Name: Rinoah Anne F.

Polido
Date: July 29, 2023

MIDTERMS (lec)
1. b. Organismal ecologists study adaptations, beneficial features arising by natural selection, that
allow organisms to live in specific habitats.
a. Population
b. Organism
c. Community
d. Ecosystem
2. a. Human Ecology involves the interrelationships among people, other organisms, and their
environments.
a. Human Ecology
b. Molecular Ecology
c. Habitat and Ecosystems
d. Community Ecology
3. A(n) d. Ecosystem consists of all the organisms in an area, the community, and the abiotic factors
that influence that community.
a. Population
b. Organism
c. Community
d. Ecosystem
4. a. Biotic components are living factors of an ecosystem. A few examples of biotic components
include bacteria, animals, birds, fungi, plants, etc.
a. Biotic components
b. Abiotic components
c. Ecosystem
d. Community
5. A(n) a. Population is a group of organisms of the same species that live in the same area at the
same time.
a. Population
b. Organism
c. Community
d. Ecosystem
6. The d. Biosphere is planet Earth, viewed as an ecological system.
a. Biotic components
b. Abiotic components
 c. Community
d. Biosphere
7. The study of ecology focuses on the production of proteins and how these proteins affect the
organisms and their environment. – d. Molecular Ecology
a. Biotic components
b. Abiotic components
c. Community
d. Molecular Ecology
8. b. Abiotic components are non-living chemical and physical factors of an ecosystem.
a. Biotic components
b. Abiotic components
c. Community
d. Organism
9. A biological c. Community consists of all the populations of different species that live in a given
area.
a. Biotic components
b. Abiotic components
c. Community
d. Organism
10. b. Soil Conservation is to avert soil from erosion or reduced fertility caused by misuse,
acidification, salinization or other chemical soil contamination.
a. Water Conservation
b. Soil Conservation
c. Wetland Conservation
d. Energy Conservation
11. Increased cost of fossil fuels and mounting environmental concerns have made d. Energy
conservation a top priority with governments and individuals.
a. Water Conservation
b. Soil Conservation
c. Wetland Conservation
d. Energy Conservation
12. . A c. Forest Ecosystem consists of several plants, animals and microorganisms that live in
coordination with the abiotic factors of the environment.
a. Grassland Ecosystem
b. Tundra Ecosystem
c. Forest Ecosystem
d. Desert Ecosystem
13. d. Photosynthesis is the process used by plants, algae and certain bacteria to harness energy
from sunlight and turn it into chemical energy.
a. Grassland Ecosystem
b. Tundra Ecosystem
c. Forest Ecosystem
d. Photosynthesis

14. This is the normal food chain that we observe in which plants are the producers and the energy
flows from the producers to the herbivores (primary consumers), then to carnivores (secondary
consumers) and so on. – a. Grazing food chain (GFC)
a. Grazing food chain (GFC)
b. Parasitic food chain (PFC)
c. Saprophytic or Detritus food chain (DFC)
d. Decomposers
15. b. Tundra Ecosystem are devoid of trees and are found in cold climates or where rainfall is
scarce. These are covered with snow for most of the year.
a. Grassland Ecosystem
b. Tundra Ecosystem
c. Forest Ecosystem
d. Photosynthesis
16. d. Desert Ecosystem are found throughout the world. These are regions with very little rainfall.
The days are hot and the nights are cold.
a. Grassland Ecosystem
b. Tundra Ecosystem
c. Forest Ecosystem
d. Desert Ecosystem
17. In this type of food chain, the dead organic matter occupies the lowermost level of the food
chain, followed by the decomposers and so on. – c. Saprophytic or Detritus food chain (DFC)
a. Grazing food chain (GFC)
b. Parasitic food chain (PFC)
c. Saprophytic or Detritus food chain (DFC)
d. Decomposers
18. In a a. Grassland Ecosystem, the vegetation is dominated by grasses and herbs.
a. Grassland Ecosystem
b. Tundra Ecosystem
c. Forest Ecosystem
 d. Desert Ecosystem
19. In this type of food chain, large organisms either the producer or the consumer is exploited and
therefore the food passes to the smaller organism. – b. Parasitic food chain (PFC)
a. Grazing food chain (GFC)
b. Parasitic food chain (PFC)
c. Saprophytic or Detritus food chain (DFC)
d. Decomposers
20. a. Secondary consumers depend on primary consumers for energy. They can either be a
carnivore or an omnivore.
a. Secondary consumers
b. Tertiary consumers
c. Quaternary consumers
d. Primary consumers
21. d. Temperature is intuitively associated with the sense of hot and cold.

a. Pressure
b. Humidity
c. Prevailing wind
d. Temperature
22. a. Weather is the combination of the current meteorological components, e.g. temperature,
wind direction and speed, amount and type of precipitation, sun shine hours, etc.
a. Weather
b. Climate
c. Pressure
d. Temperature
23. c. Vegetation cover is a crucial component of the Earth’s climate system but, still, our
understanding of the mechanisms governing the reciprocal influence between atmosphere.
a. Altitude or height above sea level
b. Prevailing wind
c. Vegetation
d. Topography
24. Large bodies of water such as oceans, seas, and large lakes affect the climate of an area. Water
heats and cools more slowly than land. – a. Ocean water
a. Ocean water
b. Nearby water
c. Topography
d. Vegetation
25. The effects of c. Topography on the climate of any given region are powerful.
a. Ocean water
 b. Nearby water
c. Topography
d. Vegetation
26. Is on the move, affecting your climate, your local ecosystem, and the seafood that you eat. – a.
Ocean water
a. Ocean water
b. Nearby water
c. Topography
d. Vegetation
27. a. Humidity is a measure of the quantity of water vapor in the air.
a. Humidity
b. Topography
c. Vegetation
d. Pressure
28. d. Pressure is the amount of force applied to a given area. Acrobats and cheerleaders sometimes
stand on each other's shoulders to form a human tower.
a. Humidity
b. Topography
c. Vegetation
d. Pressure
29. The b. Climate is describing the long term (min 30 years) and average weather conditions for a
specific region.
a. Weather
b. Climate
c. Pressure
d. Temperature
30. The sight of the brown ozone and pollution cloud over an urbanized area can be unhappy to see.
Having to breathe that air is unpleasant. – c. Dirty air
a. Humidity
b. Hurricanes
c. Dirty air
d. Wind
31. This has been blamed for just about everything. No matter what weather is occurring some
people will claim it has to have some relation to c. Global warming.
a. Too hot or too cold
b. Drought
c. Global warming
d. El Nino
32. When it is too dry the vegetation does not look as pretty. Having to ration water and having to
figure out how to get everything watered can be a problem. – b. Drought
a. Too hot or too cold
b. Drought
c. Global warming
d. El Nino
33. c. Eons are the largest intervals of geologic time and are hundreds of millions of years in
duration.
a. Periods
b. Eras
c. Eons
d. Epochs
34. Any bad weather will sometimes get blamed on c. Global warming.
a. Too hot or too cold
b. Drought
c. Global warming
d. El Nino
35. Eras are subdivided into a. Periods.
a. Periods
b. Eras
c. Eons
d. Epochs
36. Finer subdivisions of time are possible, and the periods of the Cenozoic are frequently
subdivided into d. Epochs.
a. Periods
b. Eras
c. Eons
d. Epochs
37. Is the process by which water vapor changes it's physical state from a vapor, most commonly, to
a liquid. – a. Condensation
a. Condensation
b. Evaporation
c. Interception
d. Precipitation
38. The c. Interception can take place by vegetal cover or depression storage in puddles and in land
formations such as rills and furrows.
a. Condensation
b. Evaporation
 c. Interception
d. Precipitation
39. It is one of the biogeochemical cycles in which b. Carbon Cycle is exchanged among the
biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and pedosphere.
a. Nitrogen Cycle
b. Carbon Cycle
c. Oxygen Cycle
d. Phosphorous Cycle
40. It is the biogeochemical cycle by which nitrogen is converted into several forms and it gets
circulated through the atmosphere and various ecosystems such as terrestrial and marine
ecosystems. – a. Nitrogen Cycle
a. Nitrogen Cycle
b. Carbon Cycle
c. Oxygen Cycle
d. Phosphorous Cycle

Rinoah Anne F. Polido