S-SCEN001TP ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE BSA32 2SAY20-21 - Midterm and Final

Midterm Summative Assessment

Question 1
Categorize the hierarchy of ecological structures.
Response: It occupies the planet’s surface, confined in a closed system that is self-regulating. => Biosphere
Response: A distinct biological community of organisms with common characteristics in an environment with a shared climatic condition covering a
wide geographical area. => Biome
Response: The community of organisms and populations interacting with one another and with the chemical and physical factors making up their
environment => Ecosystem
Response: Populations of different plants and animals living and interacting in an area at a particular time => Community
Response: Group of organisms of the same species living within a particular area => Population

Response: Any form of life which includes plants and animals. => Organism

Question 2
A parasite lives in or another organism and gets food from its host.
Response: True

Question 3
_____ exclusion principle, which states that “no two species can occupy the same ecological niche in the same place at the same time.”

Response: competitive

Question 4
Even the simplest food webs are complex.
Response: True

Question 5
_____ refers to total dry weight of organisms
Response: Biomass

Question 6
Predators are always bigger than their prey
Response: True False

Question 7
All the options comprise the several broad yet interrelated categories of abiotic factors except:

Response: interspecific competition

Question 8
A school of milkfish is a concrete example
Response: population

Question 9
Lion is a concrete example
Response: organism
Question 10
A _____ refers to populations of different plants and animals living and interacting in an area at a particular time

Response: community

Question 11
"intergenerational responsibility,” is also known as the “Factoran Doctrine,
Response: False

Question 12
“Nature Knows Best” is an affirmation that Nature has its own laws and processes to maintain itself, and therefore going against what Nature

prescribes will have undesirable consequences

Response: True

Question 13
Carnivores that eat carnivores are the fourth trophic level.
Response: True

Question 14
_____ returns organic material to inorganic material where it completes the recycling of atoms.
Response: Decomposer

Question 15
The environment is everything that affects an organism during its lifetime.
Response: True

Question 16
A food web is not an interlocking food chains.
Response: False

Question 17
The relationship between organisms where one organism benefits while the other is unaffected, it is called _____

Response: commensalism

Question 18
An ecosystem occupies an important hierarchy in the level of organization in nature.
Response: True

Question 19
Below are examples of important ecological processes involving interactions of matter and energy except:
Response: habitat

Question 20
In the second law of Thermodynamics, energy is converted into heat.
Response: True
Question 21
About 70% of the useful energy is lost with each transfer to the next higher trophic level.

Response: False

Question 22
Match the following environmental principles with their definition.
Response: Interdependence and Interconnectedness => What one does will affect another, whether directly or indirectly.
Response: Change and Material Cycles => Materials in the environment undergo cyclic changes, passing through geologic and biological systems.
Response: Law of Limits and Population Dynamics => An ecosystem can support only a certain number of individuals at a given time.
Response: Diversity and Stability => The more diversity among life forms and ecosystems are, the more resilient and stable the environment will be.
Response: Balance of Nature and Stewardship => Nature has its own laws and processes to maintain itself, and therefore going against what Nature
prescribes will have undesirable consequences.
Response: Finiteness of Resources => Most resources are nonrenewable, vulnerable to depletion and degradation unless it is used prudently and
wisely

Question 23
The following are examples of herbivores except:
Response: bacteria

Question 24
Carrying capacity is the maximum number of users of a resource without creating adverse environmental impacts

Response: True

Question 25
Grasses, tress and algae are examples of _____
Response: producers

Question 26
_____ refers to relationship between organisms where one organism benefits while the other is unaffected

Response: Commensalism

Question 28
In mutualism both organisms benefit in association
Response: True

Question 29
The two components of environment are biotic and abiotic factors.
Response: True

Question 30
Environmental justice is also interchangeably referred to as “environmental equity".
Response: True
Question 31
The word ethics usually refers to the conditions around which affects people and other organisms

Response: False

Question 32
What is the study of the interactions between humans, other organisms, and their surroundings and how these interactions affect their surroundings?

Response: Environmental Science

Question 33
The climate reflects the prevailing weather patterns in an area covering a certain duration of time is an ecological process involving solar energy

interacting with matter that makes up the Earth

Response: True

Question 34
An ecosystem is a stable and self-regulating unit.
Response: True

Question 35
Phytoplanktons use the solar energy to carry on photosynthesis.
Response: True

Question 36
In nearly all ecosystems, energy is supplied by the _____.
Response: sun

Question 37
An ecosystem is simply a combination of communities and its physical environment.
Response: True

Question 38
Only producers are capable of trapping solar energy through photosynthesis, thereby making the energy available to the ecosystems.

Response: True

Question 39
Morals reflect the predominant mindset of a society about ethical issues at a distinct time period

Response: True

Question 41
Which among the ecological pyramids is always in upright position or appear as typical pyramid?

Response: biomass energy

Question 42
_____ competition occurs between organisms of different species
Response: Interspecific
Question 43
The passage of energy from one trophic level to the next resulting from one organism consuming another is a food _____

Response: chain

Question 44
The preservation ethics is based on individualism or egocentrism
Response: False

Question 45
Identify the relevant environmental attitudes and/or behavior based on the statements.
Response: Everyone reasons that, “If I do not use this resource, someone else will” or “a small amount used or pollute is not enough to matter,
anyway, it’s a renewable resource”. => Tragedy of
commons
Response: A degraded environment creates less opportunities, so poor people become more vulnerable in the process. => Maslow's heirarchy of
needs
Response: It emphasizes caution, pausing and reviewing before leaping into new innovations that may prove disastrous. => Precautionary principle
Response: “If anyone intentionally spoils the water of another…let him not only pay for damages, but purify the stream or cistern which contains the
water.” => Polluter-Pays Principle
Response: “Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” => Intergenerational
Equity
Response: Legal instrument in the form of a court order commanding a dilatory organization or individual, in this particular case, several
government agencies, to perform its legal duties and obligations, or be penalized for contempt of court. => Writ of Mandamus

Question 46
_____ level refers to the steps in the flow of energy through an ecosystem.
Response: Trophic

Question 47
Herbivores constitute the first trophic level.
Response: False

Question 48
Ecocentric view states that all forms of life have an inherent right to exist.
Response: False

Question 49
For plants, the sun directly provides the energy in order to sustain themselves.
Response: True

Question 50
Daily and seasonal changes are the products of temperature changes influenced by the intensity and duration of sunlight in an area.
Response: True