Test Question

Front 1

True or false

Washington state has a rain shadow formed by a combination of latitude, two mountain ranges (western coast Olympics and eastern cascade ranges), and a prevailing westerly wind off a Pacific Ocean

Back 1

True

Front 2

______(In a tropic food chain) are consumers that do not make their own food.

a) Autotrophs b) Heterotrophs

Back 2

b) Heterotrophs

Front 3

True or false

Ecological or community succession is a gradual change seen occurring in an ecosystem (over time) with the final outcome identified as a climax community (as in an old growth forest)

Back 3

True

Front 4

True or false

Parasitism is a type of relationship in which one of the two entity in a relationship benefits from the other

Back 4

True

Front 5

True or false

An estuary is an area where fresh water merges/mixes with ocean sea water (example:the mouth of the Columbia river)

Back 5

True

Front 6

Permafrost is an abiotic factor identified in a _______ biome

a) Chaparral b) Desert c) Taiga d) Tundra

e) Grassland

Back 6

Tundra

Front 7

True or false

Mutualism is identified as a form of predation

Back 7

False

Front 8

True or false

A northern fur seal would be identified as a consumer not a producer

Back 8

True

Front 9

A _______ biome is best describing by the following statement: a region of many dense evergreen shrubs with tough evergreen leaves, with a climate of mild rainy winters and long, hot, dry summers. This biome type requires occasional fires for long term maintenance

a) Chaparral b) Taiga c) Grassland d)Tropical reef e) Desert

Back 9

a) Chaparral

Front 10

True or false

Decomposers have a niche "role" in a community "recycling" the nutrients of that ecosystem to be reused by others

Back 10

True

Front 11

True or false

The Phosphorus cycle occurs in the aquatic, and terrestrial components of an ecosystem but not the atmospheric

Back 11

True

Front 12

True or false

A hypothesis is simply defined as an "educated guess"

Back 12

True

Front 13

_____ are defined as "useful" inherited features that have evolved by means of natural selection pressures acting upon life

a) Adaptations b) Niches c) Habitats d) Toles

e) Populations

Back 13

Adaptations

Front 14

True or false

A "simple" food chain in Ascending order (from small to big) could be identified via this sequence. 1. Algae 2. Insects 3. Insect eating birds

Back 14

True

Front 15

True or false

Evolution as presented in this course is scientifically identified as subjective and hypothetical

Back 15

False

Front 16

True or false

An identified area at the edge of an ocean "beach" where seawater meets land is properly identified as an inter-tidal zone.

Back 16

True

Front 17

The following abbreviated _____ SEQUENCE is based on some of the many hierarchical levels of life organization. Ecosystem, community, population, organism, organ system, organ, tissue, cell, and molecule

a) Descending b) Ascending

Back 17

a) Descending

Front 18

True or false

The general components of the process of true Objective Science in order are: Observation, Ask a question, State a hypothesis, literature search, design an experiment (with controls), do objective research, collect and analyze data and share results.

Back 18

True

Front 19

True or false

Life has order as a property, used in identifying it.

Back 19

True

Front 20

True or false

Genetic material (DNA) allows for heritable traits to be passed on (through reproduction) from one generation to the next

Back 20

True

Front 21

Which two nutrients (following) limit the amount of algae in a freshwater ecosystem?

a) Nitrogen and Phosphorus b) oxygen and carbon c)sulfur and carbon d) water and ice

e) nitrogen and carbon

Back 21

a) Nitrogen and phosphorus

Front 22

True or false

The use and maintaing of energy (metabolism) is a property/characteristic of life

Back 22

True

Front 23

True or false

Bacteria belong to domain Archaea

Back 23

False

Front 24

Which of the following population dispersion pattern is most commonly seen in populations

a) clumped b) uniform c) random

Back 24

a) Clumped

Front 25

An ______ selected species.... like Humans, tend to have few offspring but invest a lot of time and energy into their offspring future survival.

a) "r" b) "K" c) "b" d) "x" e) all of the preceding are correct

Back 25

b) "K"

Front 26

Which of the following is a True kingdom within the domain Eukarya

a) Viruses b) Monera c) Fungi d) Archaea

e) Bacteria

Back 26

c) Fungi

Front 27

Current thought suggest that humans can be either tertiary or primary consumers. Which is ecologically Best for global concern regarding "shared resources/food in a food web or trophic pyramid?

a) primary consumer b) tertiary consumer

c)producer d) decomposer e) all of the preceding are correct

Back 27

b) Tertiary consumer

Front 28

Animals belong to domain _______

a) Eukarya b) Archaea c) Animalia d) Bacteria

e) S.H.I.E.L.D.

Back 28

a) Eukarya

Front 29

Prokaryote, as a cell-type does not belong to domain

a) Eukarya b)Archaea c) Protista d) Bacteria

e) Fungi

Back 29

c) Protista

Front 30

When an Pierce County farm is abandoned, and its formerly plowed hay fields first become weedy meadows, then shrubby areas, and then finally (over time) a forest; the sequence of change seen is an example of:

a) primary succession b) an extinction trend

c) a trophic chain d) ecological or community succession e)metamorphosis

Back 30

d) Ecological or Community succession

Front 31

True or False

Transpiration is the transport of water through a plant and is identified as the phosphorus cycle

Back 31

False

Front 32

Condensation, precipitation, evaporation, (and transpiration) are components of the _____ cycle

a) carbon b) nitrogen c) biotic d) water/hydrologic e) phosphorous

Back 32

d) water/hydrologic

Front 33

True or false

The Fertilizing of an agricultural field or farmland, located on a river of a watershed... with a high phosphorus-countaing fertilizer leads to much of the excess phosphorus being "washed away". This will be attributed to freshwater eutrophication ("over nourishment").

Back 33

True

Front 34

Whichofthe following areas in a trophic pyramid has the greatestamount of solar (sun) derived biomass / energy available in a community?

a. primary consumers b. tertiary consumers

c. primary producers d. tertiary producers

e. all of the preceding are correct

Back 34

c. primary producers

Front 35

True or false

Rocks,water and air are biotic components to an ecosystem

Back 35

False

Front 36

Which Kingdomof Eukarya can be identified as only consumers that are not animals?

a. Fungi b. Plantae c. Animalia d. Bacteria

Back 36

a. Fungi

Front 37

_____is the first step of the scientific method.

a.Observation b. conclusion c. hypothesis

d.theory

Back 37

a. Observation

Front 38

True science is subjective and based onfaith.

a. true b. false

Back 38

b. False

Front 39

True science is objective and based ondata and data analysis.

a. true b. false

Back 39

a. True

Front 40

Accordingto lecture Zebra Mussels are producers in marine ecosystems.

a.true b. false

Back 40

b. False

Front 41

Theexample of a Boom and Bust cycle occurs between species (arctic Hare and Lynx)over time as the result of co-evolution.

a.true b. false

Back 41

a. True

Front 42

Humansas ______ consumers (consuming cows/cattle) are better ecologically than humansthat are ______ consumers, is relation to human population size (over 7billion).

a.secondary : primary b.primary : secondary c. tertiary :primary

Back 42

c) tertiary : primary

Front 43

The“role” an organism of a population “plays” in a community is identified as a(n)_____.

a.ecosystem b. niche c. habitat d.community

Back 43

b. Niche

Front 44

The“area” an organism of an ecosystem “lives” in is identified asa(n) _____.

a.community b. niche c. habitat

d.community e.none of these are correct answers

Back 44

c. Habitat

Front 45

The largestterrestrial biome type on Earth is identified as: a. Tundra b. Desert •c.Chaparral d. Prairie e. none of these choices is correct

Back 45

e. none of these choices are correct. (Tiaga)

Front 46

Whichpopulation growth model graph “shape” indicates (time Vs. Population size) thatthe population is in exponential growth?

a.“J” b. “x” c. “s” d. “h”

Back 46

??

Front 47

A_____populationdispersion patterncould be defined as: individuals in a population situated / spaced in a patterned, predictableevenly-spacedway (like urban sprawl in a suburbia).

a.Random b.Uniform c.Clumped

Back 47

b. Uniform

Front 48

Accordingto lecture Otters are considered keystonepredators in some North American aquatic communities.

a.true b.false

Back 48

a. True

Front 49

Darwins theoryofevolution considers Fitness…. Which is concerned with howstrong or healthy or fast some entities are in a community and how they cansurvive by only being this way versus others.

a.true •b.false

Back 49

b. False

Front 50

Fungi belong to Domain______________:

a.Eukarya b.Archaea c.Animalia

d.Bacteria e.Protista

Back 50

a. Eukarya

Front 51

Prokaryticcells lack a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles.

a. true b. false

Back 51

a. True

Front 52

Eukaryoticcells lack a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles.

a. true b. false

Back 52

b. False

Front 53

Eukaryoticcells have a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles.

a. true b. false

Back 53

a. True

Front 54

Humansbelong to DomainArchaea.

a.true b.false

Back 54

b. False