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Consider the following food chain: hawk - rabbit - clover.Each species will contain a different amount of calories in its body (clover: 10 calories,rabbit: 500,and hawk: 1200) .Each species has a different daily caloric requirement (clover: sunlight,rabbit: 100 calories,hawk: 300) .How many clover plants,per day,does it take to support one rabbit?


A) approximately 100 plants
B) approximately 10 plants
C) approximately 50 plants
D) approximately 3 plants
E) approximately 1000 plants

F) B) and D)
G) B) and E)

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Compared with the numbers of grasshoppers or deer,there are not as many mountain lions.The reason that large top-level carnivores are more rare in an ecosystem is because


A) such animals do not tolerate other members like them.
B) through natural selection,most fierce animals have been killed off by others.
C) food chains are only 10 to 20% efficient at each step,and top carnivores are therefore limited by the availability of food in their range.
D) only a few such animals are permitted by succession in a biome,and there are only a few biomes.

E) None of the above
F) C) and D)

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Organisms in all trophic levels may be consumed by decomposers.

A) True
B) False

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Which of the following associations is incorrect?


A) omnivore - eats both producers and consumers
B) herbivore - eats producers and performs photosynthesis
C) detritivore - feeds on decomposing organic matter
D) autotroph - performs photosynthesis or chemosynthesis
E) carnivore - feeds on other consumers

F) B) and C)
G) A) and D)

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Which of the following pairings of organisms and their method of obtaining nutrients is incorrect?


A) autotrophs - chemosynthesis
B) herbivores - algae
C) detritivores - inorganic matter
D) carnivores - other animals

E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

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Which of the following statement(s) about the hydrologic cycle is (are) true?


A) Because this is a true cycle,it is impossible to run out of fresh water for human use.
B) All water molecules that evaporate from the ocean precipitate on land and move by gravity through groundwater to the ocean again.
C) Some water evaporates from land and from plants.
D) Once water sinks into the ground,it is safe from human exploitation or pollution until it has rejoined the ocean.
E) All of the choices are true.

F) A) and E)
G) A) and C)

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What occurs when two species with very similar niches live in an overlapping range?


A) speciation
B) hypervolume
C) competitive exclusion
D) total extinction of one species
E) a switch in habitat for one of the organisms

F) D) and E)
G) B) and D)

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Primary succession takes much longer than secondary succession because it involves


A) colonization by more K-selected species.
B) time for development of the soil.
C) more time for development of a seed bank.
D) colonization by organisms that are farther away.
E) redevelopment of the atmospheric gases.

F) B) and C)
G) A) and B)

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Consider the following food chain: hawk - rabbit - clover.Each species will contain a different amount of calories in its body (clover: 10 calories,rabbit: 500,and hawk: 1200) .Each species has a different daily caloric requirement (clover: sunlight,rabbit: 100 calories,hawk: 300) .How many rabbits,per day,does it take to support the hawk?


A) approximately 6
B) about 1/2 a rabbit
C) 2 whole rabbits
D) 12 rabbits

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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MacArthur discovered that five species of warblers coexisted on spruce trees by foraging on the same caterpillar,but in different places of the tree canopy.This is


A) an exception to the competitive exclusion principle.
B) an exception based on birds taking longer to eventually compete and eliminate competitors.
C) confirmation that all warblers were actually variations of the same species because different species couldn't coexist.
D) an example of resource partitioning.

E) B) and C)
F) All of the above

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Energy flow in an ecosystem begins with


A) omnivores.
B) herbivores.
C) autotrophs.
D) detritivores.
E) carnivores.

F) A) and D)
G) All of the above

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Clements proposed the climax-pattern model of succession.Governing factors for this model include


A) climate.
B) soil conditions.
C) each successive community preparing the way for the next.
D) All of the choices are correct.

E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

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The first species to begin secondary succession are called pioneer species,or colonizers.

A) True
B) False

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If there are 12,000 kg.in the base of an ecological pyramid,how many kg.will be found in the body tissue of the tertiary consumers?


A) 1200 kg.
B) 120 kg.
C) 12000 kg.
D) 6000 kg.
E) 12 kg.

F) D) and E)
G) A) and C)

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In a grazing food chain,


A) primary consumers eat detritus.
B) primary consumers eat photosynthetic organisms.
C) secondary consumers eat detritus.
D) secondary consumers eat photosynthetic organisms.
E) all the consumers are primary consumers.

F) All of the above
G) C) and E)

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