Chapter 4 Quiz
Choose your points! You must choose points from each section and your points must total 10
points! Two points per section ONLY!!
Section 1:Role of Climate
Option:
Multiple Choice
Definitions
Illustration
Vocab 4-square
Points:
0.5
1
2
2
Total (2 points)
Multiple Choice: For each question, circle or highlight the best choice.
1. The day to day changes in temperature and precipitation:
Climate
Weather
Ecology
Geology
2. Average year to year changes in temperature and precipitation:
Climate
Weather
Ecology
Geology
3. Carbon Dioxide (CO2), methane gas (CH4), water vapor (H2Og) and other atmospheric
gasses are together:
Weather
Climate
Ecosystem
Greenhouse gasses
4. The heat naturally trapped by the layer of greenhouse gasses is:
Weather
Climate
Greenhouse effect
Greenhouse gasses
Section 1: Role of Climate
Use the vocabulary word bank to complete the definition, vocab 4-square, or illustration
activities.
Vocabulary word bank:
Climate
Greenhouse gasses
Polar zone
Tropical zone
Weather
Greenhouse effect
Temperate zone
Definitions: (INTERNET NOT ALLOWED!!!)
Word:
Definition (in your own words)
Illustrations: Draw and label an illustration to demonstrate your understanding of the topic. Be
sure to include all details and color your illustration to receive full credit.
YOU MAY NOT USE MY EXAMPLE EXACTLY!!!
1. Zones: Use a globe to show me the distribution of longitudal zones: tropical, temperate, and
polar. Be sure to label each zone.
2. Atmosphere: Show me the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere using a globe or pie chart.
You may use the table from the notes for help:
Section 2:Shaping the Ecosystem
Choose 2 points:
Activity:
Multiple choice
Definitions
Acrostic Poem
Illustration
Points:
0.5
1
2
2
Chosen (2 points total):
Multiple Choice (0.5 points each): Circle or highlight the best choice for each question.
1. This is where an organism lives:
Niche
Climate
Habitat
Benthic
2. This is where and how an organism lives:
Nice
Climate
Habitat
Benthic
3. Which of the following is NOT a community interaction?
Competition
Predation
Niche
Symbiosis
4. No two species can occupy the same niche, in the same habitat, at the same time. This is
known as the ______________ principle.
Collaborative extension
Courageous election
Competitive exclusion
Cannibal elementary
Use the vocabulary word bank to complete the definition, acrostic poem, or illustration
activities.
Vocabulary Word Bank:
Abiotic factor
Predation
Commensalism
Primary succession
Biotic factor
Symbiosis
Mutualism
Pioneer species
Resource
Mutualism
Parasitism
Secondary succession
Section 2: Shaping the Ecosystem
Definitions: Define a term in your own words (worth 1 point each) INTERNET NOT
ALLOWED!!!
Word:
Definition (in your own words):
Illustrations: Draw and label an illustration to demonstrate your understanding of the topic. Be
sure to include all details and color your illustration to receive full credit. YOU MAY NOT
USE MY EXAMPLE EXACTLY!!!
1. Primary Succession: Draw me an illustration showing me how primary succession might take
place after a volcanic eruption. Must provide labels showing me how life progresses.
2. Secondary succession: Draw me an illustration showing how secondary succession might
proceed following a forest fire. Must provide labels showing how life progresses.
Section 3: Biomes
Choose 2 points:
Activity:
Multiple choice
Definitions
Critical thinking
Illustration
Points:
0.5
1
2
2
Chosen (2 points total):
Multiple Choice (0.5 points each): Circle or highlight the best choice for each question.
1. The complex interaction between communities of organisms, the large terrestrial areas, and the
climate of a region is known as a(n):
Climate
Biome
Weather
Species
2. This is the ability to adapt to unfavorable conditions to live and produce offspring.
Habitat
Tolerance
Biome
Climate
3. Small areas that differ from the rest of the environment are:
Biomes
Climates
Habitats
Microclimates
4. All of the following are unique to a biome except:
Water
Animals
Climate
Plants
Use the vocabulary word bank to complete the definition, acrostic poem, or illustration
activities.
Vocabulary Word Bank:
Biome
Microclimate
Understory
Coniferous
Tolerance
Canopy
Deciduous
Taiga
Section 3: Biomes
Illustrations: Draw and label an illustration to demonstrate your understanding of the topic. Be
sure to include all details and color your illustration to receive full credit. YOU MAY NOT
USE MY EXAMPLE EXACTLY!!!
1. Rainforest biome: Label the canopy and understory. Give an example of a biotic and abiotic
feature of each level.
2. Taiga: Illustrate a taiga, give an example of three biotic and two abiotic features (must be
labeled).
Critical Thinking: Respond with a minimum of 3 sentences each or a well-designed sketch
(color not necessary).
1. What is the difference between a deciduous tree and a coniferous tree?
2. What is permafrost and how does it affect plant diversity of the taiga?
Section 4:Aquatic Ecosystems
Choose 2 points:
Activity:
Multiple choice
Definitions
Critical thinking
Illustration
Points:
0.5
1
2
2
Chosen (2 points total):
Multiple Choice (0.5 points each): Circle or highlight the best choice for each question.
1. The ______ zone is the zone of an aquatic ecosystem which sunlight is able to penetrate.
Photic
Aphotic
Biotic
abiotic
2. The ______ zone is the zone of an aquatic ecosystem in which no photosynthesis takes place.
Photic
Aphotic
Biotic
Abiotic
3. These are tiny free floating organisms that live in water.
Fish
Giant kelp
Plankton
Sea star
4. This is an area that is at least partially covered by water for at least part of the year.
Intertidal zone
Wetlands
Salt water marsh
Open ocean
Use the vocabulary word bank to complete the definition, acrostic poem, or illustration
activities.
Vocabulary Word Bank:
Plankton
Phytoplankton
zooplankton
Wetland
Estuary
detritus
Salt marsh
Mangrove swamp
Kelp forest
Photic zone
Aphotic zone
Benthic zone
Section 4: Aquatic Ecosystems
Critical Thinking: Respond with a minimum of 3 sentences each or a well-designed sketch
(color not necessary).
1. Explain the difference between the photic and aphotic zones in an aquatic ecosystem.
2. Explain the relationship between phytoplankton and zooplankton.
Illustrations: Draw and label an illustration to demonstrate your understanding of the topic. Be
sure to include all details and color your illustration to receive full credit. YOU MAY NOT
USE MY EXAMPLE EXACTLY!!!
1. Zonation: draw an aquatic ecosystem, it must include the photic zone, aphotic zone, and
benthic zone.
2. Food chain: draw a food chain in an aquatic ecosystem. Must name the type of aquatic
ecosystem, show a producer, two consumers, and a detrivore. All organisms must be labeled and
arrows must be drawn to show the flow of energy within the ecosystem.
Section 5: REVIEW
Option:
Multiple Choice
Critical Thinking
Illustration
Vocab 4-square
Points:
0.5
2
2
2
Total (2 points)
Multiple Choice (0.5 points each): Circle or highlight the best choice for each question.
1. The chemical symbol for Glucose is:
CO2
H2O
CaCO3
C6H12O6
Use the following experiment to answer questions 2-4.
You watch a youtube video showing a motorcycle ripping a table cloth out from under a fully set
table. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAXy1ur9QQc You believe this is a hoax, so you set
up an experiment. In this experiment you set a table, then tie the tablecloth to a rope, attached to
the back of your motorcycle. You take off on the motorcycle at top speed. The table setting is
completely destroyed as it falls all over the floor. You confirm your hypothesis that the video is a
hoax.
2. The independent variable is:
The motorcycle stunt
The destruction of the table setting
The youtube video
The motorcycle
3. The dependent variable:
The motorcycle stunt
The destruction of the table setting
The youtube video
The motorcycle
4. A control variable is:
The motorcycle stunt
The destruction of the table setting
The youtube video
The motorcycle
Critical Thinking: Respond in a minimum of 3 sentences each or a well-designed sketch (color
not necessary).
1. Deoxyribonucleic acid and ribonucleic acid are very similar sugar compounds, with the
exception of which molecule?
2. Explain the difference between monomers and polymers using protein as an example.
Illustrations: Draw and label an illustration to demonstrate your understanding of the topic. Be
sure to include all details and color your illustration to receive full credit. YOU MAY NOT
USE MY EXAMPLE EXACTLY!!!
1. Food Web: Draw a food web, it must have at least 7 different organisms. The producers
should be labeled with a P, the herbivores with a H, the carnivores with a C, and the Detrivores
with a D. (You do not need all 4 types of organisms, but the ones you do use should be
appropriately labeled).
2. Energy Pyramid: Draw an energy pyramid showing which type of organism is at each
trophic level, an example of an organism at each tropic level, and how much energy is passed
between each trophic level.
Use the vocabulary word bank to complete the vocabulary 4-square.
Vocab Word Bank:
Independent Variable
Food web
Herbivore
Dependent Variable
Food chain
Species
Control Variable
Carnivore
Levels of Organization