Ecology Check for Understanding
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- Q1
What would be the most likely effect of a wildfire that burned a large area of a forest?
Less carbon dioxide would be removed from the atmosphere in the area by plants.
The availability of fossil fuels for use by industries in the area would be reduced.
More sugars and starches would be available for animals in the area.
An increase in animal respiration would increase the release of carbon dioxide in the area.
60sBIOL.1 - Q2
The rocky material left behind by a retreating glacier forms what is called a moraine. When primary succession occurs on a moraine, which life-forms will help create the soil by breaking down bare rock?
Trees
Grasses
Insects
Lichens
60s - Q3
Food webs such as the one shown were first used in 1927 by the animal ecologist Charles Elton. The food web below represents the feeding relationships among organisms in an Alaskan ecosystem. An environmental change that removed which of these organisms from the ecosystem would cause the most instability in the ecosystem?
Foxes
Zooplankton
Salmon
Auklets
60s - Q4
A partial meadow food web is shown. Based on this food web, which organisms are direct sources of energy for secondary consumers?
Aphid
Bird
Rabbit
Ladybug
Fox
Dragonfly
Frog
Butterfly
Berries
Mouse
Snake
Hawk
120s - Q5
Enchanted Rock State Natural Area is located in Central Texas. Enchanted Rock is a dome of granite. The area contains four easily identifiable communities. The table describes characteristics of each type of community in the area.
A student studying primary succession should focus on which of these communities?
Floodplain
Granite Rock
Open Oak Woodland
Mesquite Grassland
120s - Q6
A marine ecosystem is represented below.
What is lost to the environment at each of the trophic levels of this ecosystem?
Living space for the organisms
Food sources
Heat
Nutrients from the soil
60s - Q7
Some relationships between different organisms are shown in the table.
Match the correct term to each relationship.
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A food chain is shown.
Grasses → Grubs → Armadillos → Coyotes
Which model best represents the amount of energy available for use at each trophic level represented in the food chain?
60s - Q9
The acacia ant ( Pseudomyrmex ferruginea ) lives in the bullshorn acacia plant The acacia ant nests and feeds in the plant’s hollow thorns. The ant helps protect the bullshorn acacia by attacking insects and grazing animals that come near the plant. The relationship between the acacia ant and the bullshorn acacia is an example of which of the following?
Commensalism
Predation
Mutualism
Parasitism
120s - Q10
In a food web, the primary consumers receive 1,000 kJ of energy from the producers. How much energy will the tertiary consumers receive? Type your answer in the form of kJ.
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