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Ecology Quiz 22 (60 MCQs)

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1. Anything that restricts the number of individuals in a population; food, water, shelter.
2. Deer are herbivores.
3. Remora are small fish with a sucker-like organ that allows them to attach themselves to larger animals like a shark. By doing this, the remora is able to gain protection from the presence of the shark while helping the shark stay clear from parasites. This relationship shows ..... ?
4. This large biome takes up about 70% of the Earth .....
5. What's COMMUNITY?
6. (Im)migration is .....
7. Much of Canada is covered in pine spruce forests. The winter is cold and long. What is this biome?
8. What gas makes up 78% of Earth's atmosphere?
9. True or Falase:A natural disater is am example of a limiting factor
10. In an Ecosystem, matter flows:
11. What is the movement of nutrients from storage source to exchange source?
12. The largest number of individuals that an area can support is called its .....
13. What does a limiting factor do?
14. A condition that occurs when two or more organisms compete for the same resources
15. What is the term for a group of different species in a given area?
16. What is the difference between a community and an ecosystem?
17. Biomass and biofuels are
18. What shows a series of events in which one organism eats another and gets energy?
19. The study of the interaction of living organisms with each other and with their environment is .....
20. Which ecosystem structure is considered a "non-living environment" ?
21. Examples of ..... are lions, polar bears, and hawks
22. Epiphytes use larger trees as a surface to grow but don't help nor harm the larger tree. Which type of symbiosis is this?
23. In any food web, the organisms that are responsible for converting raw energy into usable chemical energy are collectively called ..... while organisms that recycle the nutrients trapped in dead organisms are collectively called .....
24. Are the largest biomes on Earth. They can be warm or cold. They are home to plants like seaweed and animals like fish, whales, turtles and sponges.
25. The collective mass of all living things in a particular area or at a specific trophic level of an ecosystem is known as .....
26. An example of a behavioral adaptation is
27. Scientists have discovered a new species of fox that has larger than average ears and is nocturnal. In which biome would this new species of fox most likely be found?
28. Coyotes eat rabbits. Rabbits eat clover. What would most likely happen if the population of coyotes decreases?
29. An animal that hunts for its food
30. What are 3 limiting factors?
31. An owl eats a field mouse. In this scenario, the owl is known as the .....
32. Which is a non-living part of an ecosystem?
33. Which of the following is not an abiotic factor that can affect populations?
34. Which major biome is home to cacti, brittle bushes, small reptiles, and coyotes?
35. What conservation technique was used to recovery the population of wolves in 1995?
36. A model of the feeding relationships between many different consumers and producers in an ecosystem
37. True or false:No light penetrates to the bathypelagic, abyssopelagic and hadopelagic zones.
38. What gas does burning things release into the atmosphere?
39. Excessive use, of species that have economic value is a factor increasing the current rate of extinction.
40. Organisms must have food because
41. A species that has an unusually large impact on its food web or ecosystem
42. What type of relationship is described below? A lucky alligator spots a deer drinking water, attacks the deer, kills it, and eats it for food. What type of relationship do the alligator and deer have?
43. An organism that feeds on dead and decaying matter
44. Which term means the number of different species that live in a particular area?
45. A living thing that makes its own food is called a .....
46. What kind of factor:temperature?
47. A giraffe has a long neck in order to better reach leaves to eat. This is an example of .....
48. Consumes the soft tissues of dead animals
49. Scientist use models to show relationships between organisms, an example of such a model would be a(n):
50. Energy pyramid! What does it mean?
51. Which sequence correctly represents the action of nitrifying bacteria?
52. What type of relationship is described below? Mistletoe extracts water and nutrients from the oak tree, causing harm to the oak tree. What type of relationship do mistletoe and the oak tree have?
53. A group of populations
54. Which of these best explains why predators need plants, such as grass, in their ecosystem?
55. The process where plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to produce sugar and release oxygen.
56. Ice melts, which puts out more CO2 in the atmosphere, further causing the temperature to rise and cause more ice to melt. This represents a
57. Quantum mechanical model
58. Panama is a country with a lot of biodiversity because of:
59. A tiger is a(n) ....., an organism that gets food by eating other organisms
60. In addition to producers and consumers, healthy communities must have ....., bacteria and fungi which recycle detritus.
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