This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Ecology – Quiz 31 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ecology Quiz 31 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Secondary succession can begin with a forest fire. What is left behind after the fire? A) A thriving ecosystem. B) Bare rock. C) Nothing. D) Soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Soil. 2. The single most important limiting factor in any terrestrial biome is ..... A) Soil type. B) Average monthly temperature. C) Water availability. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Water availability. 3. Sometimes, variation can be caused due to both inherited and environmental factors. Which of these is an example of inherited variation only? A) Height. B) Eye colour. C) Weight. D) Skin colour. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eye colour. 4. To a monkey food, water, and living space are valuable ..... A) Living space. B) Waste. C) Resources. D) Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Resources. 5. A relationship where one organism benefits and one organism is harmed is called ..... A) Mutualism. B) Commensalism. C) Parasitism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parasitism. 6. Which of the following aquatic ecosystem has the greatest NPP? A) Estuaries. B) Lakes and streams. C) Open ocean. D) Tundra. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Estuaries. 7. A group of living things that all belong to the same species is a ..... A) Community. B) Population. C) Biome. D) Pioneer Species. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population. 8. What do humans depend on to provides them food, clothing, energy, medicine, and shelter? A) Plants and animals. B) Air and weather. C) Water and wind. D) Houses. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plants and animals. 9. In the ecosystem, Secondary consumers are ..... A) Carnivores. B) Herbivores. C) Omnivores. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carnivores. 10. Temperatures ..... as you get closer to the Equator. A) Increase. B) Decrease. C) Stay the same. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Increase. 11. What is it called when there is enough food to feed a population? A) Interdependence. B) Food production. C) Food security. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Food security. 12. In an Ecosystem, energy flows: A) One way. B) In a cycle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One way. 13. Species, Population, Community, Ecosystem, Biosphere, Biome A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 14. All plants have nitrogen fixing nodules on their roots. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 15. Consumer that eats only autotrophs to obtain energy: A) Heterotroph. B) Herbivore. C) Community. D) Producer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Herbivore. 16. The parts of an ecosystem that are currently living or that have once lived. A) Biome. B) Species. C) Biotic Factor. D) Abiotic Factor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biotic Factor. 17. Adaptations that involve color, shape, and other physical characteristics A) Structural. B) Behavioral. C) Functional. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Structural. 18. Which type of organisms are typically plants? A) Autotrophs. B) Heterotrophs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Autotrophs. 19. The carrying capacity is the ..... number of individuals in a population that can live in one area. A) Smallest. B) Sampling. C) Community. D) Largest. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Largest. 20. Indicate the biotic and abiotic factors that affect the distribution of organisms in an environment. Sunlight A) Biotic. B) Abiotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abiotic. 21. Which of the following are common consumers in the tundra? A) Polar bears, caribou, foxes. B) Alligators, snakes, crocodiles. C) Hawks, wolves, cheetahs. D) Brown bears, leopards, Hyenas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Polar bears, caribou, foxes. 22. The study of interactions that take place between organisms and abiotic factors is ..... A) Community. B) Limnology. C) Ecology. D) Charles Darwin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ecology. 23. A group of organisms of the same species that live in the same area is called a(n) A) Community. B) Ecosystem. C) Population. D) Biome. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Population. 24. Deer ticks harm deer in a symbiotic relationship. This means the deer tick is a A) Commensalist. B) Mutualist. C) Parasite. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parasite. 25. What are the plants that grow in open places with good light? A) Shade-tolerant plants. B) Light-loving species (heliophytes). C) Shade-loving plants (sciophytes). D) Dry-loving plants. E) Xerofitter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Light-loving species (heliophytes). 26. Which biome covers most of the land mass near the Earth's equator? A) Tundra. B) Desert. C) Grassland. D) Tropical rainforest. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tropical rainforest. 27. An organism that makes its own food is a A) Consumer. B) Herbivore. C) Prey. D) Producer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Producer. 28. All of Earth's biomes (types of ecosystems) make up the ..... A) Biosphere. B) Population. C) Niche. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biosphere. 29. Assume that producers in an ecosystem have 1, 000, 000 kilocalories of energy. How much energy is available to primary consumers? A) About 10% (100, 000 kilocalories). B) About 20% (200, 000 kilocalories). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) About 10% (100, 000 kilocalories). 30. What do the arrows show in a food chain picture? A) They always point to the smallest animals. B) They point to the animal that tastes the best. C) They always point to the producers. D) They point in the direction that energy is flowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They point in the direction that energy is flowing. 31. A stick blending in with the environment A) Predator. B) Prey. C) Camo. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Camo. 32. How much energy is transferred between trophic levels? A) 10%. B) 90%. C) 25%. D) 20%. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 10%. 33. This biome contains mostly spruce trees and Douglas firs, which are both evergreen. The winters are long and cold and the summers are short and rainy. The soil is very rich. Moose and elk live here. This biome is classified as a A) Temperate forest. B) Taiga. C) Tundra. D) Deciduous forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Taiga. 34. What are three of the most important materials needed by living organisms? A) Water, carbon, nitrogen,. B) Water, food, iron. C) Carbon, oxygen, nitrogen. D) Sulfur, carbon, food,. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Water, carbon, nitrogen,. 35. Each level in a food chain or food web is called: A) Food level. B) Energy level. C) Trophic level. D) Matter level. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trophic level. 36. What is another name to describe a heterotroph? A) Consumer. B) Producer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consumer. 37. A diagram that shows how food chains are connected A) Food Web. B) Producer. C) Limiting Factor. D) Consumer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Food Web. 38. The cutting down or removal of all or most trees in a forested area A) Carrying Capacity. B) Biosphere. C) Overpopulation. D) Deforestation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Deforestation. 39. Greatest threat to biological diversity A) Pollution. B) Farming. C) Global Warming. D) Deforestation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Deforestation. 40. Why does livestock produce less food per unit area than crop plants A) There is a loss of energy between trophic levels. B) Animals are much bigger than crop plants so require more land. C) Animals move around more than crop plants so require more land. D) Plants require more energy than livestock. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) There is a loss of energy between trophic levels. 41. A Rabbit eats plants and is an Herbivore. If the Rabbit is eaten by a Coyote then the Coyote is classified as a? A) Primary Consumer. B) Tertiary Consumer. C) Producer. D) Secondary Consumer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Secondary Consumer. 42. . Which of the following is an example of primary succession? A) Grasses growing after a forest fire. B) Non-native species introduced into a climax community. C) Oak trees replacing pine trees in a forest. D) Lichens growing on rocks following a volcanic eruption. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lichens growing on rocks following a volcanic eruption. 43. Phytoplankton are tiny animals that feed on zooplankton. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 44. What is term correctly defines a biome? A) A large geographic area with a similar climate that consists of many ecosystems. B) All the combined biomes on Earth where organisms can survive. C) An organism's role in its ecosystem. D) The place where an organism lives. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A large geographic area with a similar climate that consists of many ecosystems. 45. Part of a cycle that holds an element or water for a long period of time A) Runoff. B) Reservoir. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reservoir. 46. A community is a level in organization that is ..... A) Made of populations of different species that live in the same place and interact. B) A single individual species of organisms that are similar. C) All the individual organisms of the same species in the same place. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Made of populations of different species that live in the same place and interact. 47. All the different POPULATIONS that live together in an area make up a(n) A) Species. B) Community. C) Organisms. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Community. 48. What is the largest and most inclusive level of ecological organization? A) Individual. B) Ecosystem. C) Biome. D) Biosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Biosphere. 49. Which of the following BEST refers to a dynamic ecosystem? A) A species of butterflies feeding on a specific flower in the rainforest. B) Pioneer species interacting with their environment to colonize an area. C) A community of fish species in a swamp remaining unchanged for years. D) The interaction between different species in an environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The interaction between different species in an environment. 50. Which of the following activities contributes the most to carbon emissions globally? A) Deforestation. B) Respiration. C) Burning fossil fuels. D) Agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Burning fossil fuels. 51. Which type of symbiosis is beneficial for both species involved? A) Mutualism. B) Commensalism. C) Predation. D) Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mutualism. 52. Which phase of the water cycle occurs through the stomata of plant leaves? A) Transpiration. B) Evaporation. C) Precipitation. D) Condensation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transpiration. 53. Contain fresh and saltwater. A) Estuaries. B) Cemeteries. C) Saltwater mines. D) Clearwater mines. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Estuaries. 54. The Maximum size of a population that a given environment can support. A) Limiting Factor. B) Biodiversity. C) Sustainable. D) Carrying Capacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carrying Capacity. 55. Which of the following is NOT a nonliving thing? A) Sun. B) Wood. C) Rocks. D) Milk. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wood. 56. Which of the following producers will you most likely find in the taiga? A) Mushrooms. B) Coniferous trees. C) Palm trees. D) Star grass. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Coniferous trees. 57. One organism benefits and the other is harmed A) Mutualism. B) Symbiosis. C) Parasitism. D) Commensalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parasitism. 58. Animals that feed on other animals are ..... A) Producers. B) Omnivores. C) Prey. D) Predators. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Predators. 59. When water is heated in the ocean by the sun and turns into water vapor A) Evaporation. B) Transpiration. C) Runoff. D) Condensation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Evaporation. 60. Movement of individuals out of a population A) Immigration. B) Emigration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emigration. ← 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