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Owls and hawks prey on similar animals, but hawks hunt
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by day and owls hunt at night. Is this an example of
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a. Niche differentiation
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b. Interference competition
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c. Coevolution
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d. Exploitation competition - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a.
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Niche differentiation
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Which characteristic tends to decrease diversity?
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a. environmental stress
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b. physically diverse habitat
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c. moderate amounts of disturbance
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d. evolution - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a. environmental
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stress
What threat causes the greatest loss to biodiversity?
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a. habitat loss
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,b. climate change
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c. pollution
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d. harvest - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a. habitat loss
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All of the following are examples of "a commons" EXCEPT:
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a. International ocean fisheries
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b. The shopping mall
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c. Most of the continent of Antarctica
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d. National forests - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔b. The
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Which substance would be considered hazardous waste?
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a. A liquid that causes headaches and vomiting if
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ingested |\
b. An oil that ignites easily
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c. All other options
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d. powder that corrodes steel drums - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔c. all other options |\ |\ |\ |\
The relationship between hermatypic corals and
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zooxanthellae is an example of |\ |\ |\ |\
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,a. Mutualism
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b. Succession
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c. Predator-prey relationships
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d. Commensalism
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e. Parasitism - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a. Mutualism
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Which organism in this food chain of a hot spring
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ecosystem in Yellowstone National Park is the autotroph?
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Algae - herbivorous flies - killdeer birds - grey wolves -
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decomposing bacteria |\
a. algae
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b. fly
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c. bird
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d. wolf
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e. decomposing bacteria - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a.
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algae
Which of the following is true?
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, a. Species on Earth today are but a fraction of all species
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that ever lived
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b. Extinctions of past species have happened gradually
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and on a small scale
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c. Bacteria represent a newer form of life, not present
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during the early prehistory of Earth - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔a. Species on Earth today are but a fraction of all
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species that ever lived |\ |\ |\
Clean air and water are traded and dealt with in today's
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world as if their value were:
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a. worth a million dollars
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b. equal to commercial product
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c. regulated by supply and demand
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d. zero - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔d. zero
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An intangible factor is:
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a. Easy to measure
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b. One you can touch, buy and sell
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c. Difficult to value economically - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔c. Difficult to value economically
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