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Ecology Final Trivia

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Jane Goodall is famous for her _____ studies.

a)

Observational

b)

Manipulative

2.

Which of these studies is more likely to be affected by bad weather?

a)

Field study

b)

Laboratory study

3.

What biome is characterized by acidic soils and evergreen conifers, and is only present in the Northern hemisphere?

a)

Mediterranean woodland and shrubland

b)

Temperate forest

c)

Tundra

d)

Taiga

4.

The lowest salinity occurs in/near the ____.

a)

Poles

b)

Tropics

c)

Subtropics

5.

Which of these is a danger of inbreeding?

a)

Harmful recessive alleles

b)

Increased mutation rates

c)

It's just icky

6.

This type of selection leads to evolutionary changes in phenotypes where two extremes are both favored over the average.

a)

Disruptive selection

b)

Directional selection

c)

Stabilizing selection

7.

Some ants have leg spurs. The front leg spurs are important (for grooming) while the back leg spurs aren’t as important.  Natural selection has ensured that all front leg spurs are about the same size.  (The less-important back spurs can vary in size.)  This is an example of _____.

a)

Disruptive selection

b)

Directional selection

c)

Stabilizing selection

8.

You are a ____.

a)

Homeotherm

b)

Poikilotherm

9.

Which face of the mountain is typically warmer, in the Northern hemisphere?

a)

North

b)

South

10.

My tomato plant has a much bigger root system than my neighbor’s tomato plant, even though they are the same age. Which is most likely?

a)

My tomato plant is better

b)

My tomato plant has better genes

c)

My neighbor’s tomato plant is not subject to evolution

d)

My tomato plant is water-stressed

11.

What happens when you put a saltwater fish in fresh water?

a)

It evaporates

b)

It explodes

c)

It becomes isotonic

d)

It shrivels

12.

The sticky structures on plant leaves that often hold defensive chemicals are called ____.

a)

Anammox

b)

Trichomes

c)

Stoichiometry

d)

Domatia

13.

In C4 photosynthesis, the light-dependent and light-independent reactions are separated in _____.

a)

Space

b)

Time

c)

Roots

d)

None of the above

14.

Salvinia molesta lives on the surface of bodies of water, like lakes. Salvinia most likely uses ______ photosynthesis.

a)

C3

b)

C4

c)

CAM

15.

Chimpanzees are pack hunters. They have a ___ distribution.

a)

Regular

b)

Random

c)

Clumped

16.

Which of these is responsible for flattening the logistic growth curve?

a)

Numerical dominance

b)

Carrying capacity

c)

Lambda

d)

Growth rate

17.

A rhinoceros is ____.

a)

K selected

b)

r selected

18.

We discussed how the ecology of fear influenced the ecosystem at Yellowstone, after wolves were re-introduced. The reintroduction of wolves in Yellowstone caused a beneficial increase in this population.

a)

Elk

b)

Lynx

c)

Aspen trees

d)

Snowshoe hares

19.

What are "zombie pathogens," like the one that caused an anthrax outbreak in Siberia in 2015?

a)

Microbes that have been heat-killed and returned to life

b)

Microbes that cause glacier calving

c)

Microbes that have been frozen in permafrost for millennia

d)

Microbes recovered from extinct animals

20.

The layer at which temperature changes rapidly in the water is the

a)

Pelagic

b)

Gyre

c)

Thermocline

d)

Upwelling