Module 10

1. The process by which certain gases (principally water vapor, CO2, and methane) trap heat that would otherwise escape the earth and radiate into space

Transpiration

Greenhouse effect

Global Warming

Climate Change

2. Using the following food web, what would happen if the plants died?

Nothing

Only the rabbit population would decline

Only tertiary consumers would dicline

Everything would die

3. Interestingly, the Tennessee Valley is not a valley because we are surrounded by mountains (see any big mountains around here?) but because the whole region drains into the Tennessee river. This makes this region a

Water Table

Water estuary

Watershed

Water dependent

4. What is responsible for most of the oxygen production on the earth?

Plants

Phytoplankton in the ocean

Volcanos

Lightning

5. According to your teacher rising carbon dioxide levels is better explained by

The burning of fossil fuels

The eruption of volcanoes

The death of cynobacteria

Increased solar activity heating the ocean

6. If radical environmentalists and politicians want to help the planet the best thing that they could do is

Raise taxes on the oil companies

Prevent emerging countries from using fossil fules

Reduce carbon dioxide production by stopping breathing

7. An association of living organisms and their physical environment

Colony

Habitat

Ecosystem

Enviromentalism

8. A measure of the total dry mass of organisms within a particular region

Biodome

Bioweight

Biometrics

Biomass

9. Certain bacteria and plants can take Nitrogen from the air and make it available to other plants, this is called

Nitrogen spliting

Nitrogen fixation

Nitrogen farming

Nitrogen deposition

10. Good sources of Nitrogen for the gardener or farmer are MORE THAN ONE ANSWER

Manure

Synthetic Fertilzers

Ground Cover crops

Ground up leaves (leaf mold)

Submit

11. A bag of fertilizer is labeled 25-4-2. This means it contains what percentage of Nitrogen?

25

4

2

100 - (25+4+2) = 69

12. A clownfish receives protection by a sea anemone. The clown fish attracts food to the sea anemone. This is an example of

Natural selection

Survival of the secies

Evolutionary compatibility

Mutalism

13. An ecosystem where all water runoff drains into a single body of water

Watershed

Water table

Water cycle

Water condensation

14. Using the following food web, what would happen if we removed the snakes from the web?

The foxes would starve

The frog population would increase

The owls would starve

The plant population would increase

15. Evaporation of water from the leaves of a plant

Perspirattion

Condensation

Consolidation

Transpiration

16. Using the following food web, what is the only producer?

Butterflys

Rabits

Hawks

Plants