Ecology Quiz 37 (60 MCQs)

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1. Who introduced the term population to science?
2. Condensation forms ..... in the cool atmosphere.
3. Is sugar (C12H22O11) an element or a compound?
4. Parasitism is when .....
5. Plants release water into the atmosphere by
6. Organisms that have low death rates during early and middle life with an increase in death rates in older age groups have a type ..... survivorship curve.
7. A biotic factors is:
8. What does a food web represent?
9. What is a transect?
10. An organism that uses what scavengers leave behind is a
11. In an exponential growth model, the line resembles a/an .....
12. Which of the following is a grassland area in Central Africa with only a few trees like in the Lion King?
13. ..... is the study of the relationship between organisms and thier environment.
14. The continous sequence of natural processes by which nitrogen in the atmosphere and nitrogenous compounds in the soil are converted .....
15. Prairies and savannas are two examples of this land biome?
16. Why are organisms so well adapted to the biome in which they live?
17. A place where several groups of different animals live together with their nonliving factors is called a(n) .....
18. The roots of some plant species have a special coating to help resist rotting in extremely wet weather. In which environment is it most beneficial for plants to have rot-resistant roots?
19. In ecology, what is population density?
20. Shows a complex network of feeding relationships
21. What is the process of combining nitrogen gas with other elements to make nitrogen into usable compounds?
22. One individual within a species
23. Releases more CO2, increasing greenhouse gases which could lead to climate change.
24. The study of interactions that take place between organisms and their environment.
25. A group of giraffes living in one area are apart of a
26. Which animal (s) would a desert have living in it?
27. A disease resulting in the deaths of one-third of a dense population of bats in a cave would likely be a
28. Bees get nectar and pollen from flowers for food, and they spread pollen from flower to flower to create more plants. This is an example of:
29. What type of relationship occurs when two species fight over limited resources?
30. Which ecological nutrient cycle relies on photosynthesis and respiration?
31. An animal that is at or near the top of the food chain
32. Always (mnij) plastic bottles so as they take less space.
33. What do all living organisms depend on?
34. What is the main source of energy for the entire planet?
35. Which biome consists of lakes, rivers, and streams and only includes 3% of the Earth's water?
36. Fossil fuel-fossil fuel frost-frost
37. What is an herbivore?
38. TRUE or FALSE:An ecosystem contains only biotic factors.
39. Which of the following is the best definition for estuary?
40. A vulture is an example of a
41. The dishes are dirty. Please ..... them.
42. Aquatic organisms that crawl.
43. An inverted pyramid of numbers and an inverted pyramid of biomass are respectively seen in?
44. What organism takes in the carbon that animals breathe out
45. One of the main causes of biodiversity loss is?
46. A heterotroph means?
47. What is the primary source of light and food energy on Earth?
48. What is the main source of energy for producers?
49. Many types of animals like the bear store up fat during the warm summer months and then hibernate during the cold winter months. Hibernation is a common adaptation of animals in which biome?
50. Mistletoe is a plant that grows in the branches of other plants. It grows by taking nutrients and water from these plants. This is an example of:
51. In this type of symbiotic relationship both species benefit from each other
52. Limitations of ecological pyramids involve all these statements, except
53. Mushrooms, bacteria and mold are types of .....
54. If a scientist in New Zealand was studying how a group of herbivores interacted with a group of omnivores, and all of their abiotic surroundings, what level of ecology would she be studying?
55. What animals prey on other animals?
56. A group of the same organisms living together in the same place at the same time is:
57. What is a subatomic particle?
58. Where does nitrogen move?
59. Group of the same species.
60. After 1995, how did the river landscape change?