This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Ecology – Quiz 42 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ecology Quiz 42 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following is the largest level of organization? A) Biome. B) Biosphere. C) Population. D) Species. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biosphere. 2. What is another name for producers? A) Autotroph. B) Heterotroph. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Autotroph. 3. What does hibernation mean? A) To be wide awake. B) To get warm. C) To go into a deep sleep. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To go into a deep sleep. 4. The ozone layer protects us from A) Increased atmospheric heat. B) CFCs. C) UV rays. D) Decreased atmospheric heat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) UV rays. 5. What is a small cat ..... A) A kitten. B) A goat. C) A dog. D) A puppy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A kitten. 6. What is an ecological model of the relationships that form a network of complex interactions among organisms in a community from producers to decomposers? A) A population. B) An ecosystem. C) Food chain. D) Food web. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Food chain. 7. The movement of matter through biotic and abiotic environment is called ..... A) Carbon fixation. B) Biogeochemical cycle. C) Photosynthesis. D) Matter cycling. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biogeochemical cycle. 8. Living things in an environment, like grass or rabbits, are examples of: A) Abiotic factors. B) Biotic factors. C) Producers. D) Habitats. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biotic factors. 9. You can use the nitrogen in the atmosphere A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 10. This prevents the survival of organism A) Optimum range. B) Tolerance range. C) Limiting factor. D) Carrying Capacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Limiting factor. 11. If a new organism or temperature came into an ecosystem A) Can be huge or tiny. B) Air, water, nutrients, sun, temperature. C) It can harm or destroy an ecosystem or distort the natural balance. D) A role an organism plays in an environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It can harm or destroy an ecosystem or distort the natural balance. 12. Why do some animals hibernate? A) The cold weather makes them sleepy. B) Their food supply is smaller in the winter. C) They have no one to play with. D) They have low energy in the winter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Their food supply is smaller in the winter. 13. Recycling means ..... A) Cleaning something. B) Using something again. C) Cycling somewhere again. D) Travelling by bike. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Using something again. 14. This biome has many names depending where in the world you are that include veldts, savannas, steppes, and prairies and receives 25 to 100 cm of rain a year. Lots of herbivores live here A) Tundra. B) Grasslands. C) Deserts. D) Boreal Forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Grasslands. 15. A process by which animals use oxygen and food to make energy and carbon dioxide. A) Running. B) Respiration. C) Photosynthesis. D) Carbon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Respiration. 16. This biome has the most diverse species of plants and animals. A) Tundra. B) Savanna. C) Desert. D) Tropical rainforest. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tropical rainforest. 17. What of the following is listed in order correctly from smallest to largest? A) Organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome. B) Organism, ecosystem, community, biome, population. C) Organism, community, population, ecosystem, biome. D) Organism, population, ecosystem, community, biome. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome. 18. Which of the following is an example of a predator's adaptation? A) A shark's powerful jaws. B) A plant's poisonous chemicals. C) A frog's bright colors. D) A porcupine's needles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A shark's powerful jaws. 19. The use of oxygen to break down sugars to get energy A) Respiration. B) Photosynthesis. C) Chemosynthesis. D) Decomposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Respiration. 20. Which process REMOVES carbon from the atmosphere? A) Combustion. B) Respiration. C) Photosynthesis. D) Death and decomposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Photosynthesis. 21. The number of individuals per unit area is the definition of which? A) Population distribution. B) Population density. C) Survivorship type 2. D) Survivorship type 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population density. 22. Which catastrophic event will most likely cause an ecosystem to begin primary succession? A) To tornado. B) A volcanic eruption. C) A flood. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A volcanic eruption. 23. Herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores are all A) Decomposers. B) Scavengers. C) Consumers. D) Producers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consumers. 24. Which of the following describes a community? A) All populations that live in the same area but don't interact. B) All population that live in the same area and interact. C) All populations that contain the same species. D) All populations that live in the same area. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All populations that live in the same area. 25. Energy flow for an ecosystem starts with ..... A) Sun. B) Moon. C) Neither. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sun. 26. One factor that drives population changes is A) The availability of resources. B) Predation. C) Both a and b. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both a and b. 27. A stable ecological community that has reached equilibrium: A) Pioneer species. B) Ecological succession. C) Secondary succession. D) Climax community. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Climax community. 28. (births + immigration)-(deaths + emigration) = A) Change in population size. B) Evolution. C) Population replacement. D) Different trophic levels. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Change in population size. 29. All the different populations that live together in an area make up a ..... A) Ecosystem. B) Habitat. C) Factors. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Community. 30. She is a good girl. She helps ..... mother. A) His. B) Its. C) Our. D) Her. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Her. 31. The largest population an environment can support? A) Limiting factor. B) Emigration. C) Population density. D) Carrying capacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carrying capacity. 32. True or false:CO2 is converted into organic materials by decomposition after it is dissolved into the ocean in the carbon cycle. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 33. Which of the following is NOT a biotic factor? A) Owl. B) Coral. C) Water. D) Wood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Water. 34. Forms the basis of all organic compounds A) Carbon. B) Oxygen. C) Nitrogen. D) Hydrogen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carbon. 35. What is meant by "solar radiation equilibrium" in the related ecology principle? A) The complex atmospheric conditions combined with the net influx and radiation outflux produces a long term balance. B) The ecosystem of the earth is maintained by the constant heating of the planet. C) The exact incoming solar radiation is necessary for sustaining life. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The complex atmospheric conditions combined with the net influx and radiation outflux produces a long term balance. 36. The part of Earth where organisms can live. A) Miosphere. B) Hemisphere. C) Biosphere. D) Equator. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biosphere. 37. Which biome experiences very high temperatures during the day and very low temperatures during the night? A) Temperate deciduous. B) Desert. C) Taiga. D) Tropical rainforest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Desert. 38. A group of organisms of the same species living in the same place at the same time is called a(n) ..... A) Ecosystem. B) Organism. C) Community. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Population. 39. Put the levels of organization in an ecosystem in order from the largest to the smallest. A) Organism, community, population. B) Community, organism, population. C) Community, population, organism. D) Population, organism, community. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Community, population, organism. 40. Top soil that is frozen is called A) Permafrost. B) Soil Freeze. C) Frost Bite. D) Ice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Permafrost. 41. Which of the following in biotic? A) Grapes. B) Gold. C) Soil. D) Paper. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Grapes. 42. Layer of the seed that stores food for the seed to use during the process of germination A) Radicle. B) Epicotyl. C) Cotyledon. D) Hypocotyl. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cotyledon. 43. Besides sunlight, what else do plants need to make food? A) Water & oxygen. B) Water & carbon dioxide. C) Predators & dirt. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Water & carbon dioxide. 44. Most of the nutrients in the rainforest ecosystem are in the A) Air. B) Groundwater. C) Topsoil. D) Organisms. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Organisms. 45. A meat eater that can eat herbivores, omnivores or carnivores A) Carnivore. B) Herbivore. C) Omnivore. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carnivore. 46. Seafloor spreading occurs near what feature? A) A mid-ocean ridge. B) A mountain ridge. C) A subduction trench. D) An abyssal plain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A mid-ocean ridge. 47. Ecology studies ..... A) Biodiversity. B) Environment. C) Ecosystems and biodiversity. D) Interconnections organisms/environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Interconnections organisms/environment. 48. Because energy is lost as you move from lower to higher trophic levels, there are usually ..... organisms at higher trophic levels A) More. B) Less. C) The same amount. D) All of these are possible. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Less. 49. A human & a Tape Worm:The tape worm gets a place to live in the intestines of the human and food from the human. The human loses weight and nutrients from the tape worm. A) Mutualism. B) Commensalism. C) Parasitism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parasitism. 50. What is the difference between Primary and Secondary Succession? A) Primary succession and Secondary succession are the same thing. B) Primary succession is in the water, Secondary succession is on land. C) Primary succession is plants, Secondary succession is animals. D) Primary succession starts on barren rock, Secondary succession starts on dirt and soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Primary succession starts on barren rock, Secondary succession starts on dirt and soil. 51. If wolves and bears are top predators, why did more wolves bring more bears? A) Less deer allowed for more berries and bears eat berries. B) Less deer means less food for the bears so they had to find new habitat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Less deer allowed for more berries and bears eat berries. 52. The artic would be considered what biome? A) Desert. B) Tundra. C) Grassland. D) Shrubland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tundra. 53. Which answer is true regarding biodiversity? A) An ecosystem is healthier when the biodiversity is great. B) Biodiversity is positively affected when non-native species are introduced into an environment. C) The rain forest has an unhealthy ecosystem because its biodiversity is too great. D) As long as there are enough producers, an ecosystem is considered to have a good amount of biodiversity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An ecosystem is healthier when the biodiversity is great. 54. This biome gets the highest percentage of rain yearly A) Taiga. B) Temperate Deciduous Forest. C) Tropical Rainforest. D) Grasslands. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tropical Rainforest. 55. The Gobi fish and shrimp live closely together. The nearly blind shrimp keeps a burrow for it and the Gobi fish to live. The Gobi warns the shrimp of predators. The shrimp lets the fish live in the burrow. This is an example of A) Mutualism. B) Commensalism. C) Parasitism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mutualism. 56. Incineration-burning of waste landfill-garbage dump list of endangered species-red book A) Right. B) Wrong. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Right. 57. What is the role of decomposing bacteria in the nitrogen cycle? A) Return the nitrogen compounds to the soil. B) Turn nitrate into nitrogen gas. C) Change Nitrogen gas into Nitrate. D) Turn nitrogen into water. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Return the nitrogen compounds to the soil. 58. Animal populations usually include A) Many different types of animals. B) A mix of adults who breed, and their offspring. C) A lot of animals. D) A small amount of animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A mix of adults who breed, and their offspring. 59. I have abig birthday tonight, My mom and I ..... the house. A) Leave. B) Swim. C) Draw. D) Decorate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Decorate. 60. What can cause airborne dusts? A) Asthma. B) Pneumonia. C) Tuberculosis. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Asthma. ← 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