Ecology Midterm Study Guide

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Directions:

  • Answer all parts to each of the following questions: 100 Questions are on Midterm Exam
  • Make sure to bring sharpened pencils to class on the day of Midterms
  1. (Matching format-40 questions) Define the following terms and include examples if mentioned in class:
  2. Igneous Rocks, Metamorphic Rocks, Aquifer, Hydrosphere, Species, and Organism
  3. Hibernation, Biodiversity, Population, and Geographic Range
  4. Producer, Consumer, Decomposer, Biomass, and Trophic Level
  5. Delta, Deposition, Exfoliation, Slump, and Frost wedging
  6. Symbiosis, Biome, Climax community, Primary Succession, and Secondary Succession
  7. Leaching, Succulent, Permafrost, Migration, and Tundra
  8. Sod-forming grasses, Bunchgrasses, humus, tufts, and runners
  9. Needles, litter layer, buttresses, cones, and epiphytes
  1. (Multiple Choice format-42 questions)
  2. What are the types of rocks that make up the lithosphere?
  3. List and describethe five atmospheric layers.
  4. List and describe the four Earth systems.
  5. Define and give examples for each: both types of adaptation, warning coloration, resistance, and competition
  6. How would the Earth and everything in it be affected by the increase and decrease of Carbon dioxide?
  7. List and describe the steps of Scientific Method.
  8. Define and state several examples of biotic and abiotic factors.
  9. Define Environmental Science, tectonic plates, plate boundaries, plate tectonics, weathering and erosion
  10. What is the difference between a food chain and food web? Include labeling trophic levels of a food chain.
  11. Define and give examples of autotrophs, heterotrophs (and all heterotrophic types), producers and consumers.
  12. List the parts of the following cycles: Carbon, Water, Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Nitrogen
  13. Define and give examples of niche, evolution, specialization, biodiversity, predator and predation.
  14. Describe and give examples of density-independent and density –dependent limiting factors.
  15. List, describe, and give examples of the three types of Symbiosis.
  16. What is a biome? What are the two main factors that determine a biome?
  17. List, describe, and give limiting factors of all the biomes discussed.
  18. Why was the Trans-Alaska Pipeline built above ground?
  19. What adaptations have desert plants and animals made to protect themselves from heat and dry conditions?
  20. What is the importance of the shape of a Conifer tree?
  21. List and describe the three main types of tectonic plate boundaries.
  22. List and describe the layers of the river and groundwater systems.
  23. What is the average pH of acid precipitation and what starts the process?
  24. What is a keystone species and how can it affect its environment?
  1. (Which is Which format-18questions)
  2. What are the main differences between the five types of Grassland Biomes?
  3. What are the main differences between the four types of Forests?
  4. What are the differences between the five soil horizons?

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