Ch01
Student: ___________________________________________________________________________
1. What factor is promoting new diseases that are driving the Panamanian golden frog (Atelopus sp.) to
extinction?
A. deforestation
B. new predators
C. climate change
D. introduced species
E. water pollution
2. The Panamanian golden frog is in decline from what specific threat?
A. a virus
B. a fungus
C. an introduced competitor
D. an introduced protist
E. overharvesting
3. Ecology
A. requires the study of plants.
B. is the study of the environment.
C. primarily studies animals.
D. works for the good of the environment.
E. includes the study of interactions between organisms and their environment.
4. The abiotic components of a forest include
A. trees and water.
B. microbes and soil.
C. animals and climate.
D. soil salinity and pH.
E. plans and pollinators.
5. Populations are best defined as
A. all members of a species.
B. all organisms found in an environment.
C. communities of individuals
D. families.
E. groups of interbreeding individuals.
6. The study of species interactions includes
A. predation, parasitism and herbivory.
B. environmental science.
C. climate change.
D. physical ecology.
E. invasive species.
7. Patterns of species change and succession are one focus of
A. behavioral ecology.
B. environmental science.
C. biological control.
D. community ecology.
E. physiological ecology.
,8. Invasive Eurasian grass species can outcompete native North American grasses through
A. secretion of allelochemicals.
B. producing more viable seeds.
C. producing seeds year-round.
D. avoiding grazing animals.
E. faster seed germination.
9. List in order of scale, from the smallest to the greatest
A. organismal
B. population
C. community
D. ecosystems
10. Forest tent caterpillars lay down silk trails between their tent and the leaves to:
A. relocate the leaves.
B. attract colony mates.
C. deter predators.
D. a and b
E. All of the above
11. Global change encompasses
A. habitat destruction.
B. the introduction of invasive species.
C. direct exploitation.
D. the addition of pollutants to the environment.
E. All of these.
12. The average span of a species in the fossil record is
A. 1 million years
B. 4 million years
C. 10 million years
D. 20 million years
E. 100 million years
13. Why is knowing the average life span of a species in the fossil record important?
A. to calculate the current extinction rate.
B. to determine the speciation rate.
C. to determine whether the current extinction rate is greater than the historic extinction rate.
D. to determine whether the current speciation rate is greater than the historic speciation rate.
E. to compare the current extinction and speciation rates.
14. E. O. Wilson has referred to the threats of life on Earth with the acronym
A. RHINO
B. LION
C. HIPPO
D. FISH
E. SHARK
15. Which is not an example of habitat loss?
A. swamp drainage
B. deforestation
C. strip mining
D. overharvesting
E. river channelization
,16. The Ivory Billed Woodpecker was widely assumed to have gone extinct because of
A. habitat destruction.
B. overharvesting.
C. draining of swamps.
D. introduced avian malaria.
E. DDT.
17. The passenger Pigeon was widely assumed to have gone extinct because of
A. habitat destruction.
B. overharvesting.
C. invasive species.
D. pollution.
E. All of these.
18. Common gaseous pollutants into the atmosphere include
A. carbon dioxide.
B. carbon monoxide.
C. sulfur dioxide.
D. nitrogen oxide.
E. All of these.
19. The organisms most threatened with extinction are now believed to be the
A. birds.
B. fish.
C. amphibians.
D. mammals.
E. reptiles.
20. The greatest threat to most species is
A. habitat destruction.
B. invasive species.
C. pollution.
D. direct exploitation.
E. None of these.
21. What is replication in scientific inquiry?
A. Asking several different hypotheses at once.
B. Testing both biotic and abiotic factors.
C. Finding different species for experiments.
D. Performing experiments several times.
E. Having a well defined time frame for experiments.
22. You wish to investigate the effects of predatory animals on the number of invertebrates on an intertidal
rock face, by mans of an experiment. The most appropriate method would be
A. a laboratory experiment.
B. a field experiment.
C. a natural experiment
23. The interactions among living organisms are called biotic interactions.
True False
24. Ecologists generally believe that, for any given habitat, species poor communities function better than
species rich communities.
True False
25. The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that in each energy transformation free energy is reduced
because heat energy is lost from the system.
True False
, 26. Of Central American rainforest frogs, S. Alan Pounds said "Climate change is the bullet killing frogs but
disease is pulling the trigger."
True False
27. Ecology is the application of environmental science to real world problems.
True False
28. An ecosystem needs a recurring input of energy from an extended source to sustain itself.
True False
29. Increasing atmospheric CO2 will increase ocean pH.
True False
30. Field experiments are usually conducted on larger scales than laboratory experiments.
True False
31. Match the following terms with their definition
1. pop considers how organisms have evolved to live in their __
ulation environment __
ecology
2. physi focuses on how the behavior of an organism contributes to __
ological its survival __
ecology
3. beh investigates how organisms are adapted to their __
avioral environment __
ecology
4. evolu focuses on the number of individuals in an area and how __
tionary they reproduce and grow in numbers __
ecology
32. Match the following elements of global change with their results
1. invasive reduction of organismal abundance and genetic ____
species diversity
2. direct predation, parasitism, or competition with native ____
exploitatio species
n
3. habitat hunting, harvesting and collecting ____
destruction
4. release direct and indirect mortality over a range of scales from ____
of local to global
pollutants
Student: ___________________________________________________________________________
1. What factor is promoting new diseases that are driving the Panamanian golden frog (Atelopus sp.) to
extinction?
A. deforestation
B. new predators
C. climate change
D. introduced species
E. water pollution
2. The Panamanian golden frog is in decline from what specific threat?
A. a virus
B. a fungus
C. an introduced competitor
D. an introduced protist
E. overharvesting
3. Ecology
A. requires the study of plants.
B. is the study of the environment.
C. primarily studies animals.
D. works for the good of the environment.
E. includes the study of interactions between organisms and their environment.
4. The abiotic components of a forest include
A. trees and water.
B. microbes and soil.
C. animals and climate.
D. soil salinity and pH.
E. plans and pollinators.
5. Populations are best defined as
A. all members of a species.
B. all organisms found in an environment.
C. communities of individuals
D. families.
E. groups of interbreeding individuals.
6. The study of species interactions includes
A. predation, parasitism and herbivory.
B. environmental science.
C. climate change.
D. physical ecology.
E. invasive species.
7. Patterns of species change and succession are one focus of
A. behavioral ecology.
B. environmental science.
C. biological control.
D. community ecology.
E. physiological ecology.
,8. Invasive Eurasian grass species can outcompete native North American grasses through
A. secretion of allelochemicals.
B. producing more viable seeds.
C. producing seeds year-round.
D. avoiding grazing animals.
E. faster seed germination.
9. List in order of scale, from the smallest to the greatest
A. organismal
B. population
C. community
D. ecosystems
10. Forest tent caterpillars lay down silk trails between their tent and the leaves to:
A. relocate the leaves.
B. attract colony mates.
C. deter predators.
D. a and b
E. All of the above
11. Global change encompasses
A. habitat destruction.
B. the introduction of invasive species.
C. direct exploitation.
D. the addition of pollutants to the environment.
E. All of these.
12. The average span of a species in the fossil record is
A. 1 million years
B. 4 million years
C. 10 million years
D. 20 million years
E. 100 million years
13. Why is knowing the average life span of a species in the fossil record important?
A. to calculate the current extinction rate.
B. to determine the speciation rate.
C. to determine whether the current extinction rate is greater than the historic extinction rate.
D. to determine whether the current speciation rate is greater than the historic speciation rate.
E. to compare the current extinction and speciation rates.
14. E. O. Wilson has referred to the threats of life on Earth with the acronym
A. RHINO
B. LION
C. HIPPO
D. FISH
E. SHARK
15. Which is not an example of habitat loss?
A. swamp drainage
B. deforestation
C. strip mining
D. overharvesting
E. river channelization
,16. The Ivory Billed Woodpecker was widely assumed to have gone extinct because of
A. habitat destruction.
B. overharvesting.
C. draining of swamps.
D. introduced avian malaria.
E. DDT.
17. The passenger Pigeon was widely assumed to have gone extinct because of
A. habitat destruction.
B. overharvesting.
C. invasive species.
D. pollution.
E. All of these.
18. Common gaseous pollutants into the atmosphere include
A. carbon dioxide.
B. carbon monoxide.
C. sulfur dioxide.
D. nitrogen oxide.
E. All of these.
19. The organisms most threatened with extinction are now believed to be the
A. birds.
B. fish.
C. amphibians.
D. mammals.
E. reptiles.
20. The greatest threat to most species is
A. habitat destruction.
B. invasive species.
C. pollution.
D. direct exploitation.
E. None of these.
21. What is replication in scientific inquiry?
A. Asking several different hypotheses at once.
B. Testing both biotic and abiotic factors.
C. Finding different species for experiments.
D. Performing experiments several times.
E. Having a well defined time frame for experiments.
22. You wish to investigate the effects of predatory animals on the number of invertebrates on an intertidal
rock face, by mans of an experiment. The most appropriate method would be
A. a laboratory experiment.
B. a field experiment.
C. a natural experiment
23. The interactions among living organisms are called biotic interactions.
True False
24. Ecologists generally believe that, for any given habitat, species poor communities function better than
species rich communities.
True False
25. The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that in each energy transformation free energy is reduced
because heat energy is lost from the system.
True False
, 26. Of Central American rainforest frogs, S. Alan Pounds said "Climate change is the bullet killing frogs but
disease is pulling the trigger."
True False
27. Ecology is the application of environmental science to real world problems.
True False
28. An ecosystem needs a recurring input of energy from an extended source to sustain itself.
True False
29. Increasing atmospheric CO2 will increase ocean pH.
True False
30. Field experiments are usually conducted on larger scales than laboratory experiments.
True False
31. Match the following terms with their definition
1. pop considers how organisms have evolved to live in their __
ulation environment __
ecology
2. physi focuses on how the behavior of an organism contributes to __
ological its survival __
ecology
3. beh investigates how organisms are adapted to their __
avioral environment __
ecology
4. evolu focuses on the number of individuals in an area and how __
tionary they reproduce and grow in numbers __
ecology
32. Match the following elements of global change with their results
1. invasive reduction of organismal abundance and genetic ____
species diversity
2. direct predation, parasitism, or competition with native ____
exploitatio species
n
3. habitat hunting, harvesting and collecting ____
destruction
4. release direct and indirect mortality over a range of scales from ____
of local to global
pollutants
