Biology Quiz 2 Wakers

Front 1

A community and the nonliving factors with which it interacts is called a:

Back 1

ecosystem

Front 2

Which of the following statements is true about food chains?

Back 2

Energy flows one way, nutrients cycle.

Front 3

All of the members of an interbreeding group of organisms in a local area make up a:

Back 3

population

Front 4

An organism's niche can be described in terms of:

Back 4

Space utilizaton, food comsumption, temperature range, moisture requirements

Front 5

The final stimulus that convinced Darwin to publish his findings came from_______ who had come to the same conclusion as Darwin from his own travels

Back 5

Alfred Russell Wallace

Front 6

A biome is a community and the nonliving factors with which it interacts.

Back 6

False

Front 7

Darwin better understood the mechanism for natural selection after he read a book by ________ on the rate of growth of populations.

Back 7

Thomas Malthus

Front 8

Interspecific competition refers to the interactions between individuals of different species when both require the same scarce resource.

Back 8

True

Front 9

A type of symbiosis in which one species benefits from the relationship while the other neither benefits nor is harmed is called

Back 9

commensalism

Front 10

A tropical forest and desert would be examples of :

Back 10

biomes

Front 11

The term "ecology" was first used by:

Back 11

Ernst Haeckel

Front 12

In 1859, naturalist_______ suggested an explanation for why evolution occurs.

Back 12

Charles Darwin

Front 13

All of the different kinds of interacting organisms living within a certain area make up a:

Back 13

community

Front 14

Darwin's finches, and the studies by the Grants finally proved that:

Back 14

differences in beak size were the result of natural selection and were inherited

Front 15

An ecologist who is interested in how biological communities interact with their physical environment is a:

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systems ecologist

Front 16

Different finches on each of the Galapagos Islands is the result of:

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adaptive radiation

Front 17

Competition is more acute between organisms that are less similar than between those that are similar.

Back 17

False

Front 18

Which type of symbiosis would exist between a tapeworm living in a human host using its nutrients for its own gain and detriment to the host

Back 18

parasitism

Front 19

The purpose of the voyage of the HMS Beagle was to:

Back 19

Map navigational routes around the coasts of South America

Front 20

Organisms in transient environments are often adapted to reproduce rapidly, while those in stable environments tend to reproduce more slowly.

Back 20

True

Front 21

Which represents the correct flow of energy from the bottom up in a food chain?

Back 21

producer, herbivores,carnivores

Front 22

Galapagos finches living on the same island have evolved beaks of different sizes. This is an example of:

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Character displacements

Front 23

Darwin's evidence that evolution occurs included:

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all of the above

Front 24

Darwin's main tenet of natural selection was:

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Every organism has the potential to produce more offspring than can survive and Only those that are most suited to the conditions at the time survive to reproduce.

Front 25

Sizes of natural populations remain relatively stable over time because_____ limits population numbers.

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death.