WorksheetsEcology Final Trivia
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Jane Goodall is famous for her _____ studies.
Observational
Manipulative
Which of these studies is more likely to be affected by bad weather?
Field study
Laboratory study
What biome is characterized by acidic soils and evergreen conifers, and is only present in the Northern hemisphere?
Mediterranean woodland and shrubland
Temperate forest
Tundra
Taiga
The lowest salinity occurs in/near the ____.
Poles
Tropics
Subtropics
Which of these is a danger of inbreeding?
Harmful recessive alleles
Increased mutation rates
It's just icky
This type of selection leads to evolutionary changes in phenotypes where two extremes are both favored over the average.
Disruptive selection
Directional selection
Stabilizing selection
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 _____.
Disruptive selection
Directional selection
Stabilizing selection
You are a ____.
Homeotherm
Poikilotherm
Which face of the mountain is typically warmer, in the Northern hemisphere?
North
South
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?
My tomato plant is better
My tomato plant has better genes
My neighbor’s tomato plant is not subject to evolution
My tomato plant is water-stressed
What happens when you put a saltwater fish in fresh water?
It evaporates
It explodes
It becomes isotonic
It shrivels
The sticky structures on plant leaves that often hold defensive chemicals are called ____.
Anammox
Trichomes
Stoichiometry
Domatia
In C4 photosynthesis, the light-dependent and light-independent reactions are separated in _____.
Space
Time
Roots
None of the above
Salvinia molesta lives on the surface of bodies of water, like lakes. Salvinia most likely uses ______ photosynthesis.
C3
C4
CAM
Chimpanzees are pack hunters. They have a ___ distribution.
Regular
Random
Clumped
Which of these is responsible for flattening the logistic growth curve?
Numerical dominance
Carrying capacity
Lambda
Growth rate
A rhinoceros is ____.
K selected
r selected
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.
Elk
Lynx
Aspen trees
Snowshoe hares
What are "zombie pathogens," like the one that caused an anthrax outbreak in Siberia in 2015?
Microbes that have been heat-killed and returned to life
Microbes that cause glacier calving
Microbes that have been frozen in permafrost for millennia
Microbes recovered from extinct animals
The layer at which temperature changes rapidly in the water is the
Pelagic
Gyre
Thermocline
Upwelling
