Question 1

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RsQ_025What is the best term to describe this group of wildebeest?

Selected Answer:

community

Question 2

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RsQ_050Which of the following is an example of interspecific

competition?

Selected Answer:

Mites and nematodes all feeding on the same decomposing plant.

Question 3

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RsQ_004Which of the following is an example of a biotic component of an

ecosystem?

Selected Answer:

a community

Question 4

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RsQ_008What is landscape ecology?

Selected Answer:

The study of the influences of human activity on natural ecosystems.

Question 5

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RsQ_035Which of the following plants is a legume which may have

nitrogen-fixing bacteria attached to their roots?

Selected Answer:

pea

Question 6

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RsQ_041How does the phosphorus cycle dier from the carbon cycle?

Selected Answer:

The atmosphere does not contribute to the phosphorus cycle.

Question 7

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RsQ_031What is nitrogen fixation?

Selected Answer:

Stabilizing elemental nitrogen into a gaseous two-atom molecule (N2).

Question 8

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RsQ_048Which of the following characterizes a symbiotic relationship?

Selected Answer:

All of these.

Question 9

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RsQ_043 Which GEOGRAPHER studies how organisms interact with each

other in the biosphere?

Selected Answer:

ecologist

Question 10

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RsQ_039Which of the following processes plays an important role in the

phosphorus cycle?

Selected Answer:

erosion

Question 11

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RsQ_039Which of the following states is likely to have an estuary?

Selected Answer:

North Carolina

Question 12

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RsQ_002Which of the following is the best definition of a biome?

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A large, distinct terrestrial region with similar climate, soil, organisms,

regardless of its global location.

Question 13

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RsQ_041The _________________ is a fertile, low-lying plain at a rivers

mouth that forms from deposited sediment from the river.

Selected Answer:

delta

Question 14

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RsQ_029What are the three main ecological categories of organisms

found in aquatic ecosystems?

Selected Answer:

benthos, plankton, nekton

Question 15

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RsQ_035What ecosystem service do meanders provide?

Selected Answer:

they slow down water flow

Question 16

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RsQ_011Which of the following biomes has the highest biodiversity?

Selected Answer:

temperate rain forest

Question 17

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RsQ_008What biome is most likely to have the following temperature and

rainfall profile?

Selected Answer:

temperate forests

Question 18

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RsQ_038Which of the following best defines ecosystem services?

Selected Answer:

Important environmental benefits provided by ecosystems.

Question 19

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RsQ_023Which biome has considerable organic material in the soil,

annual precipitation of 10-30 inches, and periodic wildfires to maintain the
dominant vegetation?

Selected Answer:

temperate grassland

Question 20

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RsQ_024Which of the following distinguishes tundra from other biomes?

Selected Answer:

an extended daylength during its growing season