Pre-AP Biology Ecology Review

When two species of cattails are grown together, they grow at different water depths and coexist.  When grown alone, they grow at similar water depths.  Which of the following is best demonstrated by the data?

• natural selection
• character displacement
• resource partitioning
• ecological succession

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All of the following statements concerning characteristics of predator-prey relationship are correct EXCEPT:

• Camouflage is an adaptation that protects prey.
• A rise in the population of predators is followed by a decreased in the population of prey.
• A rise in the population of prey is often followed by a rise in the population of predators.
• The population of predators most often eliminates the population of prey

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Why does increasing producers increase the populations of all trophic levels?

• Producers increase the size of a habitat

• Producers help keep predator populations in check

• With more energy available the carrying capacity increases

• Producers do not have a large impact on population sizes

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What causes trophic cascades?

• Increasing the number of producers

• Pollution

• The removal of a keystone species

• Introducing a new species to an ecosystem

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What are limiting factors?

• The maximum number of organisms an area can sustain

• Scarce resources that limit the size of a population

• Conditions that limit how much energy flows to the next trophic level

• How diverse the populations of a community are

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If the producer level of an ecosystem has 750,000 J of energy, how much energy would be passed on to the secondary consumers?

• 75,000 J

• 7,500 J

• 750 J

• 75 J

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What type of graph represents exponential population growth?

• A fluctuating graph

• W - shaped curve

• S-shaped curve

• J - shaped curve

Which of the following would be a density independent limiting factor?

• A virus spreading through a population

• A forest fire burning down a forest

• Birds competing for a limited amount of seeds

• A new predator moving to an area

Frogs lay ~4000 eggs at a time. Based on this frogs would be classified as -

• R-strategists

• K-strategists

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The carrying capacity for a population of lizards is 2700. If the current population is 1340 and the r_max for the population was found to be 0.83, what would the population size be after 1 year?

Answer is 1900

• 2356

• 2100

• 1825

• 1900

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