This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Ecology – Quiz 54 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ecology Quiz 54 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. If the number of births is greater than the number of deaths, how will the population size change? A) It will increase. B) It will decrease. C) It will stay the same. D) It will double. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It will increase. 2. A diagram that shows all the possible eating interaction; it shows overlapping food chains. A) Food web. B) Food chain. C) Biodiversity. D) Carrying Capacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Food web. 3. Air pollution from vehicle emissions, water pollution, reduction of trees, soil erosion, and overall depletion of resources are all a result of A) Invasive species. B) Deforestation. C) Urbanization. D) Overgrazing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Urbanization. 4. The 4 eukaryote kingdoms are Animals, Plants, Fungi, and A) Humans. B) Protists. C) Bacteria. D) Archaea. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Protists. 5. When a lion hunts, kills, and eats a zebra A) Parasitism. B) Predation. C) Commensalism. D) Competition. E) Mutualism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Predation. 6. The surrounding where a particular species lives in known as its A) Habitat. B) Biomass. C) Abiotic zone. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Habitat. 7. All of the following are salt water ecosystems except A) Ponds. B) Coral reefs. C) Estuary. D) Salt marshes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ponds. 8. The average weather conditions for an environment A) Temperature. B) Weather. C) Wind. D) Climate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Climate. 9. Which biome is also called the "taiga" A) Temperate rainforest. B) Temperate deciduous forest. C) Boreal forest. D) Tropical rainforest. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Boreal forest. 10. Rocks, water, oxygen, and soil are examples of: A) Biotic factors. B) Abiotic factors. C) Fear factors. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abiotic factors. 11. Which of the following statements about primary succession is true? A) It begins with a climax community. B) Small mammals are the first to live there. C) It begins with bare rock. D) It begins with rock and soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It begins with bare rock. 12. A producer is an organism that A) Gets energy from eating other things. B) Gets energy from breaking down dead things in the environment. C) Uses sunlight to make its own food. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Uses sunlight to make its own food. 13. What is the name for an organism which makes its own food? A) Producer. B) Consumer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Producer. 14. What is multicellular? A) One cell. B) Many cells. C) No nucleus. D) No cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Many cells. 15. Which is a producer? A) Deer. B) Tall grass. C) Lion. D) Worm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tall grass. 16. Which of the following resource is non-renewable? A) Trees. B) Animals. C) Petroleum. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Petroleum. 17. The 3 domains are Eukarya, Archaea, and A) Bacteria. B) The animal. C) Fungi. D) Plantae. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bacteria. 18. All of the populations of different species that live in an ecosystem. A) Habitat. B) Population. C) Carrying capacity. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Community. 19. Which kind of factor is this? weather A) Abiotic. B) Biotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abiotic. 20. Organisms that must get their energy from other organisms A) Heterotrophs. B) Producers. C) Feeders. D) Omnivores. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heterotrophs. 21. Similar organisms that can reproduce with each other are considered to be members of the same ..... A) Species. B) Ecosystem. C) Community. D) Biosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Species. 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 A) 1. B) 100. C) 1000. D) 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 100. 23. What is an example of a properly ordered food chain? A) Fungi, grass, grasshopper, bird. B) Grass, cow, bird. C) Grain, mouse, snake, hawk. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Grain, mouse, snake, hawk. 24. The number of people in a defined area such as a square kilometre A) Birth rate. B) Population density. C) Death rate. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population density. 25. All the members of a species that live in one place at one time A) Community. B) Habitat. C) Population. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Population. 26. ..... is many different species living together, interacting with each other and their physical environment. A) Biotic factors. B) Population. C) Abiotic factors. D) Community. E) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Ecosystem. 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? A) Deep root systems. B) Shallow root systems. C) Needles. D) Pine cones. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shallow root systems. 28. An animal that eats plants and meat is a(n) ..... A) Omnivore. B) Carnivore. C) Herbivore. D) Decoposer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Omnivore. 29. Animals with backbones that spend part of their life in water and part on land A) Fishes. B) Reptiles. C) Amphibians. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Amphibians. 30. A bird eats a worm. Who is the prey? A) Worm. B) The bird and the worm. C) Bird. D) Neither the bird or the worm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Worm. 31. Which of the following shows the levels of organization in order from the smallest to the largest? A) Ecosystem, community, population, organism. B) Organism, community, population, ecosystem. C) Organism, population, community, ecosystem. D) Population, organism, community, ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Organism, population, community, ecosystem. 32. Things that keep the population from growing are called ..... A) Demography. B) Limiting factors. C) Carrying capacity. D) Dispersion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Limiting factors. 33. When a jellyfish paralyzes a tiny fish with its poisonous tentacles, the fish is the A) Host. B) Predator. C) Parasite. D) Prey. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prey. 34. Where all life exists; Everything in water, on land, and in air A) Ecosystem. B) Biome. C) Community. D) Biosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Biosphere. 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? A) The threat to local biodiversity. B) Management of the land after the company leaves. C) The new jobs that would be created. D) The increased traffic in the area. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The threat to local biodiversity. 36. The lion is the natural predator of the zebra. If the zebra population drops, the lion population will most likely A) Drop. B) Thrive. C) Be unaffected. D) Decrease, then increase exponentially. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Drop. 37. Which of the following is a way a person could conserve natural resources? A) Recycling waste materials like plastic, glass, paper, and aluminum. B) Limiting water use when showering, brushing teeth, and shaving. C) Using rechargeable batteries. D) All of the above are good conservation practices. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above are good conservation practices. 38. What are all biotic and abiotic things that interact in an area? A) Environment. B) Population. C) Ecosystem. D) Plants. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ecosystem. 39. Earth's solid rock layer-one of 4 spheres into which scientists divide Earth A) Lithosphere. B) Biosphere. C) Hydrosphere. D) Atmosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lithosphere. 40. The term ecologists use to describe the number of individuals moving into a population is A) Emigration. B) Immigration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Immigration. 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 A) Less seaweed. B) Fewer whelks. C) Fewer crabs. D) Fewer seagulls. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fewer whelks. 42. Gary wolves and lynx are consumers found in the ..... A) Savanna. B) Rainforest. C) Deciduous forest. D) Taiga. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Taiga. 43. All living things in an ecosystem, including animals, bacteria, plants, fungi, and other living species A) Abiotic factor. B) Limiting factor. C) Ecology. D) Biotic factor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Biotic factor. 44. Which is NOT one of the four steps in Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection? A) Biodiversity. B) Overproduction. C) Selection. D) Variation. E) Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biodiversity. 45. The organisms that make up a community and the nonliving parts of the environment that they interact with are a(n) A) Ecosystem. B) Habitat. C) Community. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ecosystem. 46. A population contains A) Only one species. B) Multiple species. C) Living and non-living components. D) All the similar biomes across the world. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Only one species. 47. What do you call a period of rapid growth? A) Exponential growth. B) Logistic growth. C) Emigration. D) Predator-prey cycle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exponential growth. 48. Which biome consists of very low precipitation and can be hot or cold? A) Savanna. B) Tundra. C) Tropical rainforest. D) Desert. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Desert. 49. A snake is eaten by a hawk. The hawk is the ..... A) Prey. B) Parasite. C) Predator. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Predator. 50. What is the basic unit of the study of nature A) Ecology. B) Biomes. C) Habitat. D) Ecosystems. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ecosystems. 51. Plants make their own food A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 52. The study of interactions that occur among organisms in their environment. A) Predator. B) Niche. C) Ecology. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ecology. 53. One way a population increases is if there is an increase in the A) Birth rate. B) Death rate. C) Natural hazards. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Birth rate. 54. Organisms that cannot make their own food A) Omnivore. B) Consumer. C) Herbivore. D) Producer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consumer. 55. When dead plants decompose and nitrogen is returned to the soil, the interaction is between which two spheres? A) The biosphere and atmosphere. B) The atmosphere and geosphere. C) The geosphere and atmosphere. D) The biosphere and geosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The biosphere and geosphere. 56. Imported animal species often disrupt an ecosystem because in their new environment, they will most likely A) Have no natural enemies. B) Increase the number of mutations in the herbivores. C) Be unable to produce offspring. D) Eliminate the genetic variation of the autotrophs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Have no natural enemies. 57. A ..... holds an element or water for a long period. A) Condensation. B) Reservoir. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reservoir. 58. TRUE or FALSE:Individuals whose unique characteristics are best suited for their environment tend to survive and produce offspring. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 59. Which of the following is an advantage of solar energy? A) It will not run out for billions of years. B) It is not available at night. C) No backup energy sources are needed. D) It must be collected from a huge area. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It will not run out for billions of years. 60. Energy increases as you move up the food pyramid (from bottom to top). A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. ← 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