1) All members of species Globigerina bulloides belong to the large "Group" known as

2) The phytoplankton of a lake would be found in highest numbers in the ________ zone.

3) At which of the following levels of organization can the Peaks of Otter salamander be studied?

4) The large eukaryote, Amoeba proteus belongs to the large "Group" Amoebozoa because

5) Studying competition between the Peaks of Otter salamander and the Eastern Redback salamander would be an example of studying ecology at the _______ level.

6) Which of the following is one of the seven basic characteristics used to classify living things?

7) Which of the following choices names one of the various zones found in a lake?

8) The large eukaryote, Zonotrichia leucophrys belongs to the large "Group" Opisthokonta because it

9) Because man is warm-blooded, has a double circulation, gets early nutrition from a placenta and has hair he finds himself in

10) Which of the following is a problem that confounds attempts to organize the entire living world for study?

11) The state of flux in modern systematic groupings could best be described as/seen in

12) The molecular structure of both water and ice is critical to the survival of lake life forms. All life in a lake would die in winter if

13) Which of the following is one of seven basic characteristics used to classify living things?

14) Which one of the following is not included among the seven basic characteristics used to classify living things?

15) The microbe, Pyrodictium occultum belongs to the large "Group" Archaea because it

16) During the springtime, a light wind blowing across a lake will foster the process of lake overturn. This timely event will bring together ___________ with _____________.

17) The diatom, Ellerbeckia arenaria belongs to the large "Group" Stramenopiles because it

18) Which of the following choices reflects a currently accepted classification scheme resulting from the state of flux in which modern systematic groupings exist?

19) Because man has five digits including an opposable thumb and is a more highly visual organism he finds himself in

20) Which of the following is a problem that confounds attempts to organize the entire living world for study?

21) Characteristics chosen for the classification of living things at the highest levels of organization

22) When a student evaluates a forest area for the changes in number of Peaks of Otter salamander over time she is studying ecology at the level of the

23) An evolutionary theorist believes that large groups of organisms are related to each other by _________ while a design theorist believes that such groups are related to each other in _________ .

24) Species of organisms are collected into a Genus by

25) The mark-recapture method uses the following steps (in the correct order!) to estimate population size.

26) The functional role of a species within its habitat is referred to as its

27) In a producer species, the difference between gross and net primary productivity is largely an amount of energy that

28) primary consumer or herbivore is an organism that feeds on

29) Interspecific competition is defined as

30) Yellow-jackets or hornets typically exhibit which of the following recognized classes of population distribution pattern?

31) A typical evolutionary explanation for why human beings die focuses on

32) Young Balanus barnacles cannot compete with Chthamalus barnacles in higher intertidal regions because

33) The total amount of energy captured from the sun by the producers in an ecosystem is called the

34) Increased hypertension (high blood pressure) in aging individuals is thought to result from

35) The barnacle populations Balanus and Chthamalus compete interspecifically

36) Japanese fishermen experienced various disease states and death as a result of the biomagnification of

37) A raging forest fire is a ________factor that affect the size of a population.

38) Baleen whales use _______ to prey on herring fish.

39) Maintaining the ends of chromosomes, such that they can be efficiently distributed to daughter cells during cell reproduction is the work of

40) A good example of commensalism would be the relationship between

41) The accepted Biblical reason for why human beings die is that

42) The process known as cell senescence is used to explain how cells eventually

43) If the estimated number of organisms in a population for a given year is divided by the estimated number in the population for the previous year, we derive a number known as the

44) As it flows through the trophic levels of an ecosystem, total available energy (in kilocalories)

45) Biomagnification is dangerous to species at high trophic levels because

46) In the equation: I - W = A = R + P, the variable "I" represents _______, while the variable "P" represents _________.

47) A fallen, decaying created order still needs to be stewarded carefully because

48) Future population expansion will be greatest in those populations containing