Living Environment Regents Exam Review

Flashcards for Living Environment Regents Exam Review

Where is ATP produced?

Mitochondria

What kind of advantage is it when trees release toxins into the soil that can kill nearby plants, reducing competition for water, nutrients, and sunlight?

Evolutionary advantage

When the frequency of a gene in a population changes, what is the most likely result?

Biological evolution

Bringing Asian mongooses to the Hawaiian Islands in an attempt to control the rat population is an example of what?

Humans altering ecosystems, resulting in unintended consequences

Many companies today are looking for ways to reduce the use of finite resources by working to recycle, reuse, and repair more products to reduce dumping and pollution. This would result in?

Finite resources will not be depleted as quickly.

Which characteristic would give one species the greatest advantage over other species?

Higher number of surviving offspring

What happens to the community as a bare field goes through grass stage, shrub stage, pine forest stage, and hardwood forest stage?

The community becomes more stable

What is the best explanation for the increase in Earth's temperature between 1880 and 2020?

Changing concentrations of gases in the atmosphere

Two different species of animal prefer the same plant for food. One eats the leaves of the plant, the other prefers the fruit. By eating different parts of the same plant these species can successfully coexist because they do not…?

Compete for limited resources

Which part of a cell would be studied when using fluorescent tags to visualize protein synthesis?

Ribosome

A recently discovered fossil of an unhatched egg of a theropod dinosaur is in a prehatching position similar to bird embryos. What is this evidence that supports?

Birds and theropod dinosaurs are related and share a common ancestor

Why does the amount of stored energy between level 1 and level 4 decrease in an energy pyramid?

At each level some energy is released as heat

In a sexually reproducing species of plant, which change would occur that would have an effect on the species in the future?

Changes in the egg cells in the ovaries of the plants' flowers

In manufacturing, the production of goods and use of energy can…?

Can have both positive and negative effects

Which cellular process is represented by a sperm merging with an egg?

Fertilization