This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Ecology – Quiz 55 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ecology Quiz 55 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does niche mean? A) The role of an organism in its habitat, or how it makes its living (how it gets its food, what it eats, etc.). B) The organism that is harmed in a predator-prey relationship. C) The interaction in which one organism kills another for food. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The role of an organism in its habitat, or how it makes its living (how it gets its food, what it eats, etc.). 2. An ecological pyramid is: A) A diagram that shows the relative amounts of energy or matter within each trophic level in a food chain of food web. B) A step over dead matter. C) The total amount living tissue within a trophic pyramid. D) A step in a food chain or food web. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A diagram that shows the relative amounts of energy or matter within each trophic level in a food chain of food web. 3. Which of these organisms would you most expect to find on a small island that formed as a result of a volcanic two years prior? A) Lichen. B) Monkey. C) Climbing vines. D) Hardwood tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lichen. 4. Any living thing A) Organism. B) Population. C) Community. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Organism. 5. All of the following are biotic except ..... A) Animals. B) Trees. C) Algae. D) Minerals. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Minerals. 6. An organism that does not require light to make their own food is a ..... A) Autotroph. B) Chemotroph. C) Algae. D) Plant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chemotroph. 7. Another name for producer that means "self eater" A) Predictor. B) Heterotroph. C) Autotroph. D) Consumer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Autotroph. 8. ..... shows all the living things are connected. A) Food chain. B) Food web. C) Ecosystem. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Food web. 9. What are fossil fuels made from? A) Plants and animals that are buried underground for millions of years. B) They absorb it from the atmosphere. C) Water. D) Wind. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plants and animals that are buried underground for millions of years. 10. True of False:plants absorb the sun's energy, then passes it on to the organism that eats them. This is called photosynthesis. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. When humans cut down large amounts of trees in an area this is called A) Flooding. B) Logging. C) Hunting. D) Construction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logging. 12. What absorbs light energy A) Chlorophyll. B) H2o. C) Stomata. D) Roots. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chlorophyll. 13. Daniel, Priya, and Abigail are studying the population of rabbits in a particular forest. They want to determine the maximum number of rabbits that the resources in the forest can support. What is this concept called? A) Carrying capacity. B) Energy limit. C) Food limit. D) Limiting factor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carrying capacity. 14. The dominant plants in the grasslands are ..... A) Rainfall. B) Dormant. C) Grasses. D) Trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Grasses. 15. Which level of ecology is the most specific? A) Biome. B) Ecosystem. C) Community. D) Biosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Community. 16. Which biome recieves the most rainfall? A) Desert. B) Rainforest. C) Taiga. D) Tundra. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rainforest. 17. The best word to describe a group of microorganisms which float on water is: A) Environment. B) Food chain. C) Community. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Community. 18. What type of measurement is it when I take the population of one sample classroom and multiply it by the number of classrooms? A) Estimate by Sampling. B) Count every Individual. C) Mark and Recapture. D) Population Density. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Estimate by Sampling. 19. Photosynthesis is the A) Conversion of carbon dioxide and water into sugars and oxygen by bacteria-with help of light. B) Conversion of methane gas and water into sugars and oxygen by plants-with help of light. C) Conversion of carbon dioxide and water into sugars and oxygen by plants-with little to no light. D) Conversion of carbon dioxide and water into sugars and oxygen by plants-with help of light. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conversion of carbon dioxide and water into sugars and oxygen by plants-with help of light. 20. The first living things to grow successfully on a newly formed sand dune are known as A) Heterotrophs. B) Carnivorous plants. C) Pioneer organisms. D) Saprophytes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pioneer organisms. 21. Self-feeding organisms are: A) Autotrophs. B) Biocenoses. C) Ecosystem. D) Saprophages. E) Biophages. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Autotrophs. 22. Organisms that eat both meat and vegetation A) Herbivores. B) Omnivores. C) Carnivores. D) More destructive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Omnivores. 23. Which energy role obtain energy through photosynthesis? A) Herbivore. B) Consumer. C) Decoposer. D) Producer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Producer. 24. An animal's population decreases from 800 individuals to 600 individuals. What could explain this change in population size? A) The number of animals leaving the population has decreased. B) The number of species competing with the animal has decreased. C) The population of the animal's predators has increased. D) The number of breeding pairs in the population has increased. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The population of the animal's predators has increased. 25. Which of the following is the highest level of organization within the environment? A) Biosphere. B) Population. C) Organism. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biosphere. 26. Precipitation that contains high amounts of chemical pollutants that injures plants and pollutes the soil and rivers/oceans. A) Beach erosion. B) Herbicide. C) Pesticide. D) Acid rain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Acid rain. 27. If the climate in a cold region (like the Taiga) changed and the average weather patterns began to become warmer, would this affect the organisms living there? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 28. All the following are decomposers except A) Fungi. B) Bacteria. C) Rats. D) Worms. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rats. 29. This means the amount of salt dissolved in water. A) Saturation. B) Salinity. C) Salutation. D) Saltiness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Salinity. 30. What all can be found in an ecosystem? A) All life on Earth. B) Only biotic factors. C) Only abiotic factors. D) Biotic and abiotic factors. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Biotic and abiotic factors. 31. Anything that can restrict the size of a population A) Limiting Factor. B) Carryoing Capacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limiting Factor. 32. Living thing that makes its own food is called: A) Niche. B) Decoposer. C) Producer. D) Consumer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Producer. 33. A place where matter/nutrients are collected/stored. A) A reservoir. B) A cloud. C) The atmosphere. D) A lake. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A reservoir. 34. Sunlight is an ..... factor. A) Biotic. B) Abiotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abiotic. 35. All the interacting populations in a specific area A) Heterotroph. B) Trophic. C) Community. D) Biotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Community. 36. Temperature is an example of what kind of factor? A) Biotic. B) Dead. C) Abiotic. D) Living. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Abiotic. 37. The nonliving aspects of the environment A) Abiotic factor. B) Biotic factor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abiotic factor. 38. The number of individuals in an area A) Size. B) Density. C) Dispersion. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Size. 39. What is an example of an omnivore A) Bear. B) Hawk. C) Chicken. D) Shark. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bear. 40. Organisms that cannot make their own energy-rich particles A) Community. B) Consumer. C) Food web. D) Decomposers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consumer. 41. The primary source of energy for all food webs comes from A) Predators. B) Consumers. C) The sun. D) The soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The sun. 42. Which phrase best describes an ecosystem? (Biotic and Abiotic? A) Gaggle of geese, parliament of owls, and troupe of gorilla. B) Sun, rain, rocks. C) School of fish, sand, army of frogs, temperature. D) A group of the same species living in a particular area. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) School of fish, sand, army of frogs, temperature. 43. The park isn't clean. There is ..... rubbish. A) A few. B) Many. C) One. D) A lot. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A lot. 44. After being introduced in the 1930's, the fire ant became established in the southern United States. One biological way to control fire ants might be to introduce organisms that are A) Preyed on by fire ants. B) Parasitic to fire ant larvae. C) Mutualistic with the fire ant queen. D) Nurtured by fire ant workers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parasitic to fire ant larvae. 45. What can we do to protect our environment? A) We can travel around the world. B) We can make compost, recycle, plant trees . C) We can eat meatballs. D) We can fly a kite. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) We can make compost, recycle, plant trees . 46. Grass and trees are examples of A) Biotic factors. B) Abiotic factors. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biotic factors. 47. When two speices work togher for their survuval A) Predator-PreyRelationships. B) Cooperative Relationships. C) Competitive Relationship. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cooperative Relationships. 48. An association between two organisms with in a community which one benefits A) Omnivore. B) Consumerism. C) Commensalism. D) Constipation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Commensalism. 49. What is true concerning an ecological community? A) The ecosystem of multiple organisms, regardless of a real extent. B) It is a large region of multiple organisms. C) The boundaries, large or small, of a single organism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The ecosystem of multiple organisms, regardless of a real extent. 50. In a food web, which type of organism receives energy from the other three types? A) Producer. B) Decoposer. C) Herbivore. D) Carnivore. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decoposer. 51. Which process removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere? A) Deforestation. B) Burning fossil fuels. C) Cellular respiration. D) Tree farms. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tree farms. 52. Which biome receives between 0 and 25 centimeters of precipitation each year, has a temperature range from-27 to 5 degrees Celsius, has frozen soil, and is home to hares, caribou, and wolves? A) Savannah. B) Desert. C) Mountain. D) Tundra. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tundra. 53. When members of a population move into a given area, this is A) Defecation. B) Population elevation. C) Emigration. D) Immigration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Immigration. 54. Sun, wind water and geothermal energy are considered ..... energy resources since these resources can never run out. A) Natural. B) Inexhaustible. C) Nonrenewable. D) Renewable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inexhaustible. 55. It is estimated that humans will cause more than half of the existing species in the world to go extinct in the next 1, 000 years A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 56. About how much energy is LOST when an organism consumes another organism from a different trophic level? A) 25%. B) 10%. C) 90%. D) 50%. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 90%. 57. Competition is when ..... A) When one animal benefits while the other suffers. B) Two animals compete for resources. C) A group of animals protect each other. D) Two animals share resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Two animals compete for resources. 58. Why are some sharks considered a keystone species? A) Because they are a top predator. B) They scare off smaller fish that may overgraze an area of sea grass. C) They are tertiary consumers. D) They are cartilaginous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They scare off smaller fish that may overgraze an area of sea grass. 59. Modern technology has resulted in the production and use of insecticides. Which statement is a false description of insecticides? A) Insecticides can cause pollution. B) Insecticides target weeds. C) Insecticides can affect food chains. D) Insecticides improve yields. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Insecticides target weeds. 60. Which of the following is an example of predation? A) Lion and wildebeast. B) Human and pinworm. C) Humpback whale and barnacle. D) Ant and bull horn. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lion and wildebeast. ← 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