Colegio De San Juan De Letran

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Natural Science Area

PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
Science 103 (Environmental Science)
2nd Semester, SY 2011-2012

Name ______________________ Date: ______________

Section: ____________________ Permit No. __________

I. Multiple Choice. Shade the circle that corresponds to the correct answer on your answer sheet..
(30 pts.)

1. Sum of Earth's ecosystems

A. biosphere
B. hydrosphere
C. lithosphere
D. stratosphere
2. Animals that eat other animals
A. Autotrophs
A. Carnivores
B. Herbivores
C. Omnivores
3. Example of autotrophs
A. ants
A. bacteria
B. bees
C. plants
4. Bacteria and fungi
A. Autotrophs
A. Consumers
B. Decomposers
C. Producers
5. Place where organism normally lives.
A. Community
E. Ecosystem
F. Habitat
G. Niche
6. Study of the household of nature
A. Biochemistry
B. Biology
C. Ecology
D. Ecosystem
7. Example of biotic factor
A. animals
B. sunlight
C. temperature
D. water
8. Complex network of interconnected food chains
A. biological matter
B. food chain
C.food web
D.number pyramid
9. System consists of living and non- living environment.
A. Community
B. Ecosystem
C. Habitat
D. Niche
10. It determines the kind of vegetation in a tropical rain forest.
A. carbon
B. light
C. minerals
D. rainfall
11. Organisms that produce food and provide nutrients
A. Autotrophs
A. Consumers
B. Decomposers
C. Producers

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12. Relationships between organisms of the same species
A. Antibiosis
B. Interspecific
C. Intraspecific
D. Neutralism
13. Gradual and continuous replacement of plant and animal species
A. Diversity
B. Environment
C. Evolution
D. Succession
14. Process where nutrients flow in a certain ecosystem
A. energy transfer
A. food chain
B. food web
C. trophic level
15. Animals that feed on dead matter and return energy to the soil
A. Bacteria
A. Consumers
B. Decomposers
C. Scavengers
16. Food chain that produce sugar and organic molecules
A. Detrital
A. Grazing
B. Trophic
C. Web
17. Organisms that release simple substances back into the environment.
A. Autotrophs
B. Consumers
C. Decomposers
D. Producers
18. Link between the producers and decomposers in a food chain.
A. Autotrophs
B. Consumers
C. Environment
D. Plants
19. Level of ecologic organization that incorporates abiotic factors
A. community
B. ecosystem
C. population
D. species
20. Ratio of the number of births in a given time to the total population.
A. Exponential
B. Logistic
C. Mortality
D. Natality
21. Natural unit of living and non-living parts that interact to produce a stable system
A. Cycle
B. Ecology
C. Ecosystem
D. Environment
22. Flow of energy and matter through the biotic and abiotic components
A. community
A. ecosystem
B. evolution
C. population
23. Fourth envelope and the portion of the planet occupied by life
A. atmosphere
A. biosphere
B. hydrosphere
C. lithosphere
24. Organisms which contains chlorophyll and carry on photosynthesis
A. bacteria
A. chemoautotrophs
B. fungi
C. photoautothrophs
25. Process wherein plants manufacture their own food
A. Autotophism
A. Heterotrophism
B. Photosynthesis
C. Respiration

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 26. Group of organism in the bottom level of a biomass pyramid
A. Carnivores
A. Consumers
B. Decomposers
C. Producers
27. Organism that needs a source of pre-formed nutrients or other organisms
A. autotrophs
A. chemoautotrophs
B. fungi
C. heterotrophs
28. Interacting systems that consists of living and non- living environment.
A. Community
A. Ecosystem
B. Habitat
C. Niche
29. Group of individuals of the same species, living together in the same area
A. Biome
A. Community
B. Ecosystem
C. Population
30. Inter- relationship between nitrogen-fixing bacteria and the clover in whose roots they live. 
A. amensalism
B. commensalism
C. mutualism
D. predation

II. Modified TRUE or FALSE: Choose the letter of the correct answer. (30 pts)
Shade
A - If the first statement is TRUE second is false
B - If the second statement is TRUE first is false
C - If Both statements are TRUE
D - If Both statements are FALSE

1. Keystone species decrease niche diversity

Sea otters is an example of keystone species
2. Intraspecific competition is within species
Interspecific competition is between two different species
3. Open systems receive inputs from surroundings
Closed systems exchange energy or matter
4. Cellular respiration is a process of releasing energy
Photosynthesis is a process of capturing energy
5. Denitrifying bacteria convert nitrates to molecular nitrogen
Nitrifying bacteria converts ammonia to nitrates
6. Carbon are locked up as calcium tricarbonate to build shells
Carbon in limestone is deposited in ocean sediments
7. Carbon dioxide is formed when the oxygen in biomass oxidizes as it decays.
Plants obtain carbon dioxide from the air and through photosynthesis
8. Nitrogen is a component of household and agricultural fertilizers
Nitrogen obtained by animals can be traced to the eating of plants.
9 . Fungi and bacteria release ammonia and ammonium ions.
Decomposing dead organic matter produces ammonia.
10. Excess in carbon causes algal blooms and excess plant growth.
Leaching of large amount of carbon results in eutrophication
11. Sulfur is one of the components that make up protein and vitamins.
Sulfur compounds are determinants of the acidity of the ocean.
12. Cattle egrets feed on insects stirred up by grazing cattle is an example of mutualism
Clownfish gets protection from sea anemone is an example of commensalism

13. Specialist organisms have a wide range of food & habitats such as raccoons.
Specialist organisms have a specific food sources, habitats and less resilient to changes.
14. Monarch butterfly and viceroy butterfly are examples of Mullerian mimicry
Mullerian mimicry when two species that are harmful develop same patterns
15. Vertical distribution is when animals feed at different levels to reduce competition
Vertical distribution is a result of competition, territoriality and nesting sites

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III. Modified True or False: Write the word True if the statement is correct; otherwise write the
correct word/s on your answer sheet. (30 pts)

1. Co evolution is adaptation of host and prey

2. Food chains are composed of six organisms.

3. The organism at the top of a food web is the producer.

4. When a dingo eats a lizard, the predator is the lizard.

5. All living and non-living things on earth are interrelated.

6. The first organism listed in a food chain is the consumer.

7. The compounds that cycle in nature are water and carbon

8. Neutralism can be observed in social insects like bees and termites.

9. Antibiosis is production of harmful secretions or substances

10. Nitrogen in animals is mainly in the forms of amino acids and proteins.

11. Human urine contains nitrogen-containing wastes of urea and uric acid.

12. Clown fish living inside the sea anemone is an example of commensalism

13. Biotic factors includes water, oxygen, temperature and amount of sunlight

14. Symbiotic relationships may be parasitism, commensalism and mutualism.

15. The symbiotic relationship where only one organism benefits is commensalism.

III. Classification Questions: Use the pyramid below and your knowledge of trophic structure to
answer questions 1-10. Shade the letter corresponding to your answer on your answer sheet.

A
B

1. Which level contains producers?

2. If birds eat insects that feed on corn, which level would the birds occupy?

3. Which level has the LEAST amount of energy?

4. What level will a goat occupy?

5.What level will zooplanktons occupy?

6.What level will phytoplanktons occupy?

7. What level will an elephant occupy?

8. Which level is occupied by first-order carnivores?

9. Which level is occupied by tertiary consumer?

10. Which level obtains energy from the sun?

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 Colegio De San Juan De Letran
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Natural Science Area

PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
Science 103 (Environmental Science)
2nd Semester, SY 2011-2012

Name ______________________ Date: ______________

Section: ____________________ Permit No. __________

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE II. MODIFIED TRUE OR FALSE

A B C D A B C D A B C D
1. O O O O 16. O O O O 1. O O O O
2. O O O O 17. O O O O 2. O O O O
3. O O O O 18. O O O O 3. O O O O
4. O O O O 19. O O O O 4. O O O O
5. O O O O 20. O O O O 5. O O O O
6. O O O O 21. O O O O 6. O O O O
7. O O O O 22. O O O O
8. O O O O 23. O O O O
7. O O O O
9. O O O O 24. O O O O
8. O O O O
10. O O O O 25. O O O O
9. O O O O
11. O O O O 26. O O O O
10. O O O O
12. O O O O 27. O O O O
11. O O O O
13. O O O O 28. O O O O
12. O O O O
14. O O O O 29. O O O O
13. O O O O
15. O O O O 30. O O O O
14. O O O O

III. MODIFIED TRUE OR FALSE IV. CLASSIFICATION

1. ___________
A B C D
2. ___________ 1. O O O O
3. ___________ 2. O O O O
4. ___________ 3. O O O O
5. ___________ 4. O O O O
6. ___________ 5. O O O O
7. ___________ 6. O O O O
8. ___________
9. ___________ 7. O O O O
10. ___________ 8. O O O O
11. ___________ 9. O O O O
12. ___________ 10. O O O O
13. ___________ 11. O O O O
14. ___________ 12. O O O O
15. ___________ 13. O O O O
14. O O O O