This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Ecology β Quiz 11 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books Ecology Quiz 11 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and the other is not harmed. A) Mutualism. B) Commensalism. C) Parasitism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Commensalism. 2. A close relationship between two species that benefits BOTH species: A) Mutualism. B) Parasitism. C) Commensalism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mutualism. 3. Which statement best describes how water cycles in the environment? A) Water only cycles from plants to animals. B) Water only cycles between plants and the soil. C) Water only cycles between animals and the hydrosphere. D) Water cycles between living things and the nonliving parts of Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Water cycles between living things and the nonliving parts of Earth. 4. What is an underground layer of rock or soil filled with water called? A) Aquifer. B) Reservoir. C) Spring. D) Well. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aquifer. 5. What kind of organisms can become invasive? A) Animals. B) Plants. C) Plants, Animals, or Pathogens. D) Lions, Tigers, Bears. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plants, Animals, or Pathogens. 6. Water vapor released into the atmosphere from the leaves of plants is called ..... A) Precipitation. B) Transpiration. C) Perspiration. D) Evaporation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Transpiration. 7. Organisms that only eat vegetation are A) More destructive. B) Herbivores. C) Carnivores. D) Omnivores. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Herbivores. 8. What is a symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other organism is harmed? A) Competition. B) Commensalism. C) Parasitism. D) Mutualism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parasitism. 9. Are the living things within the biosphere A) Geosphere. B) Biota. C) Hydrosphere. D) Biosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biota. 10. Is there water in the ..... ? A) Bottle. B) Book. C) Bag. D) Wood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bottle. 11. An organism that eats other organisms to live A) Predator. B) Prey. C) Parasites. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Predator. 12. Indicate the biotic and abiotic factors that affect the distribution of organisms in an environment. Temperature A) Abiotic. B) Biotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abiotic. 13. All of the living and non-living features of an environment A) Ecosystem. B) Ecology. C) Community. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ecosystem. 14. Gradual, natural change and species replacement that takes place in the communities of an ecosystem over time A) Succession. B) Limiting factor. C) Climax community. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Succession. 15. Which of the following is the most crucial role of fungi in a balanced ecosystem? A) They act as autotrophs that turn energy from the Sun into glucose and oxygen. B) They serve as decomposers and recycle nutrients. C) They serve as tertiary consumers. D) They serve as primary producers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They serve as decomposers and recycle nutrients. 16. For the carbon cycle and the nitrogen cycle to function properly, which organism must always be present? A) Decomposers. B) Producers. C) Consumers. D) Herbivores. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Decomposers. 17. Which is an example of an abiotic factor? A) Trees. B) Rain. C) Birds. D) Grass. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rain. 18. Which of these methods consumes the least water? A) Dishwasher. B) Hand washing. C) Shower. D) All consume the same amount of water. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shower. 19. The ozone layer is thinning because of which man-made chemical? A) Chlorofluorocarbons. B) Nitrogen oxides. C) Carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor. D) DDT and Mercury. E) Ethanol. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chlorofluorocarbons. 20. Energy stored in inorganic molecules is used to produce carbohydrates A) Consumer. B) Chemosynthesis. C) Biomass. D) Decoposer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chemosynthesis. 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? A) Deciduous forest. B) Grassland. C) Desert. D) Tropical rain forest . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deciduous forest. 22. What two processes are involved in the carbon cycle? A) Combustion and Photosynthesis. B) TranspirationCondensation. C) Cellular RespirationPhotosynthesis. D) TranspirationCellular Respiration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cellular RespirationPhotosynthesis. 23. What do the arrows in a food web represent? A) It points towards the organism that is being eaten. B) It points towards the organism that is receiving energy from what it has eaten. C) Equals. D) Yield or makes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It points towards the organism that is receiving energy from what it has eaten. 24. What do the arrows on a food web show? A) Direction of Movement. B) Consumers. C) Organization. D) Flow of Energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flow of Energy. 25. What group of organisms is primarily responsible for the processes that occur in the nitrogen cycle? A) Bacteria. B) Autotrophs. C) Detritivores. D) Heterotrophs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bacteria. 26. Largest number of individuals of a population that the environment can support ..... A) Population crash. B) Carrying capacity. C) Mutualism. D) Lag phase. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carrying capacity. 27. Liquid water turns into gas and rises into the sky in ..... A) Precipitation. B) Condensation. C) Evaporation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Evaporation. 28. In which area would the rate of evaporation be the lowest? A) Over the rainforest. B) Over the ocean. C) Over the mountains. D) Over the desert. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Over the desert. 29. Through what process do producers make their own food? A) Photosynthesis. B) Meiosis. C) Mitosis. D) Parthenogenesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Photosynthesis. 30. On Earth, what process generates most of the water vapor? A) Transpiration. B) Condensation. C) Evaporation. D) Precipitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Evaporation. 31. Deforestation is good for the world. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 32. Is there a difference between weather, climate, and temperature? A) No. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yes. 33. Where do decomposers go in your food chain? A) At every level. B) They don't belong in a food chain. C) At the beginning. D) At the end. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) At every level. 34. The lower the biodiversity the ..... the sustainability. A) Higher. B) Lower. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lower. 35. What is an ecological community? A) All areas of Earth that support life. B) All populations that live in an area. C) All of the biotic and abiotic factors in an area. D) One species. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All populations that live in an area. 36. A group of organism that have similar traits and can reproduce A) Extinction. B) Species. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Species. 37. TRUE or FALSE:A community includes all abiotic and biotic factors. A) TRUE. B) Decisions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decisions. 38. Anything that can LIMIT the size of a population, including living and nonliving features of an ecosystem A) Commensalism. B) Carrying Capacity. C) Limiting Factor. D) Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Limiting Factor. 39. A habitat provides the following for an organism ..... A) Predators. B) Food. C) House. D) Best friend. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Food. 40. Harmful gases produced by cars are called ..... A) Sewage. B) Oxygen. C) Exhaust fumes. D) A global warming. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exhaust fumes. 41. Consumes leftover meat or vegetation A) Producer. B) Omnivore. C) Decoposer. D) Scavenger. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scavenger. 42. Rivers and Streams 2. Lakes and Ponds 3. Wetlands:Marshes, Swamps and Bogs are all what kind of biome? A) Freshwater. B) Marine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Freshwater. 43. What type of even could have caused a secondary succession? A) Forest fire. B) Glacier receding. C) Volcano. D) Underwater volcano forming a new island. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Forest fire. 44. Plants growing in a pond release a gas that fish need to survive. What is the gas? A) Helium. B) Nitrogen. C) Hydrogen. D) Oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxygen. 45. The change in community structure over time is called ..... A) Ecological niche. B) Biodiversity. C) Population. D) Succession. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Succession. 46. Organisms that only eat consumers A) Omnivores. B) Carnivores. C) Herbivores. D) Scavengers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carnivores. 47. Which group of organisms in an ecosystem fills the niche of recycling organic matter back to the environment? A) Decomposers. B) Producers. C) Carnivores. D) Predators. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Decomposers. 48. Precipitation that falls on land and ο¬ows over the surface of the ground A) Reservoir. B) Runoff. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Runoff. 49. Series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed but soil and organisms still exist A) Primary succession. B) Secondary succession. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Secondary succession. 50. What don't we need to recycle? A) Tin. B) Food. C) Paper. D) Bottles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Food. 51. Humans are causing extiction in which ways? A) By over hunting animals for food or products. B) By destroying the natural habitat of species. C) By polluting the environments of the world. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 52. You should take ..... showers. A) Long. B) Short. C) Save. D) Cold. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Short. 53. An organism that helps to recycle nutrients within an ecosystem by eating dead or decaying organisms is a: A) Decoposer. B) Autotroph. C) Predator. D) Producer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Decoposer. 54. Is dust arriving from the desert considered an air pollutant? A) No, because dust is natural. B) Yes, because desert dust is composed of toxic substances. C) No, because the desert lacks significant human activity. D) Yes, because desert dust is composed of particles that cause harm to health. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Yes, because desert dust is composed of particles that cause harm to health. 55. Vines grow on a tree. The vines get light but the tree is not affected. What kind of relationship is this? A) Commensalism. B) Mutualism. C) Parasitism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Commensalism. 56. Who introduced the term biogecenosis? A) Vernadsky. B) MΓΆbius. C) Sukachev. D) E. Suess. E) N. Vavilov. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sukachev. 57. What is a watershed? A) Network of streams leading to a larger river. B) Network of rivers and bays that lead to the ocean. C) Reservoir of water stored underground. D) Area of land that drains to a body of water. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Area of land that drains to a body of water. 58. Which biome receives less than 25 centimeters of rain per year? A) Desert. B) Temperate rainforest. C) Grassland. D) Tropical rainforest. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Desert. 59. Diagram of transfer of energy A) Decoposer. B) Food web. C) Ecology. D) Producer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Food web. 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 A) Natural selection. B) Camouflage. C) Competition. D) Variations. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Natural selection. β PreviousNext βRelated QuizzesScience QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesEcology Quiz 1Ecology Quiz 2Ecology Quiz 3Ecology Quiz 4Ecology Quiz 5Ecology Quiz 6Ecology Quiz 7Ecology Quiz 8 π Back to Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books