Ecology Unit 1 Test (MC)

Without the Greenhouse Effect the Earth would be

• warm 

• cold

• dead

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-4

At what point in human history did global carbon dioxide levels start to rise?

• World War I

• World War II

• The Industrial Revolution

• The invention of the car

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

According to the graph, what is causing the deer population to decrease

• They got sick

• The wolf population is decreasing

• The wolf population increased

• They ran out of food

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

a deer population has significantly increased, the best hypothesis is 

• the deer's main predator has been eliminated

• competition increased

• decreased water levels of local ponds

• organisms that rely on similar food sources migrated to the area

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What is the carrying capacity of this population?

• 100

• 200

• 300

• 400

What kind of factor: flood?

• density-independent

• density-dependent

Nesting birds often space themselves evenly from other nests. This pattern is called

• clumped dispersion.

• uniform dispersion.

• random dispersion

• scatter dispersion

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What type of growth is shown in the diagram?

• exponential growth

• logistic growth 

• predator-prey cycle

• boom-bust curve

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CCSS.HSF-IF.C.7E

Biodiversity refers to

• extinct species

• the variety of species on Earth

• nonrenewable resources

• the rate of species decline

If the number of births in a population is the same as the number of deaths in a population, what will happen to the growth of the population?

• It will increase.

• It will decrease.

• It will stay the same.

• It will fluctuate.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4