SEV1ab Inside of Ecosystems (ISN pp. 1-25)

I am one deer. A individual unit constituted to carry on the activities of life; one individual from a specific species. What organizational level am I?

• Organism
• Ecosystem
• Community
• Population
• Biosphere

We include all the populations (plants and animals) inhabiting a specific area at the same time. It is an association of different species interacting that live in a particular area; also often defined as all of the organisms living in an area. We are deer, frogs, plants, and earthworms. What organizational level are we?

• Community
• Ecosystem
• Population
• Biosphere
• Biome

In a thermodynamic system, properties such as pressure, temperature, density, mass, and volume have an effect on the system.

• True
• False

During an interaction between a system and its surroundings, the amount of energy gained by the system is EQUAL to the amount of energy lost by the surroundings. In other words, energy can neither be created or destroyed it is only transferred. What am I?

• Newton's First Law of Gravity
• First Law of Thermodynamics
• Second Law of Thermodynamics
• Third Law of Thermodynamics

In all energy exchanges, if no energy enters or leaves the system, the total energy of the state will always be less than that of the initial state. An example is when your skin warms the cooled sheets at night then the sheets remain warm as long as you're in them. What is this a result of?

• Newton's Second Law of Gravity
• First Law of Thermodynamics
• Second Law of Thermodynamics
• Third Law of Thermodynamics

Which is the most accurate description of a food chain?

• Cacti > Desert Mouse > Snake
• Snake > Cacti > Desert Mouse
• Desert Mouse > Snake > Cacti
• Cacti < Desert Mouse > Snake

Which is the most accurate description of a food chain?

• Fox > Bird > Insect > Leaf
• Bird > Insect < Fox > Leaf
• Leaf > Bird > Insect > Fox
• Leaf > Insect > Bird > Fox

As you are traveling to school, you witness buzzards feeding on a deer which was hit by a vehicle the night prior. Explain your understanding of the buzzard's niche in the tropic pyramid?

• Tertiary Consumer
• Primary Consumer
• Decomposer
• Detritivore

Use the diagram to explain your understanding of what the plants represent in this food web. (more than one response) ​ ​ ​ ​

• Autotrophs
• Consumers

• Heterotrophs
• Producers

A chemical or physical factor that determines whether an organism can survive in a given ecosystem. A resource that limits the abundance, growth, and distribution of an organism or species. In most ecosystems, rainfall is an example.

• Limiting Factor
• Cellular Respiration
• Carrying Capacity
• Biogeochemical Cycle