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1st Semester Biology Review Game

Total questions: 55

Worksheet time: 31mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Organisms compete for all except:

a)

Food/Water

b)

Mates

c)

Shelter

d)

DNA

2.

What causes a population to increase?

a)

More emmigrating

b)

More deaths

c)

More death than births

d)

More births than deaths

3.

A population would be considered:

a)

a group of organisms, same area that interbreed

b)

a group of different organisms, same area that interbreed

c)

a group of organisms, different areas that do not interbreed

d)

a group of different organisms, different areas, that interbreed

4.

Populations sizes always stay the same

a)

True

b)

False

5.

What could cause a population to decrease?

a)

Emigration

b)

Higher deaths than births

c)

Lack of immigration

d)

All are correct

6.

Carrying capacity is...

a)

The minimum number of organisms an Env can support

b)

The maximum weight a mother gorilla can hold

c)

The maximum number of organisms an Env can support

d)

More individuals emigrating out than immigrating in

7.

What does diversity do to a population?

a)

Shrinks the biodiversity of the area

b)

Increases survival

c)

Increases deaths

d)

Increases emigration

8.

Without diversity, a population will most likely...

a)

Grow above its carrying capacity

b)

Go extinct

c)

Become resistant to diseases

d)

Fight off an invasive species

9.

What is meant by extinction of species?

a)

When there are only a few left

b)

When scientists find its fossils

c)

When it is completely gone

d)

When it has not been seen for many years

10.

What possible factors contribute to the extinction of a species?

a)

Habitat loss

b)

Overconsumption

c)

Population growth

d)

All are correct

11.

What causes competition to occur in an environment?

a)

Good conditions make resources plentiful.

b)

Organisms struggle for a limited resource.

c)

Members of a population have different roles.

d)

A population falls below the environment’s carrying capacity.

12.

Which is LEAST LIKELY to push a species toward extinction?

a)

a. Cutting down entire forest

b)

b. Putting animals in a zoo

c)

c. Polluting mountain streams

d)

d. Introducing new species to an ecosystem with no known natural predator

13.

If a population of 58 Javan Rhinoceros was reduced by 13 due to disease, how many Rhinos would be left in the population

a)

12

b)

71

c)

45

d)

58

14.
Which of these would most likely threaten the survival of a species?
a)
A common animal species is hunted.
b)
A plant species is farmed as a crop.
c)
Members of an endangered species reproduce.
d)
A species has fewer and fewer offspring.
15.

Which of the following species are extinct. Select all that apply

a)

Ladybugs

b)

Wooly Mammoth

c)

Leatherback Sea Turtle

d)

Dodo Bird

16.

Which of the following is not a model idea for why traits change over time?

a)

Traits can be advantageous or disadvantageous

b)

Offspring do not resemble their parents

c)

Populations tend to grow exponentially but don’t due to limited resources

d)

If you have the advantageous trait you survive and reproduce

17.

There are black and white sheep living on mountains of dark colored rocks. Which sheep has the disadvantageous trait?

a)

black sheep

b)

white sheep

c)

brown sheep

d)

red sheep

18.

Why don’t populations reproduce at an exponential rate?

a)

Too many mates to choose from

b)

Competition

c)

Bad weather

d)

Lack of resources

19.

What did you learn from the variation lab?

a)

All organisms have similar traits

b)

Only certain populations have variation in traits

c)

A population of organisms will have a variety of traits that they possess

d)

Only aquatic species have identical traits to one another

20.

Which population would have the greatest chance of survival?

a)

A population with 7 variations

b)

A population with 11 variations

c)

A population with 2 variations

d)

A population with no variations

21.

What chooses the advantageous trait for a population?

a)

Biomass of food

b)

Parents

c)

Environment

d)

Humans

22.

If you have the disadvantageous trait in the population what will likely happen to you?

a)

You will survive and reproduce

b)

You would die

c)

You will have many mates

d)

You will survive but not reproduce

23.

What was the disadvantageous trait for the finches on Daphne Major ?

a)

Coloration patterns

b)

Large beaks

c)

Antibiotic resistance

d)

Small beaks

24.

Which statement below would be something Darwin would say?

a)

Rhinos grew out their horn for survival

b)

Rhinos passed on their newly acquired trait to their offspring

c)

Rhinos change color in order to survive

d)

In the Rhino population there is variation of traits

25.

Which statement below would be something Lamarck would say?

a)

Birds grew out their beaks and passed on the newly grown beak to offspring

b)

There is variation of beaks in the population

c)

Some beaks are advantageous and some are disadvantageous

d)

Offspring resemble parents

26.

Which statement below explains why traits change over time?

a)

Organisms can have both the advantageous trait and disadvantageous trait

b)

Populations grow exponentially

c)

There is variation of traits among species

d)

Individuals with the advantageous trait will die

27.

Which of the following statements is true about Charles Darwin?

a)

He believed the evolution of a species was due to the inheritance of aquired characteristics

b)

He was in agreement with Lamarck's theory of how evolution occurred

c)

He believed that the variation seen within natural populations is the result of repeated mutation

d)

He believed that those most suited to their environment survive, and given enough time, the species will gradually evolve

28.

Natural selection is about survival of the BIGGEST AND THE STRONGEST

a)

True

b)

False

29.

According to Darwin, SELECTIVE BREEDING is the main reason for evolution

a)

True

b)

False

30.

What did Lamark believe occurred in regards to how giraffes acquired their long necks?

a)

Giraffes once had short necks that got progressively longer as members of each subsequent generation stretched their necks

b)

It was through random variation that some giraffes had longer necks than others

c)

The competition between males had driven the evolution of the giraffe neck, with female giraffes somehow carried along as males kept pushing the limits of neck length

d)

Since shorter creatures pick over food at lower level, giraffes evolved to allow them to reach food and nutrients that others cannot

31.

What did we learn in the worm eater lab?

a)

Those with advantageous triats will die

b)

Offspring tend NOT to resemble parents

c)

Those with disadvantageous triats will survive and reproduce

d)

Those with the advantegeous trait will survive & reproduce while those that dont will die and more indiviudals are born with the advantegous trait

32.

An Emerging seamount is:

a)

An underwater volcano whose elevation is decreasing

b)

An underwater volcano whose elevation is increasing

c)

An underwater volcano that is extinct

d)

An above volcano named after Mrs. Wasley ;)

33.

Ecological succession is...

a)

The process of islands forming

b)

The process of plate tectonics and sea floor spreading

c)

The process where biodiversity decreases

d)

Changes in the types/numbers of species in a community over time

34.

The plate always moves away from ...

a)

The newest island

b)

The submerging seamounts

c)

The oldest island

d)

Plates dont move

35.

What are the requirements of a population?

a)

Water, carbon dioxide, oxygen

b)

Oxygen, food, water

c)

Water, food and mates

d)

Mates, shelter, food

36.

What is the correct succession order of organisms?

a)

Soil, herbivores, carnivores

b)

Soil, plants, herbivores, carnivores

c)

Plants, soil, carnivores, herbivores

d)

Carnivores, herbivores, soil

37.

Which is the newest volcanic island?

a)

Erupted within the past 100 years

b)

Erupted within the past 1000 years

c)

Erupted within 10 years

d)

Erupting within the past year

38.

How did this organism get to the island?

a)

Swam part of the way

b)

Rode a piece of driftwood

c)

Flying

d)

All of the above could have occurred

39.

What do divergent plates do?

a)

Pull apart

b)

One plate slides underneath the other

c)

Push towards each other

d)

Plates flip around.

40.

Which is the island elevations show the oldest age of a submerging seamount?

a)

-100ft

b)

1000ft

c)

0ft

d)

20,000ft

41.

Which is true of a hotspot?

a)

Magma rises up from the mantle and breaks the tectonic crust

b)

Seen in submerging seamounts

c)

Sagma below the surface that never comes above the plate

d)

Moves

42.

How is soil made in the beginning of ecological succession?

a)

By late plant colonizers

b)

By early colonizers and nitrogen fixing

c)

By carnivores

d)

By herbivores

43.

Which volcanic island would have the fewest extinctions?

a)

An island 700 miles away

b)

An island 500 miles away

c)

An island 45 miles away

d)

An island 1500 miles away

44.

What is the correct order of succession?

a)

Soil, grass, deer, vampire finch, oak tree

b)

Soil, grass, oak tree, tortoise, vampire finch

c)

Grass, vampire finch, oak tree, soil

d)

Vampire finch, grass, tortoise, soil, oak tree

45.

What do convergent plates do?

a)

Pull apart

b)

One plate slides underneath the other plate

c)

Push toward each other

d)

Nothing

46.

How did this organism arrive to the islands?

a)

Seed disperal

b)

Storm current

c)

Swimming

d)

Storm current, swam or floated on a piece of driftwood

47.

How did this organism arrive to the islands?

a)

Seed disperal

b)

Storm current

c)

Swimming

d)

Storm current, swam or floated on a piece of driftwood

48.

The oldest island is considered the lowest, most submerged seamount

a)

True

b)

False

49.

BTB detects all of the following EXCEPT:

a)

Carbon dioxide (CO2)

b)

Acids

c)

Bases

d)

oxygen (O2)

50.

Blue BTB means:

a)

no CO2

b)

CO2

c)

no O2

d)

O2

51.

Which of the following is NOT a characterisitic of ALL living things?

a)

has DNA

b)

requires energy but does not use it

c)

Has cells

d)

Needs H2O

e)

Moves

52.

A phenomenon is....

a)

A scientifc mystery that one cant explain

b)

A question

c)

A game I play on my Chromebook

d)

an idea I have about a science topic

53.

A model idea is...

a)

a very large 3-D object

b)

an idea that I have to answer a question about a scientific phenomenon

c)

a very small 3-D object

d)

ideas that are only correct

54.

Yellow BTB means there is...

a)

only oxygen in the indicator

b)

CO2 present in the test tube

c)

no CO2 present

d)

a lot goiong on in the test tube/flask

55.

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of ALL living things?

a)

Reproduces

b)

Adapts to Environment

c)

Grows & develops

d)

Exchanges both oxygen & carbon dioxide

e)

All answers are characteristics of living things