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5
6 Weeks
Review
Which of the following is a living
factor in the environment?
A: animals
 B: air
 C: sunlight
 D: soil
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Correct Answer: A- Animals
What is made up of the populations
in an area?
A: niches
 B: habitats
 C: community
 D: ecosystem
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http://www.3dfoilart.com/images/serengeti.jpg
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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
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Correct Answer: D- Density
Which of the following animals is
an example of a herbivore?
A: wolf
 B: moss
 C: tree
 D: rabbit
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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
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www.brilliant-creations.com/parasite.htm
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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
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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
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http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/ecosystems/or1sam.jpg
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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/
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Correct Answer: D- oak tree
Which pairs of words is incorrect?
A: Black bear-carnivore
 B: Grasshopper-herbivore
 C: Pig-omnivore
 D: Lion-carnivore
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http://www.windowsintowonderland.org/bears/images/grizzly/eatelk.jpg
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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.