This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Ecology – Quiz 36 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ecology Quiz 36 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The process of a biome being turned into a desert biome A) Desertification. B) Eutrophication. C) Nonification. D) Grassification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Desertification. 2. Grasslands are characterized by low amounts of rainfall, few trees, and lots of grass. Which of the following would be the primary inhabitants of the grasslands? A) Thick-furred mammals. B) Water-conserving plants. C) Tree-dwelling primates. D) Large herbivores. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Large herbivores. 3. Consumes animals A) Scavenger. B) Omnivore. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Omnivore. 4. Competition between two different species? A) Intrerspecific competition. B) Intraspecific competition. C) Mutualism. D) Commensalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Intrerspecific competition. 5. A community ..... A) Group of the same species that live in one area. B) Major regional or global community of organisms. C) A group of different species that live together in one area. D) An singular living thing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A group of different species that live together in one area. 6. When water vapor s cooled and forms droplets- A) Evaporation. B) Transpiration. C) Run-off. D) Condensation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Condensation. 7. Noise pollution / standards A) Noise pollution/noise pollution standards. B) Nonpoint source of pollution. C) Oil film (on water). D) Ozone depleting substances. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Noise pollution/noise pollution standards. 8. When you have multiple populations in an area together ..... they are called ..... A) An ecosystem. B) A population. C) A community. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A community. 9. The series of events through which a stable environment forms in a previously uninhabited region. A) Biodiversity. B) Secondary Succession. C) Primary Succession. D) Pioneer Species. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Primary Succession. 10. The prefix BIo-means? A) Life, living. B) Before, ahead of time. C) Before, ahead of time. D) House. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Life, living. 11. Which factors, if present, may cause a population of animals to decrease? A) Predation an disease. B) Predation and no disease. C) No predation and no disease. D) No predation and disease. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Predation an disease. 12. The third trophic level where animals eat herbivores is consist of: A) Biotic factors. B) Secondary consumer. C) Secondary producers. D) Abiotic factors. E) Primary producer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Secondary consumer. 13. What is the term for the land, water, and air on Earth and all its organisms? A) Biosphere. B) Community. C) Population. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biosphere. 14. Any factor that restrains the growth of a population A) Trophic level. B) Limiting factors. C) Carrying capacity. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Limiting factors. 15. Which of the following is the correct levels of organization in the correct order? A) Organism, ecosystem, community, population. B) Population, community, ecosystem, organism. C) Organism, community, population, ecosystem, biome. D) Organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome. 16. An organism that eats meat and plants A) Scavenger. B) Carnivore. C) Omnivore. D) Herbivore. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Omnivore. 17. The lion lives on the savanna. A) Habitat. B) Niche. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Habitat. 18. Which organisms contains the greatest amount of energy? A) Producer. B) Primary consumer. C) Tertiary consumer. D) Predator. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Producer. 19. What is a symbiotic relationship of a wolf and rabbit? A) The wolf hunts and kills the rabbit for its food. B) The rabbit hunts and kills the wolf for its food. C) The rabbit hunts and kills a deer who then kills a mouse for food. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The wolf hunts and kills the rabbit for its food. 20. Which item would be classified as an "abiotic factor" in an ecosystem? A) Bird. B) Rock. C) Ant. D) Fungi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rock. 21. When different biotic populations interact within an environment A) Circle of life. B) Biome. C) Community. D) Species. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Community. 22. The process in which water vapor changes to tiny droplets of liquid water A) Precipitation. B) Condensation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Condensation. 23. First species to arrive in an area A) Pioneer species. B) Abiotic components. C) Invasive species. D) Parasites. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pioneer species. 24. Ohio would be considered what biome? A) Coniferous rainforest. B) Temperate deciduous rainforest. C) Grassland. D) Shrubland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Temperate deciduous rainforest. 25. Natural catastrophes can upset the balance of an ecosystem. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 26. What is the area underground where there is not any water? A) Zone of Saturation. B) Zone of Aeration. C) Water. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Zone of Aeration. 27. Which of the following is a carnivore? A) Rabbit. B) Tiger. C) Giraffe. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tiger. 28. Competition between two species occurs when: A) Mutualistic symbiosis occurs. B) One animal feeds on the remains of an animal killed by a car. C) Two animals eat the same food in the same place at the same time. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Two animals eat the same food in the same place at the same time. 29. Which of these BEST describes how some birds survive when the weather gets cold? A) They store twigs and sticks in their nest. B) They migrate to a warmer climate. C) They grow more feathers to stay warm in the winter. D) They hide in bushes and wait for warm weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They migrate to a warmer climate. 30. What organisms carry out nitrogen fixation? A) Bacteria. B) Humans. C) Plants. D) Fungi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bacteria. 31. Mutualism means: A) Benefits the primary consumer. B) Benefits one population. C) Benefits both species. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Benefits both species. 32. Which are examples of biotic factors? A) Predators, food (plants), competition. B) Sun, water, temperature. C) Any nonliving factor. D) Carbon dioxide, nitrogen, phosphorous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Predators, food (plants), competition. 33. Many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem is a A) Food chain. B) Food web. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Food web. 34. Affects the amount of water that can be absorbed and used by plants and animals. A) Soil profile. B) Soli composition. C) Particle size. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Particle size. 35. Carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere by A) Decomposition. B) Combustion. C) Photosynthesis. D) Respiration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Photosynthesis. 36. Population density is A) The number of people in a school. B) The number of individuals per unit of area. C) The number of individuals in a mile. D) The number of people in your house. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The number of individuals per unit of area. 37. What best describes the relationship between bees and flowering plants. A) Parasitism. B) Neutralism. C) Commensalism. D) Mutualism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mutualism. 38. Anything that can decrease the size of a population including living (biotic) and non living (abiotic) features of an ecosystem such as predators and drought. A) Limiting factor. B) Ecosystem. C) Carrying capacity. D) Habitat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limiting factor. 39. The process of natural selection leads to genetic change in a population.Which factor causes the population to change in natural selection? A) Environmental conditions or challenges. B) Individual choice. C) Human intervention. D) Migration over long distances. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Environmental conditions or challenges. 40. Which are examples of consumers? A) Grass and cows. B) Turtles and seaweed. C) Owls and bears. D) Sun and mushrooms. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Owls and bears. 41. Which of the following is a density-independent limiting factor? A) Parasitism. B) Disease. C) Earthquake. D) Emigration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Earthquake. 42. Living and non-living things in an area A) Biome. B) Ecosystem. C) Community. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ecosystem. 43. Climax stage of ecological succession is indicated that: A) Nudation. B) Stable Community. C) Developing Community. D) Pioneer Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stable Community. 44. The term biomass refers to the total A) Dry mass of the organisms in a given area. B) Unused material excreted as waste. C) Producer-to-consumer ratio. D) Mass of all living things on Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dry mass of the organisms in a given area. 45. Feeding positions in a food chain or web A) Niche. B) Trophic level. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Trophic level. 46. An organism that obtains energy by eating only plants A) Herbivore. B) Omnivore. C) Plant. D) Carnivore. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Herbivore. 47. What kind of factor:flood? A) Density-dependent. B) Density-independent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Density-independent. 48. Where an organism lives and all aspects of the environment. A) Biosphere. B) Niche. C) Population. D) Habitat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Habitat. 49. Ecology is ..... A) The study of how organisms tolerate different climates. B) The study of the relationship of organisms in an environment. C) The study of plants. D) The study of rocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The study of the relationship of organisms in an environment. 50. What is the range of physical and biological conditions in which species lives and the way the species obtain what is needed A) Resources. B) Niche. C) Adaptation. D) Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Niche. 51. What is the name of air pollution over a city? A) Smoke. B) Car exhaust. C) Smog. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Smog. 52. Which of the following is NOT carried out by microorganisms in the nitrogen cycle? A) Nitrogen fixation. B) Absorption of nitrates. C) Denitrification. D) Nitrification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Absorption of nitrates. 53. A Remora fish swimming under a shark is an example of A) Mutualism. B) Commensalism. C) Parasitism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Commensalism. 54. 2 factors which increase population size A) Death Rate, Emigration. B) Death Rate, Immigration. C) Birth Rate, Emigration. D) Birth Rate, Immigration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Birth Rate, Immigration. 55. In an energy pyramid, which level has the most available energy? A) Producer level. B) Tertiary consumer. C) Secondary consumer. D) Primary consumer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Producer level. 56. How does energy usually flow in ecosystems? A) From the Sun through consumers to producers. B) From consumers through the Sun to producers. C) From producers through the Sun to consumers. D) From the Sun through producers to consumers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) From the Sun through producers to consumers. 57. The countryside is considered a ..... area. A) Producer. B) Urban. C) Rural. D) Barter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rural. 58. Bacteria fix nitrogen from the atmosphere into a form plants can use. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 59. The animal that is hunted and caught for food A) Autotroph. B) Parasite. C) Prey. D) Predator. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prey. 60. What is an indicator species? A) The study of interactions between organisms and the environment. B) A species that is sensitive to the environment. C) The place where an organism lives in a community. D) All the organisms of the same species living in the same place at the same time. 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