This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Ecology – Quiz 62 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ecology Quiz 62 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the teacher's name? A) Teacher Supavadee. B) Teacher Suwimon. C) Teacher Sukanya. D) Teacher Suchanan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Teacher Sukanya. 2. Which of the following human activities could cause a negative impact on nearby ecosystems? A) Growing a Garden Using Natural Fertilizer. B) Collecting and Using Rain Water for Everyday Activities. C) Capturing Solar Energy by Building Panels on Existing Structures. D) Washing your Car and Runoff Entering a Nearby Stream. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Washing your Car and Runoff Entering a Nearby Stream. 3. Why might a population in a food web increase? A) Too many predators. B) Too little food. C) More food. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) More food. 4. Nature's recyclers A) Host. B) Scavengers. C) Decomposers. D) Parasite. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Decomposers. 5. ..... washes agricultural wastes, including animal wastes, fertilizers, and pesticides, into bodies of water, causing algae to grow. A) Runoff. B) Municipal sewage. C) Groundwater. D) Peak flow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Runoff. 6. Organisms that live outside the host's body A) Geoxenes. B) A gallophile. C) Endoparasite. D) Xerophyte. E) Ectoparasite. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Ectoparasite. 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 A) Tertiary consumer. B) Quaternary consumer. C) Primary consumer. D) Secondary consumer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quaternary consumer. 8. A community of organisms and the abiotic factors in its environment A) Population. B) Community. C) Ecosystem. D) Organism. E) Biosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ecosystem. 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. A) Temperate rain forests. B) Desert rain forest. C) Tropical rain forest. D) Arctic rain forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tropical rain forest. 10. All of the LIVING components of an environment (trees, plants, animals, bacteria, people) A) Biotic Factors. B) Abiotic Factors. C) Community. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biotic Factors. 11. Which of these organisms would receive energy from the snake? A) Rabbit. B) Hawk. C) Plant. D) Mouse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hawk. 12. What describes a possible cause of a negative carbon flux in the atmosphere due to processes occurring in a forest ecosystem? A) There was more respiration by soil organisms. B) There was more decomposition of leaf litter. C) The trees grew more so fixed more carbon dioxide. D) There was more burning of forests. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The trees grew more so fixed more carbon dioxide. 13. Which of the following is an example of a living thing? A) A shell. B) Sweat. C) A bacerium. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A bacerium. 14. This organism coverts solar energy from the sun to chemical energy A) Decoposer. B) Producer. C) Consumer. D) Scavenger. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Producer. 15. Shows all possible flows of energy A) Food web. B) Food chain. C) Energy pyramid. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Food web. 16. Carbon is used by plants during which process? A) Respiration. B) Photosynthesis. C) Transpiration. D) Transportation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Photosynthesis. 17. Metals generally have the following properties EXCEPT for being: A) Shiny. B) Non-conductors. C) Malleable. D) Reactive with HCl/CuCl2. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Non-conductors. 18. A characteristic or behavior that allows an organism to survive in a changing environment A) Long-term environmental change. B) Extiction. C) Short-term environmental change. D) Adaptation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Adaptation. 19. Which of the following is considered as a limit to the number of trophic levels in a food chain? A) The diversity of species in the ecosystem. B) A high percentage of the energy consumed is converted to heat. C) Some of the energy consumed is lost in faeces and urine. D) The net productivity of the ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A high percentage of the energy consumed is converted to heat. 20. Individuals that can breed with one another make up a A) Species. B) Population. C) Ecosystem. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Species. 21. What type of diagram shows the amount of energy that moves from one trophic level to another in a food web? A) Ecosystem. B) Food Web. C) Food Chain. D) Energy Pyramid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Energy Pyramid. 22. What part of the Carbon Cycle increases the amount of air pollution in in the atmosphere A) Oxidation. B) Photosynthesis. C) Respiration. D) Burning fossil fuels. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Burning fossil fuels. 23. A relationship were one organism uses another to survive; often harming it in the process A) Commensalism. B) Mutualism. C) Parasitism. D) Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parasitism. 24. To save fuel you should ..... A) Take a shower instead of a bath. B) Use public transport. C) Become a vegan. D) Sort out rubbish. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Use public transport. 25. An organism that only eats producers. A) Herbivore. B) Carnivore. C) Omnivore. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Herbivore. 26. Which one of the following is a primary consumer A) Deer. B) Wolf. C) Snake. D) Lion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deer. 27. Makes it's own energy and starts a food chain: A) Heterotroph. B) Autotroph. C) Water. D) Decoposer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Autotroph. 28. What is a long term association/relationship between two organisms of different species? A) Mutualism. B) Symbiosis. C) Commensalism. D) Parasitism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbiosis. 29. What is the definition of habitat? A) The variety of plant and animal life in the world. B) The actual place an organism lives. C) The role the organism plays in its environment. D) The characters or an organism has. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The actual place an organism lives. 30. Non-native organisms that harm native species or cause environmental or economic damage. A) Consumer. B) Introduced species. C) Apex predator. D) Invasive species. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Invasive species. 31. The branch of biology dealing with interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment is called A) Modeling. B) Recycling. C) Economy. D) Ecology. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ecology. 32. Choose the right meaning:pick A) Harm. B) Leave. C) Pick. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pick. 33. Barancles attach to whales in order in increase food intake. The whale is unaffected. What type of symbiotic relationship is shown? A) Commensalism. B) Parasitism. C) Mutualism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Commensalism. 34. All of the following are types of consumers EXCEPT for A) Omnivore. B) Producer. C) Herbivore. D) Carnivore. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Producer. 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- A) Produce too much milk. B) Scare away predators. C) Raise the temperature. D) Remove all the vegetation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Remove all the vegetation. 36. Bacteria, fungi, and earthworms are examples of: A) Decomposers. B) Prey. C) Predators. D) Scavengers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Decomposers. 37. Honeybee feeds on nectar from honey suckle plant and carrying pollen to next plant A) Mutualism. B) Competition. C) Commensalism. D) Predation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mutualism. 38. Which of the following results when nitrogen and sulfur-containing compounds mix with water in the atmosphere? A) Acid rain. B) Ozone depletion. C) Thermal pollution. D) Global warming. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Acid rain. 39. Which of the following is a NOT true characteristic of pioneer species? A) Could be something other than moss or lichen depending on ecosystem circumstance. B) A species that is first establishes a community in a given area. C) They can only grow when there areanimals already living in the area. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They can only grow when there areanimals already living in the area. 40. If a species is close to extinction it is A) Abiotic. B) Overpopulated. C) Endangered. D) Growing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Endangered. 41. We need to ..... the park. A) Clean. B) Leave. C) Play. D) Walk. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Clean. 42. Which type of consumer eats both plant and animal life? A) Herbivores. B) More destructive. C) Carnivores. D) Omnivores. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Omnivores. 43. Which is true of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells? A) Prokaryotic cells are larger than eukaryotic cells. B) Eukaryotic cells do not have nuclei, and prokaryotic cells do have nuclei. C) Prokaryotic cells lack membrane-bound organelles, and eukaryotic cells contain membrane-bound organelles. D) Eukaryotic cells are simpler than prokaryotic cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prokaryotic cells lack membrane-bound organelles, and eukaryotic cells contain membrane-bound organelles. 44. Does it rain a lot in the rainforest? A) I don't care. B) Yes. C) No. D) Of course not. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yes. 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? A) The insect population in the area will also decrease. B) The disease spread by insects will increase. C) The types of plants in the area will increase. D) The population of rodents in the area will increase. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The disease spread by insects will increase. 46. An example of an extreme environment would be: A) The sun. B) The human stomach. C) Sewer systems. D) Deep sea vents. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Deep sea vents. 47. Place where an organism lives A) Hole. B) House. C) Habitat. D) Prey. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Habitat. 48. What would you call an ecological symbiotic relationship that is helpful to both organisms involved? A) Mutualism. B) Parasitism. C) Niche. D) Habitat. E) Commensalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mutualism. 49. How does nitrogen become part of the food chain? A) Through transpiration by plants. B) Through uptake of nitrogen compounds in the soil by plants. C) Through factory emission and combustion of fossil fuels. D) Sunlight changes nitrogen into usable forms. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Through uptake of nitrogen compounds in the soil by plants. 50. A density independent factor is ..... A) Where allele frequencies will always remain constant. B) Where the effect on a population will always be the same no matter the population size. C) Where the the effect something has on a population will be due to how many organisms are in the population. D) Where a population has reached its limit for the number of individuals the ecosystem can sustain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Where the effect on a population will always be the same no matter the population size. 51. What is an Abiotic example? A) Precipitation. B) Grass. C) Trout. D) Parrot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Precipitation. 52. Which food chain passes on the largest proportion of energy to humans? A) Plankton$\longrightarrow$ $\longrightarrow$. B) Beans $\longrightarrow$. C) Seaweed$\longrightarrow$ $\longrightarrow$ $\longrightarrow$. D) Corn $\longrightarrow$ $\longrightarrow$. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beans $\longrightarrow$. 53. When two or more organisms fight for resources it is called ..... A) Prey. B) Fighting. C) Competition. D) Parasitism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Competition. 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 ..... A) Consumer. B) Producer. C) Parasite. D) Host. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parasite. 55. An environmental system made up of organisms interacting with one another and with nonliving factors to form a work unit. A) Ecosystem. B) Food Chain. C) Weathering. D) Hydrological System. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ecosystem. 56. The relationship between autotrophs and producers is A) That they are the same organisms. B) That autotrophs eat producers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) That they are the same organisms. 57. An animal that is hunted and eaten for food is a A) Predator. B) Prey. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prey. 58. Earth is also known as a A) Biosphere. B) A star. C) A gas giant. D) Fourth rock from the sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biosphere. 59. Which feature of deforestation has the greatest effect on the atmosphere? A) Reduction of photosynthesis. B) Increased risk of flooding. C) Soil erosion. D) Extinction of forest animal species. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reduction of photosynthesis. 60. After land is cleared for farming, what type of succession might occur? A) Primary. B) Secondary. C) Tertiary. D) None of above. 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