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UNIT FOUR QUIZ
THIS TIME IT COUNTS EDITION
1. What does the greenhouse effect do for us?
a. Produces Carbon Dioxide.
b. Keeps us warm
c. Produces oxygen.
d. produces water.
2. The average rainfall and temperature during the winter season would be called the areas
a. weather.
c. rainfall.
b. climate.
d. microclimate.
3. On page 96 of your textbook, it lists three primary abiotic factors that produce Earth’s major
climate zones. The sun is one of them. What are the other two?
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4. Some of the sun’s radiation bounces off the atmosphere of the earth and goes
back into space.
a. True
5.
b. False
Which of these is a greenhouse gas?
a. Oxygen
b. Carbon Dioxide
c. Nitrogen
d. Krypton
6. Why does having tinted windows make your car cooler?
a. It lets less heat into the car
b. It reduces the suns radiation that enters into the car
c. It lets more heat out of the car
d. It doesn’t make your car cooler, it just prevents people from seeing you
pick your nose.
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7. A relationship in which one organism is helped and another organism is neither helped nor hurt
is called
a. parasitism.
c. competition.
b. mutualism.
d. commensalism.
8. What is predator prey relationships?
a.
b.
c.
d.
.
one animal being harmed and the other benefiting
one animal being eaten by another
two animals of the same species being attacked by a stampede of
predators
series of adaptations
Label the following as Habitat (A) or Niche (B)
9. I eat acorns from maple trees and get eaten by foxes _____
10. I live in a cave _______
11. I eat insects and help keep trees from being damaged from these insects ______
12. I enjoy a long stroll through the woods during the day, and sleep in a tree at night
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16. The way an organism makes its living, including its role or job with biotic and abiotic factors of
its environment, is called the organism’s
A habitat.
C lifestyle.
B niche.
D biome.
17. If a newly introduced species fills a niche that is normally occupied by a native species, the
two species compete. One of the species will die off and the other will survive. What was the name
of this process?
A. competitive exclusion principle.
B. predation and prey relationship
C. commensalism.
D. mutualism.
18.
Which of the following symbiotic relationships is considered parasitic?
a. Tapeworm in an intestinal tract
b. Bees transporting pollen from flowers
c. Pilot fish swimming under sharks
d. Birds eating the insects from the back of a hippopotamus
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19. Ants and acacia trees have a mutualistic relationship. This means
a. They both benefit from living with each other.
b. They are part of the same ecosystem.
c. They are both adapted to a humid climate.
d. The ants eat part of the acacia tree.
20. Male bull sea lions fighting for beach master dominance and the first pick of
female cows during mating season is an example of which vocabulary word?
a. Competition
b. Mutualism
c. Predation
d. Decomposition
21. What does symbiosis mean?
a.
b.
c.
d.
living separately, no relationship between 2 species
living together, close relationship between 2 species
living in a community with no interaction between each other
living together in fear of each other
22. What is your answer to question 1C on page 98 of your textbook
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