1. Who Wants to Pass Biology? Chapters 3, 4, & 5

2. Young adult male chimpanzees look for mates outside their own population. The males then take the females back to the group. Which of the following occurs in females’ original population?  A. Emigration  B. Natality  C. Morality  D. Immigration

3. When organisms move out of the population, this is known as  A. Succession  B. Immigration  C. Emigration  D. abandonment\

4. Which of the following is a density-independent limiting factor?  A. Emigration  B. Parasitism  C. Disease  D. Earthquake

5. Which of the following statements is correct?  A. Disease is density-dependent because transmission occurs more easily when a population is large.  B. A change in average temperature is a density-dependent factor because fewer organisms can acclimate to variations in temperatures.  C. Competition for resources is density- independent when food is plentiful.  D. Population size of predators increases when their prey is scarce.

6. What must occur in a population for it to grow?  A. The birthrate and the death rate remain the same.  B. The birthrate becomes higher than the death rate.  C. The birthrate stays the same and the death rate increases.  D. The birthrate becomes lower than the death rate.

7. On ten acres of native forest there are eight white-tailed deer, seven coyotes, 45 armadillos, and 231 loblolly pine trees. Which population has the highest density?  A. Coyotes  B. Loblolly pine trees  C. Armadillos  D. White-tailed deer

8. A flowering plant has seeds that are carried by the wind. Infer the most likely dispersion pattern of the plants that grow from these seeds  A. Clumped groups  B. Spatial  C. Random  D. Uniform

9. What does the range of a population tell you that density does not?  A. The number that live in an area  B. The births per unit area  C. The areas inhabited by a population  D. The deaths per unit area

10. To assess a population’s growth rate, an ecologist must know how many individuals are born, how many died, and how many move away in a given period of time. What else must an ecologist know?  A. How many individuals carry communicable diseases  B. How many individuals are young or old  C. How many individuals move in from somewhere else  D. How many individuals find mates

11. Density, distribution, and growth rate are characteristics used to classify which one of the following?  A. Populations  B. Limiting factors  C. Biomes  D. Age structure

12. Why are fossil fuels nonrenewable?  A. They require hundreds of millions of years to form  B. They are converted to carbon dioxide when they are burned  C. Their ecosystems change forever when they are burned  D. They exist in a very small supply

13. One of the greatest threats today to biological diversity is  A. Ozone depletion  B. Monoculture  C. Habitat destruction  D. Old-grown forests

14. Which of the following resources can be considered renewable?  A. Wood  B. quartz  C. Natural gas  D. Uranium

15. A fruit fly that has a short life span and produces many offspring can be classified into which reproductive strategy?  A. A logistic strategist  B. r-strategist  C. k-strategist  D. A carrying-capacity strategist

16. Which change describes a demographic transition?  A. A population moves from a high birthrate and death rate to a low birthrate and low death rate  B. A population moves from a low birthrate and death rate to a low birthrate and high death rate  C. A population moves from a high birthrate and low death rate to a low birthrate and death rate  D. A population moves from a high birthrate and death rate to a high birthrate and low death rate

17. Which event is correlated with the beginning of exponential growth in human population?  A. The end of the Second World War  B. The invention of agriculture  C. The bubonic plague epidemic  D. The start of the Industrial Revolution

18. When individuals in a population reproduce at a constant rate, it is called  A. Logistic growth  B. Exponential growth  C. Growth density  D. Multiple growth

19. As the resources in a population become less available, the population  A. Declines rapidly  B. Increases slowly  C. Reaches carrying capacity  D, enters a phase of exponential growth

20. Any biotic or abiotic resource in the environment that causes the size of the population to decrease is a  A. Carrying capacity  B. Limiting nutrient  C. Limiting factor  D. Growth factor

21. Things that you as an individual can do to contribute to a cleaner environment include  A. Using alternative means of transportation  B. Recycling  C. Helping educate the public  D. All of the above

22. Which two biomes have the least amount of precipitation?  A. Tropical savanna and tropical dry forest  B. Tundra and desert  C. Boreal forest and temperate woodland and shrubland  D. Taiga and swamp

23. What is one difference between primary and secondary succession?  A. Primary succession is slow and secondary succession is rapid  B. Secondary succession begins on soil and primary succession begins on newly exposed surfaces  C. Primary succession modifies the environment and secondary succession does not  D. Primary and Secondary succession both begin on bare rock

24. Areas of land that are saturated with water and support aquatic plants are referred to as  A. Intertidal zones  B. Profundal zones  C. Wetlands  D. Abyssal zones

25. Which biome is characterized by low temperatures, little precipitation, and permafrost?  A. Temperate forest  B. Tundra  C. Desert  D. Taiga

26. The photic zone  A. Is where chemosynthetic bacteria are the producers  B. Extends to a depth of about 200 meters  C. Is deep, cold, and permanently dark  D. Is where angler fish live

27. The type of aquatic ecosystems formed when a river or stream meets the ocean  A. Estuary  B. Bog  C. Intertidal zone  D. Swamp

28. The average year-after-year conditions of temperatures and precipitation in a particular region are referred to as the region’s  A. Ecosystem  B. Climate  C. Latitude  D. Longitude

29. Which of the following animals would most likely be found in a temperate deciduous forest?  A. Caribou  B. Deer  C. Leopards  D. Polar bears

30. Temperatures on Earth remain within a suitable range for life as we know it because of the  A. Greenhouse effect  B. Unequal heating of Earth’s surface  C. Loss of heat to space  D. Burning of fossil fuels

31. The series of predictable changes that occurs in a community over time is called  A. Ecological succession  B. Population growth  C. Climax community  D. Niche

32. An ecosystem located along the equator would  A. Have a shorter growing season than an ecosystem farther south  B. Probably be more diverse than an ecosystem farther south  C. Probably contain fewer species than an ecosystem farther south  D. Probably contain polar bears and penguins

33. The deepest region of the open ocean is called the  A. Abyssal zone  B. Littoral zone  C. Aphotic zone  D. Photic zone

34. The biome that makes up most of the central part of the United States is  A. Temperate grassland  B. Tundra  C. Rain forest  D. Desert

35. The deepest portion of a large lake where very little light penetrates  A. Profundal zone  B. Aphotic zone  C. Limnetic zone  D. Abyssal zone

36. What is the distinction between a zone of tolerance and limiting factors?  A. Limiting factors are biotic features only, such interactions with other life forms, that limit a species, while range of tolerance is based only on abiotic conditions  B. Limiting factors are biotic or abiotic factors that limit the growth of a particular species, while the range of tolerance defines the set of conditions in which an organism can survive  C. The range of tolerance defines biotic or abiotic factors that limit the growth of a species while limiting factors define the set of conditions in which an organism can survive