Which of the Following Is Not an Abiotic Factor That Affects Distribution?

Which of the Following Is Not an Abiotic Factor That Affects Distribution?

Final Exam Review:
Chapters 54,55,56,57,58, & 59
Supplemental Instruction
Iowa State University / Leader: / Adam
Course: / Biology 211 (5)
Instructor: / Dr. Holscher
Date:
  1. Which of the following is not an abiotic factor that affects distribution?
  2. Salinity
  3. pH
  4. Sunlight
  5. Predators
  6. If a farmer puts up a scarecrow in his garden to keep crows away but after two weeks the crows began to raid his garden once again despite the presence of the scarecrow. What type of learning did these crows present?
  7. Habituation
  8. Associative learning
  9. Classical conditioning
  10. Operant condition
  11. Natural selection favors altruism when…(provide your own answer hint: think of the formula for Hamilton’s Rule)
  1. The maximum population size that a particular environment can support is best known as ______.
  2. Carrying Capacity
  3. R max
  4. Population size
  5. Per capita growth rate
  6. ______can contaminate freshwater and cause eutrophication.
  7. Acid rain
  8. Runoff
  9. Primary producers
  10. Secondary production
  11. Adam was walking through the woods in his homeland of Minnesoooooota and recorded 313 squirrels per square mile then came back to ISU and recorded 296 squirrels per square mile in a different wood lot. What was he comparing?
  12. Carrying Capacity
  13. Species richness
  14. Range
  15. Density
  16. Which form of associative learning is when an arbitrary stimulus becomes associated with a particular outcome?
  17. Classical conditioning
  18. Operant conditioning
  19. What is constructed by following the fate of a cohort, from birth until all are dead?
  20. Climograph
  21. Life table
  22. Rate table
  23. Mortality table
  24. The gradual and continuous change in species composition and community structure over time is known as ______.
  25. Remodeling
  26. Succession
  27. Commensalism
  28. Relative Abundance
  29. Interactions among organisms are referred to as ______.
  30. Organismal interaction
  31. Biotic interaction
  32. Community interaction
  33. Abiotic interaction
  34. List the 3 different types of dispersion and identify the most and least common type. (provide your own answers)
  1. A graph that charts the annual precipitation on the y axis and average temperature on the x axis is called a ______.
  2. Food web
  3. Biome map
  4. Climograph
  5. Biograph
  6. When a dog is the first thing a new born goose sees, it believes that dog is its parent. This critical period learning is known as which of the following?
  7. Habituation
  8. Imprinting
  9. Classical Conditioning
  10. Operant Conditioning
  11. Exponential population growth results in what type of curve?
  12. S-shaped
  13. J-shaped
  14. M-shaped
  15. U-shaped
  16. Resource partitioning can occur in which populations?
  17. Sympatric populations
  18. Allopathic populations
  19. Trophic level transfer efficiency is the amount of energy at one tropic level that is acquired by the trophic level above and incorporated into biomass. This usually averages ______.
  20. 10% each trophic level
  21. 20% each trophic level
  22. 40% each trophic level
  23. 50% each trophic level
  24. Which best describes Oligotrophic lakes?
  25. Have headwater that are oxygen rich
  26. Nutrient poor
  27. Nutrient rich
  28. Oxygen poor
  29. Which properly describes the difference between taxis and kinesis in animal movement?
  30. Taxis is a long range seasonal movement and kinesis is an oriented movement towards or away from a stimulus
  31. Taxis is a simple change in activity in response to a stimulus and kinesis is an oriented movement towards or away from a stimulus
  32. Taxis is an oriented movement towards or away from a stimulus and kinesis is a long range seasonal movement
  33. Taxis is an oriented movement towards or away from a stimulus and kinesis is a simple change in activity in response to stimulus(random movement)
  1. What is the coefficient relatedness between relatives? (probability that two individuals will share a copy of a particular gene)
  2. .05
  3. .25
  4. .5
  5. .75
  6. Which biome is the largest biome found on earth?
  7. Tundra
  8. Open Ocean
  9. Desert
  10. Tropical Rain Forest
  11. What two physical properties of an island will increase species richness? (provide own answer)
  1. Describe Gross primary production (GPP) and Net primary production (NPP) . (provide own answers)
  1. Which aquatic zone describes the area where light does not reach?
  2. Photic zone
  3. Benthic zone
  4. Aphotic zone
  5. Littoral zone
  6. Permafrost that restricts plant growth is a characteristic of which biome?
  7. Cold dessert
  8. Temperate grassland
  9. Tundra
  10. Taiga
  11. Chemical communication between organisms of the same species is accomplished by which of the following?
  12. Auditory communication
  13. Tactile communication
  14. Pheromone
  15. Visual Communication
  16. Which of the following leads to an addition of density?
  17. Birth and Emigration
  18. Birth and Immigration
  19. Death and Immigration
  20. Death and Emigration
  21. A poisonous frog that is brightly colored displays what type of coloration?
  22. Aposematic
  23. Cryptic
  24. Mullerian
  25. Batesian
  26. Most food webs studied to date have chains consisting of _____ links maximum.
  27. 5
  28. 6
  29. 7
  30. 8
  1. Which is the most important abiotic factor affecting distribution?
  2. Water
  3. Salinity
  4. Temperature
  5. Sunlight
  6. How is a population different from a community? (write your own response)
  1. Which best describes what happens to chemical energy that is not converted to new biomass in the process of energy transfer between tropic levels in an ecosystem?
  2. It recycles through the environment like energy does
  3. It is lost as heat according to the 1st law of thermodynamics
  4. It is lost as heat according to the 2nd law of thermodynamics
  5. What is thermodynamics?
  6. What allows there to be seasons on earth?
  7. Coriolis effect
  8. Solar intensity
  9. Tilt of the earth’s axis
  10. Microclimate
  11. Species richness increases when… (provide own answer)
  1. A cohort is a life table is a group of individuals of the same ______.
  2. Gender
  3. Age
  4. Dispersion pattern
  5. Community
  6. The unit of measurement for an ecological footprint is ______.
  7. Calories
  8. Joules
  9. Hectares
  10. Newtons
  11. Which of the following is an example of cryptic coloration?
  12. Chloroplasts in a leaf reflects green light which makes the leaf look green
  13. A salamander that has grey and dark speckled skin to look like sand
  14. A poisonous frog that displays bright color
  15. ______mimicry is when two or more harmful species resemble each other while ______mimicry is when a harmless species mimics a harmful species.
  16. Batesian, Mullerian
  17. Mullerian, Batesian
  18. Regardless of an ecosystem’s size energy flows through an ecosystem while matter (chemicals) cycle within an ecosystem.
  19. True
  20. False
  21. Which biome has substantial rainfall yet a distinct dry season and a dense forest floor?
  22. Tropical deciduous forest
  23. Temperate rainforest
  24. Temperate deciduous forest
  25. Tropical grassland
  1. Which is the proper order of the tropic levels?
  2. Primary producer, secondary consumer, primary consumer, tertiary consumer
  3. Primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer, primary producer
  4. Primary producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, , tertiary consumer
  5. Primary consumer, tertiary consumer, secondary consumer, , primary producer
  6. 5,000 kcal of producer could support approximately _____ kcal of a secondary consumer?
  7. 10,000 kcal
  8. 5,000 kcal
  9. 500 kcal
  10. 50 kcal
  11. T/F: Intraspecific competition occurs between individuals of the same species and interspecific competition occurs between individuals of different species?
  12. T
  13. F
  14. Commensalism is an interaction when…
  15. Both species benefit
  16. One species benefits and the other suffers
  17. One species benefits and the other has no affect
  18. Zero population growth occurs when ______equals ______. (provide own answer)
  1. Demography is the study of which of the following?
  2. Reproductive strategies
  3. Change in population size over time
  4. Pattern of spacing among individuals
  5. Number of individuals in an area
  6. An organism’s trophic structure refers to? (provide own answer)
  1. A fixed action potential refers to which of the following
  2. Behavior that is developmentally fixed in all individuals in a population
  3. A sequence of unlearned acts that is unchangeable
  4. An action that benefits others at a cost to oneself
  5. Study of birth rates and death rates within a population
  6. Why is a diagram of energy flow from trophic level to trophic level shaped like a pyramid?
  1. A biome is a major type of ______. (provide own answer)
  1. The final for this class will be on ______.
  2. Monday at 9:30am
  3. Tuesday at 11:00am
  4. Monday at 7:30am
  5. I’m not going to show up and be a bad ass
  6. If you have any other questions about anything from the notes or the study guide you can stay ask your SI leader Adam. Otherwise you’re free to leave.It has been a joy to be your SI leader and I thank you for your attendance. Good luck on your final and best of the luck in the future!
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