Ecology Quiz 44 (60 MCQs)

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1. Term used to describe the Earth which is home to all living things.
2. Which of the following is an example of a biotic factor?
3. Which is another word for an organism?
4. What are some ABIOTIC factors in an environment?
5. The average weather of an ecosystem:
6. Fish, coral, whale sharks and plankton are apart of which level of organization?
7. This biome is characterized by frozen subsoil (permafrost) and includes animals such as the polar bear, lemming, and arctic hare .....
8. The place where an organism gets its food and shelter:
9. Water, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and oxygen are examples of substances ..... between the biotic and abiotic parts of an environment.
10. A symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other is unaffected
11. The biosphere is .....
12. What is at the base of every food chain?
13. If one species is lost from a food web the community will probably collapse.
14. Relationship where both organism benefit
15. Which layer of the earth's atmosphere protects the earth from dangerous ultraviolet radiation of the sun?
16. Natural disasters such as flooding and tornadoes are linked to .....
17. The rock, dust, soil, and minerals of the Earth's solid crust and outer mantle make up the .....
18. A community of organisms and their abiotic factor enviroment is called a
19. Which level of consumer usually eats the producers or autotrophs?
20. What energy molecule do plants make as a result of photosynthesis?
21. What type of interaction is this? The Goby fish alerts protects the shrimp which can't see and the shrimp digs a burrow for the goby to live in
22. What is the symbiotic relationship called in which the organism is helped and the other organism is harmed?
23. Photosynthesis will most likely appear in which of these cycles?
24. Which biome is hot during the day, cold at night, animals are nocturnal & has limited rain?
25. All food chains start with .....
26. Ecology is the scientific study of interactions between organisms and their environments, focusing on energy transfer* It is a science of relationships.
27. This biome is made-up of deciduous trees; it experiences four seasons annually. Pennsylvania is found in this biome. Which one is it?
28. Why is it said that "Plants are producers in ecosystems."
29. Living features of the environment.
30. Animals are divided into groups based on heat exchange
31. Parasites feed on other organisms
32. Which is NOT a consumer
33. You should turn off the lights to save .....
34. The place on Earth where life exists is called the .....
35. True or False:Parasites are animals that live inside or on other animals, and cause diseases.
36. Which abiotic factor will cause a plant shoot to grow in a direction other than straight up?
37. Which of these is an example of a limiting factor
38. Green plants absorb light energy and use it to combine carbon dioxide and water to make starch which then is stored as starch in their stems and leaves. True or false?
39. What is missing from this food chain? Grass > Grasshopper > Bird > Snake
40. Members of a species in a defined area
41. Which group uses the sun's energy to make food?
42. Cutting of trees in a forest is callled
43. What is the study of interactions between organisms and the living and nonliving components of their environment?
44. An Organism that can't make its own food and has to eat other organisms.
45. What is labeled as 3?
46. Which of the following factors is not a threat to biodiversity?
47. When energy moves between trophic levels in an ecosystem energy is lost as?
48. My mother ..... flowers in our garden.
49. If an organism is extinct, that means
50. Organisms use 90% of the available energy at each trophic level.
51. What does fungi do to dead plants and animals?
52. A(n) ..... eats mainly plants.
53. Throw your ..... in the bin
54. Series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
55. If a producer receives 5, 000, 000 kJ of energy, the tertiary consumer would only have access to about ..... kJ of energy
56. Are parasites good for us true or false?
57. Illustration that shows who eats whom
58. The competition relationship is when the members of the same population have to compete for a limited supply of food. This competition prevents
59. What makes a species invasive?
60. As a population of a species increases within a territory, which of the following most likely also increases?