WorksheetsPREP FOR BIO A EXAM # 1
Total questions: 69
Worksheet time: 2hrs 18mins
What answer choice specifically describes the study of the interactions among living things, between living things, and between living things and their surroundings?
Ecology
Biology
Biotic Factors
Abiotic Factors
What answer choice best describes nonliving things such as moisture, temperature, wind, sunlight, and soil?
Biome
Biota
Biotic Factors
Abiotic Factors
Food Chain
What answer choice best describes living things, such as plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria?
Biome
Biota
Biotic Factors
Abiotic Factors
Food Chain
What answer choice best describes the collection of living things in the biosphere?
Biome
Biota
Biotic Factors
Abiotic Factors
Food Chain
What answer choice is best illustrated by the image?
biosphere
atmosphere
hydrosphere
geosphere
What answer choice is best illustrated by the image?
biosphere
atmosphere
hydrosphere
geosphere
What answer choice is best illustrated by the image?
biosphere
atmosphere
hydrosphere
geosphere
What answer choice is best illustrated by the image?
biosphere
atmosphere
hydrosphere
geosphere
What answer choice best describes the individual living thing?
organism
population
community
ecosystem
biome
What answer choice best describes more than one organism of the same species?
organism
population
community
ecosystem
biome
What answer choice best describes a group of different species living together?
organism
population
community
ecosystem
biome
What answer choice best describes all organisms, as well as climate, soil, water, rocks, and other non-living things in an area?
organism
population
community
ecosystem
biome
What answer choice is best characterized by climate conditions, and plant communities?
organism
population
community
ecosystem
biome
What answer choice best describes the organisms that get their energy from non-living resources?
Producers (or Autotrophs)
Consumers (or Heterotrophs)
Photosynthesis
Chemosynthesis
Keystone Species
What answer choice best describes the organisms that get their energy by eating other living or once-living resources?
Producers (or Autotrophs)
Consumers (or Heterotrophs)
Photosynthesis
Chemosynthesis
Keystone Species
What answer choice best describes the process by which light energy produces sugar and oxygen from carbon dioxide and water?
Producers (or Autotrophs)
Consumers (or Heterotrophs)
Photosynthesis
Chemosynthesis
Keystone Species
What answer choice best describes the process of which an organisms forms carbohydrates using chemicals as an energy source?
Producers (or Autotrophs)
Consumers (or Heterotrophs)
Photosynthesis
Chemosynthesis
Keystone Species
What answer choice best describes organisms that have unusually large effect on its ecosystem like beavers building a dam?
Producers (or Autotrophs)
Consumers (or Heterotrophs)
Photosynthesis
Chemosynthesis
Keystone Species
What answer choice best describes organisms that eat only plants?
Herbivores
Carnivores
Omnivores
Detritivores
Decomposers
What answer choice best describes organisms that eat only animals?
Herbivores
Carnivores
Omnivores
Detritivores
Decomposers
What answer choice best describes organisms that eat both plants and animals?
Herbivores
Carnivores
Omnivores
Detritivores
Decomposers
What answer choice best describes organisms that eat dead organic matter?
Herbivores
Carnivores
Omnivores
Detritivores
Decomposers
What answer choice best describes organisms that break down organic matter into simpler compounds?
Herbivores
Carnivores
Omnivores
Detritivores
Decomposers
What answer choice best describes photosynthetic organisms acquiring energy from the sun?
Generalist
Specialist
Producer
Primary Consumer
Secondary Consumer
What answer choice best describes animals that eat only plants?
Generalist
Specialist
Producer
Primary Consumer
Secondary Consumer
What answer choice best describes carnivores that eat only herbivores?
Generalist
Specialist
Producer
Primary Consumer
Secondary Consumer
What answer choice best describes a consumer that eats one specific organism?
Generalist
Specialist
Producer
Primary Consumer
Secondary Consumer
What answer choice best describes a consumer that have a varying diet?
Generalist
Specialist
Producer
Primary Consumer
Secondary Consumer
What answer choice best describes the sequence that links species by their feeding relationships?
Biome
Biota
Biotic Factors
Abiotic Factors
Food Chain
Which one of the following answer choices states that the Earth itself is kind of a living organism where the atmosphere, geosphere, and hydrosphere are cooperating to yield a biosphere full of life?
Gaia Hypothesis
Thomas Malthus
Exponential Growth
Logistic Growth
Carrying Capacity
Which one of the following answer choices states that human population was growing faster than Earth's resources could support?
Gaia Hypothesis
Thomas Malthus
Exponential Growth
Logistic Growth
Carrying Capacity
Which one of the following answer choices would show a dramatic increase in population over a short period of time?
Gaia Hypothesis
Thomas Malthus
Exponential Growth
Logistic Growth
Carrying Capacity
Which one of the following answer choices would show a period of slow population growth, followed by a period of exponential growth, followed by another period of almost no growth?
Gaia Hypothesis
Thomas Malthus
Exponential Growth
Logistic Growth
Carrying Capacity
Which one of the following answer choices states that there is a certain amount of individuals that the resources of an environment can normally and persistently support?
Gaia Hypothesis
Thomas Malthus
Exponential Growth
Logistic Growth
Carrying Capacity
What answer choice best describes the longterm pattern of weather conditions in a region, which includes average temperature, precipitation, relative humidity, and seasonal variations?
Climate
Microclimate
Polar Climate Zones
Tropical Climate Zones
Temperate Climate Zones
What answer choice best describes the climate of a small specific place within a larger area?
Climate
Microclimate
Polar Climate Zones
Tropical Climate Zones
Temperate Climate Zones
What answer choice best describes the climate zone(s) located in far northern and far southern reaches of the planet; temperature is typically cold and often below freezing?
Climate
Microclimate
Polar Climate Zones
Tropical Climate Zone
Temperate Climate Zones
What answer choice best describes the climate zone(s) that surrounds the equator and consists of typically warm and moist conditions?
Climate
Microclimate
Polar Climate Zones
Tropical Climate Zone
Temperate Climate Zones
What answer choice best describes the climate zone(s) experiences summer and winter seasons of about equal length?
Climate
Microclimate
Polar Climate Zones
Tropical Climate Zone
Temperate Climate Zones
What answer choice best describes the major biome that consists of consists of lush thick forests and animals living in upper branches with loud vocalizations to defend territory and attract mates?
Tropical Rain Forest
Grassland
Tundra
Temperate Rain Forest
Taiga
What answer choice best describes the major biome where hoofed animals are found?
Tropical Rain Forest
Grassland
Tundra
Temperate Rain Forest
Taiga
What answer choice best describes the major biome with distinguishable seasons where the growing seasons occur during warmer temperatures from mid-spring to mid-fall and with the availability of water?
Tropical Rain Forest
Grassland
Tundra
Temperate Rain Forest
Taiga
What answer choice best describes the major biome with long, cold winters and short, warm, humid summers where coniferous trees dominate?
Tropical Rain Forest
Grassland
Tundra
Temperate Rain Forest
Taiga
What answer choice best describes the major biome where ground is permanently frozen, only mosses and other low-lying plants survive, and animal diversity is low?
Tropical Rain Forest
Grassland
Tundra
Temperate Rain Forest
Taiga
What answer choice is best characterized by hot, dry summers and cool moist winters of Southern California?
Deciduous Trees
Canopy
Coniferous Trees
Minor Biomes
Chaparral
What answer choice is best described as occurring globally, but on a smaller scale?
Deciduous Trees
Canopy
Coniferous Trees
Minor Biomes
Chaparral
What answer choice is best describes an organisms that retain their needles all year?
Deciduous Trees
Canopy
Coniferous Trees
Minor Biomes
Chaparral
What answer choice is best describes an organisms that are adapted to winter by dropping their leaves and going dormant during the cold season?
Deciduous Trees
Canopy
Coniferous Trees
Minor Biomes
Chaparral
What answer choice is best described as only allowing for 1% of sunlight to reach the ground?
Deciduous Trees
Canopy
Coniferous Trees
Minor Biomes
Chaparral
What answer choice best describes the movement of individuals into a population?
Nonrenewable Resources
Renewable Resources
Population Density
Immigration
Emigration
What answer choice best describes the movement of out of a population?
Nonrenewable Resources
Renewable Resources
Population Density
Immigration
Emigration
What answer choice best describes the measure of individuals living in a defined area?
Nonrenewable Resources
Renewable Resources
Population Density
Immigration
Emigration
What answer choice best describes energy sources that cannot be used up or can replenish themselves within one lifetime?
Nonrenewable Resources
Renewable Resources
Population Density
Immigration
Emigration
What answer choice best describes energy sources are formed over long periods of time and can't be replenished within a lifetime?
Nonrenewable Resources
Renewable Resources
Population Density
Immigration
Emigration
What answer choice best describes members of a population compete with one another for resources such as food and shelter?
Competition
Predation
Disease
Primary Succession
Secondary Succession
What answer choice best describes hunting and killing another organism for food, which can be limited by the number of prey?
Competition
Predation
Disease
Primary Succession
Secondary Succession
What answer choice best describes a condition of a body part, organ, or system resulting from various causes like infection, genetic defect, or environmental stress?
Competition
Predation
Disease
Primary Succession
Secondary Succession
What answer choice best describes the re-establishment of a damaged ecosystem in an area where the soil was left intact?
Competition
Predation
Disease
Primary Succession
Secondary Succession
What answer choice best describes the establishment and development of an ecosystem in an area that was previously uninhabited?
Competition
Predation
Disease
Primary Succession
Secondary Succession
What answer choice is not a type of symbiosis?
Mutualism
Commensalism
Parasitism
Unusual Weather Patterns
What answer choice best describes a strip of land between high and low tide lines?
Intertidal Zone
Neritic Zone
Bathayal Zone
Abyssal Zone
What answer choice best describes the marine zone that extends intertidal zone to the edge of the continental shelf?
Intertidal Zone
Neritic Zone
Bathayal Zone
Abyssal Zone
What answer choice best describes the marine zone that extends from edge of neritic zone to the base of the continental shelf?
Intertidal Zone
Neritic Zone
Bathayal Zone
Abyssal Zone
What answer choice best describes the marine zone that lies below 2000 meters and is in complete darkness?
Intertidal Zone
Neritic Zone
Bathayal Zone
Abyssal Zone
What answer choice best describes the diverse neritic zone habitat found within tropical climate zone that is warm all year?
Coral Reefs
Kelp Forests
Estuaries
Limnetic Zone
Benthic Zone
What answer choice best describes the diverse neritic zone habitat that exists in cold, nutrient-rich waters (e.g., Monterey Bay California)?
Coral Reefs
Kelp Forests
Phytoplankton
Zooplankton
Plankton
What answer choice best describes tiny free floating organisms that live in the water?
Coral Reefs
Kelp Forests
Phytoplankton
Zooplankton
Plankton
What answer choice best describes dynamic environments where rivers flow into ocean?
Coral Reefs
Kelp Forests
Estuaries
Limnetic Zone
Benthic Zone
What answer choice best describes a freshwater zone that extends from open water far from shore?
Coral Reefs
Kelp Forests
Estuaries
Limnetic Zone
Benthic Zone
