BIOL 214: Exam 1 [TAMU-Hawkins]

Choose the answer that puts the periods in the correct order.

A) Silurian, Devonian, Cambrian, Carboniferous.

B) Triassic, Jurassic, Neogene, Paleogene. C) Cambrian, Silurian, Ordovician, Devonian.

D) Ordovician, Devonian, Cretaceous, Paleogene.

E) Cretaceous, Devonian, Silurian, Jurassic

Ordovician, Devonian, Cretaceous, Paleogene

A key adaptive feature of trees in Tropical Rainforests that help them stabilize against the heavy rain is ____.

A. drip tips

B. adiabatic cooling

C. trunk buttresses

D. underground meristems

E. shallow root systems

Trunk buttresses

What type of climate does a Tundra Biome Have?

A. Extreme Cold Winters and Warm summers

B. Dry Winter and Cold summers.

C. Warm Winter and Extreme Hot Summer

D. Extreme Cold Winter and Extreme Hot Summer

E. Wet Rainy Winter and Dry Summer

Extreme Cold Winters and Warm summers

What type of plant kept the Tollund Man preserved?

A. Fern

B. Peat Moss

C. Daisies

D. Roses

E. Wheat

Peat Moss

Which is a key feature of a tropical rain forest?

A. lush, diverse vegetation with a vertical dimension

B. forests with pronounced wet and dry season

C. little to no precipitation

D. mild, wet winters; severe summer drought

E. heavy winter rains

lush, diverse vegetation with a vertical dimension

Choose the correct order of rocks formed in the rock cycle.

A. Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic

B. Sedimentary, Metamorphic, Igneous

C. Metamorphic, Igneous, sedimentary

D. Igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary

E. Sedimentary, igneous, metamorphic

Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic

What is the distinguishing significance of the tropical seasonal forest/ Savanna to humans?

A. Coal and mineral production

B. Important to human evolutionary development (first bipedal primate ancestors)

C. Pharmaceutical medicines

D. Timber and other wood products

E. Good soil for growing crops

mportant to human evolutionary development (first bipedal primate ancestors)

Which of the following would be indicative of a compression fossil?

A. Parts of an organism that are preserved with little change.

B. Organisms frozen in ice.

C. Fossilized feces.

D. Plants preserved in sedimentary rock.

E. Skeletal remains of an organism.

Plants preserved in sedimentary rock.

Which adaptation of Tiaga plants help them stay warm?

A. Evergreen habitat

B. Needle like leaves

C. Waxy coat on leaves

D. Dark color

E. Drooping branches

Dark Color

What is the difference between gross primary production and net primary production?

A) the difference lies in how the energy is stored

B) the difference in how energy is used in respiration vs. in maintenance and biosynthesis

C) the difference in energy levels

D) difference in application of energy

E) difference in which organisms use GPP and NPP

he difference in how energy is used in respiration vs. in maintenance and biosynthesis

What two terms cannot be used interchangeably?

A) natural selection and evolution

B) index fossil and or zone fossil

C) phyletic evolution or progressive evolution

D) pseudo extinction or taxonomic extinction

natural selection and evolution

Which biome covers most land at the highest latitude and has average temperatures below freezing?

A) Arctic Tundra

B) Boreal Forest

C) Dessert, Chaparral, Savannah

D) Woodland/shrubland

Artic Tundra

Which of the following is NOT a purposed theory for the origin of life?

A) The theory of life is not fully known.

B) An asteroid that contained organic molecules struck earth and life could have arose from there.

C) Life could have come from deep sea thermal vents.

D) prehistoric conditions mixed with organic compounds and electricity could have created cell compartments.

E) Evolution is not observable in fossils so we do not have any predictions (this is the answer)

Evolution is not observable in fossils so we do not have any predictions

What is the purpose of the Coriolis Effect?

A) deflection of surface winds clockwise in N hemi and counter clockwise in the S. Hemi.

B) The location where the sun is directly parallel to the surface.

C) the location where the sun is directly perpendicular to the surface.

D) none of the above.

deflection of surface winds clockwise in N hemi and counter clockwise in the S. Hemi

Which of the following was NOT a major event of the Ediacaran period?

A) Fern-like fossils

B) fossil containing cholesterol

C) oldest known microscopic fossil

D) First jawed fish

First jawed fish

Which of these are not a biome?

A) Woodland

B) Temperate Seasonal Forests

C) Temperate Taiga

D) Artic Tundra

E) Temperate Rain Forests

Temperate Taiga

In which period did dinosaurs dominate (not evolve)?

A) Triassic

A) Jurassic

B) Carboniferous

C) Permian

D) Mesozoic

Jurassic

Which of the following was a major event that occurred in the Cambrian period?

A) Fossil sponges

B) FIRST CHORDATES

C) first reptiles

D) Dinosaurs evolved

E) Plants diversify on land

FIRST CHORDATES

When did the diversification of plants on land occur?

A) Silurian

B) Devonian

C) Carboniferous

D) Triassic

E) Cretaceous

Silurian

What kind of fossilization is the Tollund Man & Sphagnum (peat) moss?

A) permineralization

B) unaltered remains

C) trace fossils

D) cast & mold

E) compression

unaltered remains

Which ecosystem type has permafrost?

A) Desert

B) Taiga

C) Tropical

D) savanna

E) Temperate forest

Taiga

Which of the following is the most common type of fossils/method of fossilization?

A) permineralization

B) cast and mold

C) compression

D) ichnofossils

E) index

permineralization

What Era is the Triassic period in?

A) phanerozoic

B) Cenozoic

C) Paleozoic

D) Mesozoic

E) Proterozoic

Mesozoic

What is the period of the first land plant?

A) Ordovician

B) Triassic

C) Devonian

D) Permian

E) carboniferous

Ordovician

What is the current geological eon?

A) Proterozoic

B) Phanerozoic

C) Ediacaran

D) Triassic

E) Permian

Phanerozoic

Which biome has the most diversity in rare animals?

A) Rainforest

B) Artic Tundra

C) Boreal Forest/Taiga

D) tSubtropical Desert

E) Savanna

Subtropical Desert

What type of fossil is the shell of a mollusk?

A) Permineralization

B) Ichnofossil

C) Cast and Mold

D) Unaltered

E) Compression

Cast and Mold

Natural selection acts on ____________ and _____________ evolve

A) individual, population

B) population, individual

C) population, community

D) individual, community

E) None of the above are correct.

individual, population

Which biome has the most productivity? A) tundra

B) tropical rainforest

C) temperate deserts

D) taiga

E) temperate seasonal forest

Tropical Rainforest

What is the most recent event in the timeline of evolutionary history? A) big bang

B) earth forms

C) oldest terrestrial rocks

D) 02 atmosphere

E) heavy bombardment

O2 atmosphere

What was the most recent ecological period dominated by dinosaurs?

A) Ordovician

B) Carboniferous

C) Jurassic

D) Cretaceous

E) Triassic Correct

Cretaceous

The origin of bony fish was in what period?

A) Carboniferous

B) Cretaceous

C) Silurian

D) Permian

E) Devonian

Silurian

During what period did the first eutherian mammals appear?

A) Triassic Period

B) JURASSIC PERIOD

C) Silurian Period

D) Carboniferous Period

E) Quaternary Period

JURASSIC PERIOD

RNA can:

A) store/transmit info

B) perform biological functions

C) do both a and b

D) do neither a or b

E) do something else entirely

A and B

What is(are) the main effects of deforestation?

A) Animals lose their habitat

B) CO2 is released into the atmosphere C) Decrease in the level of oxygen produced in an area

D) Loss of food source for some species E) All of the above

All of the above

In what period did mammals first appear? A) Jurassic

B) Silurian

C) Proterozoic

D) Cenozoic

E) None of the above

Jurassic

What is a characteristic of the Silurian period?

A) First humans

B) Jawless vertebrates

C) Swamp forests

D) Bony fish

E) Glacial period

Bony fish

What biome has heavy rainfall?

A) Tropical rainforest

B) temperate rain forest

C) subtropical desert

D) temperate grassland

E) deciduous forest

Tropical Rainforest

Where are the boreal forest domains mostly located?

A) 50-70 degrees N

B) 30 degrees N/S

C) 10 degrees N/S

D) 90 degrees N/S

E) 20 degrees N/S

50-70 degrees N

What terrestrial biome covers 11% of earth's land area?

A) Desert

B) Taiga

C) Tropical rainforest

D) Tundra

Taiga

What is the key feature of arctic tundra? A) Soil frozen year round

B) Thin, acidic soil

C) Cold winters, hot summers

D) Tall Trees

E) Humid climate

Soil frozen year round

Which of the following are significant to humans in the Arctic Tundra?

A) solar power

B) oil and gas

C) Agriculture

D) real estate

E) Timber

oil and gas

What biome is characterized by having peat?

A) Temperate grassland

B) Temperate rainforest

C) Subtropical desert

D) Savannah

E) Arctic tundra

Arctic tundra

What type of rock is most commonly found as fossils?

A) Sedimentary

B) Igneous

C) Metamorphic

D) Amber

E) None of the above

Sedimentary

Which of the following is indicative of a tundra?

A) High biodiversity

B) Evergreen forests with no seasons

C) Permafrost

D) Close to the equator

E) Extremely low rainfall

Permafrost

What biome has the highest average temperature?

A) Tundra

B) Taiga

C) Desert

D) Tropical rainforest

E) Temperate seasonal forest

Desert

Which of the following arose first?

A) Primordial soup

B) RNA world

C) origin of life

D) DNA based life

E) Animals

Primordial soup

Which of the following is an example of genetic drift?

A) Founder Effect

B) Mutations

C) Gene flow

D) Assortative Mating

E) natural selection

Founder Effect

Which biome matches the following conditions: vertical growth, heavy precipitation, diverse vegetation, and no dry season?

A) Tundra

B) Tropical Rain forest

C) Savana

D) Grassland

E) Swamp

Tropical Rain forest

Which of the following are needed for life?

A) information storage

B) compartmentalization

C) energy acquisition

D) reproduction

E) all of the above

All of the above

What is a key adaptation of an organism in a chaparral?

A) Fire resistant seeds

B) Allelopathy

C) Thorns and spines

D) Shallow root system

E) Evergreen habit

Fire resistant seeds

What type of fossil is petrified wood?

A) Compression

B) Cast and Mold

C) Permineralization

D) Unaltered

E) Desiccation

Permineralization

What biome is most affected by climate change?

A) Boreal forest.

B) Arctic Tundra.

C) Temperate Grassland

D) Temperate season forest

E) Woodland/Shrubland

Arctic Tundra.

Which biome is major source of timber and home to some of the oldest known organisms:

A) Taiga

B) Tundra

C) Woodland

D) Temperate rain forest

E) Desert

Temperate rain forest

What is the name of the event that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs? A) permo-triassic crisis

B) K/T Boundary

C) Anthropocene

D) Bronze age

K/T Boundary

What major event occurred about 66 MYA?

A) Dinosaur extinction

B) Human extinction

C) RNA world

D) Primordial soup

E) Origin of life

Dinosaur extinction

When was the first significant adaptive radiation event?

A) Devonian

B) Permian

C) Cretaceous

D) Cambrian

Devonian

The_________ period gave rise to jawless fishes.

Cambrian

What fossil would you find as a compression fossil?

Plant fossils.

What is the name of the man who theorized "complete dominance" in inheritance?

Mendel

What type of biome has a climate that stays under freezing for most of the year?

Tundra

Why would a compression fossil of a dinosaur not be a very accurate fossil to find?

Compression fossils tend to be subject to distortion by extreme pressure

RNA catalyzes _____ synthesis and ____ info.

protein, stores

Murchinson Meteorite contained what important organic compound that suggested early life may have been started by organic compounds coming from space?

Polyols; sugars that are similar to glucose and necessary for photosynthesis

What are the 5 phases of the rock cycle? Magma, igneous rock, sediments, sedimentary rock, metamorphic rock