This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Ecology – Quiz 25 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ecology Quiz 25 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A wildlife ecologist's job includes studying animals and other wildlife, and understanding their interactions with their ecosystem. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 2. What is the role of a tree in a food chain? A) It breaks down wastes and dead organisms. B) It uses the sun's energy to make food. C) It eats other organisms. D) It cannot make its own food. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It uses the sun's energy to make food. 3. Secondary consumers A) Eat the primary consumer. B) Eat plants and animals. C) Consume the producer. D) Eat the secondary consumer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eat the primary consumer. 4. ..... holds all of the planets in orbit around the sun. A) Force. B) Motion. C) Gravity. D) Weight. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gravity. 5. ..... is when one organism successfully outcompetes another and excludes it from a particular area or niche. A) Resource partitioning. B) Parasitism. C) Predation. D) Competitive exclusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Competitive exclusion. 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. A) Niche. B) Exchange pool. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exchange pool. 7. A type of consumer that eats only plants A) Herbivore. B) Producer. C) Decoposer. D) Carnivore. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Herbivore. 8. A rain shadow occurs on the A) North side of a lake or ocean. B) South side of an intertidal zone. C) Leeward side of a mountain range. D) Windward side of a mountain range. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Leeward side of a mountain range. 9. Organisms that feed on dead or decaying things A) Decoposer. B) Producer. C) Primary consumer. D) Carnivore. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Decoposer. 10. This biome is like the rainforest of the sea has warm shallow waters that filled with many types of sea creatures A) Tide pool. B) Beach. C) 'ocean. D) Coral reef. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Coral reef. 11. Organisms that are adapted to live in extreme environments are known as what? A) Survivors. B) Mammals. C) Microorganisms. D) Extremophiles. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Extremophiles. 12. Fungi and bacteria are the most common decomposers. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 13. Shrub > Gazelle > Lion What eats the lion? A) Gazelle. B) Nothing. C) Everything. D) Shrub. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nothing. 14. Which of these are consumers that feed on other organisms A) Hightroph. B) Heterotroph. C) Metotroph. D) Autotroph. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Heterotroph. 15. Organisms that live deep in the ocean must be able to A) Withstand extreme water pressure, very cold water, and complete darkness. B) Withstand extreme water pressure, cold water, and limited sunlight. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Withstand extreme water pressure, very cold water, and complete darkness. 16. Which of the following describes an energy pyramid? A) It shows how food energy passes from one organism to the next. B) It shows the direction that energy flows and each trophic level. C) It is complex and shows the network of many interconnected food chains. D) It is any close relationship between different species. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It shows the direction that energy flows and each trophic level. 17. No living things can live without ..... A) Plants. B) Food. C) Animals. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Water. 18. How might a lack of sunlight disrupt the food web? A) It would cause consumers to consume less. B) It would prevent decomposers from decomposing matter. C) It would prevent producers from producing nutrients. D) It would not disrupt the food web at all. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It would prevent producers from producing nutrients. 19. Which of the following is an example of a community? A) Herds of zebras. B) One zebra. C) Zebras, lions, and cheetahs all living together. D) Zebras, lions, cheetahs, and their nonliving elements in their environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Zebras, lions, and cheetahs all living together. 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 ..... A) Neutralism. B) Mutualism. C) Competition. D) Commensalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mutualism. 21. Which level of organization in ecology is a major regional or global community of organisms? A) Population. B) Biome. C) An ecosystem. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biome. 22. Find the product of sine(tangent(cosine(456))) and 0 A) Secant(54). B) 321. C) Cosecant(456). D) 0. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 0. 23. What is the dispersion pattern of solitary apex predators that protect their territory? A) Logistic. B) Random. C) Clumped. D) Uniform. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Uniform. 24. Which of the following correctly names the levels in an ecosystem from largest to smallest? A) Population, ecosystem, community. B) Ecosystem, population, community. C) Community, ecosystem, population. D) Ecosystem, community, population. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ecosystem, community, population. 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) A) Mutualism. B) Commensalism. C) Relationship. D) Scavenger. E) Symbiosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Commensalism. 26. Due to stress, large numbers of female lemmings miscarry their young and fail to reproduce. A) Density-Independent. B) Density-Dependent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Density-Dependent. 27. Eukaryotes have a cell membrane? A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 28. My dad ..... the car every week A) Washes. B) Drinks. C) Plants. D) Learns. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Washes. 29. Match:running..... A) Waste. B) Water. C) Food. D) Bins. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Water. 30. Organisms that do not decompose can be buried and become what? A) Nutrients. B) Water. C) Air. D) Fossil fuels. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fossil fuels. 31. This climate zone experiences long cold winters and has very little precipitation. A) Tropical. B) Temperate. C) Polar. D) Dry. E) Highlands. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Polar. 32. The biogeochemical cycle is A) The process in which elements, chemical compounds, and other forms of matter are passed from one organism to another and from one biosphere to another. B) A bike ride with chemicals. C) The total amount of living tissue in a chemical. D) The number of chemicals in a body. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The process in which elements, chemical compounds, and other forms of matter are passed from one organism to another and from one biosphere to another. 33. It is possible that an organism can be both predator and prey in a food web. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 34. What Biome is very dry; receives very little rainfall? A) Tropical Savanna. B) Tropical Rain Forest. C) Tundra. D) Desert. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Desert. 35. The ..... of matter involves specific interactions between the biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem. A) Recycling. B) Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Recycling. 36. Producers occupy the first trophic level. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 37. What are some abiotic factors that could be limiting factors in a river ecosystem? A) Temperature, fertilizer runoff from fields, drought or flood. B) Invasive species, floods. C) Temperature, droughts, floods, over fishing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Temperature, fertilizer runoff from fields, drought or flood. 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? A) Tertiary ecological succession. B) Secondary ecological succession. C) Globalization. D) Primary ecological succession. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Primary ecological succession. 39. Which of these is the main source of energy on Earth? A) Producers/Plants. B) The Sun. C) Decomposers/Fungi. D) Consumers/Animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Sun. 40. Biotic factors include sunlight, soil, temperature, and water. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 41. An organism's ..... is anything that affects the organism. A) Niche. B) Habitat. C) Environment. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Environment. 42. The main human activity that releases greenhouse gases is A) Riding bicycles. B) Eating meat. C) Texting on cellphones. D) Burning fossil fuels. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Burning fossil fuels. 43. Cutting down forests A) Fossil fuels. B) Protect. C) Deforestation. D) Wind farm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deforestation. 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? A) Fewer prairie dogs than coyotes. B) Many more prairies dogs than coyotes. C) About the same number of prairie dogs as coyotes. D) There is no relationship between the number of prairie dogs and coyotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Many more prairies dogs than coyotes. 45. A large generalized community with similar climate factors A) Biosphere. B) Biodome. C) Biome. D) Biology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biome. 46. Where is the most energy stored? A) At the top of the pyramid since it is the highest. B) In the tertiary consumers because they are most abundant. C) In the producers because they are most abundant. D) In the primary consumers because they eat the most. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In the producers because they are most abundant. 47. The path of energy through the trophic levels of an ecosystem is called a ..... A) Food Avenue. B) Food Chain. C) Energy Level. D) Energy Chain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Food Chain. 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. A) Predators. B) Flagship Species. C) Ecosystem Engineers. D) Indicator Species. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Indicator Species. 49. Driest biome, extreme temps ( very cold at night, very hot during the day, and very little rain. A) Taiga. B) Tundra. C) Desert. D) Forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Desert. 50. Predation is similar to ..... in that both types of relationship benefit one of the interacting species while the other is harmed. A) Parasitism. B) Competition. C) Mutualism. D) Commensalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parasitism. 51. Which two factors can both cause a population to increase? A) Birth rate and emigration. B) Birth rate and immigration. C) Death rate and immigration. D) Death rate and emigration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Birth rate and immigration. 52. In an energy pyramid, producers are at the: A) None of the above. B) Middle. C) Top. D) Bottom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bottom. 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. A) Rise. B) Fall. C) Remain Constant. D) Fluctuate at random. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rise. 54. A group of organisms with similar characteristics that are able to interbreed or exchange genetic material A) Community. B) Population. C) Species. D) Organism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Species. 55. A form of symbiosis where one organism benefits and one is harmed A) Parasitism. B) Mutualism. C) Commensalism. D) Vaderism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parasitism. 56. Which of the following is not abiotic A) Sunlight. B) Salinity. C) Wind. D) Temperature. E) Predators. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Predators. 57. Living organisms in an environment interact with one another and also with non living components forms an A) Biotic. B) Abiotic. C) Ecology. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ecosystem. 58. Autotrophs make their own food. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 59. Commensalism is when A) Both species benefit. B) One species benefits and one is harmed. C) One species benefits and one is unaffected. D) No one benefits. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) One species benefits and one is unaffected. 60. An animal that get its food and energy from eating producers A) Secondary Consumer. B) Tertiary Consumer. C) Primary Consumer. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Primary Consumer. ← 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