Unit 16 Review

Question 1

What is it when 2 males fight over territory

Answer 1

Competition

Question 2

What is it when a plant grows on another plant, pulling nutrients from the plant

Answer 2

Parasitism

Question 3

If an elephant dies what would the population of decomposers look like

Answer 3

It will start out as exponential and change to logistic when all of the food is used up

Question 4

There are 2 plants, one is short and grows quickly and the other is tall and grows slowly, which is the pioneer species

Answer 4

The one that is short and grows quickly

Question 5

What is primary succession

Answer 5

When a habitat is recovering from a disaster like the eruption of a volcano

Question 6

What is secondary succession

Answer 6

When a habitat is recovering from a normal change like loss of food or water

Question 7

What biome would be closest to the poles and which would be closest to the equator

Answer 7

Rainforest, tundra

Question 8

Which would be closer to the equator: scrublands or coniferous forests

Answer 8

Scrubland

Question 9

Which of the biomes has the greatest diversity of life

Answer 9

The rainforest

Question 10

Which of the biomes has low amounts of presupposition

Answer 10

The desert

Question 11

In which of the biomes would you find the most evergreens

Answer 11

The coniferous forest

Question 12

In which of the biomes would you find the most epiphytes

Answer 12

Rainforest

Question 13

Which of the biomes is dominated by grass

Answer 13

Grasslands

Question 14

In which of the biomes would you find shrubs

Answer 14

Scrubland

Question 15

In which of the biomes would you find permafrost

Answer 15

Tundra

Question 16

List the levels of the rainforest

Answer 16

Floor, understory, canopy, emergent layer

Question 17

What do camels store in in their humps

Answer 17

Fat

Question 18

What are the 2 types coniferous forests

Answer 18

Temperate coniferous forest and boreal forest (colder)

Question 19

Why is the relationship between predator and prey not considered symbolic

Answer 19

Because it is to short

Question 20

If a grassland is not temperate what is it called

Answer 20

Savanna

Question 21

Describe the zones of a lake

Answer 21

Littoral zone (near shore)
Limnetic zone (top layer)
Profundal zone (bottom layer)
Benthic zone (floor)

Question 22

What is aerenchyma

Answer 22

A tissue that funnels oxygen into the roots of underwater plants. If a plant dose not have this then it needs to get oxygen from the water

Question 23

If an aquatic ecosystem’s salinity varies by location but not depth what kind of an ecosystem is it

Answer 23

An estuary

Question 24

List the zones of the ocean in increasing depth

Answer 24

Epipelagic, mesopelagic, bathypelagic, abyssopelagic, and hadalpelagic

Question 25

What is the benthic zone

Answer 25

The ocean floor

Question 26

What 2 provinces make up the pelagic division of the ocean

Answer 26

The neritic province (closer to shore)
And the oceanic province

Question 27

In which of the zones do you find bioluminescent organisms

Answer 27

Abyssopelagic zone hadalpelagic

Question 28

Where do benthic organisms live

Answer 28

On the ocean/lake/river floor

Question 29

What are the zones of a temperate forest

Answer 29

Ground, herb, shrub, small tree, tree stratum