This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Ecology – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ecology Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What are the types of symbiosis? A) Mutualism. B) Parasitism. C) Commensalism. D) All three. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All three. 2. Which of the following are biotic? I. Decomposers II. Energy flow III. Producers A) I only. B) II only. C) III only. D) I and III. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) I and III. 3. You need it to breathe A) Ojogene. B) Oxygen. C) Oxen. D) Oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxygen. 4. Indicate the biotic and abiotic factors that affect the distribution of organisms in an environment. Water and oxygen A) Biotic. B) Abiotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abiotic. 5. These organisms break down organic matter and release it back into the environment. Ex:Bacteria, Fungi A) Decomposers. B) Autotrophs. C) Carnivores. D) Omnivores. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Decomposers. 6. I have new ..... in my pencilcase. A) Fruits. B) Vegetables. C) Books. D) Markers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Markers. 7. What is a example of a abiotic factor? A) Panda. B) Bacteria. C) Butterfly. D) Weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Weather. 8. "All the geese on Woodland's baseball field" would be an example of a A) Population. B) Community. C) Ecosystem. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Population. 9. Which of the following is the correct timeline for species to appear in ecological primary succession? A) Lichen, grasses, trees, shrubs. B) Lichen, grasses, shrubs, trees. C) Grasses, shrubs, lichen, trees. D) Shrubs, lichen, grasses, trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lichen, grasses, shrubs, trees. 10. The picture shows ..... ecosystem. A) Forest. B) Ocean. C) Grassland. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ocean. 11. Symbiotic relationships where both species benefit are called A) Commensal. B) Mutual. C) Parasitic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mutual. 12. What is the process where organisms that are better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring? A) Evolution. B) Adaptation. C) Natural selection. D) Selected breeding. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Natural selection. 13. Example of tertiary consumer A) Worm. B) Tree. C) Snake. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Snake. 14. A bunch of food chains all connected like a spider web. A) Food web. B) Food chain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Food web. 15. Which primarily eats other animals? A) Herbivore. B) Detritivore/Decomposer. C) Omnivore. D) Carnivore. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carnivore. 16. An ecosystem is made up of all the ..... and ..... factors in an area. A) Not/without. B) Limiting Factor/ Carrying Capacity. C) Life/ biotic factor. D) Living/ Nonliving. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Living/ Nonliving. 17. Ecology is the study of: A) Only living things in an environment. B) Only the nonliving things in an environment. C) How living things interact with each other and the nonliving things in the environment. D) Scientists who perform research on living things. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) How living things interact with each other and the nonliving things in the environment. 18. What happens to a food web's energy at each level? A) All the energy is stored within the organism. B) Most of the energy is used by the organism for life functions and some is lost as heat. C) All the energy is released into the environment. D) Some of the energy is stored within the organism; the rest of the energy goes back to the produce. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Most of the energy is used by the organism for life functions and some is lost as heat. 19. What is the PRODUCT of the process used by producers that is passed on as energy throughout an ecosystem? A) Photosynthesis. B) Sun. C) Glucose. D) Carbon dioxide. E) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Glucose. 20. Reservoirs in the water cycle include A) The atmosphere. B) Living things. C) The ocean. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 21. Why can limiting resources decrease the rate of growth for a population? A) Resources are only available in few environments. B) There are too many available resources. C) Resources are only available for a single species. D) There are very little available resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) There are very little available resources. 22. Why is a bird's nest consider biotic? A) It is made by a living organism. B) It will eventually decay and weather. C) It is made of nonliving materials. D) It provides a house for bird's eggs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is made by a living organism. 23. Which of the following could be considered a secondary consumer? A) Shrew. B) Rabbit. C) Deer. D) Squirrel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shrew. 24. Herbivores are a necessary link between producers and other consumers. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 25. To die out-to die out A) Wrong. B) Right. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Right. 26. What do we call several different populations interacting in some way? A) Biome. B) Population. C) Ecosystem. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Community. 27. Energy for producers in the food chain comes directly from the ..... A) Secondary consumers. B) Primary consumers. C) Sun. D) Soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sun. 28. Tertiary consumers A) Eat the primary consumer. B) Eat plants and animals. C) Consume the producer. D) Eat the secondary consumer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Eat the secondary consumer. 29. A relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and the other is unaffected A) Camouflage. B) Host. C) Commensalism. D) Parasite. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Commensalism. 30. What does Tropic Level 2 Contain? A) Primary Consumers. B) Secondary Consumers. C) Producers. D) Tertiary Consumers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Primary Consumers. 31. Michael, David, and Ava went on a field trip to a forest. They observed various animals and plants interacting with each other and their surroundings. Based on their observations, which subject were they practically studying? A) The study of money. B) The study of environments. C) The study of the interaction of living things with each other and their physical environment. D) The study of of living things. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The study of the interaction of living things with each other and their physical environment. 32. Which is represented by all of the bullfrogs living in the same area at the same time? A) Community. B) Habitat. C) Population. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Population. 33. How many letters does the word nature consist of? A) 1488. B) 6. C) 754. D) 52. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 6. 34. What is emigration? A) The number of two species living in the same area. B) Excessive reduction in the birth of species. C) The number of individuals born at the same time. D) The displacement of a part of the population to the unfavorable parts of the given area. E) The number of individuals who died during a period of time. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The displacement of a part of the population to the unfavorable parts of the given area. 35. All the members of one species in an ecosystem is a ..... A) Herd. B) Community. C) Population. D) Colony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Population. 36. ..... is the variety of organisms in a given area A) Nomenclature. B) Biodiversity. C) Gene Pool. D) Variety. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biodiversity. 37. What are some consequences of deforestation? A) Increased population in cities. B) Building of more infrastructure. C) Soil erosion, loss of biodiversity, loss of ability to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. D) More mercury and cyanide released into rivers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Soil erosion, loss of biodiversity, loss of ability to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. 38. What limits Population Growth? A) Birth rates increasing. B) Resources being used up. C) Natural selection taking place. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Resources being used up. 39. The climate zones around the equator are A) Temperate. B) Polar. C) Biomes. D) Tropical. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tropical. 40. A bear happily eats berries and fish; therefore, it is what type of consumer? A) Omnivore. B) Producer. C) Herbivore. D) Carnivore. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Omnivore. 41. Vultures and hyenas, which feed on the remains of dead organisms, are considered ..... A) Producers. B) Herbivores. C) Primary consumers. D) Scavengers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scavengers. 42. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms is called a(n) A) Food web. B) Biome. C) Food chain. D) Energy pyramid. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biome. 43. Imagine a very hot summer with little rain. What would be the limiting factor for the populations of all of the animals? A) Food. B) Water. C) Space. D) Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Water. 44. Biotic factor is A) A dead organism. B) A living organism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A living organism. 45. Made up of interconnected food chain A) Abiotic. B) Food web. C) Consumer. D) Biotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Food web. 46. Which way do the arrows point? A) Towards the animal doing the eating. B) Towards the animal being eaten. C) Wrong. D) Right. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Towards the animal doing the eating. 47. The place an organism lives/calls home is what? A) A population. B) A community. C) A niche. D) To habitat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To habitat. 48. Is a group of lady bugs a population A) I dont know. B) Yes. C) Maybe. D) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yes. 49. Any population will increase in number if: A) Birth rate is more than death rate. B) Death rate is more than birth rate. C) Birth rate is equal to death rate. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Birth rate is more than death rate. 50. A major, direct cause of habitat loss is A) The destruction of the ozone layer. B) Humans cutting down trees. C) Greenhouse gas emissions. D) Humans overharvesting fish. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Humans cutting down trees. 51. Scientist who introduced the definition of ecological system A) E. Haeckel. B) R.Hook. C) IN AND. Vernadsky. D) Sh. Shvarts. E) A. Tansley. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) A. Tansley. 52. An ..... is made up of all the living (biotic) and non living (abiotic) in an area. A) Ecosystem. B) Biome. C) Community. D) Biosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ecosystem. 53. Autoecology deals with A) Individuals. B) Individuals and cells. C) Species & populations. D) The biosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Species & populations. 54. Which of the following characteristics is biodiversity is defined by? A) Ecological Diversity. B) Species Diversity. C) Genetic Diversity. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 55. Conservation of natural resources A) Global warming. B) Protection of natural resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Protection of natural resources. 56. All the living things in an environment A) Biotic factors. B) Animals. C) Natural Selection. D) Traits. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biotic factors. 57. Relationship where both species benefit A) Mutalism. B) Commensalism. C) Parasitism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mutalism. 58. What is salinity? A) How many organisms are in the ecosystem. B) How much light reaches the water. C) How much salt is dissolved in the water. D) How many nutrients can be found in an ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) How much salt is dissolved in the water. 59. When A population size grows so large that it causes damage to the environment A) Threaten Species. B) Overpopulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Overpopulation. 60. The scientific study of how organisms interact with their environment and all the other organisms that live in that environment A) Biotic factor. B) Ecology. C) Ecosystem. D) Food chain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ecology. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesScience QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesEcology Quiz 1Ecology Quiz 2Ecology Quiz 4Ecology Quiz 5Ecology Quiz 6Ecology Quiz 7Ecology Quiz 8Ecology Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books