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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
Unstable
B
Lunar
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
Community
C
Carrying capacity
D
Habitat
3) All of the different populations of living organisms in an area make up the
A
troposphere
B
habitat
C
niche
D
ecosystem
4) Sunlight, temperature, rocks, water and air are all
A
Essential nutrients
B
Abiotic factors
C
Pioneer species
D
Biotic factors
5) The stable assemblage of plants and animals that can arise through the process of ecological succession is the
A
Carrying capacity
B
Climax community
C
Pioneer species
D
Intermediate species
6) What process describes changes that occur in the community of a particular area over long periods of time?
A
Genetic isolation
B
Natural selection
C
Mitosis
D
Ecological succession
7) Ecosystems that have climax communities will remain stable unless there is some sort of
A
Biome
B
Carrying capacity
C
Overproduction of offspring
D
Disruption
8) What type of growth has the human population shown in the last 60 years?
A
Decreasing
B
Exponential
C
Logistic
D
Incremental
9) What is the major cause of the depletion of Earth’s resources and an increase in environmental damage?
A
An increase in the sun’s light production
B
A decrease in energy consumption
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
Nutrient limitation
B
Pollution
C
Resource conservation
D
Cellular respiration
11) The emission by factories of which two gases is the major source of acid rain?
A
Pesticides and helium
B
Carbon dioxide and water vapor
C
Nitrogen Oxides and Sulfur Oxides
D
Oxygen and methane
12) Destruction of which of earth’s atmospheric layers allows more potentially damaging ultraviolet rays to reach Earth?
A
Lithosphere
B
Hemisphere
C
Ozone
D
Hydrosphere
13) The increase of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane, in the troposphere have led to
A
Increased genetic diversity
B
Acid rain
C
Ozone depletion
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
Introduced species
D
Embryonic 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 can cause imbalance in the food web
D
They compete for mates with native species
16) When more organisms need the same resource that is available in limited quantities, what process occurs to determine who gets the resource?
A
Evolution
B
Cellular respiration
C
Competition
D
Mitosis
17) What term describes the number of individuals that can survive on the resources that are present in an ecosystem?
A
Survivability
B
Carrying capacity
C
Exponential growth
D
Resource potential
18) When we use one type of living organism to control the population growth of a different type of organism, this is called
A
Chemical regulation
B
Biological control
C
Biochemical warfare
D
Selective breeding
19) Scientific problems are a description of what is being investigated and are always written in what form?
A
Exclamation
B
Reverse logic
C
Question
D
If…then statement
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
Conclusion
B
Independent variable
C
Hypotenuse
D
Hypothesis
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