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Ecology Quiz 46 (60 MCQs)

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1. Shows the transfer of energy from plants to animals.
2. What type of succession starts on the earth's surface where there is no soil?
3. Parasitisim is when:
4. Which biome is characterized by low temperatures and low amounts of rainfall?
5. Stability within an ecosystem is achieved partially bythe presence of organisms that break down importantmolecules and return those nutrients to the soil. These organisms are
6. An animal that eats both plants and animals
7. Birds eat the flies off of a rhino's back in the savannah
8. A biomass pyramid is a diagram that compares the
9. Pioneer species are the first
10. Which of the following is NOT an example of biotic interacting with abiotic?
11. An increase in the atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) is the biggest contributor to which of the following?
12. Competition among Lynx may increase if there is an increase in the:
13. Which type of interaction is defined by both species benefiting from the relationship?
14. Increased carbon dioxide may cause global warming by
15. A food web communicated the transfer of ..... among organisms in an environment.
16. Which day did this population reach its carrying capacity?
17. Largest number of individual species that an ecosystem and its resources can handle.
18. In a complex ecosystem, it is likely that two different species will occupy the same niche.
19. Eutrophication is
20. This occurs in the higher latitudes such as northern America or Russia. It has very cold winters and cool summers with moderate to low precipitation, mostly evergreen trees and a variety of animals in the summer. Which biome is this?
21. ..... consists of forests, deserts and tundra. Grasslands are characterized as lands dominated by grasses rather than large shrubs or trees and include the savanna and temprate grasslands. Forests are dominated by trees and other woody vegetation and are classified based on their latitude
22. Lions, tigers, and elephants are ..... animals.
23. The arrow heads in a food chain or web represents what?
24. Which process is part of the carbon-oxygen exchange (carbon cycle)?
25. Which biome features permanently frozen soil called permafrost?
26. This is anything that can limit the size of a population.
27. The pattern of overlapping feeding relationships or food chains among the various organisms in an ecosystem is called
28. Consumes both plants and animals
29. Warthog and Mongoose:The mongoose eats the ticks off the warthog and the warthog becomes clean of ticks. This is an example of
30. Aother word (a synonym) for a producer
31. Which eats plants and animals?
32. Examples of ecosystems:
33. An ecosystem is made up of .....
34. Commensalism is a relationship where:
35. A nonliving thing that affects the ecosystem
36. How do decomposers get their energy?
37. Which are decomposers?
38. Cutting down trees to use as wood or paper is called .....
39. Gets its energy from eating other organisms.
40. Which of the following heterotrophs only consumes plants?
41. Which type of organism(s) perform cellular respiration?
42. Orchids growing in tall tropical trees, the trees are not harmed but the orchids get sunlight.
43. An organism that maintains constant internal conditions is a .....
44. The Earth's temperature is getting higher and higher every year. It is called .....
45. An average temperature range of 75-85*F is most likely found in the .....
46. All of the following are common cycles in an environment except ..... (Hint-one of these cycles was from the very beginning of the year)
47. What would happen to the ecosystem if the population of deer in an area became much larger?
48. Abiotic factors in an environment are
49. Primary production in aquatic ecosystems are mainly limited by
50. The number of different species in an area is referred to as its .....
51. What type of consumer eats ONLY plants?
52. Which of the following describes a food web?
53. Which of the following is an example for ecosystem
54. Ecology is the study
55. The study of the interactions between organisms and the living and nonliving components of their environment.
56. When graphing population size you can tell when a population has a limiting factor because
57. The process by which some organisms make glucose and oxygen from water and and carbon dioxide in the presence of a specific type of energy is called
58. What does compost mean?
59. In which order do organisms occur in the food chain?
60. A community interacting with the abiotic parts of its environment, (all the biotic and abiotic parts of an area)is called:
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