1.

Which of the following is the difference between the birth rate and death rate in an annual rate
of population growth, excluding migration?
- Rate of natural increase
2. Which of the following is the discipline in philosophy that studies or focus on the moral
relationship among human beings to the value and moral status of the environment including
plants and animals?
- Environmental ethics
3. Which of the following is the ecological process where the effect of adding a specific amount of
something changes depending on how much has been added before?
- Non linear process
4. Which of the following refers to potential energy?
- Stored energy
5. Which of the following is TRUE? Countries with high growth rates usually have an age structure
that has ____________
- Younger people than older people
6. In the 21st century, which of the following refers to the capacity for the biosphere and human
civilization to coexist?
- Sustainability
7. Which of the following is the pigment that absorbs sunlight for photosynthesis?
- Chlorophyll
8. Which of the following is a group of different individual life that inhibit the planet earth and
varies on their genetic component and adaptation to the environment?
- Biodiversity
9. Which of the following correctly describes the term demographic transition?
- The transition from high birth rates and death rates to low birth rates and death rates as a
country develops
10. Which of the following is also known as Ockham’s razor and named after the English philosopher
who proposed it?
- Parsimony
11. Which of the following biomolecules does not readily dissolve in water?
- Lipids
12. Which of the following explains why the pyramid shape is used to show the amount of available
energy at each trophic level? Because:
- Energy decreases as you go up the food chain, just like the pyramid shape gets smaller as
you go up
13. What makes an energy pyramid different from a food web or chain?
- It shows the amount of energy at each trophic level
14. Which of the following refers to a significant and quick action that alters the physical structure
or arrangement of biotic and abiotic elements?
- Disturbances
15. Which of the following explains why most of the worldwide human population has grown
exponentially? It is because:
- The food supply is limitless.
16. Which of the following is the summary form of the trophic structure of an ecosystem?
- Trophic level chart
17. Which of the following refers to the movement by people from one place to another with the
intention of settling temporarily or permanently in a new location?
- Migration
18. Which of the following describes the term carrying capacity?
- The population size that the environment can sustain
19. How is matter transferred through the ecosystem? By:
- Matter and energy