5th 6 Weeks Review - Plummer Pumas Science
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6 Weeks
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Which of the following is a living
factor in the environment?
A: animals
B: air
C: sunlight
D: soil
Correct Answer: A- Animals
What is made up of the populations
in an area?
A: niches
B: habitats
C: community
D: ecosystem
http://www.3dfoilart.com/images/serengeti.jpg
Correct Answer: C- Community
What does the number of individuals
in a population that occupies an
area of a specific size describe?
A: clumping
B: size
C: spacing
D: density
www.westhouston.org/coh_demographics.htm
Correct Answer: D- Density
Which of the following animals is
an example of a herbivore?
A: wolf
B: moss
C: tree
D: rabbit
Correct Answer: D- Rabbit
What term best describes a
symbiotic relationship in which one
species is helped and
the other is harmed?
A: mutualism
B: parasitism
C: commensalisms
D: consumerism
www.brilliant-creations.com/parasite.htm
Correct Answer: B- parasitism
Which of the following conditions
tends to increase the size of a
population?
A: births exceed deaths
B: population size exceeds the carrying
capacity
C: movements out of an area exceed
movements into the area
D: Severe drought
Correct Answer: A- births exceeds deaths
Which of the following is most likely
to be a limiting factor in a
population of fish living in the
shallow water of a large lake?
A: sunlight
B: water
C: food
D: soil
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/ecosystems/or1sam.jpg
Correct Answer: C- food
Which of these organisms is a
producer?
A: mole
B: owl
C: whale
D: oak tree
student.lakeareatech.edu/colclazj/intern/
Correct Answer: D- oak tree
Which pairs of words is incorrect?
A: Black bear-carnivore
B: Grasshopper-herbivore
C: Pig-omnivore
D: Lion-carnivore
http://www.windowsintowonderland.org/bears/images/grizzly/eatelk.jpg
Correct Answer:
A- Black Bear is a omnivore
What are tundra and desert
examples of?
A:
ecosystem
B: biomes
C: habitats
D: communities
Correct Answer:
B - Biomes
What is a hot, dry biome called?
A:
desert
B: tundra
C: coral reef
D: grassland
Correct
Answer: A - dessert
Where would organisms that are
adapted to live in freshwater and salt
water be found?
A:
lake
B: estuary
C: open ocean
D: intertidal zone
Correct
Answer: B - estuary
Which biome contains the largest
number of species?
A: taiga
B: temperate decorous forest
C: tropical rain forest
D: grassland
Correct
forest
Answer: C – tropical rain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chameleon
Which biome contains mostly frozen
soil called permafrost?
A: taiga
B: temperate rain forest
C: tundra
D: temperate deciduous
forest
Correct Answer: C - Tundra
A new island is formed from a volcanic
eruption. Which species probably
would be the first to grow and survive?
A:
oak trees
B: lichens
C: grasses
D: ferns
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichens
Correct
Answer: B - Lichens
What would the changes in
communities that take place on a
recently formed volcanic island best be
described as?
A: primary succession
B: secondary succession
C: tertiary
D: magma
Correct Answer:
A – Primary Succession
What is the stable stage of
succession?
A:
pioneer species
B: climax community
C: limiting factors
D: permafrost
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climax_community
Correct Answer: B – Climax Community
Which of the following aquatic
ecosystems would have the lowest
salinity?
A:
estuaries
B: rivers
C: coral reef
D: open oceans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers
Correct Answer:
B - rivers
Which ecosystem would experience the
most drastic changes in a 24-hour
period?
A:
open ocean
B: intertidal zone
C: lake
D: coral reef
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertidal_zone
Correct
Answer: B – intertidal zone
A farmer noticed a large quantity of
aphids in his garden. The next day he
purchased a large quantity of lady bugs
and released them into his garden.
What is the likely hypothesis he was
trying to test?
Answer is:
Predator
- Prey
Give at least one reason why
many animals that live in the
desert are able to survive without
directly drinking water.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo_rat
Answer is…
Desert
animals get water from the
plants they eat.