Ecology Quiz 62 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is the teacher's name?
2. Which of the following human activities could cause a negative impact on nearby ecosystems?
3. Why might a population in a food web increase?
4. Nature's recyclers
5. ..... washes agricultural wastes, including animal wastes, fertilizers, and pesticides, into bodies of water, causing algae to grow.
6. Organisms that live outside the host's body
7. A white shark eats a seal, the seal eats a fish, the fish eats zooplankton, and the zooplankton eats phytoplankton which is an autotroph. The white shark is a
8. A community of organisms and the abiotic factors in its environment
9. Are found near the equator. They have the largest variety of plant and animal life. They are very warm and very wet. Some of them can get as much as 400 inches of rain every year.
10. All of the LIVING components of an environment (trees, plants, animals, bacteria, people)
11. Which of these organisms would receive energy from the snake?
12. What describes a possible cause of a negative carbon flux in the atmosphere due to processes occurring in a forest ecosystem?
13. Which of the following is an example of a living thing?
14. This organism coverts solar energy from the sun to chemical energy
15. Shows all possible flows of energy
16. Carbon is used by plants during which process?
17. Metals generally have the following properties EXCEPT for being:
18. A characteristic or behavior that allows an organism to survive in a changing environment
19. Which of the following is considered as a limit to the number of trophic levels in a food chain?
20. Individuals that can breed with one another make up a
21. What type of diagram shows the amount of energy that moves from one trophic level to another in a food web?
22. What part of the Carbon Cycle increases the amount of air pollution in in the atmosphere
23. A relationship were one organism uses another to survive; often harming it in the process
24. To save fuel you should .....
25. An organism that only eats producers.
26. Which one of the following is a primary consumer
27. Makes it's own energy and starts a food chain:
28. What is a long term association/relationship between two organisms of different species?
29. What is the definition of habitat?
30. Non-native organisms that harm native species or cause environmental or economic damage.
31. The branch of biology dealing with interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment is called
32. Choose the right meaning:pick
33. Barancles attach to whales in order in increase food intake. The whale is unaffected. What type of symbiotic relationship is shown?
34. All of the following are types of consumers EXCEPT for
35. The ecosystem of some dairy cows includes the fields in which they graze, eating the grass they need. Too many cows can be harmful to their ecosystem because they could-
36. Bacteria, fungi, and earthworms are examples of:
37. Honeybee feeds on nectar from honey suckle plant and carrying pollen to next plant
38. Which of the following results when nitrogen and sulfur-containing compounds mix with water in the atmosphere?
39. Which of the following is a NOT true characteristic of pioneer species?
40. If a species is close to extinction it is
41. We need to ..... the park.
42. Which type of consumer eats both plant and animal life?
43. Which is true of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells?
44. Does it rain a lot in the rainforest?
45. Bats eat millions of pounds of insects a year. If there is a rabies outbreak in a local bat populations, what is a likely effect of the decreased number of bats?
46. An example of an extreme environment would be:
47. Place where an organism lives
48. What would you call an ecological symbiotic relationship that is helpful to both organisms involved?
49. How does nitrogen become part of the food chain?
50. A density independent factor is .....
51. What is an Abiotic example?
52. Which food chain passes on the largest proportion of energy to humans?
53. When two or more organisms fight for resources it is called .....
54. Mistletoe grows on an oak tree in a forest ecosystem. The mistletoe gets all of its nutrients from the oak tree but the oak tree does not benefit. The mistletoe is a .....
55. An environmental system made up of organisms interacting with one another and with nonliving factors to form a work unit.
56. The relationship between autotrophs and producers is
57. An animal that is hunted and eaten for food is a
58. Earth is also known as a
59. Which feature of deforestation has the greatest effect on the atmosphere?
60. After land is cleared for farming, what type of succession might occur?