Ecology Quiz 57 (60 MCQs)

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1. Cyles that recycle chemical elements and water needed by organisms
2. What is likely to happen to the population of lions if the population of trees decrease
3. Seals eat fish. What would happen to the seal population if almost all of the fish died?
4. What is an example of a legume?
5. In the rain forest this is a layer that makes up shorter trees and vines and is called the
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
7. What comes 3rd in the scientific method after researching the problem?
8. Series of changes that occur in an area where soil or organisms exist
9. A major regional or global community of organisms is called
10. Which process takes Carbon Dioxide from the air and converts it into a form of carbon used by living things?
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?
12. An animal or person that eats both meat and plants.
13. Which of the following elements is NOT found in the atmosphere?
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.
15. Which of the following is an example of energy conservation?
16. Which of the following is NOT a "cycle" ?
17. A ..... is a forest biome consisting mostly of cone-bearing evergreen trees
18. "To eat" animals and/or plants
19. This shows how food energy passes from one organism to the next in a simple, linear fashion
20. The number of individuals the environment can support over a long period of time
21. How do vaccines help to fight infection?
22. A model that shows the amount of energy available at each feeding level of an ecosystem
23. Which process takes the sun's energy, water, and carbon dioxide to make sugar and oxygen?
24. In heterotrophs, energy for the life processes comes from the chemical energy stored in the bonds of
25. Large bodies of water affect climate because
26. What is the producer in this food chain? phytoplankton $\rightarrow$ krill $\rightarrow$ fish $\rightarrow$ shark
27. What is another word of saying producers?
28. Which type of scientist studies ecology?
29. All the living and non-living factors that interact in an area
30. A mosquito feeding off the blood of a human. Is an example of which relationship?
31. An organism that eats other organisms is called a .....
32. A food chain begins with
33. Forests in areas that are extremely cold during winter months and moderately warm in summer.
34. In an energy pyramid, available energy ..... as trophic levels increase.
35. Why is the carbon cycle important to living things?
36. A major type of ecosystem. Ex. rainforest, desert, tundra, deciduous forest, taiga, marine, etc.....
37. "All the living things on Woodland's baseball field" would be an example of a
38. Which biome has the least amount of precipitation?
39. The things animals do to survive.
40. All the organisms that belong to the same species living in a community.
41. Which nutrient is not cycled through the atmosphere?
42. Succession that occurs in an area where soil is already present
43. Plants and animals need nitrogen to make .....
44. Which of the following is Not one of the keywords required for you to record today for the Tundra biome?
45. Water on ..... is billions of years old.
46. What are 3 basic needs for a living thing?
47. A form of symbiosis where both organisms benefit
48. What is the term for succession after a fire or flood where soil is present?
49. How is primary succession different from secondary succession?
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?
51. A biome is more complicated than an ecosystem because it considers the .....
52. A consumer captured and eaten by another consumer
53. Multiple food chains can be combined to make a .....
54. What is the difference between the community level and the ecosystem level?
55. What do ecosystems have that the other three levels of organization do not have?
56. Which of the following terrestrial biomes receives the largest amount of rainfall per year?
57. Examples of cultural elements of the environment are:
58. Sublimation occurs when water changes to water vapor.
59. A(n) ..... is a model that shows the amount of energy avail-able in each link of a food chain.
60. Which of the following removes carbon from the atmosphere?