APES Evolution and Review

Identify all the characteristics associated with a high pressure system:

• Typically brings fair weather

• Often results in clouds and precipitation

• Warmer air rises

• Air descends because it is cool and spreads outward

I. Polar cell

II. Ferrel Cell

III. Hadley Cell

Put in order from northernmost to southernmost.

• I, II, III

• III, II, I

• II, I, III

• III, I, II

What is the Nitrogen Cycle?

• The process where nitrogen passes from air to soil to organisms and back to air or soil
• The process where nitrogen is distributed to us
• The process where Nitrogen is made to help plants and animals

Which of these is not an example of a commons?

• Federal Parks
• The ocean
• Privately owned farms
• Highways

What event lead to our current pattern of urbanization?

• Bubonic Pluage
• Industrial Revolution
• Green Revolution
• Agricultural Revolution

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

When a resource like timber is used as fast as or slower than it regrows it is being used ____.

• nonrenewably
• unsustainably
• sustainably
• synthetically

how are humans altering the carbon cycle? 

• i don't know
• burning a lot of fossil fuels which increase carbon dioxide  
• by farting

Which of the following statements is correct based on the information shown in this cladogram?

• the turtle and the frog are more similar to each other than the turtle and the bass
• frogs have existed for a longer time that bass
• the frog is more closely related to the bass than to the leopard
• the bass is exinct

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Which statement correctly explains how resistance to penicillin appeared after a few years of its widespread use to fight bacterial infection? 

• in order to survive exposure to penicillin, bacteria developed a resistance to the drug 
• a few bacteria became resistant to penicillin, and through sexual reproduction , most bacteria acquired the resistance
• penicillin never really successfully wiped out populations of bacteria, scientist did not use proper controls in their studies
• some bacteria were resistant to penicillin and their population spread rapidly, without competition from bacteria that were killed by penicillin

Which of the following explains how natural selection causes a trait to become predominant in a population?

• Individuals with traits that are favorable to the environment reproduce more.
• Traits of an individual change in order to adapt to changes in enviornment.
• organisms select which traits they wish to inherit
• all of these answers