This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Ecology – Quiz 44 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ecology Quiz 44 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Term used to describe the Earth which is home to all living things. A) Biome. B) Ecosystem. C) Ecology. D) Biosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Biosphere. 2. Which of the following is an example of a biotic factor? A) Parasitism. B) Plants. C) Disease. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plants. 3. Which is another word for an organism? A) Abiotic factor. B) Biotic factor. C) Nonliving thing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biotic factor. 4. What are some ABIOTIC factors in an environment? A) Rocks, clouds, stream, temperature, air, wind, sun. B) Animals, people, flowers, trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rocks, clouds, stream, temperature, air, wind, sun. 5. The average weather of an ecosystem: A) Wind. B) Temperature. C) Climate. D) Precipitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Climate. 6. Fish, coral, whale sharks and plankton are apart of which level of organization? A) Biosphere. B) Community. C) Population. D) Biome. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Community. 7. This biome is characterized by frozen subsoil (permafrost) and includes animals such as the polar bear, lemming, and arctic hare ..... A) Taiga. B) Arctic Tundra. C) Alpine Tundra. D) Rainforest. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alpine Tundra. 8. The place where an organism gets its food and shelter: A) Individual. B) Habitat. C) Ecosystem. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Habitat. 9. Water, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and oxygen are examples of substances ..... between the biotic and abiotic parts of an environment. A) Recycled. B) Perspired. C) Respiration. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Recycled. 10. A symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other is unaffected A) Mutualism. B) Competition. C) Parasitism. D) Commensalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Commensalism. 11. The biosphere is ..... A) All of planet earth. B) Many organisms of the same species. C) Multiple species living in an area. D) All biotic and abiotic factors. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All of planet earth. 12. What is at the base of every food chain? A) Secondary Consumers. B) Producers. C) The Sun. D) Primary Consumers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Sun. 13. If one species is lost from a food web the community will probably collapse. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 14. Relationship where both organism benefit A) Parasitism. B) Commensalism. C) Mutualism. D) Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mutualism. 15. Which layer of the earth's atmosphere protects the earth from dangerous ultraviolet radiation of the sun? A) Ionosphere. B) Ozonosphere. C) Troposphere. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ozonosphere. 16. Natural disasters such as flooding and tornadoes are linked to ..... A) Ecosystem. B) Old field. C) Secondary succession. D) Primary succession. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Secondary succession. 17. The rock, dust, soil, and minerals of the Earth's solid crust and outer mantle make up the ..... A) Cryosphere. B) Geosphere. C) Atmosphere. D) Biosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Geosphere. 18. A community of organisms and their abiotic factor enviroment is called a A) Population. B) Ecosystem. C) Biosphere. D) Biome. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ecosystem. 19. Which level of consumer usually eats the producers or autotrophs? A) Primary consumer. B) Secondary consumer. C) Tertiary consumer. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Primary consumer. 20. What energy molecule do plants make as a result of photosynthesis? A) Water. B) Carbon dioxide. C) Oxygen. D) Glucose. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Glucose. 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 A) Commensalism. B) Predator-Prey. C) Mutualism. D) Parasitism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mutualism. 22. What is the symbiotic relationship called in which the organism is helped and the other organism is harmed? A) Parasitism. B) Commensalism. C) Mutualism. D) Consumer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parasitism. 23. Photosynthesis will most likely appear in which of these cycles? A) Nitrogen. B) Carbon. C) Water. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carbon. 24. Which biome is hot during the day, cold at night, animals are nocturnal & has limited rain? A) Tundra. B) Deciduous Forest. C) Taiga. D) Desert. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Desert. 25. All food chains start with ..... A) Animals. B) Consumers. C) Green plants. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Green plants. 26. Ecology is the scientific study of interactions between organisms and their environments, focusing on energy transfer* It is a science of relationships. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 27. This biome is made-up of deciduous trees; it experiences four seasons annually. Pennsylvania is found in this biome. Which one is it? A) Temperate Deciduous Forest. B) Tropical RainForest. C) Taiga. D) Tundra. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Temperate Deciduous Forest. 28. Why is it said that "Plants are producers in ecosystems." A) Plants can absorb water and minerals directly from the soil. B) Plants are food for both people and animals. C) Plants can photosynthesise or make their own food. D) Plants can provide four essential elements to humans. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plants can photosynthesise or make their own food. 29. Living features of the environment. A) Habitat. B) Population. C) Biotic. D) Abiotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biotic. 30. Animals are divided into groups based on heat exchange A) Hydrobiont, hygrobiont. B) Poikilotherm, homoeotherm, heterotherm. C) Stenobiont, eurybiont. D) Xerophyte, mesophyte. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poikilotherm, homoeotherm, heterotherm. 31. Parasites feed on other organisms A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 32. Which is NOT a consumer A) Plant. B) Lion. C) Bird. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plant. 33. You should turn off the lights to save ..... A) Energy. B) Water. C) Rubbish. D) Food. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Energy. 34. The place on Earth where life exists is called the ..... A) Biome. B) Ecosystem. C) Biosphere. D) Bionic place. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biosphere. 35. True or False:Parasites are animals that live inside or on other animals, and cause diseases. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 36. Which abiotic factor will cause a plant shoot to grow in a direction other than straight up? A) Amount of top soil. B) Location of the light. C) Temperature. D) Amount of water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Location of the light. 37. Which of these is an example of a limiting factor A) Food. B) Predators. C) Weather conditions. D) Disease. E) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) All of the above. 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? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 39. What is missing from this food chain? Grass > Grasshopper > Bird > Snake A) Secondary Consumer. B) Primary Consumer. C) Producer. D) Decoposer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Decoposer. 40. Members of a species in a defined area A) Population. B) Ecosystem. C) Community. D) Biodiversity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Population. 41. Which group uses the sun's energy to make food? A) Consumers. B) Producers. C) Decomposers. D) Predators. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Producers. 42. Cutting of trees in a forest is callled A) Reforestation. B) Deforestation. C) Tree fall. D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deforestation. 43. What is the study of interactions between organisms and the living and nonliving components of their environment? A) Environmental. B) Biology. C) Ecology. D) Geology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ecology. 44. An Organism that can't make its own food and has to eat other organisms. A) Producer. B) Abiotic. C) Heterotroph. D) Autotroph. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Heterotroph. 45. What is labeled as 3? A) Biome. B) Community. C) Biosphere. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Community. 46. Which of the following factors is not a threat to biodiversity? A) Excessive hunting or fishing. B) Pollution. C) Invasive species. D) Land bridges or corridors. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Land bridges or corridors. 47. When energy moves between trophic levels in an ecosystem energy is lost as? A) Oxygen. B) Carbon dioxide. C) Na. D) Heat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Heat. 48. My mother ..... flowers in our garden. A) Plants. B) Give. C) Safe. D) Insect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plants. 49. If an organism is extinct, that means A) Its population declines to zero:no living members remain. (zero). B) It is close to having no alive members of its species. C) It has too many individuals living in the same ecosystem. D) It has good reaction times. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Its population declines to zero:no living members remain. (zero). 50. Organisms use 90% of the available energy at each trophic level. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 51. What does fungi do to dead plants and animals? A) Leave them there. B) Wait for other animals to eat them. C) Decompose them. D) Move away. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Decompose them. 52. A(n) ..... eats mainly plants. A) Carnivore. B) Herbivore. C) Omnivore. D) Producer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Herbivore. 53. Throw your ..... in the bin A) Pencils. B) Trees. C) Club. D) Rubbish. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rubbish. 54. Series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist A) Primary succession. B) Climax succession. C) Tertiary succession. D) Secondary succession. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Primary succession. 55. If a producer receives 5, 000, 000 kJ of energy, the tertiary consumer would only have access to about ..... kJ of energy A) 500, 000. B) 50, 000. C) 5, 000. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 5, 000. 56. Are parasites good for us true or false? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 57. Illustration that shows who eats whom A) Food cycle. B) Herbivore. C) Food chain. D) Food web. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Food chain. 58. The competition relationship is when the members of the same population have to compete for a limited supply of food. This competition prevents A) The population from getting too small. B) From getting sick. C) The population from growing too big. D) From spending too much money on candy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The population from growing too big. 59. What makes a species invasive? A) Moving to a new ecosystem and taking resources from natives. B) Not having papers. C) Species that can't adapt. D) Plants that take up too much space. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Moving to a new ecosystem and taking resources from natives. 60. As a population of a species increases within a territory, which of the following most likely also increases? A) Food supply. B) Competition. C) Immigration. D) Carrying capacity. 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