Final Exam Review
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| What is a hypothesis? | A statement that makes a testable prediction.
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| This data can never be accurate. | Projected population growth between now and 2050.
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| This is a part of the cryosphere. | Ice formed on the rim of a pond in winter.
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| What function do decomposers provide in a food web? | They transform dead organisms into organic matter.
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| What is an example of a perpetual resource? | Tidal Energy.
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| When energy flows from one trophic level to the next higher level, what always happens? | Most of the energy is lost through biological processes.
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| What does an anthropocentric view say? | Emphasizes the importance of the environment for humanity.
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| What does a biocentric view say? | Treats humans as part of the environment.
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| River water eroding a rocky bank and carrying silt to the sea is an example of what two spheres interacting? | Hydrosphere and Lithosphere.
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| If a lion cannot find living prey, it may eat a found, dead carcass. What ecological phenomenon is the lion demonstrating? | A species may participate in more than one trophic level.
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| Global climate change may be the result of what? | The emission of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane into earth's atmosphere.
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| This element of ecosystems is an example of an abiotic factor? | Water in an aquifer.
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| An official for the government hired to enforce the Resource Management Act would be responsible for this situation. | An application to build a dam in New Zealand.
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| This is an example of a local sensor. | Rain Gauge
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| This ecosystem produces more chemical energy per year at the producer level. | Coral Reef
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| Where on the earth is the most oxygen stored for long periods of time? | Rocks in the geosphere.
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| All ecosystems sharing a similar climate and similar dominant plants and animals is the definition of what? | Biome
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| Which scientist was most responsible for alerting the public to the risks involved in DDT spraying? | Rachel Carson
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| In a California woodland, a mistletoe plant gets its nutrition from live oaks. The oaks' health suffers as a result. What kind of symbiotic relationship does this example show? | Parasitism
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| Reactions between industrial or automotive emissions and water vapor cause what? | Acid Rain
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| What is the total mass of all the dry matter of all the organisms in an ecosystem called? | Biomass
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| In an experiment, what is a variable that scientists can manipulate to observe its effects? | Independent Variable
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| What is a density-independent factor that affects population size? | Temperature
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| This system was founded on physical constants. | Metric System
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| What organisms turn atmospheric nitrogen into organic nitrogen compounds? | Nitrogen-Fixing Organisms
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| What insecticide became widely used as a crop pesticide and mosquito eradicator after World War II? | DDT
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