Biology Textbook Questions-Ebony Goodridge

pg 175

1) Darwin believes that each part of the entangled bank rely on each other to reproduce and grow. He
also believes that variability, growth, and reproduction can all lead to natural selection.
2) The entangled bank that Darwin is describing is a community because all of the organisms are
interacting and living with one another. For example, the birds and the insects are two organisms that
are interacting and living with each other.
3) The relationship between the insects and other organisms is that most of the organisms eat the
insects for food, so the insects are a form of nutrition. The worms are also another form of nutrition for
the birds and other organisms living in the community.

pg 176

1) Euglena and Venus Fly Trap are two examples of the organisms that are autotrophic.
2) The Ghost Orchid and Dodder are examples of heterotrophic organisms.
3) The Ghost Orchid is a Detrivore and the dodder is a consumer

pg 179

1)The trophic level of nanophytoplankton is producer.

2)Two primary consumers are krill and phytoplankton.
3) a)the shortest food chain is between bacteria and nanozooplankton.
b) the longest food chain is between bacteria all the way to the baleen whale.
c) The ross seal has the most number of predators.
d) The toothed whale has the greatest number of different prey.
4. The emperor penguins should be assigned to the secondary consumer trophic level because they eat
other consumers.

pg 180

1) ?
2) a. The number of freshwater fish is declining more rapidly than the marine type of fish since the
1970s.
b. There is a difference between the two trends because there is more fish in the freshwaters.
3) because the older fish eat bigger organisms so the mean trophic might increase with the age of an
individual age of a fish.
4) ?
5) An advantage is that there are going to be a larger amount of fish because the mean trophic level is
lower.