This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Ecology – Quiz 57 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ecology Quiz 57 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Cyles that recycle chemical elements and water needed by organisms A) Carbon cycle. B) Biochemical cycle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biochemical cycle. 2. What is likely to happen to the population of lions if the population of trees decrease A) They will increase. B) They will decrease. C) They will stay constant. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They will decrease. 3. Seals eat fish. What would happen to the seal population if almost all of the fish died? A) The population would grow. B) The population would shrink. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The population would shrink. 4. What is an example of a legume? A) Strawberries. B) Peanuts. C) Carrots. D) Corn. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peanuts. 5. In the rain forest this is a layer that makes up shorter trees and vines and is called the A) Canopy. B) Emergent. C) Understory. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Understory. 6. Known as the "Power Houses" of the cell. These organelles convert energy stored in food to energy that the cell can use to live and function A) Golgi Apparatus. B) Mitochondria. C) Cell membrane. D) Endoplasmic Reticulum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mitochondria. 7. What comes 3rd in the scientific method after researching the problem? A) Identify problem. B) Make hypothesis. C) Observe and record. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Make hypothesis. 8. Series of changes that occur in an area where soil or organisms exist A) Climax succession. B) Tertiary succession. C) Primary succession. D) Secondary succession. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Secondary succession. 9. A major regional or global community of organisms is called A) An ecosystem. B) A biome. C) A population. D) A species. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A biome. 10. Which process takes Carbon Dioxide from the air and converts it into a form of carbon used by living things? A) Bioremediation. B) Photosynthesis. C) Respiration. D) Precipitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Photosynthesis. 11. During a science class, Charlotte, Henry, and James were learning about different types of organisms. They learned that some organisms synthesize their own energy using sunlight. What are these organisms called? A) Heterotrophs. B) Primary. C) Secondary. D) Autotrophs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Autotrophs. 12. An animal or person that eats both meat and plants. A) Herbivore. B) Omnivore. C) Carnivore. D) Producer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Omnivore. 13. Which of the following elements is NOT found in the atmosphere? A) Sulfur. B) Phosphorus. C) Carbon. D) Nitrogen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Phosphorus. 14. A snake eats a mouse that was eating grain. If the grain had 200 Calories in it, the snake would gain about ..... Calories from the mouse. A) 200. B) 20. C) 2. D) .2. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2. 15. Which of the following is an example of energy conservation? A) Leaving your home uninsulated. B) Driving a car alone into the city at rush hour. C) Leaving lights on whenever you leave a room. D) Riding a bike to school instead of being driven in a car. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Riding a bike to school instead of being driven in a car. 16. Which of the following is NOT a "cycle" ? A) Water. B) Energy. C) Phosphorus. D) Nitrogen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Energy. 17. A ..... is a forest biome consisting mostly of cone-bearing evergreen trees A) Boreal forest. B) Temperate deciduous forest. C) Tundra. D) Desert. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Boreal forest. 18. "To eat" animals and/or plants A) Decoposer. B) Consumer. C) Producer. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consumer. 19. This shows how food energy passes from one organism to the next in a simple, linear fashion A) Symbiosis. B) Food Web. C) Carrying Capacity. D) Food Chain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Food Chain. 20. The number of individuals the environment can support over a long period of time A) Trophic level. B) Limiting factors. C) Carrying capacity. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carrying capacity. 21. How do vaccines help to fight infection? A) The body creates memory cells that stay in the blood to fight infection if they are exposed again. B) The body creates brain cells that stay in the blood to fight infection if they are exposed again. C) The body creates antibiotics that stay in the blood to fight infection if they are exposed again. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The body creates memory cells that stay in the blood to fight infection if they are exposed again. 22. A model that shows the amount of energy available at each feeding level of an ecosystem A) Energy pyramid. B) Food web. C) Ecosystem. D) Nitrogen cycle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Energy pyramid. 23. Which process takes the sun's energy, water, and carbon dioxide to make sugar and oxygen? A) Predation. B) Photosynthesis. C) Magnification. D) Decomposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Photosynthesis. 24. In heterotrophs, energy for the life processes comes from the chemical energy stored in the bonds of A) Organic compounds. B) Inorganic compounds. C) Water molecules. D) Oxygen molecules. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Organic compounds. 25. Large bodies of water affect climate because A) Water heats up and cools more slowly than land. B) Water heats up and cools faster than land. C) Water and land cool at the same time. D) Water and land heat at the same rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Water heats up and cools more slowly than land. 26. What is the producer in this food chain? phytoplankton $\rightarrow$ krill $\rightarrow$ fish $\rightarrow$ shark A) Phytoplankton. B) Shark. C) Fish. D) Krill. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phytoplankton. 27. What is another word of saying producers? A) Autobot. B) Autotrophic. C) Heterotrophic. D) Heterogeneous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Autotrophic. 28. Which type of scientist studies ecology? A) Biologist. B) Botanist. C) Ecologist. D) Environmentalist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ecologist. 29. All the living and non-living factors that interact in an area A) Carnivore. B) Niche. C) Ecosystem. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ecosystem. 30. A mosquito feeding off the blood of a human. Is an example of which relationship? A) Mutualism. B) Parasitism. C) Predation. D) Commensalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parasitism. 31. An organism that eats other organisms is called a ..... A) Consumer. B) Omnivore. C) Carnivore. D) Herbivore. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consumer. 32. A food chain begins with A) Producer. B) Consumer. C) Primary energy source. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Primary energy source. 33. Forests in areas that are extremely cold during winter months and moderately warm in summer. A) Temperate deciduous. B) Tropical rainforest. C) Tundra. D) Taiga. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Temperate deciduous. 34. In an energy pyramid, available energy ..... as trophic levels increase. A) Increases. B) Decreases. C) Stays the same. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decreases. 35. Why is the carbon cycle important to living things? A) It transports wastes in organisms. B) It converts nitrogen to a usable form. C) It transports the materials cells use for energy. D) It converts carbon from a liquid to gas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It transports the materials cells use for energy. 36. A major type of ecosystem. Ex. rainforest, desert, tundra, deciduous forest, taiga, marine, etc..... A) Population. B) Ecosystem. C) Biome. D) Niche. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biome. 37. "All the living things on Woodland's baseball field" would be an example of a A) Population. B) Community. C) Ecosystem. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Community. 38. Which biome has the least amount of precipitation? A) Temperate grassland. B) Tropical dry forest. C) Desert. D) Savannah / grassland. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Desert. 39. The things animals do to survive. A) Behavioral Adaptations. B) Structural Adaptations. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Behavioral Adaptations. 40. All the organisms that belong to the same species living in a community. A) Carrying capacity. B) Community. C) Habitat. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Population. 41. Which nutrient is not cycled through the atmosphere? A) Phosphorous. B) Water. C) Nitrogen. D) Carbon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phosphorous. 42. Succession that occurs in an area where soil is already present A) Primary succession. B) Ecological succession. C) Secondary succession. D) Pioneer specs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Secondary succession. 43. Plants and animals need nitrogen to make ..... A) Protein. B) Carbohydrates. C) Minerals. D) Lipids. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Protein. 44. Which of the following is Not one of the keywords required for you to record today for the Tundra biome? A) Permafrost. B) Treeless. C) Cold Desert. D) Snowy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Snowy. 45. Water on ..... is billions of years old. A) Earth. B) Short. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Earth. 46. What are 3 basic needs for a living thing? A) Hair brush, ecosystem, and donuts. B) Food, Water, and Clothes. C) Food, Oxygen, and electronics. D) Food, Water, and Oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Food, Water, and Oxygen. 47. A form of symbiosis where both organisms benefit A) Commensalism. B) Vaderism. C) Mutualism. D) Parasitism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mutualism. 48. What is the term for succession after a fire or flood where soil is present? A) Secondary Succession. B) Carrying Capacity. C) Primary Succession. D) Pioneer Species. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Secondary Succession. 49. How is primary succession different from secondary succession? A) Primary succession starts with soil. B) Secondary succession start with bare rock. C) Primary succession starts with bare rock, with lichens and moss. D) Fire is an example of primary succession. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Primary succession starts with bare rock, with lichens and moss. 50. In many desert ecosystems, days are hot and nights are cold. Water is scarce, so animals seek water wherever possible. The spines of a cactus are actually leaves adapted to conserve water. The cactus plants have also adapted to live in thin, sandy soil. Which of the following is a biotic component of a desert ecosystem? A) The thin, sandy soil. B) The wide temperature range. C) The scarcity of water. D) The spiny cactus leaves. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The spiny cactus leaves. 51. A biome is more complicated than an ecosystem because it considers the ..... A) Plants. B) Fungi. C) Animals. D) Climate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Climate. 52. A consumer captured and eaten by another consumer A) Decomposers. B) Prey. C) Predator. D) Herbivores. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prey. 53. Multiple food chains can be combined to make a ..... A) Energy circle. B) Energy pyramid. C) Food chain. D) Food web. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Food web. 54. What is the difference between the community level and the ecosystem level? A) Community contains abiotic factors. B) Ecosystems do not contain biotic factors. C) Ecosystems contain abiotic factors and communities do not. D) Communities contain animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ecosystems contain abiotic factors and communities do not. 55. What do ecosystems have that the other three levels of organization do not have? A) Organisms. B) Biotic factors. C) Living things. D) Abiotic factors. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Abiotic factors. 56. Which of the following terrestrial biomes receives the largest amount of rainfall per year? A) Prarie. B) Desert. C) Deciduous forest. D) Savanna. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deciduous forest. 57. Examples of cultural elements of the environment are: A) Language, arts, religion. B) Language, animal behavior, music. C) Animal behavior, human behavior, insect behavior. D) Human societies and insect societies. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Language, arts, religion. 58. Sublimation occurs when water changes to water vapor. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 59. A(n) ..... is a model that shows the amount of energy avail-able in each link of a food chain. A) Food web. B) Diorama. C) Energy pyramid. D) Biographer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Energy pyramid. 60. Which of the following removes carbon from the atmosphere? A) Photosynthesis. B) Combustion. C) Death. D) Respiration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Photosynthesis. ← 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