1. What kind of feedback loop is demonstrated by predator-prey population growth?
2. What kind of feedback loop is demonstrated by human population growth?
3. Which of the following does not contain a form of potential energy?
4. Which of the following processes does not use energy that originated in the sun
5. Which process takes place in a nuclear power reactor?
6. What form of energy is produced during every energy conversion
7. Which of the following is an example of low quality energy?
8. Which of the following is an example of high quality matter?
9. What law explains why there is no “away”?
10. What process is responsible for turning solar radiation into chemical potential energy?
11. Which of the following concepts includes all of the rest?
12. Which is likely to have the most biodiversity?
13. What kind of pyramid cannot have a smaller base (producers) than a top (tertiary consumers)
14. Which cycle does not directly involve the atmosphere?
15. What are Rhizobium bacteria doing in the root nodules of legumes?
16. Which biome requires the most rainfall?
17. Which of the following are factors that create tolerance limits for a population
18. Which of the following is not a common limiting factor for a lake ecosystem
19. What scientific law explains why there are always fewer tertiary consumers than primary consumers in an ecosystem.
20. Which of the following would not be a predicted effect of cutting the forest in a stream watershed such as at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest?
21. Spotted owl is to specialist as human is to __________
22. A patch of weeds growing on soil in early summer may be exhibiting
23. Which of the following biomes has the highest gross primary productivity
24. Which of the following is not usually a trait of a complex ecosystem
25. Which of the following is a transitional community?
26. The Army Corps of Engineers has returned the Kissimmee River to its original state. This is an example of
27. Another name for geometric growth is
28. What prevents a species from reaching its biotic potential?
29. Who first argued that human population grows faster than resources, eventually resulting in starvation?
30. What is most responsible for the great change in human population during the last century?
31. Demographic transition describes the observed changes after economic development
32. What best describes the population of the United States?
33. What is world human population?
34. What will happen to population if fertility rate = replacement rate
Brendan Swanson