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Final Exam Review # 6
Test Description: This is the sixth set of questions to review for the Living Environment final examination.
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) What type of ecosystem would be characterized by a complex food chain and high biodiversity?
A
Lunar
B
Unstable
C
Endangered
D
Stable
2) Temperate Deciduous Forests of New York State, and other areas that have similar climatic conditions, plants, and animals are all part of the same
A
Biome
B
Carrying capacity
C
Habitat
D
Community
3) All of the different populations of living organisms in an area make up the
A
ecosystem
B
habitat
C
troposphere
D
niche
4) Sunlight, temperature, rocks, water and air are all
A
Pioneer species
B
Essential nutrients
C
Biotic factors
D
Abiotic factors
5) The stable assemblage of plants and animals that can arise through the process of ecological succession is the
A
Carrying capacity
B
Intermediate species
C
Pioneer species
D
Climax community
6) What process describes changes that occur in the community of a particular area over long periods of time?
A
Mitosis
B
Natural selection
C
Genetic isolation
D
Ecological succession
7) Ecosystems that have climax communities will remain stable unless there is some sort of
A
Biome
B
Overproduction of offspring
C
Disruption
D
Carrying capacity
8) What type of growth has the human population shown in the last 60 years?
A
Incremental
B
Logistic
C
Decreasing
D
Exponential
9) What is the major cause of the depletion of Earth’s resources and an increase in environmental damage?
A
A decrease in energy consumption
B
An increase in the sun’s light production
C
A decrease in carnivore populations
D
Human population growth
10) What human activity has caused the disruption of balance in many ecosystems and the endangerment of many species?
A
Pollution
B
Cellular respiration
C
Nutrient limitation
D
Resource conservation
11) The emission by factories of which two gases is the major source of acid rain?
A
Carbon dioxide and water vapor
B
Nitrogen Oxides and Sulfur Oxides
C
Pesticides and helium
D
Oxygen and methane
12) Destruction of which of earth’s atmospheric layers allows more potentially damaging ultraviolet rays to reach Earth?
A
Hemisphere
B
Lithosphere
C
Hydrosphere
D
Ozone
13) The increase of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane, in the troposphere have led to
A
Ozone depletion
B
Acid rain
C
Increased genetic diversity
D
Global warming
14) When a species is moved from its native habitat into a new ecosystem it is referred to as an
A
Environmental species
B
Equilibrated species
C
Embryonic species
D
Introduced species
15) Why can introduced species be very detrimental to the ecosystems they are released into?
A
They are never problematic
B
They provide a food source for predators
C
They compete for mates with native species
D
They can cause imbalance in the food web
16) When more organisms need the same resource that is available in limited quantities, what process occurs to determine who gets the resource?
A
Mitosis
B
Competition
C
Evolution
D
Cellular respiration
17) What term describes the number of individuals that can survive on the resources that are present in an ecosystem?
A
Carrying capacity
B
Exponential growth
C
Resource potential
D
Survivability
18) When we use one type of living organism to control the population growth of a different type of organism, this is called
A
Biological control
B
Chemical regulation
C
Selective breeding
D
Biochemical warfare
19) Scientific problems are a description of what is being investigated and are always written in what form?
A
Question
B
Exclamation
C
If…then statement
D
Reverse logic
20) The research question can be turned into a sentence that is a testable statement. This important piece of the scientific method is called a
A
Hypothesis
B
Conclusion
C
Hypotenuse
D
Independent variable
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