This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Ecology – Quiz 19 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ecology Quiz 19 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the defintion of an ecosystem? A) A living thing. B) A single organism. C) A community of organisms along with the non-living conditions. D) All the different species living in a habitat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A community of organisms along with the non-living conditions. 2. Developed the theory of evolution A) Darwin. B) Mendel. C) Redi. D) Pasteur. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Darwin. 3. A primary consumer A) Consumes the producer. B) Is a carnivore. C) Makes its own food. D) Eats other animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consumes the producer. 4. A lamprey attaches and feeds off a perch A) Predation. B) Commensalism. C) Competition. D) Mutualism. E) Parasitism. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Parasitism. 5. Direct observation A) Count each and every individualdifficult to do. B) Observe the signs of orgamismsestimation. C) Approximation based on reasonable assumptioncount number in small area and multiply for larger areas. D) Catch and mark an organism, release, and catch more at a later timeuse a mathematical formula to estimate a total population. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Count each and every individualdifficult to do. 6. ..... + Brown Mix = ..... What are the two words for blank space above? A) Green Mix and Brown Mix. B) Blue Mix and Yellow Mix. C) Green Mix and Compost. D) Red Mix and Compost. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Green Mix and Compost. 7. Hermit crabs use the shells of dead snails for homes. What type of interaction is this? A) Mutualism. B) Commensalism. C) Parasitism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Commensalism. 8. Which organisms convert Nitrogen in the atmosphere to a usable for for plants and animals? A) Converters. B) Animals. C) Bacteria. D) Plants. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bacteria. 9. Which of the following is a word that could describe a plant? A) Autotroph. B) Heterotroph. C) Consumer. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Autotroph. 10. The Rain Forest receives A) Little rain yearly. B) A lot of rain during half of the year. C) Lots of rain all year long. D) Just enough rain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lots of rain all year long. 11. Nesting birds often space themselves evenly from other nests. This pattern is called A) Clumped dispersion. B) Uniform dispersion. C) Random dispersion. D) Scatter dispersion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Uniform dispersion. 12. ..... is a word that describes all of the non-living parts of an ecosystem. A) Biotic. B) Abiotic. C) Robotic. D) Probiotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abiotic. 13. All ecosystems combined ..... A) Biosphere. B) Habitat. C) Community. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biosphere. 14. Define "ecology" . A) Where in the world is my dictionary?. B) The study of how living things interact with each other and the environment. C) The study of how things eat things. D) The study of the many benefits of Hi-Chew. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The study of how living things interact with each other and the environment. 15. Gause's Competitive Exclusion Principle states that no two species can co-exist if they occupy the same ..... A) Niche. B) Habitat. C) Environment. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Niche. 16. Which of the following is considered a wetland? A) Swamps. B) Marshes. C) Bogs. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 17. All of the different populations that live in a specific area. A) Ecosystem. B) Habitat. C) Village. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Community. 18. Ecology is the study of how organisms interact with one another and with environments. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 19. The ocean is a reservoir for water. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 20. The boreal forest in central Alaska has low biodiversity. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 21. Which of the following describes #4? A) An ecosystem is the interaction between biotic and biotic factors. B) A community is a group of different populations in the same area. C) An organism is one living thing. D) A population is a group of the same organisms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An ecosystem is the interaction between biotic and biotic factors. 22. A group of ecosystems that share similar climates and typical organisms A) Population. B) Biome. C) Ecosystem. D) Niche. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biome. 23. Who is the keystone species of the Yellowstone Ecosystem? A) Wolves. B) Deer. C) Aspen Trees. D) Coyotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wolves. 24. Which of the following describes how ALL consumersget their energy? A) Directly from the sun. B) From inorganic chemicals like hydrogen sulfide. C) From eating primary producers. D) From eating organisms that are living or wereonce living. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) From eating organisms that are living or wereonce living. 25. A group of plants part of nitrogen cycle; convert atmospheric nitrogen ino a form that plants can use (beans) A) Decomposers. B) Legumes. C) Nitrogen Fixing. D) Eutrification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Legumes. 26. A relationship in which both species benefit is called ..... A) Parasitism. B) Commensalism. C) Mutualism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mutualism. 27. Indicate the biotic and abiotic factors that affect the distribution of organisms in an environment. Competition A) Biotic. B) Abiotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biotic. 28. The word symbiosis has a Greek origin. What is the MOST LIKELY translation of the word in Greek? A) Living together. B) Making food. C) Building. D) Hiding. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Living together. 29. The term "terrestrial" means A) Land. B) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Land. 30. Which level has the most energy available for consumers? A) Primary Consumer. B) Decoposer. C) Tertiary Consumer. D) Producer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Producer. 31. Greenhouse effect A) Greenhouse effect. B) Positive effect. C) Conservation effect. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Greenhouse effect. 32. A herbivore is also known as ..... A) Primary consumer. B) Secondary consumer. C) Tertiary consumer. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Primary consumer. 33. In a parasitic relationship, the organism that is feed upon is called the ..... A) Host. B) Food. C) Consumer. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Host. 34. Which level contains all the biotic and abiotic factors in a specific area? A) Community. B) Population. C) Ecosystem. D) Species. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ecosystem. 35. All of the living and non-living parts of an environment and the interactions between them are called A) A population. B) A community. C) Limiting factors. D) An ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An ecosystem. 36. How do consumers get their energy? A) Surviving in an ecosystem. B) Eating other organisms. C) Laying in the sun. D) Providing food for other organisms. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eating other organisms. 37. This biome has the medium to high biodiversity semi-humid and temperate and has medium to high soil quality A) Desert. B) Tundra. C) Tropical rainforest. D) Temperate forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Temperate forest. 38. A span of variety, including many species, populations, and environments. A) Ecosystem diversity. B) Resistant. C) Species diversity. D) Resilient. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ecosystem diversity. 39. Car fumes releases ..... into the atmosphere A) Carbon-kevlar shell. B) Dinitrogen tetroxide. C) Deoxyribonucleic acid. D) Carbon dioxide. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carbon dioxide. 40. Organisms that can make their own food A) Consumers. B) Carnivores. C) Producers. D) Decomposers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Producers. 41. The ..... levels that 2 organisms share, the more similar they are to each other. A) More. B) Fewer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) More. 42. The Earth acts like a greenhouse that catches and traps heat from the sun. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 43. What must animals do in order to survive major changes that happen in their environment? A) Habitat. B) Stay the same. C) Biodiversity. D) Adapt. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Adapt. 44. Which of the following heterotrophs consumes both plants and animals? A) Omnivore. B) Carnivore. C) Herbivore. D) Detritivore. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Omnivore. 45. Which of the following illustrates the correct ordering of trophic levels? A) Decomposers-carnivores-autotrophs-herbivores. B) Herbivores-autotrophs-carnivores-decomposers. C) Producers-herbivores-carnivores-decomposers. D) Carnivores-producers-omnivores. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Producers-herbivores-carnivores-decomposers. 46. An example of an exchange pool is A) The Earth for carbon. B) The atmosphere for water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The atmosphere for water. 47. A relationship where two organisms want the same resource A) Competition. B) Predation. C) Mutualism. D) Commensalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Competition. 48. The three major fossil fuels are coal, oil, and ..... A) Uranium. B) Natural gas. C) Wood. D) Electricity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Natural gas. 49. What is commensalism? A) One species is helped the other is not bothered. B) Both species are helped. C) One species is helped and one is harmed. D) No species is helped. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One species is helped the other is not bothered. 50. Which of the following does not affect population growth? A) Immigration. B) The number of births. C) Biodiversity. D) Immigration. E) The number of deaths. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biodiversity. 51. Which is the following form of nitrogen you can use? A) Nitrogen monoxide (NO). B) Carbon dioxide (CO2). C) Atmospheric nitrogen (N2). D) Nitrate (NO3). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nitrate (NO3). 52. Symbiosis. Which two living things interact in a way that is a Win-Win? A) Fleas and a dog. B) Flowers and bees. C) A hawk and a mouse. D) A person and mosquitos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flowers and bees. 53. What is the STUDY of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment A) Biodiversity. B) Biome. C) Ecology. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ecology. 54. What is the source of energy that flows through most of the food chains on Earth? A) The Sun. B) Water. C) Plants. D) Animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Sun. 55. Which experiences the least change over time? A) Climax Community. B) Aquatic Succession. C) Pioneer Species. D) Primary Succession. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Climax Community. 56. An organism's place in the biotic environment and its role in an ecosystem is A) Habitat. B) Community. C) Niche. D) Habit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Niche. 57. Organisms with traits best suited to their environment and will most likely survive. A) Great abs. B) Good luck. C) Natural selection. D) Limiting factor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Natural selection. 58. The starting materials and products of cellular respiration and photosynthesis are A) Same. B) Opposite. C) Unrelated. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Opposite. 59. Is carbon dioxide produced in photosynthesis? A) No. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No. 60. The best description of the relationship between runoff and groundwater is that A) Runoff turns into groundwater. B) Both result from precipitation and may end up in bodies of water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Both result from precipitation and may end up in bodies of water. ← 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