in the tropical rainforest.

• Short and less complex

• short and more complex

• long and less complex

• long and more complex

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Producers rely on _____ to release chemical energy and consumers rely on ____ to release chemical energy.

• Cellular Respiration; photosynthesis

• Cellular Respiration; cellular respiration

• photosynthesis; cellular respiration

• photosynthesis; photosynthesis

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Ecologists study....

• Living things and their genetic makeup

• Genetic Patterns and the chemistry in them

• The physical world and its processes

• Relationships between organisms and their environment

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In the Nitrogen cycle, what is one Natural way that Nitrogen gets into our soil?

• Fertilizers

• Human Waste through septic tanks

• Decomposing animals

• Industrial waste

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In the _____, there is no wet/dry season. But we do see more lower plants with a thicker epidermis..

• Tundra

• Boreal

• Savanna

• Desert

• Taiga

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