5 Written Questions

1. Relationship that directly benefits one species and harms the other, the parasite weakens the host
2. The rate at which producers capture and store energy in their tissues during a given interval
3. When two species overlap too much in their requirements, they cannot coexist in the same habitat unless they share the required resources in different ways or at different times
4. individuals are more evenly spaced than expected based on chance alone, it is relatively rare, however, can be seen when resources are scarce. Examples: creosote bushes, royal penguin
5. Insects that develop inside another species of insects, which they devour from the inside as they mature. Parasitoids always kill their host

5 Matching Questions

1. Mark-Recapture Sampling Method
2. Exponential Population Growth
3. Greenhouse Effect
4. Biogeochemical Cycle
5. Nitrification

1. a How an essential element moves from the environment through ecosystems and then back into the environment, no other thing can fill the roles of these nutrients
2. b Heat builds up in the lower atmosphere, the temperature near the earth's surface rises
3. c Bacteria produce nitrite when they strip electrons of ammonium
4. d As long as the per capita birth rate remains above the per capita death rate, a population will grow exponentially.
5. e Used for mobile animals, when animals are captured and released and after a time period, the same number of animals are recaptured and the number of marked represent the whole population.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. When a disturbed area in a community recovers
   1. Primary Succession
   2. Secondary Succession
   3. Second Trophic Level
   4. Pioneer Species
2. The maximum number of individuals of a population that a giver environment can sustain indefinitely
   1. Climax Community
   2. Carrying Capacity
   3. Nitrification
   4. Carbon Cycle
3. Cone-bearing trees are the primary producers of these forests, they are located more in Asia, Europe and North America
   1. Coniferous Forests
   2. Pioneer Species
   3. Broadleaf Forests
   4. Commensalism
4. Herbivore, the primary consumer
   1. Fourth Trophic Level
   2. Third Trophic Level
   3. Coniferous Forests
   4. Second Trophic Level
5. Energy flows mostly into herbivores, carnivores and then decomposers
   1. Carrying Capacity
   2. Grazing Food Web
   3. Parasitoids
   4. Detrital Food Web

5 True/False Questions

1. Resource Partitioning → A subdividing of some category of similar resources that lets competing species exist

   True        False

2. Primary Succession → When a pioneer species takes over a barren landscape and soon improve soil and other conditions

   True        False

3. Zero Population Growth → An interval during which the number of births is balanced by the number of deaths.

   True        False

4. Climax Community → A stable, self-perpetuating array of species in equilibrium with one another in their habitat

   True        False

5. Carbon Cycle → Gaseous nitrogen travels in an atmospheric cycle where gaseous nitrogen is converted so it can enter the food chain, and is then released

   True        False