Name: _________________ Grade: _________ Section:______

Subject & Level: Biology SL

Unit Title: Ecology
Topic : 4 and 5
Date:
Expected Completion time:(if applicable): 40 mins
Instructions:

DP assessment objectives:
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
a. facts, concepts and terminology
b. methodologies and techniques
c. communicating scientific information.

2. Apply: a. facts, concepts and terminology

b. methodologies and techniques
c. methods of communicating scientific information.

1. Which statement describes the term species.

A) Members of the same ecological community
B) Organisms that reproduce together to produce fertile offsprings
C) Organisms of the same type in a population
D) The first word in the binomial name of an organisms.

2. Which pair of statements is correct?

3. What will happen to the food web if sea otters disappear?

 Name: _________________ Grade: _________ Section:______
Subject & Level: Biology SL
Unit Title: Ecology
Topic : 4 and 5
Date:
Expected Completion time:(if applicable): 40 mins
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A) Large fish increase and sea urchins decrease

B) Abalones increase and sharks increase
C) Sea urchins increase kelp decrease.
D) Sea stars decrease sharks increase

4. The diagram shows the carbon cycle. Which two processes correspond to the
labelled arrows.
 Name: _________________ Grade: _________ Section:______
Subject & Level: Biology SL
Unit Title: Ecology
Topic : 4 and 5
Date:
Expected Completion time:(if applicable): 40 mins
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A) K is combustion L is catabolism
B) J is anabolism K is respiration
C) J is combustion and K is respiration
D) J is anabolism L is catabolism

5. What is the consequence of global temperature rise in the arctic ecosystem.?

A) Decrease in carbon dioxide released from decomposing detritus
B) Increase in greenhouse effect
C) Decrease in ocean level
D) Increase in pest species
 Name: _________________ Grade: _________ Section:______
Subject & Level: Biology SL
Unit Title: Ecology
Topic : 4 and 5
Date:
Expected Completion time:(if applicable): 40 mins
Instructions:

1.
Global warming has changed both the thickness and surface area of sea ice of the
Arctic Ocean as well as the Southern Ocean that surrounds Antarctica. Sea ice is highly
sensitive to changes in temperature.

Scientists have calculated a long-term mean for the surface area of sea ice in the Arctic
and in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica. This mean value is used as a reference
to examine changes in ice extent. The graph shows the variations from this mean (zero
line) over a period of time.
 Name: _________________ Grade: _________ Section:______
Subject & Level: Biology SL
Unit Title: Ecology
Topic : 4 and 5
Date:
Expected Completion time:(if applicable): 40 mins
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Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) are only found in Antarctica and need sea ice for
feeding and nesting. Biologists are able to deduce how these penguins have responded
to changes in their environment for the last 35 000 years, as the Antarctic conditions
have preserved their bones and their nests. The image is a map of Antarctica and the
surrounding Southern Ocean. It shows the trends in the length of the sea ice season
(days of the year when sea ice is increasing) and the sites of nine Adélie penguin
colonies.
 Name: _________________ Grade: _________ Section:______
Subject & Level: Biology SL
Unit Title: Ecology
Topic : 4 and 5
Date:
Expected Completion time:(if applicable): 40 mins
Instructions:

a) State the trend in the surface of sea ice in the southern ocean around
antarctica. [1]
 Name: _________________ Grade: _________ Section:______
Subject & Level: Biology SL
Unit Title: Ecology
Topic : 4 and 5
Date:
Expected Completion time:(if applicable): 40 mins
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b) Distinguish between changes in the surface area of sea ice in the arctic
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c) Discuss the data as evidence of global warming. [3]

 Name: _________________ Grade: _________ Section:______
Subject & Level: Biology SL
Unit Title: Ecology
Topic : 4 and 5
Date:
Expected Completion time:(if applicable): 40 mins
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d) Describe the trend in the length of sea ice season around the Antarctica
peninsula and in the Ross sea. [2]

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 Name: _________________ Grade: _________ Section:______
Subject & Level: Biology SL
Unit Title: Ecology
Topic : 4 and 5
Date:
Expected Completion time:(if applicable): 40 mins
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e) Discuss the use of andelle penguins in studying the effect of global

warming. [2]

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 Name: _________________ Grade: _________ Section:______
Subject & Level: Biology SL
Unit Title: Ecology
Topic : 4 and 5
Date:
Expected Completion time:(if applicable): 40 mins
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Answer the following questions

1. Explain the relationship between rises in concentration of atmospheric gases and

the enhanced greenhouse effect. [5]
2. Ecologists sometimes display data from an ecosystem using a diagram called a
pyramid of energy. Describe what is shown in pyramids of energy. [5]
3. Draw carbon cycle [5]

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 Name: _________________ Grade: _________ Section:______
Subject & Level: Biology SL
Unit Title: Ecology
Topic : 4 and 5
Date:
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Subject & Level: Biology SL
Unit Title: Ecology
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Date:
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Name: _________________ Grade: _________ Section:______
Subject & Level: Biology SL
Unit Title: Ecology
Topic : 4 and 5
Date:
Expected Completion time:(if applicable): 40 mins
Instructions: