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BIO 100 Test #1

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Spring 2018
Raquel Wood
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Question 1

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

Question 2

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Which of the following is NOT a property of life?
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  • 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

Question 3

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You try to start your car, but it does not start. Which of there is a hypothesis?
Answer
  • 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?

Question 4

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

Question 5

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

Question 6

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Humans are ____________.
Answer
  • ecosystems
  • producers
  • cells
  • consumers
  • decomposers

Question 7

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

Question 8

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

Question 9

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

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

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

Question 15

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

Question 16

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

Question 17

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

Question 18

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Which part of the earth receives the greatest intensity of solar radiation?
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  • 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

Question 19

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

Question 20

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

Question 21

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What is a population?
Answer
  • 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

Question 22

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

Question 23

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

Question 24

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

Question 25

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

Question 26

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

Question 27

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

Question 28

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

Question 29

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

Question 30

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

Question 31

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

Question 32

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

Question 33

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

Question 34

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

Question 35

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