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Midterm Exam (NSCI 111 – People & the Earth’s Ecosystem)

I. Multiple Choice: Write the letter of your answer in the space provide before each item.
1. The world’s human population reached 170 million during the start
of

A. 1AD C. the industrial revolution

B. 200,000year(BC) D. Han dynasty

2. An S-shaped human population graph represents a/an

A. decline C. level off

B. exponential increase D. steadilygrowing

3. The following are the decisions humans have to make to lower down the
population except one. Which one isit?

A. Family planning C. pollutioncontrol

B. Increase consumption D. habitatprotection

4. Which of the following will not likely to happen when population growth
continues?

A. Population catastrophe C. reducedconsumption

B. Wide spread environmental damage D. depletion of Earth’sresources
5. An exponentially growing population is represented by a graph
that is
A. J-shaped C. straight-line
B. S-shaped D. parabolic
6. The average number of live births per woman by the end of the

child bearing years.

A. Birth rate C. life expectancy

B. population growth rate D. fertilityrate

7. What country will possibly be surpassed by Africa’s population is
by the year2050.

A. Europe C. India
B. America D. Australia
 8. Which of the following statements is true about human population

dynamics.

A. Births add people only in the youngest age group whereas deaths
removepeople only in the old agegroup.
B. Births add people only in the youngest age group while deaths remove
peoplealso in the young adult agegroup.
C. Births add people from all age groups whereas deaths remove people
from old age group.
D. Births add people only in the youngest group, whereas, deaths
removepeople from all agegroups.
9. Deaths plus emigration exceed Births and immigration, the population
declines. What happens when the reverse occurs? Thepopulation

A. remains the same. C. has zerogrowth.

B. increases D. becomes zero.
10. The average number of children a couple in a population must be two
(2). This denotes

A. total fertility rate C. replacement-fertilityrate

B. birthrate D. average fertilityrate

11. The total population of the Philippines in year 2000 was 76,500,000 and
its land area is 300,000km2. What is its populationdensity?

A. 200people/km2 C. 255people/km2
B. 205people/km2 D. 522people/km

For questions 12 & 13, refer to the population pyramid graphs below for your
answer.

A. B. C.
12. Which among the population pyramids shows a population that

has high birth rate and high death rates?

 13. A pyramid graph that displays a population that is not growing,
usually indicative of a developed country and high quality oflife.

_______14. Refer to the map to

your right, in which part of the
Philippines is densely
populated?
A. NCR

B. ARRMM
C. RegionX
D. CAR
15. Refer to the map to your
right, in which part of the
Philippines is sparsely
populated?

A. Palawan

B. Region IV-A
C. NCR

D. Caraga Region

16. What is Ecosystem?

A. the living things in the environment

B. Is a system that consists of all living and nonliving things that depend
oneach other tosurvive
C. Are the nonliving things in theenvironment

D. Is a single livingthing
17. Which is the description of anOrganism?

A. Are the living things in the environment

B. Is a system that consists of all living and nonliving things that depend
on each other to survive
C. Are the nonliving things in the environment

D. Is a single living thing

 18. If you stand in the middle of an open field, you are standing among

individual organisms, different species, populations, and communities.

What makes up one of the populations in the field?

E. all organisms of the same species

F. the different communities in the ecosystem

G. the communities that occupy the same niche
H. all organisms that live in a certain part of the field

19 . The rainforests in South America support many ecosystems. These

ecosystems are healthy. How does the diversity in the rainforests help determine the health of
ecosystems?

A. When diversity is high, there are more resources available.

B. Resources in the environment last longer when the diversity is low.

C. Less diverse ecosystems have less competition among the residents.
D. Areas with high diversity have increased competition among the residents.

20. How could we know for a backyard ecosystem to have low diversity?
A. The number of insect species is very low.

B. There are more insect species present in the environment.

C. The plant species outnumber the insect and other animal species.

D. There are only a few different species of plants, animals, and insects.

21. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of all living things?

A. growth and development
B. ability to move
C. response to the environment

D. ability to reproduce

22. Which of the following characteristics of living things best explains

why

birds fly south for the winter?

A. Living things respond to their environment
B. Living things maintain internal balance

C. Living things are made up of units called cells

D. Living things are based on a universal genetic code
 23. Which of the following characteristics of living things best explains
why

humans sweat when they get hot?

A. growth and development

B. maintaining a stable internal environment

C. using energy

D. ability to reproduce
24. Which of the following characteristics of living things best explains
why
your legs and arms get longer and stronger as you get older?

A. Living things respond to their environment

B. Living things maintain internal balance

C. Living things are made up of units called cells
D. Living things grow and develop

25. In all of our cells there is a blueprint of life called DNA. Which

characteristic does this fact best describe?

A. Living things respond to their environment.
B. Living things maintain internal balance.

C. Living things are based on a universal genetic code.

D. Living things grow and develop

26. An ecological model of the relationships that form a network of complex

interactions among organisms in a community from producers to decomposers?

A. Food web C. food chain

B. An ecosystem D. a population

__27. What is the term for each step in the transfer of energy and matter
within a food web?

A. food chain C. trophic level

B. energy path D. food pyramid
28. A bird stalks, kills, and then eats an insect. Based on its behavior, which
ecological terms describe the bird?

A. herbivore, decomposer

B. producer, heterotrophs
 C. carnivore, consumer

D. autotroph, herbivore

29. A snake that eats a frog that has eaten an insect that fed on a plant isa
A. first-level producer C. Second-level producer
B. first-level consumer. D. third-level consumer

30. The trophic levels in Figure 2

illustrates
A. the relative amount of energy
at each level.
B. the amount of living organic
matter at each level.
C. the relative number of
individual organisms at
each level.
D. that the producers outnumber
first-level consumers.

31. In energy pyramids, the amount of energy at each trophic level

A. decreases when energy is transformed to heat

B. increases when organisms consume other organisms
C. decreases when matter is stored in organisms
D. increases when decomposers return nutrients to the soil
32. Only 10 percent of the energy stored in an organism can be passed on to

the next trophic level. Of the remaining energy, some is used for the
organism’s life processes, and the rest is

A. used in reproduction. C. stored as fat.

B. stored as body tissue. D. eliminated as heat.

33. Most of the energy available to a consumer trophic level is used

by
organisms for

A. transfer to the next trophic level.

B. respiration, movement, and reproduction.
 C. producing inorganic chemical compounds.

D. Performing photosynthesis.

______34 . There are 40,000g of biomass energy available on trophic level one. How
much energy is available for the tertiary consumer?
A. 4,000g
B. 400g
A. 40g

B. 4g

_______35. Growing legumes such as alfalfa or soy beans increases

A. denitrification
B. nitrogen fixation
C. ammonification

D. ammonium oxidation
36. What is the main human source that emits carbon dioxide?

A. Combustion of fossil fuels (natural gas, coal, and oil)

B. Cement Production
C. Deforestation

D. Vehicles Emissions
37. Lightning and soil bacteria are both involved in the production of
A. nitrates. C. phosphates
B. potassium. D. none of the above
38.Choose the correct order of events in the water cycle.

A. precipitation, condensation, evaporation

B. evaporation, precipitation, condensation
C. evaporation, condensation, precipitation

D. condensation, evaporation, precipitation

39.The biogeochemical cycles do NOT include

A. cycles caused by human activity.

B. geological processes.

C. the destruction of nutrients.

D. chemical and physical processes.
40.How does phosphorus move through the biosphere?

A. by cycling within and between ecosystems

B. by one-way movement through ecosystems

C. by air and water but not by organisms

D. by organisms but not by air or water

Fin