This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Ecology – Quiz 13 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ecology Quiz 13 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these are producers that produce their own food A) Autotroph. B) Metotroph. C) Hightroph. D) Heterotroph. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Autotroph. 2. Evaporation and Transpiration will most likely appear in which of these cycles? A) Nitrogen. B) Carbon. C) Water. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Water. 3. One of the factors that can change the size of population is ..... A) Numbers of births. B) Number of dezs. C) Name of schools. D) Jobs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Numbers of births. 4. What organism lives in a habitat A) Bear. B) Fish. C) Frog. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 5. A black bear hibernates during the winter months. A) Behavioral Adaptation. B) Physical/Structural Adaptation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Behavioral Adaptation. 6. A group of animals from the same species living in the same area is called a A) Population. B) Habitat. C) Group. D) Ecosystems. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Population. 7. Which of the following statements about this food web is FALSE? A) The ultimate source of energy for the whole food web is the radiant energy of the sun. B) Arrows in a food web show the direction that energy moves from one trophic level to another. C) Energy is used up by each trophic level, and lost as heat energy. D) 100% of the energy made by the vegetation is passed to the geese and mute swans. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 100% of the energy made by the vegetation is passed to the geese and mute swans. 8. Organisms that create their own energy from sunlight or chemicals A) Omnivore. B) Heterotroph. C) Herbivore. D) Autotroph. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Autotroph. 9. Each step in a food chain or food web is referred to as a(n) ..... A) Trophic level. B) Food chain. C) Energy level. D) Consumer level. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trophic level. 10. What biome is found in between a forest and a desert? A) Outback. B) Grasslands. C) Taiga. D) Tundra. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Grasslands. 11. What is one way an endothermic animal can respond to being cold? A) Shedding. B) Panting. C) Sweating. D) Shivering. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shivering. 12. In what ways have humans had an effect on the Nitrogen cycle? I. Use of fertilizers II. Combustion of fossil fuels III. Urbanization A) I only. B) II only. C) I and II. D) I, II, and III. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I and II. 13. A ..... is made up of all the populations in an area A) Community. B) Ecosystem. C) Populations. D) Biome. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Community. 14. ..... is part of the air, rocks, soil, and all living things. A) Water. B) Silver. C) Nitrogen. D) Carbon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carbon. 15. You get all of your energy from ..... A) Water. B) Sleep. C) Food. D) Exercise. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Food. 16. Contains all living parts of earth; made up of all ecosystems on the planet A) Carrying Capacity. B) Biosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biosphere. 17. Which energy role obtains energy through breaking down dead organisms and waste products and returning the nutrients to the environment? A) Producer. B) Consumer. C) Omnivore. D) Decoposer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Decoposer. 18. How can a wildfire be beneficial to an environment A) Causes habitat destruction. B) Allows seed to germinate. C) Destroys homes. D) Can endanger humans and animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allows seed to germinate. 19. Approximately how much energy is lost in each trophic step of a food chain? A) No energy is lost. B) 50%. C) 75%. D) 90%. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 90%. 20. Examples of Abiotic things A) Light, water, soil. B) Plants, animals fungi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Light, water, soil. 21. An organism that obtains energy from eating meats A) Omnivores. B) Carnivores. C) Herbivores. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carnivores. 22. A particular environment and all the living things that are supported by it A) Tropical rainforest. B) Ecocsystem. C) Ecology. D) Desert. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ecocsystem. 23. Levels of organization for an ecosystem in order A) Ecosyetem-biome-habitat-speices-communities-niche-population. B) Habitat-speices-niche-communities-population-biome-ecosystem. C) Speices-habitat-niche-population-communities-ecosystem-biome. D) Biome-ecosystem-communities-population-niche-habitat-speices. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speices-habitat-niche-population-communities-ecosystem-biome. 24. Captures energy from sunlight and changes it into energy A) Consumer. B) Omnivore. C) Carnivore. D) Producer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Producer. 25. What has the highest levels on the pyramid A) Lowest part of the pyramid. B) The top. C) The middle. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lowest part of the pyramid. 26. The mode of these numbers:3, 3, 5, 6 would be: A) 3. B) 4. C) 4.67. D) 4.25. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3. 27. Hermit crabs live in shells made and then abandoned by snails A) Mutualism. B) Commensalism. C) Competition. D) Predation. E) Parasitism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Commensalism. 28. Round structures on the roots of certain plants A) Cataracts. B) Nodules. C) Lichens. D) Commensals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nodules. 29. What is it called when you have groups of different populations along with their abiotic factors? A) An ecosystem. B) A population. C) An organism. D) A community. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An ecosystem. 30. A population of baboons has access to plenty of food, shelter, and space to live but has an inadequate supply of water. Which of these BEST defines the water in this case? A) Limiting factor. B) Limiting reagent. C) Darwinian shortfall. D) Biochemical constrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limiting factor. 31. Anything that limits an organism's ability to live in a particular environment. A) Pioneer species. B) Limiting factor. C) Climax community. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Limiting factor. 32. Which of the following is NOT a source of nitrates and phosphates into a river? A) Wastewater. B) Fertilizers. C) Burning fossil fuels. D) Animal waste. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Burning fossil fuels. 33. Identify the organic compound A) CaCl. B) NaCl. C) HCl. D) Satha 12 watts. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Satha 12 watts. 34. Sun is the primary source of energy in the environment. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 35. Prokaryotes do not have a nucleus. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 36. Which of the following shows an abiotic factor interacting with a biotic factor in the environment? A) Low light intensity affects the growth of forest pine trees. B) Gypsy moth caterpillars eat the leaves of apple tree. C) Water temperature affects its oxygen level. D) Lamprey eels survive by attaching themselves to trout. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Low light intensity affects the growth of forest pine trees. 37. Two species of monkeys eat fruit from same tree A) Predation. B) Mutualism. C) Parasitism. D) Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Competition. 38. This Biome has extremely hot and extremely cold temperatures. A) Rivers and Streams. B) Desert. C) Rainforest. D) Polar Regions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Desert. 39. Which of the following is an example of a biotic component of the environment? A) Temperature. B) Water. C) Wind. D) Vegetation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vegetation. 40. What is a food web? A) A web made by spiders to get food. B) A series of overlapping food chains. C) One food chain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A series of overlapping food chains. 41. All living organisms in an area and all the nonliving features of their environment is called the A) Biome. B) Community. C) Niche. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ecosystem. 42. Which biome has the least amount of rainfall? A) Tropical rainforest. B) Taiga. C) Temperate Rainforest. D) Tundra. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tundra. 43. Which organelle performs PHOTOSYNTHESIS? A) Chloroplast. B) Mitochondria. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chloroplast. 44. All the energy in a food web/chain originate from what? A) The Sun. B) Burning Coal. C) Wind Turbines. D) Nuclear Energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Sun. 45. Fossil fuels are considered nonrenewable resources because they ..... A) Burn so quickly. B) Are in such high demand. C) Take hundreds of millions of years to form. D) Pollute the air. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Take hundreds of millions of years to form. 46. Drought, erosion, flood, and prolonged heat spells are examples of- A) Communities. B) Biotic factors within an ecosystem which affect abiotic components. C) Abiotic changes within an ecosystem which can affect biotic factors. D) Populations. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Abiotic changes within an ecosystem which can affect biotic factors. 47. All of the organisms that inhabit the savanna make up a(n) A) Species. B) Biome. C) Ecosystem. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biome. 48. Which organism break large molecules into smaller ones and return them to the abiotic environment? A) Decomposers. B) Heterotrophs. C) Producers. D) Tertiary comsumers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Decomposers. 49. Part of the water cycle in which the water moves back to the atmosphere in the form of vapor A) Evaporation. B) Transpiration. C) Both (Evapo-transpiration). D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both (Evapo-transpiration). 50. Which choice below shows the correct order of a food chain? A) Sun $\rightarrow$ rabbit $\rightarrow$ tomato plant-. decomposer $\rightarrow$ hawk. B) Sun $\rightarrow$ tomato plant $\rightarrow$ rabbit $\rightarrow$ hawk $\rightarrow$ decomposer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sun $\rightarrow$ tomato plant $\rightarrow$ rabbit $\rightarrow$ hawk $\rightarrow$ decomposer. 51. Water stored below the Earth's surface is called: A) Groundwater. B) Bogs. C) Water in the ground. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Groundwater. 52. A group of individuals of the same species in a particular area A) Biosphere. B) Population. C) Community. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population. 53. What is an organism's niche A) Thier home. B) Their family. C) Their food. D) Their job or role in the ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Their job or role in the ecosystem. 54. The organism that is killed and eaten. A) Predation. B) Prey. C) Predator. D) Symbiosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prey. 55. Oxpeckers feed on the ticks found on the rhino A) Parasitism. B) Commensalism. C) Predation. D) Mutualism. E) Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mutualism. 56. Who are the ones that do most of the work in a hieve? A) Queen. B) Bees. C) Drones. D) Worker bees. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Worker bees. 57. Clownfish live inside sea anemones. They eat creatures that harm anemones, while anemones protect clownfish from predators. This is an example of: A) Commensalism. B) Amensalism. C) Parasitism. D) Mutualism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mutualism. 58. The rate at which food energy is assimilated at the trophic level of consumers is known as A) Gross primary productivity. B) Net primary productivity. C) Secondary productivity. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Secondary productivity. 59. This species hunts for prey. A) Predator. B) Photosynthesis. C) Producer. D) Herbivore. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Predator. 60. Consumer that eats both plants and animals A) Carnivore. B) Decoposer. C) Omnivore. D) Herbivore. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Omnivore. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesScience QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesEcology Quiz 1Ecology Quiz 2Ecology Quiz 3Ecology Quiz 4Ecology Quiz 5Ecology Quiz 6Ecology Quiz 7Ecology Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books