Quiz 3

Question 1

(term) What is the functional role of species in a habitat?

Answer 1

niche

Question 2

What is the process in which organism evolves to better their chances of survival in a particular environment?

Answer 2

adaptation

Question 3

Which organism below is a producer?

1) a grasshopper

2) a dandelion

3) a snake

4) a mushroom

5) a human being

Answer 3

a dandelion

Question 4

Give 1 example of “provisioning goods and services”

Answer 4

food and water

Question 5

Give one example of “regulating services”

Answer 5

bees pollinating plants

Question 6

Of the nine planetary systems that Rockström and his colleagues wrote about in the 2009 essay that you read, which system`s boundary was exceeded the most?

1) global freshwater use

2) biodiversity loss

3) climate change

4) ocean acidification

5) change in land use

Answer 6

biodiversity loss

Question 7

What does Leopold lament about in “marshland elegy”?

1) collapse of ancient ecosystems

2) loss of biodiversity

3) human progress

4) economic development

5) industrialization`s impact

Answer 7

collapse of ancient ecosystems

Question 8

Of the terms that refer to the different levels of biotic organization, which one below would best describe a group of ivory-billed woodpeckers, cypresses, and worms in one area?

1) a community

2) a population

3) an ecosystem

4) a biome

5) a collective

Answer 8

a community

① a community → multiple species in one area

② a population → a group consisting of the same species

③ an ecosystem = abiotic(non-living) + biotic(living)

ex)
abiotic → air
biotic → fungi

④ a biome → a big area on the earth that has specific weather condition

ex) dessert, rainforest, tundra

⑤ a collective → a group of organisms

Question 9

Fertiliser is associated with which geochemical cycle?

1) hydrogen cycle

2) carbon cycle

3) hydrologic cycle

4) nitrogen cycle

5) sulfuric cycle

Answer 9

nitrogen cycle

Question 10

What does the term “succession” refer to in ecology?

1) evolution of a species

2) gradual change in ecosystems

3) seasonal change

4) steps in trophic levels

5) replacement of species in one area

Answer 10

gradual change in ecosystems

Question 11

What does Leopold describe as the main threat to the sandhill cranes?

1) hunters

2) farms

3) climate change

4) cities

5) pollution

Answer 11

farms