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IB Biology (Ecology and Environment) Quiz on Communities and Ecosystems, created by hanalou on 20/02/2014.
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Question 1

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What is the definition of species?
Answer
  • a community and its abiotic environment
  • a group of organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile, viable offsrping
  • a group of organisms of the same species in the same area at the same time
  • organisms that live in or on non-living matter, secreting digestive enzymes into it and absorbing the produce from digestion

Question 2

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What is a population?
Answer
  • a group of organisms of the same species in the same area at the same time
  • the environment a species normally lives or the location of a living organism
  • the study of relationships between living organisms and organisms and their environment
  • a community and its abiotic environment

Question 3

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What is ecology?
Answer
  • a group of organisms of the same species in the same area at the same time
  • the environment a species normally lives or the location of a living organism
  • the study of relationships between living organisms and organisms and their environment
  • a community and its abiotic environment

Question 4

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What is a habitat?
Answer
  • a group of organisms of the same species in the same area at the same time
  • the environment a species normally lives or the location of a living organism
  • the study of relationships between living organisms and organisms and their environment
  • a community and its abiotic environment

Question 5

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What is an ecosystem?
Answer
  • a group of organisms of the same species in the same area at the same time
  • the environment a species normally lives or the location of a living organism
  • the study of relationships between living organisms and organisms and their environment
  • a community and its abiotic environment

Question 6

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What is an autotroph?
Answer
  • an organism that obtains organic molecules from other organisms
  • an organism that digests non-living matter
  • an organism that synthesises organic molecules as its food source
  • an organism that obtains food by feeding on living/recently killed matter

Question 7

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What is a heterotroph?
Answer
  • an organism that obtains food by feeding on living/recently killed matter
  • an organism that obtains organic molecules from other organisms
  • an organism that synthesises organic molecules as its food source
  • an organism that ingests non-living matter

Question 8

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What is a detritivore?
Answer
  • an organism that ingests non-living matter
  • an organism that obtains food by feeding on other organisms
  • an organism that lives on/in non-living matter, secreting digestive enzymes into it and absorbing the produce from digestion
  • an organism that synthesises organic molecules for it food source

Question 9

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What is a saprotroph?
Answer
  • an organism that lives on/in non-living matter, secreting digestive enzymes into it and absorbing the produce from digestion
  • an organism that ingests non-living matter
  • an organism that obtains organic molecules from other organism
  • an organism that obtains food by feeding on living/recently killed matter

Question 10

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What is a saprotroph?
Answer
  • an organism that lives on/in non-living matter, secreting digestive enzymes into it and absorbing the produce from digestion
  • an organism that ingests non-living matter
  • an organism that obtains organic molecules from other organism
  • an organism that obtains food by feeding on living/recently killed matter

Question 11

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What is a consumer?
Answer
  • an organism that obtains food by feeding on living/recently killed matter
  • a group of populations living and interacting with each other in an area
  • an organism that ingests non-living matter
  • a group of organisms of the same species in the same area at the same time

Question 12

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What is a community?
Answer
  • a group of populations living and interacting with each other in an area
  • a group of organisms of the same species in the same place at the same time
  • the environment a species normally lives or the location of a living organism
  • a community and it abiotic environment

Question 13

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Describe what is meant by a food chain. Tick three answers
Answer
  • A food chain shows the linear feeding relationships between species in a community
  • A food chain shows the interaction between species in a habitat
  • The arrows represent the transfer of energy and matter as one organism is eaten by another
  • The first organism in the sequence is the consumer, followed by producers
  • The first organism in the sequence is the producer, followed by consumers

Question 14

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Describe what is meant by a food chain. Tick two answers
Answer
  • A food web is a diagram that shows how food chains are linked together into more complex feeding relationships within a community
  • There can only be one producer in a food web. The consumers can occupy multiple positions in the trophic levels
  • There can be more than one producer in a food web, and consumers can occupy multiple positions in the trophic levels

Question 15

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A trophic level refers to an organism's position in a food chain
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 16

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Deduce the trophic level(s) of the waterweed, frog and kingfisher
Image:
food_web_med (image/jpeg)
Answer
  • waterweed = 1 frog = 3 kingfisher =4
  • waterweed = 1 frog = 3,4 kingfisher =4
  • waterweed = 1 frog = 3,4 kingfisher =3,4,5
  • waterweed = 1 frog = 3,4 kingfisher =3,4

Question 17

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Explain the energy flow in a food chain. Tick 4.
Answer
  • Energy enters most communities as light, where it is absorbed by autotrophs (e.g. plants) and converted into chemical energy via photosynthesis
  • Energy enters most communities as light, where it is absorbed by heterotrophs (e.g. animals) and converted into chemical energy via photosynthesis
  • Only ~10% of energy is passed from one trophic level to the next, the rest is lost
  • Energy then gets passed to the primary consumer (herbivore) when they eat the plant, and then gets passed to successive consumers (carnivores) as they are eaten in turn
  • Because ~90% of energy is lost between trophic levels, the number of trophic levels are limited as energy flow is reduced at higher levels

Question 18

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why is light the initial energy source for almost all communities?
Answer
  • All green plants, and some bacteria, use light as a source of energy for synthesising organic molecules
  • All green plants, animals, and some bacteria, use light as a source of energy for synthesising organic molecules
  • All green plants, and bacteria, use light as a source of energy for synthesising organic molecules

Question 19

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Why is the energy transformation presented as a pyramid?
Answer
  • The energy transfer is never 100% efficient
  • Each level of the pyramid of energy should be approximately one tenth the size of the level preceding it, as energy transformations are ~10% efficient
  • Typically, energy transformations in living things are ~90% efficient, with about 10% of the energy lost between trophic levels
  • Pyramids of energy will never appear inverted as some of the energy stored in one source is always lost when transferred to the next source
  • This energy may be lost as heat, be used up during cellular respiration, be excreted in faeces or remain unconsumed as the uneaten part of food

Question 20

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The saprotrophic activity of decomposers (certain bacteria and fungi), free inorganic materials from the dead bodies and waste products of organisms, ensuring a continual supply of raw materials for the producers (which can then be ingested by consumers)
Answer
  • True
  • False
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