Honors Biology Study Guide Test 11
Answer all questions in complete sentences, in your own words, on a separate piece of paper..
Due Monday 3/28/16 at end of class
1. Describe the organization of an ecosystem.
2. The simplest grouping of more than one kind of organism in the biosphere is a(an)
3. What are 3 different methods of studying ecology?
1. Figure 1
4. Describe and list the producers and consumers in Figure 1
5. What is a food chain?
6. What is a food web?
7. Please define: heterotroph,consumer, decomposer, detritivores, autotroph
8. Please define: omnivore, herbivores, ecology
9. What do chemosynthetic bacteria do to produce their own food?
10. What is biomass?
11. A bass that eats a frog that has eaten an insect that fed on a plant is a consumer at what level?
12. A relatively small percent of the energy stored in an organism can be passed on to the next trophic level. Of the remaining energy, some is used for the organism’s life processes. What happens to the rest of the energy?
13. Which is the correct order of the levels of organization in ecology, from smallest to largest?
14. How are the movements of energy and nutrients through living systems different ?
15. Which is most likely to be a limiting nutrient (or factor) in a freshwater pond?
16. Define population, community, ecosystem.
17. Where do plants fit in an ecosystem?
18. What is the original source of almost all the energy in most ecosystems?
19. Which type of pyramid shows the amount of living tissue at each trophic level in an ecosystem?
20. The rate at which organic matter is created by producers in an ecosystem is called _____.
21. About how much energy is passed from one trophic level to the next higher trophic level?
22. How are nutrients and energy used by an ecosystem similar?
23. What are the parts to a ecosystem?
24. When an organism dies what happens to the nutrients in its body?
25. Where do fungi fit into an ecosystem?
26. What is a habitat?
27. What is succession?
28. Give examples of primary and secondary succession.
29. What does an ecosystem consist of?
30. Why are food webs are more commonplace than food chains?
31. In a food web, which type of organism receives energy from every other type?
32. Animals that feed on animals are at least in what trophic level?
33. In Figure 2 below, describe what feeding levels each of the organisms are occupying.
34. Figure 3
35. Refer to figure 3 above. What type of organisms are there on each level?
36. Refer to figure 3 above. What does this diagram represent?
37. Refer to figure 3 above. If there is 100 kJ (Kilojoule) of energy available at level A, how much energy is available at levels B, C, and D?
38. In going from one trophic level to the next higher level, how does the amount of energy and the number of organisms change?
39. Questions from Gizmo assessments may be on test too!
Essay questions
These questions may show up in the multiple choice portion of the test too
1. What level of ecology would a functioning aquarium show? Explain
2. How does the amount of energy change from one trophic level to the next higher one? Explain why.
3. Be able to calculate the energy at each level of an energy pyramid
4. What is the difference between primary and secondary succession?
5. Explain how a change in one species (its habitat, extinction, increase in population, increase in competition from an exotic species, etc.) affects the entire ecosystem.
6. Why are decomposers necessary for the continuation of life on Earth?
7. Bunch grass, prairie dogs, and coyotes are some of the organisms that occupy a particular ecosystem. Assign the roles of primary producers, primary consumers, and secondary consumers to these three groups of organisms and explain your answer.
(Be able to do this for other examples as well
Unit 11 Hon Bio
Unit 11 Hon Bio