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Semester Final Review Game
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Evolution
• Changing slowly and constantly over long
periods of time can be described as…
A.
B.
C.
D.
Fossil Record
Extinction
Gradualism
Paleontology
Answer: Gradualism
Evolution
• Preserved or mineralized remains of an
organism that lived long ago are called…
A.
B.
C.
D.
Fossil
Extinction
Punctuated Equilibrium
Gradualism
Answer: Fossil
Evolution
• The death of all members of a species is
described as…
A.
B.
C.
D.
Fossil
Extinction
Gradualism
Punctuated Equilibrium
Answer: Extinction
Evolution
• The condition in which two populations of the
same species do not breed with one another
because they are separated away from each
other
A.
B.
C.
D.
Behavioral Isolation
Speciation
Geographic Isolation
Reproductive Isolation
Answer: Geographic Isolation
Evolution
• What is the role of genes in evolution?
A. Only genes can be acted on by natural selection.
B. Parents with recessive genes die from
overproduction.
C. The genes of most surviving parents have only
dominant alleles.
D. Only traits that are controlled by genes can be
acted on by natural selection.
Answer: The genes of most surviving parents have
only dominant alleles.
Evolution
• Which term refers to similar structures that
related species have inherited from a common
ancestor?
A.
B.
C.
D.
DNA sequences
developmental organisms
homologous structures
punctuated equilibria
Answer: homologous structures
Evolution
• Scientists combine evidence from fossils, body
structures, early development, and DNA and
protein structures to
A. determine what bones an animal has in its forelimbs
B. determine the evolutionary relationships among
species.
C. decide which fossils are older than others.
D. determine whether an organism will have gills
during its early development.
Answer: determine the evolutionary relationships
among species.
Evolution
• Which term refers to the process by which
individuals that are better adapted to their
environment are more likely to survive and
reproduce?
A.
B.
C.
D.
natural selection
Overproduction
Competition
Variation
Answer: natural selection
Evolution
• Which of these is one of the main ways that a
new species forms?
A. Cross-breeding occurs within the species.
B. Two groups are combined from separate species.
C. Competition occurs between members of the
species.
D. Mutations occur in the alleles of members of the
species.
Answer: Mutations occur in the alleles of members of
the species.*
Ecology
• Which animal is a scavenger?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Beaver
Cow
Horse
Vulture
Answer: Vulture
Ecology
• This picture is an example of a(n)…
A. Ecosystem
B. Population
C. energy pyramid
D. food web
Answer: energy pyramid
Ecology
• What is the difference between a predator and a
parasite?
A. parasites are fast and predators are slow
B. parasites are always larger than their host and
predators are always smaller than their prey
C. their is no difference between a predator and a
parasite
D. predators kill what they eat and parasites usually
don't kill their host
Answer: their is no difference between a predator and a
parasite
Ecology
• What happens when two populations of organisms
have the same niche in the same ecosystem?
A. the populations compete with each other for food other
resources
B. this is never a problem in nature
C. the smaller population will always survive the longest
D. the populations share the food and other resources
equally
Answer: the populations compete with each other for food
other resources
Ecology
• Which organism is the producer in this food
chain?
A. ringed seal
B. Algae
C. Shrimp
D. polar bear
Answer: Algae
Ecology
• Which answer contains a list of only abiotic
factors found in an ecosystem?
A.
B.
C.
D.
toad, tree, sunlight, gravity
duck, deer, water, flower
rain, snow, fish, soil
soil, water, air, minerals
Answer: soil, water, air, minerals
Ecology
• The living and nonliving things in a tropical
rain forest can be described as...
A.
B.
C.
D.
an ecosystem
a community
a food chain
a population
Answer: an ecosystem
Ecology
• What is the difference between a producer and a
consumer?
A. consumers make their own food, producer cannot
B. producer make their own food through photosynthesis,
consumers cannot make their own food
C. there are more consumers in the world than there are
producers
D. producers are much faster than consumers
Answer: producer make their own food through
photosynthesis, consumers cannot make their own food
Ecology
• Which of the living organisms helps to break
down dead matter and return nutrients to the
soil? In other words, which organism(s) is/are
decomposers?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Bacteria
Mushroom
Fungus
all of the above
Answer: all of the above
Ecology
• What type of symbiotic relationship is
represented below?
A. Mutualism
B. Parasitism
C. Commensalism
D. Scavengerism
Answer: Mutualism
Ecology
• The largest number of species that an
ecosystem can support over time is called the
___________________.
A. carrying capacity
B. population density
C. limiting factor
Answer: carrying capacity
Ecology
• The role a species plays within a community is
its ___________.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Population
Habitat
Ecology
Niche
Answer: Niche
Ecology
• What lists the levels of organization in order from
smallest to largest?
A. organism, community, population, biosphere, and
ecosystem
B. biosphere, ecosystem, community, population, and
organism
C. organism, population, community, ecosystem, and
biosphere
Answer: organism, population, community, ecosystem,
and biosphere
Ecology
• Which of the following is an example of a
limiting factor?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Predator
Disease
Accidents
all of the above
Answer: all of the above
Ecology-Matching
A. Taiga
B. Rainforest
C. Tundra
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
D. Grassland
G. Fresh Water
E. Temperate Deciduous Forest
H. Marine
F. Desert
Treeless biome with a layer of permafrost below the soil surface
Less than 1% salt content; marshes, bogs, streams, and rivers are
examples
Fertile soil found in this biome; fires, grazing animals, and drought keep
this biome free of many trees
Most abundant amount of rainfall; consists of 2 types: temperate and
tropical
Dominated by coniferous evergreen forests (pine trees)
Produces most of the world’s oxygen and is the source of most of the
world’s rainfall
Composed mostly of broad-leaf trees that lose their leaves during one of
the four seasons that exist here
Lowest amount of annual precipitation
Matching Answers
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1. C-Tundra
2. G- Fresh Water
3. D- Grasslands
4. B- Rainforest
5. A-Taiga
6. B- Rainforest
7. E- Temperate Deciduous Forest
8. F- Desert
Ecology
• When organisms move out of a population,
this is known as
A. Emigration
B. Abandonment
C. Succession
D. Immigration
Answer: Emigration
Ecology
• The number of different species in the
biosphere is called
A.
B.
C.
D.
Biodiversity
ecosystem diversity
Biosphere
genetic diversity
Answer: Biodiversity
Human Impact
• The most populous country in the world is
A.
B.
C.
D.
China
India
Russia
Java
Answer: China
Human Impact
• For every 1,000 babies born in Mozambique this
year, nearly 150 of them will die before they
reach their first birthday. This rate of 150 deaths
per 1,000 births is known as the
A.
B.
C.
D.
crude death rate
infant mortality rate
life expectancy
total fertility rate
Answer: infant mortality rate
Human Impact
• Land suitable for agriculture is called
A.
B.
C.
D.
population density
arable land
physiological density
agricultural density
Answer: arable land
Human Impact
• The annual global population growth rate
increased approximately two hundred years
ago because of the
A.
B.
C.
D.
agricultural revolution
demographic transition
industrial revolution
medical revolution
Answer: industrial revolution
Human Impact
• Life expectancy is lowest in
A.
B.
C.
D.
Africa
Asia
North America
Western Europe
Answer: Africa
Human Impact
• The world's population in 1995 was
approximately 6 billion and was expected to
reach 12 billion in approximately 45 years. The
period of 45 years is known as
A.
B.
C.
D.
doubling time
life expectancy
natural increase rate
Overpopulation
Answer: doubling time
Human Impact
• The population pyramid of Naples, Florida, is
"upside down" because the city has a large
percentage of
A.
B.
C.
D.
Elderly people
Young people
Immigrants
Females
Answer: Elderly people
Human Impact
• An endanger species is
A.
B.
C.
D.
a dangerous predator
a group of organisms in danger of extinction
all organisms at the top of the food chain.
a diseased animal
Answer: a group of organisms in danger of
extinction
Human Impact
• What must occur in a population for it to grow?
A.
B.
C.
D.
The birthrate becomes higher than the death rate
The birthrate becomes lower than the death rate
The birthrate and the death rate remains the same.
The birthrate stays the same and death rate
increases
Answer: The birthrate becomes higher than the death
rate
Human Impact
• A country that is not growing is characterized
by an age structure that is
A.
B.
C.
D.
largest among the post reproducing years.
about the same in all age groups
largest among the reproducing years
largest among the pre-reproducing years
Answer: about the same in all age groups
Human Impact
• Exponential growth is the phase in which the
populations
A.
B.
C.
D.
growth begins to slow down
growth stops
reaches carrying capacity
grows quickly
Answer: grows quickly
Human Impact
• As resources in a population become less
available, the population
A.
B.
C.
D.
enters a phrase of exponential growth
reaches carrying capacity
declines rapidly
increases slowly
Answer: reaches carrying capacity
Human Impact-Matching
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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Which of the pyramids represents a slow growing population?
Which of the pyramids represents a rapidly growing population?
Which of the pyramids represents a population with zero growth?
Which of the pyramids represents a negative growing population?
A pyramid showing the population of Uganda would look like which of the four pyramids?
A pyramid showing the population of the United States would look like which of the four
pyramids?
7. A pyramid showing the population of Austria would look like which of the four pyramids?
8. A pyramid showing the population of India would look like which of the four pyramids?
9. Which of the pyramids has the largest need for schools?
10. Which of the pyramids has the largest need for retirement homes?
Matching Answers
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1. A.
2. C.
3. B.
4. D.
5. D.
6. B.
7. A.
8. C.
9. C.
10. A.