Ecology Quiz 60 (60 MCQs)

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1. Mutualism is a relationship where:
2. A airplane that looks like a bird in the sky is biotic.
3. Producers are generally found at the beginning of afood chain. Which statement best explains why thisis true?
4. The place where an organism lives and obtains food, shelter and protection
5. Which one is the producer in an ocean food chain?
6. Natural disturbances, such as fires or hurricanes, can result in
7. Which of these is a FALSE statement about monoculture?
8. Water, air, soil, sunlight are:
9. Nonliving parts of an ecosystem
10. Without other changes to a population, which of the following will cause a population to increase in size?
11. A goat eats vegetation, such as grass.
12. Which organism must obtain glucose by consuming other organism?
13. Which statement describes a situation that would reduce the stability of a forest ecosystem?
14. This happens when pollution moves up a food chain.
15. A species that has been moved to an area that impacts the local ecosystem.
16. An organism that consumes dead or decaying organisms for food is called a .....
17. Sarah notices a ladybug on a flower. What could Sarah say about how the ladybug gets its energy?
18. A relationship were one organism benefits and the other is unaffected
19. Which of these factors affects food security?
20. The prefix a-means?
21. All the living thing and non-living features of an environment
22. An organism that must eat other organisms to receive its energy
23. Most of the energy that enters through organisms in a trophic level does not become biomass. Only energy used to make biomass remains available to the next level. only about ..... of energy entering one trophic level forms biomass in the next trophic level.
24. What is the ultimate energy source for living organisms?
25. Why is a decaying log considered biotic?
26. How do rainforest animals use bright colors?
27. What do plants depend on from animals and humans?
28. Which of the following organisms have the greatest amount of stored energy in the food web?
29. How organisms depend on each other for food and energy; shows direction of energy flow.
30. The place where an organism lives and that provides the things the organism needs is called its .....
31. ..... are animals that eat only plants.
32. An organism's habitat is where it lives.
33. What would most likely happen to the fish carrying capacity of a pond if it were to become polluted?
34. What is the process of collecting, processing and reusing waste materials called?
35. This includes several types of ecosystems, including continental shelves and intertidal zones.
36. Physical environment in which a species lives
37. When an organism is introduced to an ecosystem, the carrying capacity will determine the maximum number of organisms that can live successfully in an ecosystem.
38. All the energy that organisms get from food matter originally comes from sunlight
39. Which one do we rely on to naturally convert nitrogen gas into a compound that can be consumed by plants?
40. The ..... is the total number of organisms that a particular ecosystem can support.
41. What caught Charles Darwin's eye first when he arrived to the Galapagos?
42. Which of the following is NOT a regional effect on climate?
43. Which watery biome has the lowest concentration of salt?
44. All of the living and nonliving things in an area make up a
45. ..... climate is described as cold all year long and located in high latitudes.
46. In which biome is Georgia located?
47. Which sequence shows increasing complexity of levels of ecological organization?
48. Which of the following statements describes the function of denitrifying bacteria in the nitrogen cycle?
49. Temperature, sunlight, and water are examples of ..... factors.
50. Organisms in this category get their energy from both plant and animal matter.
51. The conditions of the atmosphere from day to day.
52. Which of the following are found in the largest number in ecosystems?
53. The science of the environment, its components, and the interactions between these components is called
54. Which of the following is a biotic factor that would affect the carrying capacity of a population?
55. Which of the following is NOT recycled in ecosystems?
56. In a properly written scientific name, which part is capitalized?
57. Cover 70% of the Earth
58. Which of these is an aquatic biome?
59. Population:definition
60. The point in which an area cannot hold any more individuals in an area is called its what?