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PREP FOR BIO A EXAM # 1

Total questions: 69

Worksheet time: 2hrs 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What answer choice specifically describes the study of the interactions among living things, between living things, and between living things and their surroundings?

a)

Ecology

b)

Biology

c)

Biotic Factors

d)

Abiotic Factors

2.

What answer choice best describes nonliving things such as moisture, temperature, wind, sunlight, and soil?

a)

Biome

b)

Biota

c)

Biotic Factors

d)

Abiotic Factors

e)

Food Chain

3.

What answer choice best describes living things, such as plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria?

a)

Biome

b)

Biota

c)

Biotic Factors

d)

Abiotic Factors

e)

Food Chain

4.

What answer choice best describes the collection of living things in the biosphere?

a)

Biome

b)

Biota

c)

Biotic Factors

d)

Abiotic Factors

e)

Food Chain

5.

What answer choice is best illustrated by the image?

a)

biosphere

b)

atmosphere

c)

hydrosphere

d)

geosphere

6.

What answer choice is best illustrated by the image?

a)

biosphere

b)

atmosphere

c)

hydrosphere

d)

geosphere

7.

What answer choice is best illustrated by the image?

a)

biosphere

b)

atmosphere

c)

hydrosphere

d)

geosphere

8.

What answer choice is best illustrated by the image?

a)

biosphere

b)

atmosphere

c)

hydrosphere

d)

geosphere

9.

What answer choice best describes the individual living thing?

a)

organism

b)

population

c)

community

d)

ecosystem

e)

biome

10.

What answer choice best describes more than one organism of the same species?

a)

organism

b)

population

c)

community

d)

ecosystem

e)

biome

11.

What answer choice best describes a group of different species living together?

a)

organism

b)

population

c)

community

d)

ecosystem

e)

biome

12.

What answer choice best describes all organisms, as well as climate, soil, water, rocks, and other non-living things in an area?

a)

organism

b)

population

c)

community

d)

ecosystem

e)

biome

13.

What answer choice is best characterized by climate conditions, and plant communities?

a)

organism

b)

population

c)

community

d)

ecosystem

e)

biome

14.

What answer choice best describes the organisms that get their energy from non-living resources?

a)

Producers (or Autotrophs)

b)

Consumers (or Heterotrophs)

c)

Photosynthesis

d)

Chemosynthesis

e)

Keystone Species

15.

What answer choice best describes the organisms that get their energy by eating other living or once-living resources?

a)

Producers (or Autotrophs)

b)

Consumers (or Heterotrophs)

c)

Photosynthesis

d)

Chemosynthesis

e)

Keystone Species

16.

What answer choice best describes the process by which light energy produces sugar and oxygen from carbon dioxide and water?

a)

Producers (or Autotrophs)

b)

Consumers (or Heterotrophs)

c)

Photosynthesis

d)

Chemosynthesis

e)

Keystone Species

17.

What answer choice best describes the process of which an organisms forms carbohydrates using chemicals as an energy source?

a)

Producers (or Autotrophs)

b)

Consumers (or Heterotrophs)

c)

Photosynthesis

d)

Chemosynthesis

e)

Keystone Species

18.

What answer choice best describes organisms that have unusually large effect on its ecosystem like beavers building a dam?

a)

Producers (or Autotrophs)

b)

Consumers (or Heterotrophs)

c)

Photosynthesis

d)

Chemosynthesis

e)

Keystone Species

19.

What answer choice best describes organisms that eat only plants?

a)

Herbivores

b)

Carnivores

c)

Omnivores

d)

Detritivores

e)

Decomposers

20.

What answer choice best describes organisms that eat only animals?

a)

Herbivores

b)

Carnivores

c)

Omnivores

d)

Detritivores

e)

Decomposers

21.

What answer choice best describes organisms that eat both plants and animals?

a)

Herbivores

b)

Carnivores

c)

Omnivores

d)

Detritivores

e)

Decomposers

22.

What answer choice best describes organisms that eat dead organic matter?

a)

Herbivores

b)

Carnivores

c)

Omnivores

d)

Detritivores

e)

Decomposers

23.

What answer choice best describes organisms that break down organic matter into simpler compounds?

a)

Herbivores

b)

Carnivores

c)

Omnivores

d)

Detritivores

e)

Decomposers

24.

What answer choice best describes photosynthetic organisms acquiring energy from the sun?

a)

Generalist

b)

Specialist

c)

Producer

d)

Primary Consumer

e)

Secondary Consumer

25.

What answer choice best describes animals that eat only plants?

a)

Generalist

b)

Specialist

c)

Producer

d)

Primary Consumer

e)

Secondary Consumer

26.

What answer choice best describes carnivores that eat only herbivores?

a)

Generalist

b)

Specialist

c)

Producer

d)

Primary Consumer

e)

Secondary Consumer

27.

What answer choice best describes a consumer that eats one specific organism?

a)

Generalist

b)

Specialist

c)

Producer

d)

Primary Consumer

e)

Secondary Consumer

28.

What answer choice best describes a consumer that have a varying diet?

a)

Generalist

b)

Specialist

c)

Producer

d)

Primary Consumer

e)

Secondary Consumer

29.

What answer choice best describes the sequence that links species by their feeding relationships?

a)

Biome

b)

Biota

c)

Biotic Factors

d)

Abiotic Factors

e)

Food Chain

30.

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?

a)

Gaia Hypothesis

b)

Thomas Malthus

c)

Exponential Growth

d)

Logistic Growth

e)

Carrying Capacity

31.

Which one of the following answer choices states that human population was growing faster than Earth's resources could support?

a)

Gaia Hypothesis

b)

Thomas Malthus

c)

Exponential Growth

d)

Logistic Growth

e)

Carrying Capacity

32.

Which one of the following answer choices would show a dramatic increase in population over a short period of time?

a)

Gaia Hypothesis

b)

Thomas Malthus

c)

Exponential Growth

d)

Logistic Growth

e)

Carrying Capacity

33.

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?

a)

Gaia Hypothesis

b)

Thomas Malthus

c)

Exponential Growth

d)

Logistic Growth

e)

Carrying Capacity

34.

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?

a)

Gaia Hypothesis

b)

Thomas Malthus

c)

Exponential Growth

d)

Logistic Growth

e)

Carrying Capacity

35.

What answer choice best describes the longterm pattern of weather conditions in a region, which includes average temperature, precipitation, relative humidity, and seasonal variations?

a)

Climate

b)

Microclimate

c)

Polar Climate Zones

d)

Tropical Climate Zones

e)

Temperate Climate Zones

36.

What answer choice best describes the climate of a small specific place within a larger area?

a)

Climate

b)

Microclimate

c)

Polar Climate Zones

d)

Tropical Climate Zones

e)

Temperate Climate Zones

37.

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?

a)

Climate

b)

Microclimate

c)

Polar Climate Zones

d)

Tropical Climate Zone

e)

Temperate Climate Zones

38.

What answer choice best describes the climate zone(s) that surrounds the equator and consists of typically warm and moist conditions?

a)

Climate

b)

Microclimate

c)

Polar Climate Zones

d)

Tropical Climate Zone

e)

Temperate Climate Zones

39.

What answer choice best describes the climate zone(s) experiences summer and winter seasons of about equal length?

a)

Climate

b)

Microclimate

c)

Polar Climate Zones

d)

Tropical Climate Zone

e)

Temperate Climate Zones

40.

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?

a)

Tropical Rain Forest

b)

Grassland

c)

Tundra

d)

Temperate Rain Forest

e)

Taiga

41.

What answer choice best describes the major biome where hoofed animals are found?

a)

Tropical Rain Forest

b)

Grassland

c)

Tundra

d)

Temperate Rain Forest

e)

Taiga

42.

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?

a)

Tropical Rain Forest

b)

Grassland

c)

Tundra

d)

Temperate Rain Forest

e)

Taiga

43.

What answer choice best describes the major biome with long, cold winters and short, warm, humid summers where coniferous trees dominate?

a)

Tropical Rain Forest

b)

Grassland

c)

Tundra

d)

Temperate Rain Forest

e)

Taiga

44.

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?

a)

Tropical Rain Forest

b)

Grassland

c)

Tundra

d)

Temperate Rain Forest

e)

Taiga

45.

What answer choice is best characterized by hot, dry summers and cool moist winters of Southern California?

a)

Deciduous Trees

b)

Canopy

c)

Coniferous Trees

d)

Minor Biomes

e)

Chaparral

46.

What answer choice is best described as occurring globally, but on a smaller scale?

a)

Deciduous Trees

b)

Canopy

c)

Coniferous Trees

d)

Minor Biomes

e)

Chaparral

47.

What answer choice is best describes an organisms that retain their needles all year?

a)

Deciduous Trees

b)

Canopy

c)

Coniferous Trees

d)

Minor Biomes

e)

Chaparral

48.

What answer choice is best describes an organisms that are adapted to winter by dropping their leaves and going dormant during the cold season?

a)

Deciduous Trees

b)

Canopy

c)

Coniferous Trees

d)

Minor Biomes

e)

Chaparral

49.

What answer choice is best described as only allowing for 1% of sunlight to reach the ground?

a)

Deciduous Trees

b)

Canopy

c)

Coniferous Trees

d)

Minor Biomes

e)

Chaparral

50.

What answer choice best describes the movement of individuals into a population?

a)

Nonrenewable Resources

b)

Renewable Resources

c)

Population Density

d)

Immigration

e)

Emigration

51.

What answer choice best describes the movement of out of a population?

a)

Nonrenewable Resources

b)

Renewable Resources

c)

Population Density

d)

Immigration

e)

Emigration

52.

What answer choice best describes the measure of individuals living in a defined area?

a)

Nonrenewable Resources

b)

Renewable Resources

c)

Population Density

d)

Immigration

e)

Emigration

53.

What answer choice best describes energy sources that cannot be used up or can replenish themselves within one lifetime?

a)

Nonrenewable Resources

b)

Renewable Resources

c)

Population Density

d)

Immigration

e)

Emigration

54.

What answer choice best describes energy sources are formed over long periods of time and can't be replenished within a lifetime?

a)

Nonrenewable Resources

b)

Renewable Resources

c)

Population Density

d)

Immigration

e)

Emigration

55.

What answer choice best describes members of a population compete with one another for resources such as food and shelter?

a)

Competition

b)

Predation

c)

Disease

d)

Primary Succession

e)

Secondary Succession

56.

What answer choice best describes hunting and killing another organism for food, which can be limited by the number of prey?

a)

Competition

b)

Predation

c)

Disease

d)

Primary Succession

e)

Secondary Succession

57.

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?

a)

Competition

b)

Predation

c)

Disease

d)

Primary Succession

e)

Secondary Succession

58.

What answer choice best describes the re-establishment of a damaged ecosystem in an area where the soil was left intact?

a)

Competition

b)

Predation

c)

Disease

d)

Primary Succession

e)

Secondary Succession

59.

What answer choice best describes the establishment and development of an ecosystem in an area that was previously uninhabited?

a)

Competition

b)

Predation

c)

Disease

d)

Primary Succession

e)

Secondary Succession

60.

What answer choice is not a type of symbiosis?

a)

Mutualism

b)

Commensalism

c)

Parasitism

d)

Unusual Weather Patterns

61.

What answer choice best describes a strip of land between high and low tide lines?

a)

Intertidal Zone

b)

Neritic Zone

c)

Bathayal Zone

d)

Abyssal Zone

62.

What answer choice best describes the marine zone that extends intertidal zone to the edge of the continental shelf?

a)

Intertidal Zone

b)

Neritic Zone

c)

Bathayal Zone

d)

Abyssal Zone

63.

What answer choice best describes the marine zone that extends from edge of neritic zone to the base of the continental shelf?

a)

Intertidal Zone

b)

Neritic Zone

c)

Bathayal Zone

d)

Abyssal Zone

64.

What answer choice best describes the marine zone that lies below 2000 meters and is in complete darkness?

a)

Intertidal Zone

b)

Neritic Zone

c)

Bathayal Zone

d)

Abyssal Zone

65.

What answer choice best describes the diverse neritic zone habitat found within tropical climate zone that is warm all year?

a)

Coral Reefs

b)

Kelp Forests

c)

Estuaries

d)

Limnetic Zone

e)

Benthic Zone

66.

What answer choice best describes the diverse neritic zone habitat that exists in cold, nutrient-rich waters (e.g., Monterey Bay California)?

a)

Coral Reefs

b)

Kelp Forests

c)

Phytoplankton

d)

Zooplankton

e)

Plankton

67.

What answer choice best describes tiny free floating organisms that live in the water?

a)

Coral Reefs

b)

Kelp Forests

c)

Phytoplankton

d)

Zooplankton

e)

Plankton

68.

What answer choice best describes dynamic environments where rivers flow into ocean?

a)

Coral Reefs

b)

Kelp Forests

c)

Estuaries

d)

Limnetic Zone

e)

Benthic Zone

69.

What answer choice best describes a freshwater zone that extends from open water far from shore?

a)

Coral Reefs

b)

Kelp Forests

c)

Estuaries

d)

Limnetic Zone

e)

Benthic Zone