BIO 111 Exam 4 ACTUAL UPDATED
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Vampire bats sharing blood meals with friends who are hungry - CORRECT ANSWER -
Which of these would be an example of altruism in animal behavior?
Group behaviors - CORRECT ANSWER - Which area of behavioral ecology would study
the patterns of fish swimming in schools?
Organismal ecology - CORRECT ANSWER - Mockingbirds attract mates using complex
calls and on campus they mimic car alarms and the crossing signal beeps. If you designed an
experiment to compare breeding success of forest and urban mockingbirds, what type of
ecological study would that be?
Birds adjusting their flight path after being blown off course during migration - CORRECT
ANSWER - Which of these behaviors is innate, but is also perfected by learning?
Foraging - CORRECT ANSWER - Which area of behavioral ecology would study
territory defense around a food resource?
Community ecology - CORRECT ANSWER - There was a forest fire in Kisatchie
National Forest. If you designed an experiment to track the change in species composition of the
recovering forest over the next 20 years, what type of ecological study would that be?
Group behaviors - CORRECT ANSWER - Which area of behavioral ecology would study
the importance of altruism?
Temperate deciduous forest - CORRECT ANSWER - What type of terrestrial biome is
characterized by moderate rainfall, cold winters, hot summers, and can be found in much of
north Louisiana?
, Advances in medicine have led to lower death rates - CORRECT ANSWER - Why has the
rate of human population growth increased so rapidly in the past 200 years?
Exponential growth - CORRECT ANSWER - Which type of population growth pattern
has prodigious growth because there are no limiting factors?
Competing species cannot occupy the same ecological niche, one or both will go extinct -
CORRECT ANSWER - In Gause's study of coexistence between competing paramecium
species grown together in the same container, what was his conclusion?
Quadrant sampling - CORRECT ANSWER - Which is a method that ecologists use to
estimate the size and diversity of plant populations in large areas?
Species of songbirds feeding on insects at different heights on the same tree - CORRECT
ANSWER - Which of these would be an example of resource partitioning in nature?
Type I - CORRECT ANSWER - What type of survivorship is found in species with a low
juvenile mortality rate?
Commensalism - CORRECT ANSWER - Which would be an example of a species
interaction that is positive for one species, but has no effect on the other?
Nitrification - CORRECT ANSWER - What is the single largest factor contributing to the
growth of the Gulf of Mexico dead zone?
Some energy is always lost during transfer - CORRECT ANSWER - As you move up a
food chain in an ecosystem from one trophic level to the next, why does the amount of energy
available decrease?
Large islands that were closer to the mainland could support larger, more diverse insect
populations - CORRECT ANSWER - In Simberloff and Wilson's experiment testing
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Vampire bats sharing blood meals with friends who are hungry - CORRECT ANSWER -
Which of these would be an example of altruism in animal behavior?
Group behaviors - CORRECT ANSWER - Which area of behavioral ecology would study
the patterns of fish swimming in schools?
Organismal ecology - CORRECT ANSWER - Mockingbirds attract mates using complex
calls and on campus they mimic car alarms and the crossing signal beeps. If you designed an
experiment to compare breeding success of forest and urban mockingbirds, what type of
ecological study would that be?
Birds adjusting their flight path after being blown off course during migration - CORRECT
ANSWER - Which of these behaviors is innate, but is also perfected by learning?
Foraging - CORRECT ANSWER - Which area of behavioral ecology would study
territory defense around a food resource?
Community ecology - CORRECT ANSWER - There was a forest fire in Kisatchie
National Forest. If you designed an experiment to track the change in species composition of the
recovering forest over the next 20 years, what type of ecological study would that be?
Group behaviors - CORRECT ANSWER - Which area of behavioral ecology would study
the importance of altruism?
Temperate deciduous forest - CORRECT ANSWER - What type of terrestrial biome is
characterized by moderate rainfall, cold winters, hot summers, and can be found in much of
north Louisiana?
, Advances in medicine have led to lower death rates - CORRECT ANSWER - Why has the
rate of human population growth increased so rapidly in the past 200 years?
Exponential growth - CORRECT ANSWER - Which type of population growth pattern
has prodigious growth because there are no limiting factors?
Competing species cannot occupy the same ecological niche, one or both will go extinct -
CORRECT ANSWER - In Gause's study of coexistence between competing paramecium
species grown together in the same container, what was his conclusion?
Quadrant sampling - CORRECT ANSWER - Which is a method that ecologists use to
estimate the size and diversity of plant populations in large areas?
Species of songbirds feeding on insects at different heights on the same tree - CORRECT
ANSWER - Which of these would be an example of resource partitioning in nature?
Type I - CORRECT ANSWER - What type of survivorship is found in species with a low
juvenile mortality rate?
Commensalism - CORRECT ANSWER - Which would be an example of a species
interaction that is positive for one species, but has no effect on the other?
Nitrification - CORRECT ANSWER - What is the single largest factor contributing to the
growth of the Gulf of Mexico dead zone?
Some energy is always lost during transfer - CORRECT ANSWER - As you move up a
food chain in an ecosystem from one trophic level to the next, why does the amount of energy
available decrease?
Large islands that were closer to the mainland could support larger, more diverse insect
populations - CORRECT ANSWER - In Simberloff and Wilson's experiment testing
