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Ecology Quiz 38 (60 MCQs)

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1. The nonliving factors found in an ecosytem.
2. How is energy transferred from the sun to producers?
3. What climate zone experiences four distinct seasons and average year-round precipitation?
4. What type of symbiosis occurs when one organisms benefits and the other does not but is also not harmed. Ex) Moss growing on a tree.
5. Barnacles living on a whale
6. Many animals of the grasslands do this.
7. Biotic factors are .....
8. Which type of squirrels introduced from America are now out-competing native red squirrels in the UK?
9. This term means life/living things
10. An organism that obtains energy by eating animals
11. Close, long-term relationship between two speices that usually involves an exchange of food and energy
12. Trees and flowers are .....
13. Which nitrogen cycle process is occurring when bacteria convert ammonium to nitrite and then into nitrate?
14. The animal that is hunted for food
15. Grass is considered a .....
16. Why do deep water ecosystems tend to have low biodiversity?
17. A bird's habitat is .....
18. What will happen to the population if the immigration and emigration are equal and the birth and death rate are equal
19. Eats dead organisms and returns nutrients to soil
20. All the living AND non-living things in an area make up a(n) .....
21. The organism that gets eaten is called .....
22. Animals that live permanently in the soil and spend their entire development cycle in the soil
23. This type of succession occurs after a forest fire
24. This type of consumer eats only plants.
25. Choose the right meaning:rubbish
26. Warm, shallow waters with many organisms.
27. How does Energy move in a food chain/web?
28. An organism that can change the way it eats, adjusting to almost any condition is called a(n)
29. Which of these sets of three items produce CFCs
30. What is an example of a producer for Biology?
31. What type of symbiosis? *Fungi form lichens by living in a close relationship with an algae. The fungus provides a protective home for the algae, and gathers mineral nutrients from rainwater and from dissolving the rock underneath. *The algae gathers energy from the sun using photosynthesis. Both organisms share their nutrients with each other.
32. A(n) ..... is made up of all the living things in an area and their non-living environment.
33. What is the process in which plants use sunlight to create energy?
34. Which statement best describes a biogeochemical cycle?
35. A dead leaf is an/a .....
36. A network of many food chains
37. 1st law of thermodynamics:
38. Bacteria converts nitrates in the soil back into atmospheric nitrogen gas by which process?
39. Hookworms enter the human body by burrowing into the skin of the feet. Once in the skin they enter the bloodstream and travel to the small intestine where they attach to the walls and begin to drink the person's blood and weaken the victim.
40. For any natural ecosystem, which of the following statements applies to the energy pyramid, the biomass pyramid, and the numbers pyramid?
41. What is the average amount of energy transferred from one trophic level to the next?
42. What is one way that carbon enters the atmosphere?
43. Demography is the science that studies
44. Which is an example of mutualism?
45. What color is the container into which we throw metal waste?
46. A group of hyenas that live together in the same area are considered a .....
47. All of the populations that live in an area.
48. Ecology comes from two Greek roots:What are they?
49. To be concerned about the state of something/something
50. Which of the following describes #3?
51. What do plants produce when they carry out photosynthesis?
52. Easily identified as an area where trees lose their leaves every fall.
53. What is the largest classification group
54. Which of the following describes a population of fish, crabs, and sharks that live in the same area?
55. Most organisms cannot live in ..... temperature.
56. How much energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next
57. Includes the atmosphere, living organisms, and fossil fuel deposits
58. Which one of these does not add CO2 to the atmosphere?
59. The rate at which the resource is used and the time it takes the resource to be replaced determines:
60. Which biomes would be found nearest to the equator?
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