Ecology Quiz 11 (60 MCQs)

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1. A relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and the other is not harmed.
2. A close relationship between two species that benefits BOTH species:
3. Which statement best describes how water cycles in the environment?
4. What is an underground layer of rock or soil filled with water called?
5. What kind of organisms can become invasive?
6. Water vapor released into the atmosphere from the leaves of plants is called .....
7. Organisms that only eat vegetation are
8. What is a symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other organism is harmed?
9. Are the living things within the biosphere
10. Is there water in the ..... ?
11. An organism that eats other organisms to live
12. Indicate the biotic and abiotic factors that affect the distribution of organisms in an environment. Temperature
13. All of the living and non-living features of an environment
14. Gradual, natural change and species replacement that takes place in the communities of an ecosystem over time
15. Which of the following is the most crucial role of fungi in a balanced ecosystem?
16. For the carbon cycle and the nitrogen cycle to function properly, which organism must always be present?
17. Which is an example of an abiotic factor?
18. Which of these methods consumes the least water?
19. The ozone layer is thinning because of which man-made chemical?
20. Energy stored in inorganic molecules is used to produce carbohydrates
21. Karen is studying an area that has many trees and goes through all four seasons. The trees lose their leaves as the seasons progress. Which biome is she studying?
22. What two processes are involved in the carbon cycle?
23. What do the arrows in a food web represent?
24. What do the arrows on a food web show?
25. What group of organisms is primarily responsible for the processes that occur in the nitrogen cycle?
26. Largest number of individuals of a population that the environment can support .....
27. Liquid water turns into gas and rises into the sky in .....
28. In which area would the rate of evaporation be the lowest?
29. Through what process do producers make their own food?
30. On Earth, what process generates most of the water vapor?
31. Deforestation is good for the world.
32. Is there a difference between weather, climate, and temperature?
33. Where do decomposers go in your food chain?
34. The lower the biodiversity the ..... the sustainability.
35. What is an ecological community?
36. A group of organism that have similar traits and can reproduce
37. TRUE or FALSE:A community includes all abiotic and biotic factors.
38. Anything that can LIMIT the size of a population, including living and nonliving features of an ecosystem
39. A habitat provides the following for an organism .....
40. Harmful gases produced by cars are called .....
41. Consumes leftover meat or vegetation
42. Rivers and Streams 2. Lakes and Ponds 3. Wetlands:Marshes, Swamps and Bogs are all what kind of biome?
43. What type of even could have caused a secondary succession?
44. Plants growing in a pond release a gas that fish need to survive. What is the gas?
45. The change in community structure over time is called .....
46. Organisms that only eat consumers
47. Which group of organisms in an ecosystem fills the niche of recycling organic matter back to the environment?
48. Precipitation that falls on land and flows over the surface of the ground
49. Series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed but soil and organisms still exist
50. What don't we need to recycle?
51. Humans are causing extiction in which ways?
52. You should take ..... showers.
53. An organism that helps to recycle nutrients within an ecosystem by eating dead or decaying organisms is a:
54. Is dust arriving from the desert considered an air pollutant?
55. Vines grow on a tree. The vines get light but the tree is not affected. What kind of relationship is this?
56. Who introduced the term biogecenosis?
57. What is a watershed?
58. Which biome receives less than 25 centimeters of rain per year?
59. Diagram of transfer of energy
60. The process by which populations of organisms with variations that help them to survive in their environments, live longer, outcompete, and reproduce more organisms with the same variation