Make sure you have understood everything in this section (Lessons E9, E10 & E11).
Use the Self-Check below, and the Self-Check & Lesson Review Tips to guide your learning.
This is also a good time to visit your Section 3 Checklist to make sure you have completed all the recommended learning activities.

Unit E Section 3 Self-Check

Instructions


Complete the following 6 steps. Don't skip steps – if you do them in order, you will confirm your understanding of this section and create a study bank for the future.

  1. DOWNLOAD the self-check quiz by clicking here.

  2. ANSWER all the questions on the downloaded quiz in the spaces provided. Think carefully before typing your answers. Review the lessons of this section if you need to. Save your quiz when you are done.

  3. COMPARE your answers with the suggested "Self-Check Quiz Answers" below. WAIT! You didn't skip step 2, did you? It's very important to carefully write out your own answers before checking the suggested answers.

  4. REVISE your quiz answers if you need to. If you answered all the questions correctly, you can skip this step. Revise means to change, fix, and add extra notes if you need to. This quiz is NOT FOR MARKS, so it is perfectly OK to correct any mistakes you made. This will make your self-check quiz an excellent study tool you can use later.

  5. SAVE your quiz to a folder on your computer, or to your Private Files. That way you will know where it is for later studying.

  6. CHECK with your teacher if you need to. If after completing all these steps you are still not sure about the questions or your answers, you should ask for more feedback from your teacher. To do this, post in the Course Questions Forum, or send your teacher an email. In either case, attach your completed quiz and ask; "Can you look at this quiz and give me some feedback please?" They will be happy to help you!

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Self-Check Quiz Answers

Click each of the suggested answers below, and carefully compare your answers to the suggested answers.

If you have not done the quiz yet – STOP – and go back to step 1 above. Do not look at the answers without first trying the questions.

Plastic garbage in bodies of water negatively affects aquatic organisms. For example, light breaks down plastic into small pieces, which birds and fish mistake as food.
Fish require oxygen for cellular respiration, but they cannot obtain oxygen from the air. The adaptation of gills allows fish to obtain dissolved oxygen from water.
Bioluminescence is an adaptation that helps deep ocean organisms to communicate, search for food, and startle predators. A slow metabolism is an adaptation that helps deep ocean organisms survive for a long time without eating in a challenging habitat.
People like eating tuna. The market for tuna in combination with modern fishing technology has led to the overfishing of tuna. Overfishing has decreased and endangered tuna populations.
The toxic chemicals in oil would decrease the populations of aquatic organisms in the area of the spill. If the oil spill is not thoroughly cleaned up, this could result in a long-term population change.