Biology 150 - Chapter 11 LEARN Quiz

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Biology 150 (Organismal and Evolutionary Ecology), Chapter 11 (Community Ecology) LEARN Quiz
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A harmless fly develops colouration that makes it look like a poisonous wasp. This is an example of:
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  • Mullerian mimicry
  • Batesian mimicry
  • competitive avoidance
  • character displacement

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Which of the following interspecific interaction is NOT +/–?
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  • competition
  • predation
  • herbivory
  • parasitism

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Allopatric species that use similar resources are likely to display character displacement.
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  • True
  • False

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Which of the following is the BEST example of a biological COMMUNITY?
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A prey species starts producing a toxin in its skin after exposure to a predator. The toxin was not present until the predator arrives. This is an example of:
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  • a constitutive defence
  • a standing defence
  • aposematic colouration
  • an inducible defence

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Three species of poisonous frogs have very similar colouration. This is an example of:
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  • Batesian mimicry
  • Mullerian mimicry
  • predator avoidance
  • colouration mimicry

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When two species compete, which of the following is a possible outcome?
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  • competitive exclusion of one species
  • niche differentiation
  • character displacement
  • all of the above

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Competitive exclusion often results from symmetric competition.
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  • True
  • False

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Why don't herbivores eat all of the primary production on Earth?
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  • herbivore populations are limited to available nitrogen
  • some plant tissues are toxic
  • herbivore populations are limited by predators
  • all of the above

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Interspecific interaction between species (ie. parasitism, mutualism, competition) are constant. Once established, they do not change.
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  • True
  • False

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Dominance by a few species is more likely in a less diverse community.
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  • True
  • False

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All communities have dominant species.
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  • True
  • False

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Species diversity has two components: 1) species richness; 2) relative abundance/evenness.
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  • True
  • False

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Which community is most diverse? HINT: Read ‘25A’ as “25 individuals of Species A” and ‘25B’ as “25 individuals of Species B”, etc.
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  • community 4: 25A, 25B, 25C
  • community 3: 25A, 20B, 50C, 5D
  • community 1: 25A, 25B, 25C, 25D
  • community 2: 20A, 20B, 20C, 20D, 20E

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Which one of these curves is representative of the most diverse community?
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  • Potash Brook
  • Snipe Island Brook
  • Centennial Brook
  • all are the same

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Data on an individual species’ frequency, density, basal area and biomass could be used to calculate what quantity?
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  • importance
  • Simpson's Index
  • richness
  • evenness

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Which of the following statements about diversity indices is FALSE?
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  • they incorporate data on both number of species and evenness of species
  • the Shannon Index gives more weight to rare species
  • evenness varies between 0 and 1
  • they do not account for dominant species

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Keystone species influence community structure because they are always abundant.
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  • True
  • False

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If the presence of a keystone predator increases diversity, it is likely preying on:
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  • bioengineers
  • superior competitors
  • tolerant competitors
  • inferior competitors

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Keystone species can affect their communities by:
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  • affecting inter-species interaction
  • modifying habitat
  • affecting inter-community interactions
  • all of the above

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In a three-step food chain subject to top-down control, you have fish that eat zooplankton that eat algae. What is likely to happen if the fish are removed?
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  • algae abundance increases
  • zooplankton abundance decreases
  • algae abundance decreases
  • all of the above

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You add fertilizer to an experimental plot. Plant growth increases, and you observe that the number of herbivores and carnivores increases. This is an example of:
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  • bottom-up control
  • top-down control
  • the energetic hypothesis
  • omnivory

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Several species of fish in a lake eat plankton. This group can be referred to as:
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  • omnivores
  • a cohort
  • a guild
  • a feeding group

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A species is fished out of a lake, and another species fills its niche and role in the food web. This is an example of:
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  • bottom-up control
  • functional redundancy
  • top-down control
  • facultative redundancy

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Understanding how the decline of sea otters affected kelp forests in the Pacific leads us to conclude that:
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  • sea otters are subject to density-independent factors
  • sea otters are bioengineers
  • sea otters are keystone prey
  • sea otters are keystone predators

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If the intermediate disturbance hypothesis is true, communities that experience intermediate disturbance levels have:
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  • shorter food chains
  • higher species diversity
  • more competitive exclusion
  • no slow-colonizing species

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An early colonizing plant species modifies the soil environment such that larger vascular plants can colonize. This is an example of:
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  • negative allelopathy
  • facilitation
  • tolerance
  • inhibition

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In which of the following is competition used to explain successional patterns?
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  • inhibition
  • tolerance
  • facilitation
  • both A and B

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If the initial floristic composition hypothesis is true, we would expect community succession to:
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  • end in a predictable, stable climax community
  • not depend on competition
  • be affected by which species arrive first
  • all of the above

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In succession, species diversity always increases over time.
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  • True
  • False

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Which of the following statements about the resource-ratio hypothesis is TRUE:
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  • species that grow quickly are favoured throughout succession
  • availability of nutrients decreases over time
  • availability of light decreases over time
  • competition does not affect successional outcomes

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A farmer cuts down part of a forest to make a field. The abrupt border between the forest and field is BEST characterized as:
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  • an ecotone
  • a core area
  • an induced edge
  • an inherent edge

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A farmer cuts down part of a forest to make a field, but plants species diversity remains constant for almost 10 years before deciding. This is BEST characterized as an example of:
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  • matrix effects
  • a border effect
  • the relaxation effect
  • area-intensive species

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Two species cannot coexist permanently in a community if their niches are identical.
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  • True
  • False
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