Review Quiz

Which among the given factors creates food chains that sustain the life of organisms?

• Temperature  

• Atmosphere

• Water

• Diversity of Life

Which among the given factors makes Earth unique in maintaining its temperature suitable for life?

• Moon

• Closeness to the sun

• Atmosphere

• Water

What makes the Earth a Goldilocks planet?

• It maintains its atmosphere with the gases for organisms to use.

• It has enough available water and air needed by the organisms.

• It has all the factors that are “just

  right” for the organisms to live.

• It has a consistent temperature that is “just right” for us to live.

How does diversity of life become an important factor in our existence?

• It makes the populations grow without limits.

• It enables organisms to reproduce its own kind.

• It makes ecosystems thrive with the population of producers.

• It makes ecosystems productive with the roles that each species plays.

Which sphere is composed of the rocks and soil with all the minerals that plants need to survive?

• Atmosphere

• Geosphere

• Biosphere

• Hydrosphere

Which among the spheres influence weather patterns?

• Geosphere and Hydrosphere

• Atmosphere and Biosphere

• Atmosphere and Geosphere

• Atmosphere and Hydrosphere

When the thick forest cover is lost due to massive forest fire, what happens to the transfer of matter (carbon) in such ecosystem?

• Carbon is taken from the atmosphere in greater amount.

• Carbon continues to be transferred to the consumers.

• More carbon becomes available in the food chain.

• Carbon transfer in the food chain is shut off.

In the cycling of matter, how does carbon enter the geosphere?

• It enters when plants are eaten by the consumers.

• It enters through the combustion process in the homes.

• It enters through the living organic matter in the bodies of plants and animals.

• It enters through the biosphere when dead organic matter is incorporated into fossil fuels.

It is a solid, inorganic, naturally occurring substance with a fixed structure and a definite composition.

• rock

• magma

• salt

• mineral

Hank, together with his colleagues, is in search for a mineral that is typically black in color. Its crystal form is short and thick, with two cleavages that are nearly a right angle. What rock-forming mineral are they looking for?

• pyroxene

• olivine

• amphibole

• quartz