Ecology Quiz 54 (60 MCQs)

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1. If the number of births is greater than the number of deaths, how will the population size change?
2. A diagram that shows all the possible eating interaction; it shows overlapping food chains.
3. Air pollution from vehicle emissions, water pollution, reduction of trees, soil erosion, and overall depletion of resources are all a result of
4. The 4 eukaryote kingdoms are Animals, Plants, Fungi, and
5. When a lion hunts, kills, and eats a zebra
6. The surrounding where a particular species lives in known as its
7. All of the following are salt water ecosystems except
8. The average weather conditions for an environment
9. Which biome is also called the "taiga"
10. Rocks, water, oxygen, and soil are examples of:
11. Which of the following statements about primary succession is true?
12. A producer is an organism that
13. What is the name for an organism which makes its own food?
14. What is multicellular?
15. Which is a producer?
16. Which of the following resource is non-renewable?
17. The 3 domains are Eukarya, Archaea, and
18. All of the populations of different species that live in an ecosystem.
19. Which kind of factor is this? weather
20. Organisms that must get their energy from other organisms
21. Similar organisms that can reproduce with each other are considered to be members of the same .....
22. If there are 10, 000KCal unites of nergy available for the producers, and a lion is the secondary consumer in a food chain, how many calories does the lion get
23. What is an example of a properly ordered food chain?
24. The number of people in a defined area such as a square kilometre
25. All the members of a species that live in one place at one time
26. ..... is many different species living together, interacting with each other and their physical environment.
27. Tropical rain forests tend to have soils that are nutrient poor, and most of the nutrients are found in the top few inches of the soil.Which adaptation is most likely found in tropical trees?
28. An animal that eats plants and meat is a(n) .....
29. Animals with backbones that spend part of their life in water and part on land
30. A bird eats a worm. Who is the prey?
31. Which of the following shows the levels of organization in order from the smallest to the largest?
32. Things that keep the population from growing are called .....
33. When a jellyfish paralyzes a tiny fish with its poisonous tentacles, the fish is the
34. Where all life exists; Everything in water, on land, and in air
35. A strip mining company wants to lease some land that is currently part of a national park. They promise to reclaim the land should any minerals be mined from the area, and they are willing to pay top dollar for the rights. As an ecologist, what factors would you raise with the local government?
36. The lion is the natural predator of the zebra. If the zebra population drops, the lion population will most likely
37. Which of the following is a way a person could conserve natural resources?
38. What are all biotic and abiotic things that interact in an area?
39. Earth's solid rock layer-one of 4 spheres into which scientists divide Earth
40. The term ecologists use to describe the number of individuals moving into a population is
41. The diagram shows a food chain in a rock pool.seaweed $\rightarrow$ whelks $\rightarrow$ crabs $\rightarrow$ seagullsWhat will happen if the number of secondary consumers increases? There will be
42. Gary wolves and lynx are consumers found in the .....
43. All living things in an ecosystem, including animals, bacteria, plants, fungi, and other living species
44. Which is NOT one of the four steps in Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection?
45. The organisms that make up a community and the nonliving parts of the environment that they interact with are a(n)
46. A population contains
47. What do you call a period of rapid growth?
48. Which biome consists of very low precipitation and can be hot or cold?
49. A snake is eaten by a hawk. The hawk is the .....
50. What is the basic unit of the study of nature
51. Plants make their own food
52. The study of interactions that occur among organisms in their environment.
53. One way a population increases is if there is an increase in the
54. Organisms that cannot make their own food
55. When dead plants decompose and nitrogen is returned to the soil, the interaction is between which two spheres?
56. Imported animal species often disrupt an ecosystem because in their new environment, they will most likely
57. A ..... holds an element or water for a long period.
58. TRUE or FALSE:Individuals whose unique characteristics are best suited for their environment tend to survive and produce offspring.
59. Which of the following is an advantage of solar energy?
60. Energy increases as you move up the food pyramid (from bottom to top).