Environmental Science Quiz

In the years immediately after a fire, a forest will experience

• primary succession.

• secondary succession.

• tertiary succession.

• a climax community.

When energy is transferred between trophic levels, the amount of available energy lost is about

• 90 percent.

• 50 percent.

• 25 percent.

• 10 percent.

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Any being that uses the sun's energy to create sugars is a

• primary producer.

• secondary producer.

• primary consumer.

• secondary consumer.

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A beehive depends on pollen from flowers to survive. Flowers depend on bees to pollinate them. Humans tend bee hives, offering the bees a place to live in exchange for some of their honey. The relationship among these three sets of organisms is

• parasitic.

• commensalistic.

• symbiotic.

• mutualistic

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The ultimate source of energy in an ecosystem in which deer eat grass and coyotes eat deer is

• the grass.

• the sun.

• the deer.

• chemosynthesis.

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If 300 deer live within a 20-km² area, then 15 deer per km² is the deer ________ for that area.

• carrying capacity
• population density
• limiting factor
• survivorship curve

A population's growth rate is determined by births, deaths,

• immigration, and emigration.

• immigration, and migration.

• migration, and biotic potential.

• immigration, and biotic potential.

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A natural resource that is naturally formed much more slowly than we use it is called

• renewable.

• nonrenewable.

• ecological.

• sustainable.

Which sphere are humans a part of?

• geosphere

• hydrosphere

• biosphere

• atmosphere

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