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    Name Alex Rubin Date Daniel 2015 Ap Biology: FRQ HW: Ecology

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    1. This document contains a student's answers to an AP Biology ecology homework assignment. The student identifies mice and crickets as herbivores that compete for food, and explains why hawks would be less likely to survive than owls if mice were wiped out by disease. Decomposers consume dead and waste materials and return nutrients to producers. 2. The student answers questions about invasive zebra mussels in a lake ecosystem. Zebra mussels are referred to as invasive because they reproduce rapidly and dominate local ecosystems. The increased deaths of birds from bioaccumulation of toxins up the food chain could cause the unchecked growth of gobi fish populations.

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    1. This document contains a student's answers to an AP Biology ecology homework assignment. The student identifies mice and crickets as herbivores that compete for food, and explains why hawks would be less likely to survive than owls if mice were wiped out by disease. Decomposers consume dead and waste materials and return nutrients to producers. 2. The student answers questions about invasive zebra mussels in a lake ecosystem. Zebra mussels are referred to as invasive because they reproduce rapidly and dominate local ecosystems. The increased deaths of birds from bioaccumulation of toxins up the food chain could cause the unchecked growth of gobi fish populations.

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    1. This document contains a student's answers to an AP Biology ecology homework assignment. The student identifies mice and crickets as herbivores that compete for food, and explains why hawks would be less likely to survive than owls if mice were wiped out by disease. Decomposers consume dead and waste materials and return nutrients to producers. 2. The student answers questions about invasive zebra mussels in a lake ecosystem. Zebra mussels are referred to as invasive because they reproduce rapidly and dominate local ecosystems. The increased deaths of birds from bioaccumulation of toxins up the food chain could cause the unchecked growth of gobi fish populations.

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    Name Alex Rubin Date Daniel 2015 Ap Biology: FRQ HW: Ecology

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    1. This document contains a student's answers to an AP Biology ecology homework assignment. The student identifies mice and crickets as herbivores that compete for food, and explains why hawks would be less likely to survive than owls if mice were wiped out by disease. Decomposers consume dead and waste materials and return nutrients to producers. 2. The student answers questions about invasive zebra mussels in a lake ecosystem. Zebra mussels are referred to as invasive because they reproduce rapidly and dominate local ecosystems. The increased deaths of birds from bioaccumulation of toxins up the food chain could cause the unchecked growth of gobi fish populations.

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    Name Alex Rubin Date

    Daniel 2015 AP BIOLOGY


    FRQ HW: ECOLOGY

    1.

    1a. Identify two herbivores that compete for food in the food web above.

    Herbivores: Mice and Crickets

    1b. Even though both hawks and owls have two sources of food, explain why hawks would be less
    likely to survive if a disease wiped out the mice.

    Since snakes tend to be higher on the food chain than frogs, there will likely be less energy
    transferred to hawks from snakes than to owls from frogs. Also snakes are predators and will
    likely have a smaller population than the low level omnivorous frogs.

    1c. Describe the role of the decomposers in this food web.

    Decomposers consume anything and everything lost in energy transfers and any dead animals. They
    take the nutrients put out by the animals and return them to the earth for the producers to absorb and
    use.
    2. Base your answers to the questions below on the information included and your knowledge of
    biology.

    2a. Why are the accidentally introduced zebra mussles referred to as invasive species?

    Because they are able to reproduce very fast and tend to dominate the local ecosystem. Their
    introduction also inadvertently killed lots of the local organisms.

    2b. On diagram below, complete the food chain by filling in the correct organisms from the passage.

    Birds

    Gobi

    Zebra Mussels

    2c. How has the bioaccumulation resulted in


    the deaths of large numbers of birds even though the toxin level in the lake water is not high
    enough to make them sick?
    The concentration of the toxin increases as the microscopic organisms travel up the food chain.

    2d. Describe one possible effect that the increased deaths of the birds could have on the rest of the
    ecosystem.

    The Gobi fish population will go unchecked and will likely increase out of control at such a rate that they
    will eventually reproduce more than the zebra mussels. When this eventually happens the fish will
    overeat the zebra mussels to extinction and without a food source the Gobi fish will also eventually die
    off.

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