AP Environmental Science Ecology and the Biosphere — practice questions
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Practice AP Environmental Science Ecology and the Biosphere in the app →Ecologists work at four specific levels of study. What are those four?What does an ecologist mean by a population?Ants tend Karner blue butterfly larvae, and those larvae secrete a carbohydrate rich food for the ants. What iThe Venus flytrap grows naturally only in a small part of North and South Carolina. What is such a species calPrevailing winds push surface water away from a coastline. What replaces the water that leaves?Why does a northern lake turn over in the spring?An animal hibernates through a cold winter. Which state has it entered?Aboveground biomass is used to estimate productivity on land. What does that measurement leave out?How is net primary productivity calculated?Which two measurements distinguish the eight major land biomes from one another?Savanna plants regrow quickly after a fire sweeps through. Which adaptation makes that possible?Arctic tundra soil holds a permanently frozen layer. What two effects does that permafrost have?Boreal forest soils are acidic and short of nitrogen. Why does that favor conifers over broadleaved trees?Below roughly 200 m in the ocean, what changes for photosynthesis?Which ocean zone begins at a depth of 4000 m?Sea water around a coral reef warms well above its usual range. What happens to the corals?Fertilizer runoff triggers a heavy algal bloom in a lake. Why do fish then die?A single very cool week in June is reported for one region. Is that climate or weather?Across the past 400,000 years, between which values did atmospheric carbon dioxide cycle?A large volcanic eruption throws ash and dust high into the atmosphere. What is the usual effect on global temWhich of these is named among the greenhouse gases that affect Earth?Warming oceans melt clathrates, releasing methane that warms the oceans further. What is this pattern called?