ES Final Exam Review

Sweating is an example of which of the 8 characteristics of ALL living things?

• grow and develop

• homeostasis

• heredity (DNA)

• metabolism

All of the communities (biotic factors) living together in an area, with the abiotic factors is called an _____.

• ecosystem

• population

• la nina

• community

All of the same species living together in an area is called ____________.

• community

• population

• biosphere

• organism

In terms of biological processes, the 1st Law of Thermodynamics states that energy

• can be created for plants but not animals

• can neither be created nor destroyed

• does not exist

• can be created for animals but not plants

In the food web below, what would most likely happen to the population of pythons if the eagle became extinct?

• they would evolve

• they would decrease

• they would become warm-blooded animals

• they would increase

In this particular food web, which tertiary consumer is shown to have the most food resources (eats more species in this food web than the others)

• coyote

• mountain lion

• bobcat

• western whiptail

What is the process called in which plants make their own food ______, and what do we call these plants ________?

• cellular respiration, autotrophs

• photosynthesis, heterotrophs

• cellular respiration, heterotrophs

• photosynthesis, autotrophs

In this food chain below, what words describe the mouse?

• primary consumer, heterotroph, herbivore

• autotroph, secondary consumer, predator

• primary consumer, autotroph, carnivore

• producer, primary consumer, autotroph

What is an organism that lives on or in another organism and derives its nutrition from that organism?

• population

• producer

• parasite

• autotroph

A type of relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and the other organism is neither harmed nor helped is called ___.

• parasitism

• commensalism

• predator-prey

• mutualism