Practice Exam 1

Question 1

Which of the following areas in a trophic pyramid has
the greatest amount of solar (sun) derived biomass /
energy available in a community?

Answer 1

primary producers

Question 2

Order is identified as a property of life.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Rocks, water and air are biotic components to an ecosystem.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Which Kingdom of Eukarya can be identified as
only consumers that are not animals?

Question 5

The first step of the scientific method

Answer 5

Obsservation

Question 6

True science is subjective and based on faith.

Answer 6

False

Question 7

True science is objective and based on data and data
analysis.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

Zebra Mussels are producers in marine ecosystems.

Question 9

The example of a Boom and Bust cycle occurs
between species (arctic Hare and Lynx) over time
as the result of co-evolution.

Question 10

Humans as ______ consumers are better
ecologically than humans (consuming
cows/cattle) that are ______ consumers, is
relation to human population size (over 7
billion).

Question 11

The “role” an organism of a population “plays”
in a community is identified as a(n) _____.

Question 12

The “area” an organism of an ecosystem “lives”
in is identified as a(n) _____.

Question 13

The largest terrestrial biome type on Earth is
identified as:

Question 14

Which population growth model graph
“shape” indicates (time Vs. Population size)
that the population is in exponential growth?

Question 15

_____ are defined as usually “useful” inherited
features that have evolved by means of natural
selection pressures acting upon life.

Question 16

Condensation, precipitation, evaporation: are all
components of the _______ cycle.

Question 17

A _____population dispersion pattern could be
defined as: individuals in a population situated / spaced
in a patterned, predictable evenly-spaced way (like
urban sprawl in a suburbia).

Question 18

According to lecture Otters are considered keystone
predators in some North American aquatic
communities.

Question 19

theory of evolution considers Fitness…. Which
is concerned with how strong or healthy or
fast some entities are in a community and
how they can survive by only being this way
versus others.

Question 20

Fungi belong to Domain ______________ :

Question 21

Which two nutrients (following) limit the amount of
algae in a freshwater ecosystem?

Question 22

Prokarytic cells lack a nucleus and membrane-
bound organelles

Question 23

Eukaryotic cells lack a nucleus and membrane-
bound organelles

Question 24

Eukaryotic cells have a nucleus and membrane
-bound organelles

Question 25

Humans belong to Domain Archaea.