ECOLOGY CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS
FINAL PAPER TESTED QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS COMPLETE STUDY
SHEET
●● Pacific
Answer: Largest ocean
●● 97%
Answer: Percentage of water that is ocean
●● 2%
Answer: Percentage of water that is ice (polar ice caps/glaciers)
●● <1%
Answer: Percentage of water that is freshwater
●● Hydrologic Cycle
Answer: Dynamic movement of water among reservoirs in global
exchange
●● Reservoirs
,Answer: "A source, supply of something" Includes oceans, lakes, rivers,
atmosphere, and ice. Water enters it at precipitation or surface flow and
exists as evaporation or flow
●● Flux
Answer: Moves water from one reservoir to another (rivers,
precipitation, evaporation, run off, biological entity)
●● Sun
Answer: Powers the hydrological cycle, drives wind and causes
evaporation and transpiration (evapotranspiration). Moves water to the
atmosphere
●● Condensation
Answer: Forms clouds
●● Precipitation
Answer: Snow, rain, fog
●● Turnover Time
Answer: time required for the entire volume of a particular reservoir to
be renewed (days to thousands of years long)
●● Natural History (6)
, Answer: Study of how organisms are influenced by many factors (light,
temperature, water movement, pH, salinity, oxygen availability). What
lives where and why...
●● Chironomidae
Answer: Macroinvertebrate, non-biting midges, can tolerate low O2
levels, packed full of hemoglobin
●● Trichoptera
Answer: Macroinvertebrate, caddisflies, which indicates clean water
because they cannot tolerate low O2 levels
●● Oceanic circulation
Answer: Driven mainly by prevailing winds under the influence of the
Coriolis effect, moderates Earth's climate
●● Europe
Answer: Similar climate to US because it is receiving warm water
carrying warm air from the gulfstream
●● Oceans
Answer: Most extensive biomes on Earth
●● 4 Ocean zones
FINAL PAPER TESTED QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS COMPLETE STUDY
SHEET
●● Pacific
Answer: Largest ocean
●● 97%
Answer: Percentage of water that is ocean
●● 2%
Answer: Percentage of water that is ice (polar ice caps/glaciers)
●● <1%
Answer: Percentage of water that is freshwater
●● Hydrologic Cycle
Answer: Dynamic movement of water among reservoirs in global
exchange
●● Reservoirs
,Answer: "A source, supply of something" Includes oceans, lakes, rivers,
atmosphere, and ice. Water enters it at precipitation or surface flow and
exists as evaporation or flow
●● Flux
Answer: Moves water from one reservoir to another (rivers,
precipitation, evaporation, run off, biological entity)
●● Sun
Answer: Powers the hydrological cycle, drives wind and causes
evaporation and transpiration (evapotranspiration). Moves water to the
atmosphere
●● Condensation
Answer: Forms clouds
●● Precipitation
Answer: Snow, rain, fog
●● Turnover Time
Answer: time required for the entire volume of a particular reservoir to
be renewed (days to thousands of years long)
●● Natural History (6)
, Answer: Study of how organisms are influenced by many factors (light,
temperature, water movement, pH, salinity, oxygen availability). What
lives where and why...
●● Chironomidae
Answer: Macroinvertebrate, non-biting midges, can tolerate low O2
levels, packed full of hemoglobin
●● Trichoptera
Answer: Macroinvertebrate, caddisflies, which indicates clean water
because they cannot tolerate low O2 levels
●● Oceanic circulation
Answer: Driven mainly by prevailing winds under the influence of the
Coriolis effect, moderates Earth's climate
●● Europe
Answer: Similar climate to US because it is receiving warm water
carrying warm air from the gulfstream
●● Oceans
Answer: Most extensive biomes on Earth
●● 4 Ocean zones
