Marine Biology Practice Final

What is a food web?

• A group of interconnected and independent food chains that shows energy flow in an ecosystem

• A diagram that shows consumers and producers

• A more complex system than a food chain

• A less realistic representation of relationships in an ecosystem than a food chain

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What is bacteria an example of in a food web?

• consumer

• decomposer

• producer

• starfish

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What is the main producer in a kelp forest?

• kelp

• algae

• urchins

• otters

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What organism would have the greatest impact on an ecosystem if there were more or fewer of them?

• urchins

• kelp

• great white shark

• algae

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What is an autotroph?

• An organism that makes its own energy from sunlight

• An organism that gets energy from consuming other organisms

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What is a heterotroph?

• An organism that makes its own energy from sunlight

• An organism that gets energy from consuming other organisms

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What is the geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental 

lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at the convergent boundaries 

between tectonic plates?

• subduction

• consumption

• erosion

• displacement

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What do we call the two part naming system for organisms?

• binomial nomenclature

• kingdom and phylum

• natural environment

• scientific categorization

Can a hypothesis ever be accepted as ABSOLUTELY true?

• Yes

• No

• Depends - the Earth is definitely flat

Why was the Challenger research vessel important?

• It was the first real oceanographic research ship that collected volumes of data on the ocean

• It was destroyed and caused the deaths of many people

• It destroyed many ecosystems and organisms