Environmental Science Final Exam

1.1 An individual living thing is a/an __________.

• habitat

• ecosystem

• organism

• population

1.1 All of the living and nonliving things in an area that interact with each other are called a/an ______.

• community

• habitat

• population

• ecosystem

1.1 In the mountain river ecosystem pictured above, what would be an abiotic factor?

• trees

• swans

• grasses

• water

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1.2-1.3 Which biome, because of its climate, has the largest number of species of plants and animals?

• tundra

• desert

• tropical rainforest

• pine forest

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1.10 Invasive species have a negative impact on...

• the ecosystem

• the economy

• Both the ecosystem and the economy

• None of these

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2.1-2.2 Process in which individuals that have favorable variations and are better adapted to their environment, survive and reproduce more successfully than those less well adapted (survival of the fittest)

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Artificial Selection

• Resistance

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2.3 Globally, the leading cause of biodiversity loss is

• invasive species

• poaching and overharvesting

• pollution

• habitat change and loss

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2.4-2.5 Succession that occurs in an area with NO SOIL

• ecological succession

• primary succession

• secondary succession

• pioneer speciles

2.6-2.8 Biotic or abiotic things that control the size of a population

• Limiting factor

• density- dependent factor

• density- independent factot

• tolerance

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3.3-3.4 An organism that uses an outside source of energy like the sun to create energy-rich food molecules.

• Consumer

• Producer

• Decomposer

• Parasite

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