A) It includes species richness.
B) It includes species age distribution.
C) It is influenced by the relative abundance of species.
D) It is influenced by the distribution of the different species.
E) It is not impacted by species richness.
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A) will lead to decreased sea levels.
B) decreases the amount of carbon dioxide in the air.
C) increases the amount of carbon dioxide in the air.
D) is caused by gases such as carbon dioxide trapping heat in the Earth's atmosphere.
E) is due to gases forming a barrier around the Earth and insulating the Earth from the sun's rays.
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A) vultures feeding on the remains of a carcass
B) 60 elk, 6 bald eagles, and 90 white pine trees in a forest
C) prairie chickens at a lake competing for access to mates
D) diving beetles, blue gill, lilies, water mites, crayfish, bass
E) 100 kg of vegetation, 10 kg of grasshoppers, 1 kg of spiders
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A) Some species of crabs decorate their shells with sea anemones and other corals. These "decorations" help camouflage the crab, and the movement of the crab from one area to the next exposes the corals and anemones to different sources of food.
B) Some spiders do not build webs, but live in the web of another species. When a prey item is caught in the web, the non-web building spider will sneak in and steal the prey.
C) A praying mantis hunts and eats a fly.
D) The longest tapeworm removed from a human was approximately 11 meters long. Tapeworms do not have a digestive system, but obtain all of their nutrients from the host.
E) Pseudoscorpions are small, harmless arachnids. To move from one place to another, they will sometimes latch onto the legs of flies and thus be carried long distances that they would not readily be able to traverse.
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A) the phosphorus cycle
B) the nitrogen cycle
C) the carbon cycle
D) the atmospheric cycle
E) eutrophic cycle
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A) Producers absorb solar energy.
B) Producers are eaten by the herbivores.
C) Decomposers break down the organic matter and make it available for the producers.
D) Top-level carnivores eat the herbivores or omnivores within the ecosystem.
E) Producers absorb nutrients from the soil.
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A) fungi, nonvascular plants, gymnosperms, animals
B) nonvascular plants, angiosperm, gymnosperms, fungi
C) animals, fungi, nonvascular plants, angiosperms
D) angiosperms, nonvascular plants, animals, gymnosperms
E) gymnosperms, angiosperms, fungi, nonvascular plants
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A) aquatic; marine
B) aquatic; fresh water
C) aquatic; coral reefs
D) terrestrial; tundra
E) terrestrial; rainforest
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A) temperate deciduous forest and tropical seasonal forest
B) taiga and tropical rain forest
C) temperate rain forest and shrubland
D) grasslands and desert
E) temperate deciduous forests and tropical rainforests
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A) a biogeochemical cycle.
B) reservoirs.
C) eutrophication.
D) global warming.
E) nitrogen fixing.
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A) competitive exclusion.
B) character displacement.
C) resource partitioning.
D) mutualism.
E) competitive inclusion.
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A) a small bird living in the dense shrubs at the base of a tree
B) two male lizards fighting over access to a female
C) a grasshopper feeding on leaves
D) an oystercatcher eating bivalves
E) lions and hyenas fighting over access to a zebra carcass
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A) the largest species in a community.
B) the most numerous species in a community.
C) the least numerous species in a community.
D) a species on which many other species depend.
E) the species that occupies most of the niches within a particular environment.
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A) two different species occupying the same ecological niche
B) two species competing for food and territory
C) competition of mates between two different species
D) two species sharing the same habitat
E) one species outcompeting another species in a particular niche
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A) rose bush
B) lion
C) decomposer
D) omnivore
E) hyena
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A) a change in communities caused by human activities.
B) a stable community that forms after a change.
C) an orderly process of change in the community of organisms.
D) what happens to a cultivated field every year that crops are planted.
E) competition between opportunistic and equilibrium species.
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A) 20,000 kg
B) 2,000 kg
C) 200 kg
D) 20 kg
E) 2 kg
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A) organic nutrients.
B) species richness and diversity.
C) the type of soil.
D) the rate of photosynthesis.
E) inorganic nutrients.
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A) Some species of crabs decorate their shells with sea anemones and other corals. These "decorations" help camouflage the crab, and the movement of the crab from one area to the next exposes the corals and anemones to different sources of food.
B) Some spiders do not build webs, but live in the web of another species. When a prey item is caught in the web, the non-web building spider will sneak in and steal the prey.
C) A praying mantis hunts and eats a fly.
D) The longest tapeworm removed from a human was approximately 11 meters long. Tapeworms do not have a digestive system, but obtain all of their nutrients from the host.
E) Pseudoscorpions are small, harmless arachnids. To move from one place to another, they will sometimes latch onto the legs of flies and thus be carried long distances that they would not readily be able to traverse.
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