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Ecology Quiz 16 (60 MCQs)

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1. What word best describes the mammals, fish, birds and plants, as well as the sun, soil, air and water in an environment?
2. I am a consumer that eats only meat.
3. What word do we use to describe a species which has no members still living?
4. To use some materials again.
5. A rock or boulder is considered
6. 2 male deer fighting over a female. This is an example of
7. An animal that hunts and eats another animal.
8. What is bioaccumulation or biomagnification?
9. There is a wide range of organisms within any ecosystem. What is the name for the wide range of life that we need to protect in our ecosystem?
10. A type of symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
11. Things that are NON-living in an environment (air, water, soil, sunlight)
12. All of the living parts of an ecosystem are .....
13. The reciprocal interrelations between living & non living world is referred to as:
14. True or false:The process of nutrient regeneration recycles nutrients back to primary producers.
15. Energy that flows through an ecosystem originates from the .....
16. Which human activity has had the greatest impact on climate change?
17. The nutrient that is the slowest to recycle is
18. In a parasitic relationship, one organism is ..... and one organism is benefiting.
19. Which is an example of a behavioral adaptation?
20. An environmental factor that causes the population to decrease is called
21. Which type of competition is responsible for shaping the structure of a population?
22. Relationship in which one organism benefits and the organism is not affected
23. What is the single most important factor contributing to losing or creating endangered species?
24. What is the term for a community of living and non-living things in a particular environment
25. ..... is a collection or group of different populations living in the same geographical area at the same time.
26. Segregate garbage
27. One single animal
28. How are biomes characterized?
29. What is a population?
30. Cold forested region dominated by cone bearing evergreen trees.
31. The series of changes that occurs in an area where no soil or organisms exist is called this
32. The role of plants in a food web is
33. What can producers do?
34. Another name for a consumer is a
35. What biotic factor does every food chain start with?
36. What are the similarities between a strawberry plantation and a meadow ecosystem?
37. Which of the following describes #1?
38. The following are all examples of ..... within an ecosystem. Grass, trees, flowers, bears, and fish
39. Which living thing? Classified as the number 1 consumer
40. An ecosystem is:
41. All of the following organisms live off remains or wastes of other organisms except
42. The movement of carbon through Earth, its atmosphere and living things
43. Density independent limiting factor is
44. Which best explains the importance of nitrogen in the cycling of energy and matter?
45. Tertiary consumers are always .....
46. When organisms move out of the population, this is known as
47. How many national parks are there in Poland?
48. A food chain contains oak trees (producer), mice (herbivore), black rat snakes (carnivore), and bald eagles (carnivore). If these organisms were placed in an energy pyramid, which organism would be in the energy level with the second-most amount of energy available?
49. Which biome consists of limited vegetation, cold temperatures, and the permafrost?
50. A population must be of the same ..... ?
51. A great white shark eats other organisms, such as seals.
52. Which of the following equations represents the overall chemical reaction for photosynthesis?
53. Synecology helps us to understand the relationships between communities and environment.
54. An organism that obtains enegry by consuming other organisms is known as a(n) .....
55. This is the study of the interactions of living things
56. Where would you find permafrost. Permafrost is soil, rock or sediment that is frozen for more than two consecutive years. In areas not overlain by ice, it exists beneath a layer of soil, rock or sediment, which freezes and thaws annually and is called the "active layer" .
57. How does human development of land effect the carrying capacity in a given area for a species other than humans?
58. An organism that gets hunted is a .....
59. Living factors or organisms that affect an ecosystem
60. Sometimes a population cannot grow to its biotic potential due to environmental factors. What are these environmental factors called?
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