1. 1 st Quarter Test Questions Weren’t here first quarter? Foolishly threw away your 1 st Quarter Test? Here are the questions you tossed! You’ll have to get the answers from the study guide!

2. . What is a biotic factor?

3. What biome do we live in?

4. Where are temperate rain forests found in North America?

5. What does the tropical forest do to the humidity?

6. Why is lumbering hard in a rain forest?

7. Why is farming bad in tropical forest soil?

8. Tundra has about the same amount of precipitation as what other biome?

9. Tiaga has about the same amount of precipitation as what other biome?

10. Why did we see more species of plants at the edge of woods than in it on our mini field trip?

11. What is an abiotic factor that can be felt, but not seen? W

12. How do the decomposers help the consumers in an environment? W

13. What relationship exists between elevation and temperature?

14. What relationship exists between latitude and temperature?

15. Producers

16. Primary Consumers

17. Secondary Consumers

18. Decomposers

19. Bottom canopy Upper canopy Lower canopy Emergent Trees Understory Overstory

20. What is a native species?

21. What is the problem with alien species?

22. What is the most environmentally safe way to control alien species?

23. What is one example of an alien species that is wiping out a native plant?

24. Why was multiflora rose imported into the US, and what went wrong?

25. Why was Kudzu imported into the the US and what went wrong?

26. What class of fuel releases the most CO2 into the atmosphere?

27. Why is a decrease in native plant and animal diversity a bad thing for an ecosystem?

29. Why does the CO2 level jump up around 1930 in the graph above?

30. What types of species are particularly at risk for becoming extinct

31. Which of these species is the keystone species along the California coast?

32. Using the graph, desert and tundra precipitation would best be described by which column?

33. Since the Taiga and grasslands also get about the same amount of precipitation, what is the controlling factor that causes the biomes to be so different?

34. In our population sampling lab, what sample size would give the most accurate results?

35. In our population sampling lab, how would increasing the number of times we sample the population affect the accuracy of our results?

36. What effect has man had on biodiversity?

37. What happened to most of the buffalo?

38. Why does the desert get more radiation from the sun than we do even at the same latitude?

39. What percentage of living species have scientists discovered?