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Ecology Unit Test Review Guide (Turn in COMPLETED on test day, BEFORE the test for bonus points on the test!)
- List the levels of organization within the environment from largest to smallest (most specific).
- What level of organization would describe a flock of pigeons in a park?
- Complete a Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting biotic and abiotic factors.
- Label each of the following A (abiotic) or B (biotic).
Deer rocks water plants
Carbon phosphorus fungi bacteria
- Complete the table below that describes the 2 processes responsible for cycling energy through the ecosystem.
Process / Reactants / Products / Organelle responsible
Photosynthesis
Cellular Respiration
- Differentiate between a food chain and a food web.
- Describe the niche (job/role) of each of the following:
- Producer
- Consumer
- Herbivore
- Carnivore
- Omnivore
- Detritivore (decomposer)
- What is an energy pyramid?
- Label the trophic levels in the energy pyramid below.
- What happens to the amount of energy as you move up the pyramid? What percentage actually passes from one trophic level to the next?
- Use the marine food web on page 410 in the textbook. Choose ONE food chain from this food web. Copy the food chain and label the organisms as producers, consumers, and/or decomposers.
- Provide a generalized flow chart for each of the following abiotic cycles (You have something like this in your NOTES!)
- Water cycle
- Carbon cycle
- Phosphorus cycle
- Nitrogen cycle
- How does habitat differ from niche?
- Label each of the following as N (niche) or H (habitat).
Predator savanna lake ocean
Herbivore decomposer tundra forest
- Complete the following table about symbiosis
Relationship / Describe what happens to each member / Example
Mutualism
Parasitism
Commensalism
- How does each of the following affect population size?
- Immigration
- Birth
- Emigration
- Death
- Sketch graphs for each of the following types of population growth:
- Exponential growth (Be sure to label each axis)
- Logistic growth (Be sure to label each axis)
- Complete the table below:
Limiting Factors / Definition / Examples
Density-Dependent Factors
Density-Independent Factors
- Differentiate between primary and secondary succession.
- List the six terrestrial biomes.
- List the 3 aquatic ecosystems. What are the 4 oceanic zones?
- Compare and contrast renewable and nonrenewable resources. List 3 examples of each.
- What is person’s ecological footprint? What are some things they can do to reduce their footprint?
- How does air pollution contribute to global warming?
- Explain how predation and competition are important ways in which organisms can interact.
Ecology Vocabulary Review
Across
8. a symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit
9. resources that can replenish themselves over time
12. area where an organism lives
13. movement of individuals into a population
15. examples include tundra, taiga, grasslands, desert, etc.
16. organisms that eat only plants
18. model that shows the complex network of feeding relationships and flow of energy within an ecosystem
19. partially enclosed body of water formed where a river flows into an ocean
21. factors that are nonliving things
Down
1. a symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits, but the host organism is harmed
2. group of the same species that lives in one area
3. group of different species that live together in one area
4. any undesirable factor added to air, water, or soil
5. sequence of biotic changes that regenerate a damaged community
6. organisms that eat only animals
7. organisms that eat plants and animals
10. movement of individuals out of a population
11. resources that are used faster than they form
14. a symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is not affected
17. factors that are living things
20. an organism's role in the environment