Ecology - Ecosystems Questions and Answers

Match the information from the two columns Superinfection Narrow spectrum antimicrobial agent Dosage Route of administration Synergistic drug interactions Antagonistic drug interactions Choose Choose Amount of medication in a time interval Beneficiall effects Targets wide variety of pathogens Targets specific microbes Harmful effects Secondary infection from a preexisting infection Method used to give the drug to a patient CHOOS Choose

What is meant by Earth s carrying capacity in relation to human population growth A B C D The population of people currently living on the planet The total amount of people that can consistently be supported by Earth The total amount of people that have existed on Earth to date The total amount of people currently using renewable resources

Car Salesman Look you can either spend some money and get this elegant sports car or you can continue driving that rust bucket you came in with Really don t you think you deserve better O Hasty Generalization O False Dilemma O Slippery Slope O Faulty Analogy

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4 Define emergent properties

3 Characterize the hierarchical organization of living systems cellular level and population level

A population can be defined as Individual Population Community Ecosystem all individuals of a species regardless of location or time period in which they live a group of individuals of different species living in the same place at the same time a group of individuals of a species plus all of the other species with which they interact a group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area and interbreed

ow does a person s ecological footprint relate to the amount of resources they consume

List factors that affect the size of an ecological footprint

Summarize what is meant by Earth s carrying capacity

The appraisal of work performance is not necessary for every organization O True False

Which inflation is more likely to be associated with stagflation imported inflation O market power inflation demand pull inflation cost push inflation

The mechanism behind slipped strand mispairing is that O a short repeats allow for slippage of the RNA polymerase during transcription of the affected genes b an invertible promoter slips into different reading frames O c short repeats allow for slippage of DNA polymerase during replication which leads to an out of frame reading sequence Od short repeats slip and turn genes off but they can never be turned back on O e the genes coding for lipopolysaccharide in Gram negative bacteria can be slinned in and out of frame

The role of ExPortal in Streptococci is to a serve as a secretion system and a chaperone b mark proteins for destruction O c foron S S bonds needed for protein structure d anchor proteins to the nucleoid e secrete proteins to the periplasmic space

Mutations that inhibit the function of photosystem I but not photosystem II would result in a plant cell that could still generate O produce O 2 ATP and NADPH O produce CO 2 and ATP O produce O 2 ATP and NADP O produce ATP and NADP O produce ATP andNADPH

12 Demonstrate how to formulate and test a hypothesis

mthic Mid Water Zone 200 10 O Aphotic Zone 1000

Unifying Concepts and Processes One of the most important steps in analyzing data taken from an ice core is to compare it with data taken from another ice core that came from somewhere far away Why do think this comparison is important

Choose the correct answer The word vape came into popular usage because more people started smoking electronic cigarettes because more people quit smoking electronic cigarettes because more people started smoking regular cigarettes

C 0 00 0 05 Speed 1x Pelagic Photic Zone 0 200 m O Paused Mid Water Zone 200 1000 m

5 What chances did Frederick Douglass take Why do you think he took them

1 Autobiographical texts such as Narrative of Life of Frederick Douglass An American S utilize key details from the author s perspect Identify a strong opinion that Douglass sha

A group of fish that are the same species are O An individual O A population A community An ecosystem Different species of fish crabs grass and jellyfish in the ocean are an example of O An individual O A population O A community An ecosystem 1 point 1 point

QUESTION S A calorie is the commonly used unit of chemical energy It is also the unit of O light O magnetism O sound O heat O radioactivity QUESTION 6 The ultimate source of energy for humans comes from what source O The sun O Plants O Water O Air

How does a COMPETITIVE INHIBITOR decrease the rate of an enzyme reaction by binding at the active site of the enzyme O by changing the shape of an enzyme O by changing the free energy change of the reaction by acting as a coenzyme for the reaction

The following are the functions of membrane proteins EXCEPT Transport of molecules across a membrane Involved in signal transduction Involved in cell cell recognition Involved in synthesis of DNA molecules

4 Mark each statement as true or false and correct the false statements so they read as true Monosaccharides must be converted to disaccharides before being metabolized by fermentation pathways Before it can be fermented lactose must be split into simple sugars by the enzyme glucosidase Sucrose is a disaccharide made up of fructose and glucose A bacterium may conduct oxidative phosphorylation as well as fermentation

Great white shark Orca killer whale Order of food chain Consumers herbivore Consumers omnivore Consumers carnivore Order of food chain Cougar borbivore Bull kelp Producers Decomposers Detritivores Ecosystem Colorado Rocky Mountains 10 pts Coyote Sea urchin Pika Sea otter Spotted coralroot Producers Morel fungus

ABO Story B Which of the following pedigrees describe the genotypes of the members of the family described in ABO Story A U MPHN M 1 MPHN Family A Genotype 100 jpg PHD PIHh PIHh 1 Hh 2 I PIHH Question 4 1 GH 2 Pilh 2 PPHH 4 5

Which of the following is a question about blology Select all that apply Check All That Apply How have rocks In the Grand Canyon changed over the last million years How much carbon dioxide does an Industry release into the atmosphere each year How does water pollution affect fish in a lake How has a species of bacteria changed since doctors started prescribing antibiotics Why are Earth s poles colder than the equator

B 12 Identify the structure labeled A 13 Identify the structure labeled B

16 What is the natural rate of unemployment if the frictional structural and cyclical unemployment are 1 5 2 and 4 respectively

15 What is the best way to fix each type of unemployment

7 What government can do to smooth out business cycle fluctuations

5 Which industries are more affected by the business cycle

estion 49 Listen A clade is a grouping of species whereas a taxon is a groupi regardless of the species they belong to True False

Water cycle 1 Transpiration The evaporation of water from Carbon Cycle 2 Photosynthesis Plants 3 Respiration Animals and plants break down 4 Decomposition Bacteria and fungi break down Carbon Dioxide from the air to make to get and put it in the Nitrogen Cycle 5 Nitrogen fixing bacteria Take nitrogen from the 6 Nitrification Changing Nitrogen into a form plants and animals can 7 Assimilation Plants absorb Nitrogen from the 8 De nitrification Change Nitrogen in the 9 Which cycles are disrupted by people and how Water yes no How Carbon yes no How litrogen yes no How and release carbon dioxide and release carbon dioxide into a

Chapter 5 is on the Integumentary System What does integumentary mean Ooiling O secreting O tanning covering

5 You want to park uphill on a two way road and there is no curb Which direction do you turn your front wheels Straight ahead Right toward the side of the road Left toward the center of the road O O

2 The elimination of wolves Canis lupus from Yellowstone National Park in 1926 and their reintroduction in 1995 provided the opportunity to examine ecological interactions with elk Cervus elaphus The National Park Service made efforts between the 1920s and 1968 to reduce the size of elk herds by culling selective killing because of concerns about overgrazing The graphs provide the trends for the numbers of wolves and elk in Yellowstone National Park from 1900 to 2004 High Number of wolves Number of elk Low 1900 High Low 1900 Wolves eliminated 1926 1920 1940 1920 1940 CONT 20 1960 End of elk culling 1968 1960 Wolves reintroduced 1995 1980 1980 2000 2000 Year a Outline the changes in elk population between the years 1930 and 2004 3

3 The blackberry Rubus fruticosus is a plant that grows in deciduous woodlands in many parts of the world A 30 m transect was laid out in a woodland to investigate the relationship between light intensity and blackberry growth The percentage cover of blackberries and the light intensity were measured at 26 positions along this transect Blackberry growth cover 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 0 H 200 TOT D 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 Light intensity lx a Outline how these results indicate that blackberry distribution is limited by light intensity 2 b Distinguish between the transfer of matter and energy in closed ecosystems 1 c A pyramid of energy represents the amount of energy taken in by each trophic level per unit ime and per unit area Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the use of pyramids of

Food Web uto or het net net 1 Choose one food chain from the above food web to fill in the energy pyramid with the following information type of heterotroph carnivore tertiary amador Secondary herbivor Primary trophic level Identify the 1 Producers leafs and grapes energy Ol 1 10 2 Primary Consumers mouse grasshopper squiral 3 Secondary Consumers Mouse 4 Herbivores Grass hopper and Squiaral 5 Carnivores fox owl snack frog 6 Omnivores Mouse 7 What elements are missing from this food web decomposer Fox frog detritivore mouse

What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 address It outlawed voting practices O being used to disenfranchise African Americans It changed the minimum voting age from 18 to 21 It added Washington D C to the presidential electorate It eliminated paying a tax as a condition for voting

Democratic socialism is defined as a political system of elected representatives that act as the gatekeepers for shared ownership of property a political system common to western European nations where O the government imposes heavy taxes but pays for all essential services for the population a type of economic system in which voters choose socialism as their preferred method for obtaining goods and services a type of economic system in

Which combination of policies keeps the economy in balance O Foreign and domestic O Monetary and domestic Consumer and producer O Monetary and fiscal

Plant cells unlike animal cells are characterized by the presence of a cell wall and contractile vacuole cell wall and central vacuole Onucleus and cell wall nucleus and contractile vacuole cell wall and ribosomes

Which of the following sentences uses pun O Jane is the apple of my eye It took a few seconds for Jack to fade off to sleep Without pointless geometry life is Jackson found it hard to spend time without doing anything