WorksheetsChapter 2 Biology Test (Semester Study)
Total questions: 72
Worksheet time: 2hrs 23mins
Some birds are known as honey guides because they lead badgers to wild beehives. When the badgers break open and take honey from the hives, the birds are able to feast on the honey and bees, too. This type of relationship can best be described as ____.
Parasitism
Commensalism
Mutualism
Symbiosis
Cougars often compete with other cougars for a mate. This describes what kind of competition?
Interspecific
Symbiotic
Biotic
Intraspecific
Which trophic level would have the smallest number of organisms?
Primary Consumers
Tertiary
Producers
Secondary Consumers
What is the ultimate source of energy for an ecological pyramid?
Grass
Heat
Water
Sunlight
A flea or tick are involved in which type of symbiosis?
Mutualism
Parasitism
Commensalism
Predation
Panda bears only live in China and only feed on bamboo. These organisms would be classified as a ____ in regards to their niche?
Generalist
Specialist
Abiotic Factor
Biological Community
What is "soil type" to an earthworm?
Biome
Abiotic Factor
Biotic Factor
Carbon Source
Which process describes nitrogen fixation?
Animals eat plants containing nitrogen and return it to the soil through urination
Bacteria take nitrogen from the air and convert it into a form usable by plants
Organisms die and are decomposed into ammonia in the soil
Plants take nitrogen from the air and store it in their roots
Your favorite plant is growing very slowly, and you would like to find some way to increase its growth rate. Which of the following should you try increasing first?
Oxygen
Nitrogen
Sodium
Calcium
Some farmers use manure on their crop fields. How does this help the plants?
Protects them from intense sunlight
Keeps insects from eating the crops
Increases soil nitrogen and phosphorus levels
Increases soil oxygen and carbon dioxide levels
When precipitation falls onto the ground and seeps into the soil and becomes groundwater this process of the water cycle is called _____?
Condensation
Transpiration
Infiltration
Runoff
Ecology is the scientific discipline that studies all the interactions between ____
All the different regions on earth
Different forms of matter on earth
Humans and their polluting
Organisms and their environment
Which is an example of predation?
A clownfish protecting an anemone
A duck eating an insect
A tick on the skin of a wolf
Two male sheep fighting for a female
What is the main difference between denitrification and the other parts of the nitrogen cycle?
Denitrification changes nitrogen into a gaseous form
Bacteria are not involved in the process of denitrification
Denitrification occurs on the roots of legumes
Denitrification isn't necessary to complete the nitrogen cycle
How do nutrients such as carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorous move through ecosystems?
Ecological pryamids
Water cycles
Biogeochemical cycles
Nitrogen fixation
What two processes in the water cycle RETURN water to the atmosphere?
Evaporation and transpiration
Evaporation and precipitation
Transpiration and precipitation
Precipitation and condensation
The nitrogen cycle is different from the other biogeochemical cycles in that NO step is completed without the help of what?
Consumers
Lightning
Water
Bacteria
Deer eating clover in a field and a rabbit eating the same clover would be an example of ____
Predation
Interspecific competition
Intraspecific competition
Symbiosis
A (an) ___ collects energy from sunlight or inorganic substances to produce food
Autotroph
Heterotroph
Herbivore
Detritivore
How would a decrease in the population of primary consumers affect the ecosystem?
Primary producers would suddenly decrease
Tertiary consumer population would increase
Tertiary consumer populations would eventually decrease
There would be no overall effect
The total mass of living matter at each trophic level is called
Food chain
Energy flow
Biomass
Organic compound
Which of the following is an example of symbiosis?
A mother bear taking care of her cub
A rabbit eating grass
A worm living in a cow's intestine
A chimp grooming and cleaning the hair of another chimp
All of the following are ways that nitrogen can be fixed into a usable form EXCEPT
Environmental fixation involving fungi
Atmospheric fixation involving lightning
Biological fixation involving algae
Industrial fixation involving fertilizers
The tundra of Alaska would best be described as a (n):
Biome
Biological community
Habitat
Niche
What would happen if we didn't have bacteria living in our intestines?
We might not be able to go to the bathroom
We might get sick less often
We might not be able to digest certain kinds of food
Nothing would happen
What critical role do fungi and bacteria play in any ecosystem?
Primary productivity
Decomposition
Transpiration
Assimilation
Food webs represent ecosystems better than food chains because:
Many animals that make up the links in a food chain are migratory
Over time food chains always become food webs
The number of organisms increases at each trophic level
Organisms almost always eat and are eaten by many different organisms
Heterotrophs differ from autotrophs by:
Heterotrophs make their own food and autotrophs consume food
Heterotrophs are multicellular and autotrophs are mainly unicellular
Heterotrophs consume foods and autotrophs make their own food
Heterotrophs are found at the base of every food chain and autotrophs aren't
What term explains why water vapor forms on the outside of my pop can sitting on my desk?
Condensation
Evaporation
Consumption
Transpiration
Which of the following is NOT a biotic factor?
Log
Algae
Fish
Oxygen
Which is NOT an example of two organisms in a mutualistic relationship?
Bacteria in our intestine
A bird and a tree
Hummingbird and a flower
Honey guide and a badger
Consumers get their source of nitrogen:
Through runoff that flows into steams that they drink from
When precipitation filled with nitrogen falls into lakes and they eat the fish
When nitrogen gets into water by erosion and weathering
By eating producers or other animals that contain nitrogen
This nutrient is needed for growth and development of all organisms and found within many rocks:
Phosphorus
Carbon
Nitrogen
Oxygen
The law of conservation of matter states that:
Matter created can last days, months, or years
Matter is not created nor destroyed
Matter has a chemical structure that cannot be created, but destroyed
Matter cycles through the living and nonliving parts of an environment
Which is NOT a way phosphorus is added to the soil?
Decomposition
Weathering of certain rocks
Lightning
Organism's waste products
Which of the following would NOT be something an ecologist would study?
How the number of producers affect the primary consumers in a food web
How the amount of carbon dioxide affects plants in an ecosystem
The cause of an outbreak of a bacterial infection
The relationship between marine life and their predators
Which element is found in proteins and cannot be used by organisms in it's gaseous form?
Nitrogen
Phosphorus
Water
Oxygen
Since the start of the ___ we have seen an increase in the amount of greenhouse gases
Agricultural Revolution
Industrial Revolution
Farming
Vehicle Production
All of the following are examples of parasitism EXCEPT:
Kudzu and a tree
Athletes foot and a human
Cuckoo bird and a robin
Gall insect and an oak tree
During ___ plants take in carbon dioxide, and during ___ humans release carbon dioxide
Photosynthesis; consumption
Decomposition; combustion
Photosynthesis; respiration
Respiration; fossilization
Where can you find carbon?
Inside the sun
Only in Earth's atmosphere
Inside every living thing on Earth
As a part of a water molecule
Anything that takes up space and has mass is defined as (a) .
Ecological level of organization that is the portion of Earth that supports life is called the (a) .
Photosynthetic organisms remove (a) from the air as part of the biogeochemical cycles.
(a) are the first trophic level in all ecosystems.
A remora follows behind a shark for scraps of food. this relationship is an example of (a) .
If a mouse eats seeds what percent of the energy is available to the mouse?
10
100
30
50
Carbon sinks store more carbon that they release. Give one example of a carbon sink.
(a)
The hydrologic cycle is another name for which biogeochemical cycle?
(a)
Given these options: biological community, biome, ecosystem, habitat, population, organism, niche
Name which one this is: All the coral, reef fish, and jelly fish in the ocean
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(a)
Given these options: biological community, biome, ecosystem, habitat, population, organism, niche
Name which one this is: All the bluegill in a lake
(use lowercase letters)
(a)
Given these options: biological community, biome, ecosystem, habitat, population, organism, niche
Name which one this is: Squirrels collecting nuts and taking care of young
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(a)
Given these options: biological community, biome, ecosystem, habitat, population, organism, niche
Name which one this is: All the maple trees, robins, temperature, sunlight, and monarchs in a forest
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(a)
Given these options: biological community, biome, ecosystem, habitat, population, organism, niche
Name which one this is: A nest in a tree
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(a)
Given these options: biological community, biome, ecosystem, habitat, population, organism, niche
Name which one this is: An area with the same type of organisms and climate
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(a)
Given these options: biological community, biome, ecosystem, habitat, population, organism, niche
Name which one this is: A coyote living in a forest
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(a)
Given these options: primary consumer, detritivores, omnivores, quaternary consumer, herbivores, tertiary consumer, carnivores, producers
Name which one this is: Raccoons, bears, humans are all examples of this heterotroph
(use lowercase letters)
(a)
Given these options: primary consumer, detritivores, omnivores, quaternary consumer, herbivores, tertiary consumer, carnivores, producers
Name which one this is: Trophic level a mouse occupies when eating seeds
(use lowercase letters)
(a)
Given these options: primary consumer, detritivores, omnivores, quaternary consumer, herbivores, tertiary consumer, carnivores, producers
Name which one this is: Lion, fox, wolves are all examples of this heterotroph
(use lowercase letters)
(a)
Given these options: primary consumer, detritivores, omnivores, quaternary consumer, herbivores, tertiary consumer, carnivores, producers
Name which one this is: Worms and aquatic insects on stream bottoms that feed on matter
(use lowercase letters)
(a)
Given these options: primary consumer, detritivores, omnivores, quaternary consumer, herbivores, tertiary consumer, carnivores, producers
Name which one this is: Organisms within this trophic level eat secondary consumers
(use lowercase letters)
(a)
Given these options: primary consumer, detritivores, omnivores, quaternary consumer, herbivores, tertiary consumer, carnivores, producers
Name which one this is: Seed->mouse->snake->owl->fox (what level is the fox?)
(use lowercase letters)
(a)
Given these options: primary consumer, detritivores, omnivores, quaternary consumer, herbivores, tertiary consumer, carnivores, producers
Name which one this is: Deer, cow, rabbit are all examples of this type of heterotroph
(use lowercase letters)
(a)
Given these options: primary consumer, detritivores, omnivores, quaternary consumer, herbivores, tertiary consumer, carnivores, producers
Name which one this is: Trophic level with the most organisms
(use lowercase letters)
(a)
Given these options: water, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous
Name which one this is: This cycle is impacted by burning fossil fuels and deforestation
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(a)
Given these options: water, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous
Name which one this is: This cycle would not happen without heat from the sun
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(a)
Given these options: water, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous
Name which one this is: Transpiration is one of the steps of this cycle
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(a)
Given these options: water, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous
Name which one this is: This is the only cycle that does not involve the atmosphere
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(a)
Given these options: water, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous
Name which one this is: As rocks are broken down due to weathering they release this nutrient
(use lowercase letters)
(a)
Given these options: water, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous
Name which one this is: The majority of earth's atmosphere is composed of gas from this cycle
(use lowercase letters)
(a)
Given these options: water, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous
Name which one this is: Lightning makes this nutrient usable
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(a)
Given these options: water, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous
Name which one this is: As this nutrient is stored underground it can turn into coal and natural gas
(use lowercase letters)
(a)
