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Ecology Quiz 59 (60 MCQs)

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1. If the grass in the front yard of an abandoned house is not cut for several years, the yard may become overgrown with taller grasses, bushes, and shrubs. This is an example of the process of
2. Renewable resources are:
3. The study of organism interactions is what scientific study?
4. Which organisms produce methane in anaerobic environments such as waterlogged soils?
5. Solar, wind and water energy are all .....
6. The five levels of organization in the environment, from the first to the fifth level are
7. How much energy is moved from one trophic level to the next trophic level?
8. What are consumers called that are only herbivores and are never carnivores?
9. A particular golf course is using large amounts of nitrogen fertilizer. What process could move this nitrogen into a local stream?
10. What effect does bird extinction have on an ecosystem?
11. This process is responsible for most environmental problems of excess nitrogen and phosphorus entering streams, lakes and oceans.
12. Humans are these type of consumers:
13. A relationship between organisms in which one depends on the other
14. What do we call organisms that eat both plants and animals?
15. Organisms that break down wastes and dead organisms and return the raw materials to the environment
16. The movement of nitrogen through Earth, its atmosphere and living things
17. A species living together in one area is called a:
18. What type of interaction is this? Rabbit feeding on grass
19. An invasive species is when .....
20. During a field trip to a farm, Luna, Grace, and Oliver observed an animal that was eating only plants. What type of organism is this?
21. How long does a plastic bottle discarded in the forest take?
22. WHich level of organization is made up of both biotic and abiotic factors
23. What is the source for phosphorus for plants?
24. The predator is the one .....
25. A group of living organisms that share a common genetic heritage
26. In 1913 V. What is Shelford's proposed law called?
27. Which word means a living thing
28. Eat primary consumers (can be carnivores and omnivores)
29. What is the function of nucleic acids?
30. Average yearly precipitation in a tropical rain forest
31. What is the bottom layer of the an energy pyramid?
32. Which organism make their own food through the process of photosynthesis?
33. Indicate if the organisms below are herbivores, carnivores, or plants.primary consumer
34. The book written by Alexander Von Humboldt
35. An organism that eats other living organisms for energy is a(n) .....
36. Click on the example of a consumer.
37. During condensation, water changes from a ..... to a .....
38. Carnivores include lions, polar bears, hawks, frogs, salmon, and deer.
39. Limiting factors cause .....
40. .... is a series of organisms that energy passes through.
41. Climate change can lead to .....
42. The idea that the climate is changing and the world is getting warmer is called .....
43. Which biome receives between 0 to 25 centimeters of rain per year, has a temperature range of 0 to 50 degrees Celsius, has poor soil, and is home to lizards, scorpions, and snakes?
44. These are the living organisms that feed on plants.
45. The way energy is passed from one organism to another
46. The gas that is most abundant in the atmosphere is
47. Why are specialized niches common in highly diverse ecosystems?
48. Another name for a producer is an
49. Where does the energy that travels through an ecosystem originally come from?
50. This Biome is very humid and "rains" often.
51. A basic source of pollution is from unnatural sources and people.
52. Distance in degrees east or west of the Prime Meridian
53. N03 is also known as
54. An organism that is hunted for food
55. A consumer gets energy by doing what?
56. This biome is very cold and windy with permanently frozen soil (permafrost). It is also known as the "cold desert" .
57. When an area reaches the largest number of a population the area can support
58. What does population density measure?
59. Lions, birds, snakes and trees are all .....
60. An invasive species is moved from one ecosystem to another. After it has been moved the species is ..... to the new ecosystem.
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