Ecology And Environment Quiz 3 (30 MCQs)

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1. Which of the following biomes is characterized by low rainfall, freezing temperature and the presence of polar bears and scarce vegetation?
2. Only this much energy passes along in feeding relationships:
3. Which human activity would most likely deplete nonrenewable resources?
4. An increase in chlorofluorocarbons and aerosols are most likely to result in an increase in what?
5. In any food chain or web, the herbivores get only 10% of the energy contained in the plant
6. Approximately what percentage of Earth's water is SALT water?
7. What trophic level do Herbivores occupy-ex:mouse eating seeds
8. Using economic considerations of resource use, the law of supply and demand describes the
9. AN EXAMPLE FOR TERRESTRIAL GASTROPOD
10. This biome covers 70% of the Earth's surface.
11. Made up of a community AND the abiotic environment. All the living and nonliving things in the same area.
12. A cost-benefit analysis is
13. Which is the simplest level of organization within the environment?
14. When ecosystems experience disturbances, the effects can be wide ranging. Consider a marine ecosystem where all of the sharks are lost due to over fishing. What chain of events could then follow this disturbance?
15. Humans have an effect on ecosystems when they use native grasslands or forested areas for farming or urban use. One negative effect of these changes on the ecosystem is that there will be
16. Which biome features permanently frozen soil called permafrost?
17. The amount of energy that usually transfers from one trophic level to the next .....
18. A stable ecological community that has reached equilibrium
19. Scientists studying two adjacent ecosystems observe different varieties of organisms in the two areas. All of the following factors would contribute to the differing varieties of organisms in these two habitats EXCEPT-
20. Reasons that viruses are considered to be nonliving is because
21. The number of individuals in a given area is the population's
22. A powerful or major influence or effect
23. Which statement about human population growth is LEAST likely to be correct?
24. An organism that makes a home for itself in a new place is called a (an)
25. Why might an introduced animal species overrun native species in an ecosystem?
26. Evidence of excessive fertilizer use
27. An atmospheric gas that increases when fossil fuels are burned
28. In an underdeveloped area, many infants and children die due to waterborne disease and the lack of freshwater. In this case, fresh water would be considered:
29. A population is .....
30. This biome generally has 4 seasons.