APES Review Through Thanksgiving

Which is the best definition of an adaptation?

• a mutation that creates a new species
• a trait that improves an individual's fitness
• a trait that is passed on to the next generation
• a trait that has no effect on an individual's fitness

Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

• Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.
• Because they come from dominant alleles.
• Because they come from recessive alleles.
• Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.

The process in which organism with variations most suited to their local environment survive and leave more offspring.

• Natural Selection
• Survival of the Fittest
• Common Descent
• Phenotype

Which process takes Carbon Dioxide from the air and converts it into a form of carbon used by living things?

• Precipitation
• Photosynthesis
• Respiration
• Bioremdiation

When nitrogen gas is turned in to a form that plants and animals can use is called 

• Combustion
• Photosynthesis
• Decomposition
• Nitrogen Fixation

The nitrogen found in the atmosphere is not in a form that plants or animals can use.  What converts it into a usable form?

• Bacteria
• Photosynthesis
• Decomposition of organisms
• Fungi

The process where excess nutrients enter body of water causing overgrowth of aquatic plants and algae...

• Eutrophication
• Acid Precipitation
• Nitrogen Fixation
• Decomposition

Which nutrient is not cycled through the atmosphere?

• carbon
• nitrogen
• phosphorous
• water

This is released by the weathering of rocks.

• Carbon
• Oxygen
• Phosphorus
• Nitrogen

Humans impose the largest negative impact on the carbon cycle by ________________

• cultivating crops
• burning fossil fuels
• harnessing solar power
• mining