Ecology Quiz 25 (60 MCQs)

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1. A wildlife ecologist's job includes studying animals and other wildlife, and understanding their interactions with their ecosystem.
2. What is the role of a tree in a food chain?
3. Secondary consumers
4. ..... holds all of the planets in orbit around the sun.
5. ..... is when one organism successfully outcompetes another and excludes it from a particular area or niche.
6. Part of a cycle that holds an element or water for a short period of time is called an exchange pool. The atmosphere is an exchange pool for water through water vapor.
7. A type of consumer that eats only plants
8. A rain shadow occurs on the
9. Organisms that feed on dead or decaying things
10. This biome is like the rainforest of the sea has warm shallow waters that filled with many types of sea creatures
11. Organisms that are adapted to live in extreme environments are known as what?
12. Fungi and bacteria are the most common decomposers.
13. Shrub > Gazelle > Lion What eats the lion?
14. Which of these are consumers that feed on other organisms
15. Organisms that live deep in the ocean must be able to
16. Which of the following describes an energy pyramid?
17. No living things can live without .....
18. How might a lack of sunlight disrupt the food web?
19. Which of the following is an example of a community?
20. Red-billed oxpeckers are birds that feed on parasites found on an impala. The impala gets rid of parasites and the red-billed oxpeckers get a yummy dinner. This is an example of .....
21. Which level of organization in ecology is a major regional or global community of organisms?
22. Find the product of sine(tangent(cosine(456))) and 0
23. What is the dispersion pattern of solitary apex predators that protect their territory?
24. Which of the following correctly names the levels in an ecosystem from largest to smallest?
25. Which word goes with the following definition:A relationship where one is helped, but the other is not hurt or helped. (EX. A bird in a tree)
26. Due to stress, large numbers of female lemmings miscarry their young and fail to reproduce.
27. Eukaryotes have a cell membrane?
28. My dad ..... the car every week
29. Match:running.....
30. Organisms that do not decompose can be buried and become what?
31. This climate zone experiences long cold winters and has very little precipitation.
32. The biogeochemical cycle is
33. It is possible that an organism can be both predator and prey in a food web.
34. What Biome is very dry; receives very little rainfall?
35. The ..... of matter involves specific interactions between the biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem.
36. Producers occupy the first trophic level.
37. What are some abiotic factors that could be limiting factors in a river ecosystem?
38. What is the process that occurs when new land is formed and slowly changes into a densely wooded forest over the course of hundreds of years?
39. Which of these is the main source of energy on Earth?
40. Biotic factors include sunlight, soil, temperature, and water.
41. An organism's ..... is anything that affects the organism.
42. The main human activity that releases greenhouse gases is
43. Cutting down forests
44. Thinking back to the Energy Pyramid, coyotes prey on prairie dogs. In order for the prairie dog population to survive, how many prairie dogs are needed compared to coyotes?
45. A large generalized community with similar climate factors
46. Where is the most energy stored?
47. The path of energy through the trophic levels of an ecosystem is called a .....
48. A life form that is very sensitive to environmental changes in its ecosystem. They can give us early-warning messages that a habitat is suffering.
49. Driest biome, extreme temps ( very cold at night, very hot during the day, and very little rain.
50. Predation is similar to ..... in that both types of relationship benefit one of the interacting species while the other is harmed.
51. Which two factors can both cause a population to increase?
52. In an energy pyramid, producers are at the:
53. As plant life decreases from deforestation and fossil fuel burning increases, the CO2 levels in the air will ....., causing the greenhouse effect to increase.
54. A group of organisms with similar characteristics that are able to interbreed or exchange genetic material
55. A form of symbiosis where one organism benefits and one is harmed
56. Which of the following is not abiotic
57. Living organisms in an environment interact with one another and also with non living components forms an
58. Autotrophs make their own food.
59. Commensalism is when
60. An animal that get its food and energy from eating producers