This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Ecology – Quiz 58 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ecology Quiz 58 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following is NOT a form of precipitation? A) Snow. B) Rain. C) Sleet. D) Fog. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fog. 2. Which of the following is NOT a limiting factor that might affect a population of chimpanzees? A) Amount of water. B) Type of rocks. C) Amount of living space. D) Amount of food. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Type of rocks. 3. Under which condition would a population most likely increase? A) The amount of available resources exceeds the carrying capacity. B) The number of deaths exceeds the number of births. C) The number of deaths exceeds the immigration rate. D) The carrying capacity exceeds the habitat area. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The amount of available resources exceeds the carrying capacity. 4. World Earth summit 2012 held in? A) New Delhi. B) Rio de Janeiro. C) Brazil. D) France. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rio de Janeiro. 5. Parts of the seed that become the first leaves A) Radicle. B) Hypocotyl. C) Epicotyl. D) Cotyledon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epicotyl. 6. Difference between parasite and host A) Parasite is helped and the host is the organism it is on or in and being harmed. B) Host is helped and the parasite is the organism it is on or in and being harmed. C) Parasite is the one being harmed and the host is the organism it is on or in helping. D) Host is the one in the way of the organism and the parasite is the organism it is on or in and being harmed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parasite is helped and the host is the organism it is on or in and being harmed. 7. Concerning the balance of pollutants in the biosphere A) Scientists have proved that the natural system of the earth is overwhelmed by pollution. B) The long term balance of the biosphere under current conditions is uncertain. C) The long term balance of the biosphere under current conditions is uncertain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The long term balance of the biosphere under current conditions is uncertain. 8. Carnivores eat this A) Meat. B) Plants. C) Meat and plants. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meat. 9. An example of producer consumer relationship would be A) Earthworm breaking down dead material. B) Lion eating a deer. C) Hawk getting energy from snakes. D) Grasshopper getting energy from grass. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grasshopper getting energy from grass. 10. What is mass effect? A) Number of births and deaths at the same time. B) Decrease in the number of two species living in the same area. C) An excessive increase in the number of individuals and an increase in population density. D) The number of individuals who died during a period of time. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An excessive increase in the number of individuals and an increase in population density. 11. Southern Africa would be considered what biome? A) Desert. B) Grassland. C) Shrubland. D) Tropical rainforest. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shrubland. 12. In an ecosystem, ..... factors determine the carrying capacity of an environment and limit a population's growth and size. A) Limiting. B) Biotic. C) Exponential. D) Abiotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limiting. 13. What is the chemical in plants' leaves that performs photosynthesis and causes plants to be a green color? A) Chlorophyll. B) Carbon dioxide. C) Oxygen. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chlorophyll. 14. Choose the correct process described:Plants and animals break down sugars and metabolize them into CO2, water and ATP for energy A) Respiration. B) Photosynthesis. C) Combustion. D) Volcanic eruptions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Respiration. 15. What defines an organism that is not native to the area it lives in and has negative effects in some way? A) Food Chains. B) Invasive Species. C) Food Webs. D) Biodiversity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Invasive Species. 16. An ..... consists of all the biotic and abiotic factors in an area and their interactions A) Ecosystem. B) Carnivore. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ecosystem. 17. The relationship parasitism causes disease, and slows how quickly or a large a population can grow. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 18. Which compound does NOT contain carbon atoms? A) Ammonium. B) Methane. C) Calcium carbonate. D) Carbon dioxide. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ammonium. 19. The greenhouse effect affects life on Earth by A) Recycling nitrogen. B) Trapping oxygen. C) Cooling the temperatures. D) Trapping warmth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Trapping warmth. 20. What is the area where a polar bear lives called? A) The Arctic habitat. B) The igloo. C) The desert environment. D) The winter habitat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Arctic habitat. 21. What is made up of all populations in an area? A) Ecosystem. B) Niche. C) Habitat. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Community. 22. A consumer that hunts is called: A) A predator. B) A herbivore. C) A producer. D) An omnivore. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A predator. 23. Mimicry, camouflage, and warning colors are examples of A) Predator adaptations. B) Prey adaptation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prey adaptation. 24. What role do you play in the food web? A) Decoposer. B) Producer. C) Consumer. D) Human. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consumer. 25. What is the correct scientific term for all the different species in a habitat? A) To square. B) A community. C) A population. D) An ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A community. 26. Represents multiple pathways through which energy and matter flow A) Food chain. B) Food web. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Food web. 27. A relationship between two organisms of different species where one benefits and the other is harmed A) Community. B) Mutualism. C) Population. D) Parasitism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parasitism. 28. If grass stores 1, 000 energy units received from the sun and the trophic levels are grass$\rightarrow$cow$\rightarrow$human, how many units of energy does the human receive of the original 1, 000 units? A) 200. B) 900. C) 100. D) 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 10. 29. What is the cycle that is the movement of water between various reservoirs? A) Carbon cycle. B) Phosphorus cycle. C) Nitrogen cycle. D) Water cyle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Water cyle. 30. Any factor that limits population growth A) Succession. B) Abiotic Factor. C) Immigration. D) Limiting Factor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Limiting Factor. 31. Hunting is an environmental management tool that helps control wildlife populations. Hunting is an example of A) The food chain creating a change in an ecosystem. B) Humans creating a change in an ecosystem. C) The deer population creating a change in an ecosystem. D) A cycle creating a change in an ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Humans creating a change in an ecosystem. 32. Primary consumers are herbivores A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 33. A food web can be broken down into several seperate A) Food chains. B) Food pyramids. C) Consumers. D) Producers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Food chains. 34. Which is not a biome found in North America? A) Mojave Desert. B) Grasslands of the Great Plains. C) Everglades / Coastal Plain. D) Tropical Rain Forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tropical Rain Forest. 35. A climatogram measures: A) Temperature (A). B) Precipitation (B). C) Landforms. D) A and B. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A and B. 36. The number of births compared to the total number of people in a population A) Death rate. B) Doubling time. C) Baby boom. D) Birth rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Birth rate. 37. What happens at you go UP the energy pyramid? A) The amount of energy passing through gets smaller. B) The amount of energy passing through gets larger. C) The amount of energy passing through stays the same. D) The amount of energy does not matter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The amount of energy passing through gets smaller. 38. How are sharks and dolphins similar and different? A) Similar:they have finsDifferent:sharks are fish and dolphins are mammals. B) Similar:they both lay eggsDifferent:Dolphins are fish and sharks are mammals. C) Similar:they both are fishDifferent:Sharks eat dolphins and dolphins eat plants. D) Similar:they both have a blow holesDifferent:sharks lay eggs and dolphins give live birth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Similar:they have finsDifferent:sharks are fish and dolphins are mammals. 39. Grass the gains energy from the sun is an example of a ..... A) Producer. B) Parasite. C) Decoposer. D) Consumer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Producer. 40. Aquatic animals that swim A) Benthos. B) Nekton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nekton. 41. Gas that makes up almost 80% of Earth's atmosphere A) Nitrogen. B) Oxygen. C) Carbon dioxide. D) Hydrogen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nitrogen. 42. An organism that feeds on dead or decaying plant or animal remains A) Consumer. B) Detritivore. C) Producer. D) Decoposer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Detritivore. 43. Rabbits introduced into Australia over 100 years ago have become a serious pest to farmers. Rabbit populations increases so much that they displaced many native species of plant eaters. What is the most logical explanation for their increased numbers? A) There is an increase in rabbit competitors. B) There are few effective predators. C) Additional rabbit species have been introduced. D) Rabbits have a high death rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) There are few effective predators. 44. Which biome has very high soil quality good for growing corn and wheat? A) Grasslands. B) Savanna. C) Desert. D) Tropical rain forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Grasslands. 45. What are the species with high resistance called? A) Microbe. B) Stenobiont. C) Macrophages. D) Bacteria. E) Eurybiont. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Eurybiont. 46. Nitrogen is the most plentiful gas in the atmosphere. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 47. Biodiversity is the ..... of life and very important to the sustainability of the ..... A) Variety ; cosmos. B) Variety ; Earth. C) Mixture ; Earth. D) Mixture ; cosmos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Variety ; Earth. 48. The relationship between organisms where they help each other A) Commensalism. B) Mutualism. C) Parasitism. D) Predation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mutualism. 49. This biome has 4 seasons with hot summers, cold winters, and the leaves change colors in the fall. A) Boreal forest. B) Desert. C) Tropical rainforest. D) Deciduous forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Deciduous forest. 50. The specific role or way of life of a species within its environment A) Abiotic factor. B) Producer. C) Niche. D) Biotic factor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Niche. 51. Which statement about producers is true? A) All producers use energy to make food. B) All producers make food by photosynthesis. C) All producers are plants. D) All producers need sunlight. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All producers use energy to make food. 52. When the wolf population declined to zero, it caused a negative effect on all other populations in the food chain A) Trophic Cascade. B) Keystone Cascade. C) Predation Cascade. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trophic Cascade. 53. A diagram that shows how energy is transferred from one organism to another A) Producer. B) Carrying Capacity. C) Balance of Nature. D) Food Chain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Food Chain. 54. What are two ways in which the environment can influence population size? A) Competition and natural disasters. B) Biomes and ecosystems. C) Plants and animals. D) Habitat and niche. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Competition and natural disasters. 55. The place where an organism lives out its life. A) Habitat. B) Rainforest. C) Ecosystem. D) Food chain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Habitat. 56. A sharks powerful jaws A) False coloring. B) Predator. C) Camo. D) Prey. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Predator. 57. Which one of the following keystone examples is a keystone predator found in the tidal pools of northwestern North America and was the species that launched Robert Paine's keystone species concept? A) Wolves. B) Starfish. C) Sea otters. D) Elephants. E) Beavers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Starfish. 58. Which human activity would most likely deplete nonrenewable resources? A) Developmentof wildlife refuges. B) Useof natural enemies to eliminate insect pests. C) Increased use of fossil fuels. D) Governmentalrestriction of industrial pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Increased use of fossil fuels. 59. In ecology, how is a "community" different from a "population?" A) Communities have only abiotic factors. B) Communities have one species living together. C) Communities have many different species living together. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Communities have many different species living together. 60. When two different species require the same resources we may observe ..... A) Resource partitioning. B) Interspecific competition. C) Intraspecific competition. D) Predation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Interspecific competition. ← 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