Question 1

The structure and species composition of communities and ecosystems change in response to
changing environmental conditions through a process called

Correct answer: ecological succession

Score: 1 out of 1 Yes

Question 2

Which type of strategist is exhibited by elephants, humans, and annual plants?

Correct answer: K-strategists

Score: 1 out of 1 Yes

Question 3

What is described as the maximum number of individuals of a given species that resources from
the habitat can sustain indefinitely?

Correct answer: Carrying capacity

Score: 1 out of 1 Yes

Question 4

In 2022, there were 15,000 births in a city with a population of one million (as of July 1, 2022). What
is the crude birth rate?

Correct answer: 15

Score: 1 out of 1 Yes

Question 5

Which type of strategist is exhibited by insects, bacteria, and rabbits?

Correct answer: R-strategists

Score: 1 out of 1 Yes

Question 6

What will be the population growth pattern if the population density approaches the carrying
capacity?

Correct answer: S-shape curve

Score: 1 out of 1 Yes

Question 7
Which of following states that the abundance or distribution of an organism can be controlled by
certain factors such as climatic, topographic, and biological requirements where levels of these
exceed the maximum or minimum limits of tolerance of that organism?

Correct answer: Both of the choices

Score: 1 out of 1 Yes

Question 8

What will be the population growth pattern if there are abundant resources?

Correct answer: J-shape curve

Score: 1 out of 1 Yes

Question 9

What population parameter is the size of the population in relation to the amount of space it
occupies?

Correct answer: Population density

Score: 1 out of 1 Yes

Question 10

Drought, flood, and spraying with pesticides belong to which secondary ecological event category?

Correct answer: Density-independent factors

Score: 1 out of 1 Yes

Question 11

Which of the following key environmental problems have allowed the humankind to overcome the
environmental resistance that all population s face and to increase the
earth’s carrying capacity to our advantage?

Correct answer: technological advances

Score: 1 out of 1 Yes

Question 12

What type of survivorship curve is characterized by low mortality after maturity?

Correct answer: Type III

Score: 1 out of 1
Question 1

Match the following description or process to the correct biogeochemical cycle.

Correct answer:

precipitation => Water Cycle,

cellular respiration => Carbon-Dioxide Oxygen Cycle,

photosynthesis => Carbon-Dioxide Oxygen Cycle,

ammonification => Nitrogen Cycle,

involves mineralization, element is constituent of proteins and enzymes => Sulfur Cycle,

does not significantly utilize the atmosphere in the cycle => Phosphorus Cycle,

element has the highest percent concentration in the atmosphere => Nitrogen Cycle

Score: 7 out of 7 Yes

Question 2

Match the following description to its correct term.

Correct answer: Main cause of destruction of the ozone layer => chlorofluorocarbons,

Naturally occurring gas found in the atmosphere where it absorbs most of the sun’s UV light =>
ozone,

An example of climate change described by the current rise in the average temperature of the
Earth’s air and oceans => global warming,

This happens when greenhouse gases trap the heat that reflects into the atmosphere =>
greenhouse effect,

This is main greenhouse gas which is further emitted due to human activities => carbon dioxide

Score: 5 out of 5 Yes

Question 3

Match the following event to its correct density factor.

Correct answer: Spraying with pesticides => Density-independent factors,

Food shortage => Density-dependent factors,

Disease caused by microorganism or parasite => Density-dependent factors,

Introduction of an exotic species => Density-dependent factors, Flood => Density-independent

factors

Score: 5 out of 5 Yes

Question 4

Match the following description to its correct term.

Correct answer:

It is a complete path a chemical take through the four major components of the Earth’s system. =>
Biogeochemical cycle,

It mostly initiates from nutrients pool to producers, then consumers, then decomposers, and back
to nutrient pool => Nutrient Cycling,

It is the movement and transformation of chemical elements and compounds between living
organisms, the atmosphere, and the Earth’s crust. => Biogeochemical cycle

Score: 3 out of 3 Yes

Question 5

Match the following description to its reproductive strategist.

Correct answer:

Examples are insects and bacteria => R-strategists,

Long-lived => K-strategists,

Slow maturation => K-strategists,

Little care for offspring => R-strategists,

Energy efficient => K-strategists

Score: 5 out of 5 Yes

Question 6

Match the following description to its correct term or category.

Correct answer:

The ratio of females to males in a population => Sex-ratio,

Birth rate => Primary Ecological Events,

Density-dependent factors => Secondary Ecological Events,

The size of population in relation to the amount of space it occupies. => Population density,

Emigration => Primary Ecological Events

Score: 5 out of 5 Yes

Question 7

Match the following to its correct survivorship curve

Correct answer:

typical of R-selected species => Type III,

typical of K-selected species => Type I,

constant loss, independent of age => Type II,

example is human => Type I,

low mortality after maturity => Type II

Score: 5 out of 5