2. Categories Granville Central High School Biology Ecology Review Spring 2012

3. 500 400 300 200 100 Populations & Growth Curves Symbiosis Food Webs Food Chains & Pyramids Vocabulary

4. Categories Organisms that eat only algae, plants or other producers are known as ____________. Vocabulary 100 Points

5. Categories Vocabulary 100 Points What are “herbivores?”

6. Categories Vocabulary 200 Points The two main groups of decomposers are _________ and __________?

7. Categories What are “fungi and bacteria”? Vocabulary 200 Points

8. Categories Vocabulary 300 Points Temperature, sunlight, and natural disasters are examples of these components that affect living organisms.

9. Categories Vocabulary 300 Points What are “abiotic factors?”

10. Categories If 50,000 calories of energy are available to the producers, how much energy would be available to the tertiary consumers? Vocabulary 400 Points

11. Categories What is “50 calories”? Vocabulary 400 Points

12. Categories Match the following to population, community or ecosystem: 1. Foxes, mice, and squirrels in a forest 2.A stream with rocks, dragonfly larvae, and planaria 3.Cane toads in Australia Vocabulary 500 Points

13. Categories What is number 1 is a community, number 2 is an ecosystem, and number 3 is a population?” Vocabulary 500 Points

14. Categories Identify the autotrophs in this food chain. Food Chains & Pyramids 100 Points

15. Categories Food Chains & Pyramids 100 Points What are “plants”?

16. Categories Food Chains & Pyramids 200 Points A killer whale that preys on a seal that has eaten an herbivorous fish is feeding as a ________ consumer.

17. Categories What is “tertiary?” Food Chains & Pyramids 200 Points

18. Categories Food Chains & Pyramids 300 Points The least numerous organisms in this ecological pyramid are _______.

19. Categories Food Chains & Pyramids 300 Points What are “hawks”?

20. Categories Food Chains & Pyramids 400 Points What is the ultimate source of energy for this ecological pyramid and the organisms with the greatest biomass?

21. Categories What is “the sun and the plants or producers”? Food Chains & Pyramids 400 Points

22. Categories What is the best explanation for why there are no trophic levels above the eagle? Food Chains & Pyramids 500 Points

23. Categories What is “too much energy is lost at each level of the pyramid to support more trophic levels above the eagle”? Food Chains & Pyramids 500 Points

24. Categories The most numerous organisms in this food web. Food Webs 100 Points

25. Categories Food Webs 100 Points What are the “grasses”?

26. Categories Food Webs 200 Points The two groups of organisms which would be most affected by a nonbiodegradable compound such as DDT.

27. Categories What are “bald eagles and ospreys”? Food Webs 200 Points

28. Categories Food Webs 300 Points The hawk is located on these trophic levels.

29. Categories Food Webs 300 Points What are “trophic levels four and five”?

30. Categories The mosquito in this food web is classified as a _______ since it feeds on blood from the mice and birds. It is also considered a ________ or _______ consumer. Food Webs 400 Points

31. Categories What is a “carnivore and a tertiary or quaternary” consumer? Food Webs 400 Points

32. Categories If the killer whale population decreases, what effect would that likely have on the bald eagle population? What type(s) of consumer are the killer whales? Food Webs 500 Points

33. Categories What is “the eagle population would increase and the killer whale is a secondary, tertiary, and quaternary consumers”? Food Webs 500 Points

34. Categories Both species benefit in this type of symbiotic relationship. Symbiosis 100 Points

35. Categories Symbiosis 100 Points What is “mutualism”?

36. Categories Symbiosis 200 Points Ticks and fleas are classified as _____________.

37. Categories What are “parasites”? Symbiosis 200 Points

38. Categories Symbiosis 300 Points Barnacles often hitch a ride on humpback whales causing no harm to their host. The whales and barnacles have this type of symbiotic relationship.

39. Categories Symbiosis 300 Points What is “commensalism”?

40. Categories Symbiosis 400 Points Ticks and mosquitoes which carry disease-causing agents such as viruses and bacteria and transmit them to other organisms are known as __________.

41. Categories What are “vectors”? Symbiosis 400 Points

42. Categories Identify the type of symbiosis described below: 1.Spanish moss and orchids use trees for support and do not rob them of nutrients or water. 2.Bats use the hollows of oak trees to roost and raise their young. The bat droppings provide the oak trees with nitrogen and other nutrients. 3.Heartworms can cause damage to many mammals including our pets. Symbiosis 500 Points

43. Categories What are “1—commensalism, 2— mutualism, 3—parasitism”? Symbiosis 500 Points

44. Categories Factors that limit a population’s growth more as it becomes more dense are density-__________ factors. Populations 100 Points

45. Categories Populations 100 Points What is “dependent”?

46. Categories Populations 200 Points Growth such as illustrated below is growth under what type of conditions?

47. Categories What is “ideal or optimal”? Populations 200 Points

48. Categories Populations 300 Points What does the arrow indicate on the curve?

49. Categories Populations 300 Points What is “the carrying capacity”?

50. Categories Identify the country with slow growth, rapid growth, and negative growth. Populations 400 Points A B C

51. Categories What is “rapid growth—A, slow growth—B, negative growth—C”? Populations 400 Points

52. Categories Identify the following as DD or DI limiting factors. 1.Mice in crowded conditions have fewer babies. 2.Sediments after a heavy rain make the water in a stream cloudy limiting the growth of algae. 3.Competition between red-winged blackbirds for a mate 4.Chemicals that run off into a local pond result in a huge fish kill. Populations 500 Points

53. Categories What are “1—DD, 2—DI, 3—DD, 4—DI”? Populations 500 Points

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