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Quiz: Practice Ecology Exam 1
Practice Ecology Exam 1
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1. How are the hot desert biome and the tundra biome similar?
A. Both receive very little rain.
B. Both have plants with very short root systems.
C. Both biomes have lots of epiphytic plants.
D. The soil has good drainage in both biomes.
E. Animals are mostly nocturnal in both biomes.
Points Earned: 1/1
Correct Answer: A
Your Response: A
2. What do you think about the following statement?
“Homoplasious traits are those that are similar because of common ancestry, and homologous
traits are those that are similar because of convergent evolution.”
A. True
B. False
C. Only the information about homoplasious traits is true.
D. Only the information about homologous traits is true.
E. Both parts are sometimes true, but sometimes false.
Points Earned: 0/1
Correct Answer: B
Your Response:
3. Feathers…
A. are used by birds for lift and warmth.
B. are homoplasious to scales on crocodiles.
C. were first seen on dinosaurs.
D. All of the above.
E. a and c only
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Points Earned: 0/1
Correct Answer: D
Your Response:
4. Regions along the tropics generally receive a high amount of rainfall. Why is this so?
A. The El Niño effect.
B. Tropical rainforests are full of trees and lush vegetation.
C. Changing local topography across the tropics.
D. Higher levels of solar radiation along the equator.
E. Regions along the tropics actually get very little rainfall because of rising hot air.
Points Earned: 0/1
Correct Answer: D
Your Response:
5. While snorkeling, you are stung by the animal pictured below. You are in so much pain that you cannot
remember the name of this animal, but you know enough about it to accurately describe it to the medic
who is treating the sting. Which of the following is what you say to the medic?
A. It is a radially symmetric triploblast with a medusae body form.
B. It is a bilaterally symmetric Cnidarian with a polyp body form.
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C. It is a radially symmetric Cnidarian with a medusae body form.
D. It is a bilaterally symmetric Cnidarian with a medusae body form.
E. It’s Dumbledore’s pet phoenix, Fawkes.
Points Earned: 0/1
Correct Answer: C
Your Response:
6. Lions and cheetahs often have to compete with each other for the same prey. When a biologist studies
these two species’ interactions, he discovers that when there is available prey, the lions usually prevail in
getting the prey against the cheetahs, mostly by using physical force against the cheetahs and then
stealing the food. What is this an example of?
A. Exploitation competition
B. Interference competition
C. Interspecific competition
D. both a and c
E. both b and c
Points Earned: 0/1
Correct Answer: E
Your Response:
7. On the isolated Pacific island of Leonato, a single species of deer roamed the entire island until 250 years
ago when a devastating earthquake created a huge crater, separating one half of the population from the
other. The two populations became reproductively isolated and went on to give rise to two subspecies of
deer. Name the isolating mechanism working in this case.
A. Dispersal isolation
B. Vicariance isolation
C. Missing link isolation
D. Gametic isolation
E. None of the above
Points Earned: 0/1
Correct Answer: B
Your Response:
8. You are attending an evolutionary biology conference and one clearly unprepared lecturer makes several
errors while discussing viruses. Which of the following statements made by the lecturer is the only one
that is TRUE?
A. They are known to have been the earliest forms of life on Earth.
B. They have thick protein coats.
C. They contain long DNA strands.
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