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Basic Biology Practice Test: Basics of Ecology and the Biosphere
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1. In temperate lakes, the surface water is replenished with nutrients during turnovers that occur in the
2. Which of the following statements best describes the interaction between fire and ecosystems?
3. Which lake zone would be absent in a very shallow lake?
4. Fire suppression by humans
5. Which series is correctly layered from top to bottom in a tropical rain forest?
6. Which of the following events might you predict to occur if the tilt of Earth's axis relative to its plane of orbit was increased to 33 1/2 degrees?
7. Which of the following environmental features might influence microclimates?
8. Trees are not usually found in the tundra biome because of
9. Which of the following areas of study focuses on the exchange of energy, organisms, and materials between ecosystems?
10. The growing season would generally be shortest in which of the following biomes?
11. Imagine some cosmic catastrophe jolts Earth so that its axis is perpendicular to the orbital plane between Earth and the sun. The most obvious effect of this change would be
12. Palm trees and subtropical plants are commonplace in Land's End, England, whose latitude is the equivalent of Labrador in coastal Canada where the local flora is subarctic. Which statement best explains why this apparent anomaly exists between North America and Europe?
13. Imagine that a deep temperate zone lake did not 'turn over' during the spring and fall seasons. Based on the physical and biological properties of limnetic ecosystems, what would be the difference from normal seasonal turnover?
14. Which of the following examples of an ecological effect leading to an evolutionary effect is most correct?
15. Which of the following is responsible for the differences in summer and winter temperature stratification of deep temperate zone lakes?
16. What is the limiting factor for the growth of trees in the tundra?
17. In the development of terrestrial biomes, which factor is most dependent on all the others?
18. A certain species of pine tree survives only in scattered locations at elevations above 2,800 m in the western United States. To understand why this tree grows only in these specific places, an ecologist should
19. In which community would organisms most likely have adaptations enabling them to respond to different photoperiods?
20. What would be the effect on climate in the temperature latitudes if Earth were to slow its rate of rotation from a 24-hour period of rotation to a 48-hour period of rotation?
21. Which of the following might be an investigation of microclimate?
22. When climbing a mountain, we can observe transitions in biological communities that are analogous to the changes
23. Two plant species live in the same biome but on different continents. Although the two species are not at all closely related, they may appear quite similar as a result of
24. If the direction of Earth's rotation reversed, the most predictable effect would be
25. Which of the following are important biotic factors that can affect the structure and organization of biological communities?

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