BIO 100 Test #1

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Spring 2018
Raquel Wood
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Questão 1

Questão
What is biology?
Responda
  • the study of life
  • the study of the environment
  • the study of DNA
  • the study of ecosystems
  • the study of organelles

Questão 2

Questão
Which of the following is NOT a property of life?
Responda
  • populations or organisms that are unable to change over time
  • living things exhibit complex but ordered organization
  • organisms take in energy and use it to perform all of life's activities
  • organisms reproduce their own kind
  • organisms respond to environmental stimuli

Questão 3

Questão
You try to start your car, but it does not start. Which of there is a hypothesis?
Responda
  • my car does not start
  • my car's battery might be dead
  • if I recharge the battery, then my car will start
  • my car is too old to function properly
  • what's wrong with my car?

Questão 4

Questão
Discovery science is primarily based on ____________.
Responda
  • hypothesis testing
  • deduction
  • experimentation
  • theory
  • observation

Questão 5

Questão
Which of the following is a producer?
Responda
  • house plant
  • earthworm
  • dog
  • sun
  • cow

Questão 6

Questão
Humans are ____________.
Responda
  • ecosystems
  • producers
  • cells
  • consumers
  • decomposers

Questão 7

Questão
Relative to prokaryotic cells, eukaryotic cells are usually ____________.
Responda
  • smaller and more complex
  • smaller and simpler
  • smaller and equally complex
  • larger and equally complex
  • larger and more complex

Questão 8

Questão
Humans are composed of ____________ cells.
Responda
  • bacterial
  • archaeal
  • eukaryotic
  • plant
  • prokaryotic

Questão 9

Questão
Which of the following is NOT recycled, but is lost from ecosystems?
Responda
  • nitrogen
  • energy
  • magnesium
  • carbon
  • sodium

Questão 10

Questão
Which domain(s) consist(s) of prokaryotic cells?
Responda
  • bacteria only
  • eukarya only
  • archaea and eukarya
  • achaea only
  • bacteria and archaea

Questão 11

Questão
Ecology is the study of ____________.
Responda
  • life
  • relationships among different species
  • human effects on the environment
  • interactions between humans and other species
  • interactions between organisms and their enironment

Questão 12

Questão
Which of the following is abiotic?
Responda
  • a protist
  • an animal
  • a plant
  • a fungus
  • a rock

Questão 13

Questão
What level of ecology is concerned with groups of individuals of the SAME species?
Responda
  • community
  • tissue
  • organism
  • ecosystem
  • population

Questão 14

Questão
What level of ecology is concerned with groups of individuals of DIFFERENT species?
Responda
  • community
  • tissue
  • organism
  • ecosystem
  • population

Questão 15

Questão
What level of ecology is concerned with both the biotic and abiotic aspects of an environment?
Responda
  • community
  • tissue
  • organism
  • ecosystem
  • population

Questão 16

Questão
What is the primary source of energy for nearly ALL of the earth's ecosystems?
Responda
  • sunlight
  • geothermal vents
  • volcanoes
  • wind
  • rocks and soil

Questão 17

Questão
Water moves from land to the atmosphere through ____________.
Responda
  • evaporation only
  • precipitation
  • transpiration only
  • transpiration and evaporation
  • evaporation and precipitation

Questão 18

Questão
Which part of the earth receives the greatest intensity of solar radiation?
Responda
  • Tropic of Cancer
  • Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn
  • equator
  • North and South Poles
  • all parts of the earth receive the same intensity of solar radiation

Questão 19

Questão
Areas of the earth with similar climate, plants, and animals.
Responda
  • life zone
  • photic zone
  • benthis zone
  • biomes
  • none of the above

Questão 20

Questão
Terrestrial biomes distribution is primarily determined by temperature and rainfall.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 21

Questão
What is a population?
Responda
  • a group of organisms that occupy the same general area plus all the abiotic factors
  • a group of organisms that occupy the same general are
  • a group of organisms of the same species that occupy the same general area
  • all the organisms of a single species existing at a particular time
  • none of the above

Questão 22

Questão
The number of individuals of a population per unit area ois the ____________.
Responda
  • population dispersion pattern
  • population density
  • population age structure
  • population
  • population's intrinsic rate of increase

Questão 23

Questão
In the absence of all limiting factors, a population's growth follows a(n) ____________ model.
Responda
  • exponential
  • hypergeometric
  • mathmatical
  • arithmetic
  • logistic

Questão 24

Questão
____________ is the maximum population size that a particular habitat can support and at which the population stabilizes.
Responda
  • survivorship curve
  • carrying capacity
  • population growth rate
  • population size
  • intrinsic rate of increase

Questão 25

Questão
Factors that tend to reduce population numbers are called ____________.
Responda
  • carrying capacities
  • reproductive potentials
  • density limits
  • environmental resistances

Questão 26

Questão
Potential of a species to increase its numbers is termed ____________.
Responda
  • environmental resistances
  • reproductive (biotic) potential
  • carrying capacity
  • density limits
  • migration limits

Questão 27

Questão
A population-limiting factor whose effects intensify as the population increases in density.
Responda
  • carrying capacity
  • density-dependent factor
  • density-independent factor
  • reproductive potential
  • none of the above

Questão 28

Questão
Which one of the following factors that limits population growth is density dependent?
Responda
  • nutrients
  • water
  • weather
  • soil
  • competition

Questão 29

Questão
When the biotic potential is GREATER than the environmental resistance, then a population INCREASES.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 30

Questão
The role (or function) that a species plays in its community, including its habitat and its interations with other organisms.
Responda
  • habitat designation
  • niche
  • producer
  • primary consumer
  • none of the above

Questão 31

Questão
Energy is recycled within and between ecosystems.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 32

Questão
An interaction between organisms using the same resource, which is often present in limited supplies.
Responda
  • carrying capacity factors
  • competition
  • ecological niche
  • biological magnification
  • biological amplification

Questão 33

Questão
When one species benefits at the expense of the other.
Responda
  • mutualism
  • parasitism
  • commensualism
  • abiotic inversion
  • none of the above

Questão 34

Questão
Which of the following is NOT a component of biological diversity?
Responda
  • genetic diversity
  • species diversity
  • ecosystem diversity
  • sub species diversity

Questão 35

Questão
A species whose impact on its community is much larger than its total mass or abundance would indicate.
Responda
  • keystone species
  • producer species
  • mutualistic species
  • predatory species
  • biophilic species

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