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APES Chapter 3
Test Description: Chapter 3 Vocabluary
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Producers convert CO2 into sugars. Sugars are converted back into CO2. Extraction of fossil fuels brings carbon to earth's surface where it is combusted. CO2 in atmosphere and CO2 dissolved in water are constantly exchange.
A
Phosphorus Cycle
B
Nitrogen Cycle
C
Hydrologic Cycle
D
Carbon Cycle
2) Process that unlocks the chemical energy stored in cells of organisms
A
Photosynthesis
B
Cellular Respiration
C
Binary Fission
D
Transformation
3) Fungi and bacteria that complete the breakdown process by recycling the nutrients from dead tissues and wastes back into the ecosystem
A
Detritivores
B
Omnivores
C
Decomposeres
D
Scavenger
4) Organisms that specialize in breaking down dead tissues and waste products
A
Decomposeres
B
Scavenger
C
Omnivores
D
Detritivores
5) Proportion of consumed energy that can be passed form one trophic level
A
Gross Primary Productivity
B
Ecological Efficiency
C
Instrumental Value
D
Net Primary Productivity
6) Sequence of consumption from producers to top level of consumers
A
Food Web
B
Trophic Levels
C
Food Chain
D
Trophic Pyramid
7) Food chains that take into account of nature and show all connections between organisms
A
Trophic Levels
B
Food Web
C
Food Chain
D
Trophic Pyramid
8) Total amount of solar energy that the producers in an ecosystem capture via photosynthesis over a given amount of time
A
Biomass
B
Net Primary Productivity
C
Ecological Efficiency
D
Gross Primary Productivity
9) Worth of a species as an instrument or tool that can be used to accomplish a goal. Provisions, Regulation services, support systems, resilience, and cultural services
A
Ecological Effort
B
Biomass
C
Intrinsic Value
D
Instrumental Value
10) Ecosystems experiencing intermediate levels of disturbance are more diverse than those with high or low disturbance levels
A
Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis
B
Resistance resilience
C
Biomass
D
Energy Quality
11) Nitrate transported through the soil with water
A
Nitrification
B
Assimilation
C
Leaching
D
Ammonification
12) Consume producers. Herbivore
A
Secondary Consumer
B
Top Carnivore
C
Tertiary Consumer
D
Primary Consumer
13) Goods that humans can directly use
A
Human Needs
B
Provisions
C
Sustainable Development
D
Ecosystem services
14) How much a disturbance can affect the flows of energy and matter
A
Restoration
B
Resistance
C
Succession
D
Resilience
15) Eat primary consumers. Carnivores
A
Top Carnivore
B
Tertiary Consumer
C
Secondary Consumers
D
Primary Consumers
16) Total Biomass present in an ecosystem at a particular time
A
Net Primary Productivity
B
Limiting Nutrients
C
Gross Primary Productivity
D
Standing Crop
17) Successive levels of organisms consuming each other
A
Trophic Pyramid
B
Trophic Levels
C
Food Web
D
Food Chain
18) Rate at which an ecosystem returns to its original state after a sisturbance
A
Resilience
B
Resistance
C
Restoration
D
Succession
19) Represent the distribution of biomass among trophic levels. Decrease by abut 10 percent each time
A
Food Web
B
Trophic Levels
C
Food Chain
D
Trophic Pyramid
20) All of the land in a given landscape that drains into a particular stream, river, lake, or wetland
A
Ground Water
B
Ecological Footprint
C
Watershed
D
Runoff
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