Name___________________
Honors Biology
Date ____________
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(Chapter 1 Review – Multiple Choice)
1. What is biology?
a. the study of animal structures
b. the study of life
c. the study of fossils
d. the study of how organisms process energy
e. the study of patterns of inheritance
2. What is the appropriate term for an interacting group of individuals of a single type?
a. Species
b. population
c. ecosystem
d. community
e. habitat
3. Which series of terms is in the sequence of biological organization from the simplest
to the most complex?
a. community, population, ecosystem, habitat d. cell, tissue, organ, population
b. tissue, organ system, organ, cell
e. molecule, tissue, cell, membrane
c.organism, ecosystem, community, population
4. Which of the following is true with regard to the relationship between ecosystems and
communities?
a. An ecosystem is a part of a community.
b. Soil is an ecosystem component; water is a community component.
c. Plants are components of an ecosystem; animals are components of a community.
d. Ecosystems include the nonliving components of an environment; communities
include only the living components of an environment.
e. Ecosystems exclude the living components of an environment; communities include
the living components of an environment.
5. The chemical energy used by most organisms for metabolism and growth ultimately
comes from _____.
a. Heat
b. the decomposition of plants c. the sun d. carbon dioxide
e. evolution
6. What would happen if an ecosystem lacked decomposers?
a. There would be more energy available to plants.
b. There would be more nutrients available to plants.
c. There would be more nutrients available to animals.
d. The ecosystem would stop functioning.
e. More energy would flow into an ecosystem.
7. Energy is incorporated into most ecosystems by _____.
a. Fungi
b. plants
c. animals
d. decomposers
e. humans
8. Actinosphenia elegans is a unicellular, photosynthetic, eukaryotic organism.
To which domain does it belong?
a. Bacteria
b. Archaea
c. Eukarya
d. Plantae
e. none of the above
9. In which kingdom can multicellular photosynthetic organisms be found?
a. Monera
b. Fungi
c. Archaea
d. Plantae
e. Animalia
10. Protists can be distinguished from the plants and fungi because _____.
a. protists have prokaryotic cells and may be photosynthetic
b. protists may have chloroplasts and lack nuclei
c. protists are eukaryotic and include both unicellular organisms and multicellular algae
d. protists lack DNA
e. protists are a form of bacteria
11. ALL protists possess _____________.
a. Chloroplasts b. cell walls
c. zygotes
d. nuclei
12. Which of the following domains is NOT prokaryotic?
a. Eukarya
b. Bacteria c. Archaea
d. All are prokaryotic.
e. flagella
e. None are prokaryotic.
13. Eukaryotic organisms that decompose dead organisms and absorb the nutrients are
generally found in which kingdom?
a. Archaea
b. Bacteria c. Plantae
d. Animalia
e. Fungi
14. Natural selection tends to act at which of the following levels?
a. Population
b. species
c. phylum
d. kingdom
e. class
15. A pesticide kills 99.9% of a pest population. What will be the result of the continued
application of this pesticide?
a. Every time the pesticide is applied, it will kill 99.9% of the pest population.
b. Eventually, all of the pest population will be wiped out.
c. The pest population will reach an equilibrium point at which the pesticide is 50% effective.
d. Through time, the pesticide will become less effective at killing the pest.
e. The pesticide will become resistant to the pest.