Ecology Quiz 26 (60 MCQs)

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1. Let's play ..... together.
2. Competition can happen within .....
3. How do animals get the nitrogen they need?
4. What animal from the list below lives in the ocean ecosystem?
5. An organism that breaks down and recycles dead organisms
6. How are the living creatures in an ecosystem linked?
7. Which is NOT a way to help protect biodiversity
8. Antelope and zebras interacting is an example of a (n)
9. A plover is a little bird that walks around inside a crocodile's open mouth and cleans between the crocodile's teeth. What type of relationship is this?
10. A heterotroph is
11. Nitrogen makes up ..... percent of the atmosphere.
12. Which cycle ties Photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
13. Which is a tretiary consumer?
14. When humans EXHALE, we release .....
15. Which of the following is the lowest on the food chain?
16. A watering hole in the African savannah was particularly small one year. The water limited the amount of organisms that were able to survive and this would be considered a:
17. Which type of symbiosis is where one organism is benefited while the other is harmed?
18. What is the correct order on the Energy Pyramid? Starting at the bottom of the pyramid and going to the top
19. How would building a highway affect an environment?
20. What process is occurring when an autotroph is using light energy to power a chemical reaction that converts carbon dioxide and water into sugar and oxygen?
21. Which of the following is an example of a density-independent factor
22. The natural world
23. Which of these is an autotroph?
24. Living things need nitrogen. The nitrogen gas in Earth's atmosphere must be changed into ammonia before most living things can use it. Which of these organisms can change nitrogen gas into ammonia?
25. What will happen if all of the frogs in a population die?
26. When the environment changes more quickly then a species can adapt to the changes, the species may become
27. Tapeworms reside in the human intestine and take nutrients from the human. This is an example of:
28. An omnivore is an organism that eats .....
29. The primary source of energy in an ecosystem comes from:
30. Represents or describes the component of an ecological system.
31. Which of the following is an example of symbiosis?
32. How many trees it takes to make 5 tons of paper?
33. An area of land that has similar biotic and abiotic conditions is a .....
34. Are they helping environment
35. How do humans contribute to the carbon cycle?
36. All nonliving things in the environment
37. Which of the following stores most of the earth's carbon?
38. The amount of water on Earth is constant, and continually recycled over time:some of the water you drink will have passed through a dinosaur.
39. All of the following are limiting factors except
40. Which of these nitrogen molecules would be present in the atmosphere?
41. What does an ATP molecule provide for the prokaryotic cell?
42. This is released by the weathering of rocks.
43. Define mutualism
44. During a school picnic, Nora, Michael, and Ethan were discussing their food habits. Nora said she eats both plants and animals. What would you call Nora based on her food habits?
45. What is the gradual introduction of harmful chemicals in the food chain?
46. ..... is when one organism (a predator) eats another organism (the prey).
47. Match:industrial .....
48. All the interacting organisms living in an area
49. Which of the following is considered to be the most important element in living organisms?
50. This type of organism feeds on dead organic material.
51. Physical features of an organism like the bill on a bird or the fur on a bear.
52. Elephants move OUT of an area
53. If paleontologists find fossils of many different species existing in the same area at approximately the same time, the paleontologists can conclude that the ecosystem in this area had a high degree of-
54. What is the name for the top animal of the food chain
55. What type of species interaction is the following:two bears fighting over the same mate.
56. A large geographical area that is characterized by its climate, flora (plants), and fauna (animals).
57. What is renewable energy not?
58. A scientist was studying a population of fish in a pond over a period of 10 years. He observed thatthe population increased each year for 3 years, and then remained nearly constant for the rest ofthe study. The best explanation for this observation is that the population had
59. Which gas makes up 78% of our atmosphere?
60. Which biome is hot all year with wet and dry seasons?