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Biology Midterm Sample Test
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A. Answer the following questions
1. What is the difference between a population and a community?
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2. Is a hurricane an instance of weather or climate?
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3. List examples of biotic factors and abiotic factors. List an example of a both biotic and abiotic
factor.
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4. Give two examples of how abiotic factors are influenced by biotic factors
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5. How can we understand global systems?
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6. Lists 2 storms that can cause widespread damage and loss of life.
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7. Why are tropical regions generally warmer year-round than temperate regions?
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8. Give real-life examples of your usage in the approaches of gathering ecological data.
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9. Earth’s average temperature is determined by the:
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B. Fill in the blank.
1. Climate also includes the frequency of extreme weather events such as ___________,
__________, and _________.
2. The three main approaches to gather ecological data are _____________, ______________,
_____________
3. Weather can change _______, and can be _______ to predict.
4. Climate involves __________, ____________, ___________,___________, and
___________.
5. The global climate system is powered and shaped by the total amount of __________ retained
in the biosphere as __________, and by the ___________________ of that __________
between the _________ and the _________.
6. The three gases in the atmosphere : ____________, ____________, and ____________ are
called _____________________.
7. Because Earth is ________ and _______ on its axis, solar radiation strikes the surface at
angles that ______ from place to place and at different times of the year.
8. Earth's climate zones are produced by _______________ of the sun’s heat on Earth's surface.
This also creates _________ and _______________.
9. The lilt of Earth’s axis causes the distribution of sunlight to
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10. As air travels from places where it sinks to places where it rises, it creates ____________.
11. Ocean currents are driven and shaped by patterns of ________ and __________, by
_________, and by the ______________________.
12. One of the best-known upwellings in the Western Hemisphere occurs in the
_________________ off the coast of ______.
13. Increases and decreases in strength of upwellings are part of a phenomenon called
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C. Answer the following
1. What causes more rain to fall on one side of a mountain than the other side?
2. List 6 non-human causes of climate change.
3. Variations in biomes can be caused by differences in?
4. In polar regions, plants are ____, though some _____ grow on snow and ice. Where rocks and
ground are exposed seasonally, ________ and _______ may grow.
5. Factors in aquatic ecosystems :
a)
b)
c)
d)
6. Regional climates are shaped by :
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7. How are aquatic ecosystems described primarily?
8. The 3 zones of the marine ecosystem are?
D. Choose the correct answer.
1. Bottom water rises to the surface through a process called
a) Greenhouse effect
b) Global warming
c) Upwelling
d) Acid raining
2. The following is a non-human cause of climate change
a)
b)
c)
d)
3.
Meteorite impact and volcanic activity
Amounts of precipitation
Temperature
Latitudes
__________________ affects weather patterns from the southwestern united states all the
way across the pacific to Australia and Indonesia.
a) Deep ocean currents
b) Climate change
c) El Nino
d) Global winds
E. Label the following figures.
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