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Final Exam Study Guide 2015
Final Exam Date: May 22, 2015
Question:
1. Give an example of a relationship
between a producer and consumer.
Answer:
Ex: Zebra eating grass
2. Viruses depend on living cells for
energy, reproduction, and protection
at the expense of the cells that they
invade. What is this an example of?
Parasitism
3. What is the main difference between
prokaryotes and eukaryotes?
Prokaryotes have no nucleus
4. On an energy pyramid where is the
most energy found?
Bottom of the pyramid
5. What happens to the nucleus during
mitosis?
Splits into two new nuclei
6. How can you describe the relationship Mutualism
between digestive bacteria and a
human?
7. What are characteristics of a taiga
biome?
Cone bearing trees (pines, spruce, fir), large
mammals (bears, moose, elk), long and cold
winters
8. What is exocytosis?
Removal of large amounts of material
outside a cell
9. In food chains, the flow of energy is
ALWAYS
one- way
10. In order for a population to survive,
sexual reproduction must produce
offspring that can survive and reproduce
11. Rabbits feed on plants in a meadow.
What would happen to the rabbits if
the plant population got destroyed?
decrease of population size of rabbits
12. What happens to the amount of
available energy in the pyramid as it
moves up through the different
levels?
decreases
13. Elephants provide birds protection
and the birds clean the elephant.
What type of relationship is this?
mutualism
14. How do you think a food web would
be affected if the plants were
eliminated?
Food web would completely collapse
15. The main source of energy for our
planet is/ are
16. A human skin cell contains 46
chromosomes. How many
chromosomes are present in a human
egg cell?
17. An increase in pesticide use has
resulted in a decrease in the local
blue jay population. What is the BEST
explanation for the decreased blue
jay population?
the sun
18. The two main processes by which
plant cells absorb, release, and use
energy are
23 chromosomes
Blue Jay food supply decreased
Photosynthesis and Respiration
19. Farmer Fran uses a pesticide in her
weaker bugs were killed, only the pesticide
sugarcane field. It is successful for five resistant bugs survived
years, but after year six the crops
begin to die off. What could have
happened?
20. Peppered moths come in two colors,
black and white. What did Kettlewell
show, with regard to peppered moth
populations and tree coloring?
In smoggy areas, darker moths have a higher
survival rate than white moths
21. What are the two abiotic factors used
to classify earth’s terrestrial biomes?
average yearly precipitation and temperature
22. Why are the tundra and desert alike?
limited water availability
23. What type of organism is the most
bacteria
effective in decomposing leaf tissues?
24. According to Darwin, which organisms organisms that possess characteristics best
are best able to survive in nature?
suited for their environments
25. Why would tortoises have different
shell shapes depending on the island
in which they live?
Shape of shell was best suited or the island
on which it was living
26. How do humans add to the carbon
cycle?
driving cars
27. What element do all living things have Carbon
in common?
28. What is the function of the cell
to control what enters and leaves the cell
membrane?
29. Where does digestion begin?
mouth
30. What is it called when humans breed
to pass on specific phenotypes to the
next generation?
31. Why did dark peppered moths have
an advantage during the Industrial
Revolution?
Selective Breeding
32. What factors in an environment could
affect older, weaker deer but not
younger and healthier deer?
increase in Florida panther population
33. What is the name for a group of
similar cells that perform a special
function?
34. What other system does the
respiratory system work with to make
sure oxygen reaches all the cells in
our body?
35. Why are fungi an important part of an
ecosystem?
tissue
36. The skeletal and muscular systems
help a person run. What does this
illustrate?
organ systems working together
37. If a fossil record has pinecones in the
lower sediments, fish in the middle
sediments, and leaves in the upper
sediments. What can scientists
assume?
Land was once underwater
38. What are characteristics of plant
cells?
Chloroplasts, cell walls
39. What should each question in a
dichotomous key accomplish?
divide objects into two groups
40. How do plants aid in the movement
of water through the water cycle?
Plants absorb water and release back into the
atmosphere through transpiration
blended in with the soot from the factories
circulatory
break down dead organisms and recycle
nutrients