This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Ecology – Quiz 65 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ecology Quiz 65 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In the rain forest the tall trees form a leafy roof called the A) Canopy. B) Understory. C) Forest Floor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Canopy. 2. A social interaction with the sole purpose of finding a mate. A) Submission. B) Courtship. C) Hibernation. D) Aggression. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Courtship. 3. Which type of symbiotic relationship is where both organisms are helped? A) Mutualism. B) Commensalism. C) Parasitism. D) Symbiosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mutualism. 4. Green plants produce their own food by converting light energy into chemical energy by a process called photosynthesis. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 5. What is an animal that only eats plants? A) Carnivore. B) Herbivore. C) Omnivore. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Herbivore. 6. Consumers that primarily eat one specific organism is called A) Herbivore. B) More destructive. C) Specialist. D) Generalist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Specialist. 7. The growing season may last all year in a hot, wet climate. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 8. Why do firefighters start small fires? A) To get rid of some of the old trees that are getting in the way and becoming annoying. B) They don't like Smokey they Bear and want to make him mad. C) To keep them controlled and prevent uncontrollable fires from occuring. D) They want to make more room for houses. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To keep them controlled and prevent uncontrollable fires from occuring. 9. Which of the following is an abiotic factor that plants depend on? A) Seed-eating birds. B) Nutrients in the soil. C) Insect pollinators. D) Ants building their nests in trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nutrients in the soil. 10. A relationship where one species is helped and one species is neutral (not hurt, but not helped). A) Commensalism. B) Mutualism. C) Parasitism. D) Predation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Commensalism. 11. This is the way two organisms of different species exist in a relationship and both benefit ..... A) Mutualism. B) Commensalism. C) Parasitism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mutualism. 12. The process of making parts of a product in different places all over the world is called ..... A) Demand. B) Opportunity cost. C) Free enterprise system. D) Globalization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Globalization. 13. Food webs are ..... A) Interconecting food chains. B) Spiders webs. C) Preys and preditors in love. D) A living space. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Interconecting food chains. 14. All biotic and abiotic factors in an area. Plans, animals, insects, soil, water, and temperature. A) Ecosystem. B) Consumer. C) Producer. D) Ecology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ecosystem. 15. I am a consumer that eats only plants. A) Carnivore. B) Omnivore. C) Herbivore. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Herbivore. 16. Moves nitrogen back and forth between the atmosphere and organisms A) Nitrogen cycle. B) Nitrogen fixation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nitrogen cycle. 17. ..... occurs when 1 organisms kills and eats another for food. A) Collaboration. B) Predation. C) Symbiosis. D) Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Predation. 18. An example of a physical adaptation is ..... A) The spikes on a porcupine fish. B) A turtle hiding inside its shell. C) A viper biting when threatened. D) A rabbit burrowing underground. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The spikes on a porcupine fish. 19. Members of a species in a defined area are called ..... A) Population. B) Biodiversity. C) Ecosystem. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Population. 20. Plants are called A) Predators. B) Prey. C) Producers. D) Consumers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Producers. 21. Ticks and humans are an example of A) Mutualism. B) Commensalism. C) Parasitism. D) Predation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parasitism. 22. Sarah wanted to find out if the size of a car tire made it a smoother ride over bumps. What is the dependent variable? A) Size of tire. B) How smooth the ride was over bumps. C) Type of car. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) How smooth the ride was over bumps. 23. Any close relationship between species A) Commensalism. B) Mutualism. C) Symbiosis. D) Parasitism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbiosis. 24. All of the bullfrogs living around a pond is known as ..... A) A community. B) An abiotic factor. C) A population. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A population. 25. What type of symbiosis? *The tick lives on dog and feeds on its blood and tissue. * The dog gets skin irritation and can pick up diseases carried by tick. A) Mutualism. B) Parasitism. C) Predfation. D) Commensalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parasitism. 26. A trophic level refers to the ..... A) Stage in a food chain. B) Energy level in a food web. C) Axis around the earth. D) Stage in an ecological niche. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stage in a food chain. 27. What is the interaction of life called? A) Theology. B) Chemistry. C) Ecology. D) Economics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ecology. 28. Organisms that are classified as autotrophic are able to- A) Make their own food . B) Move. C) Reproduce. D) Be seen with the human eye. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Make their own food . 29. Where do PRODUCERS acquire energy from? A) Sun. B) Water. C) Food. D) Plants. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sun. 30. The first organism in the energy pyramid is always a A) Sun. B) Producer. C) Consumer. D) Decomposer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Producer. 31. Michael went to the circus and saw a seal balance a beach ball on its nose. This is an example of a ..... A) Mimicry. B) Instinct. C) Camouflage. D) Learned behavior. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Learned behavior. 32. The transfer of energy in the ecosystem by eating one another in succession is called A) Livelihood. B) Eating food. C) Food chain. D) Food creation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Food chain. 33. Which change would most likely cause a decrease in the number of chipmunks living in an area? A) An increase in available food. B) A decrease in the number of predators. C) A decrease in competition between the chipmunks. D) A decrease in available food. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A decrease in available food. 34. Which of these does a food chain model need to make it more accurate? A) Arrows to show the flow of energy. B) Sun and arrows to show flow of energy. C) Sun, producer, consumers, and arrows to show flow of energy. D) Color and arrows. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sun, producer, consumers, and arrows to show flow of energy. 35. When one organism is harmed, and another organism benefits, this describes what? A) Mutualism. B) Commensalism. C) Parasitism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parasitism. 36. Antelope move INTO an area A) Immigration. B) Emigration. C) Limiting factor. D) Carrying capacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Immigration. 37. Feeds only on plants A) Carnivore. B) Herbivore. C) Omnivore. D) Detrivorous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Herbivore. 38. Which of the following is NOT a nonliving thing? (which one is living?) A) Wood. B) Rocks. C) Milk. D) Sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wood. 39. Which ecological method is being used if you set up the effect of different levels of sunlight on plant growth A) Observation. B) Questioning. C) Modeling. D) Experimenting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Experimenting. 40. The great hornbill and the toucan both eat the same fruit, insects, and nuts. They both live in the rainforest. Their large bills function to get food and also as warning coloration. Which of the following is a limiting factor to the toucan population? A) Overlapping breeding seasons. B) Bill coloration. C) Genetic variability. D) Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Competition. 41. The rate at which biomass accumulates. A) Gross Primary Productivity. B) Net Primary Productiviey. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Net Primary Productiviey. 42. Which of the following is NOT an outcome of high population density? A) Decreased resource availability. B) Mortality increase. C) Reduction in births. D) Competition becomes less. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Competition becomes less. 43. A group of organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time A) Community. B) Niche. C) Habitat. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Population. 44. Hydroelectric power is A) Nonrenewable. B) Renewable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Renewable. 45. Which type of organism receives energy from every other organisms in the trophic levels? A) Decomposers. B) Primary producers. C) Primary consumers. D) Secondary consumers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Decomposers. 46. What lives in the roots of plants that fix the nitrogen so that plants can use the nitrogen? A) Bacteria. B) Malaria. C) Viruses. D) Protists. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bacteria. 47. If humans clear out forest to create space for their goats to graze, it is most likely to have a harmful effect directly on A) Insects that pollinate flowers. B) Plants that compete with grasses for nutrients. C) Prairie dogs that are also herbivores. D) Bird that eat insects that are stirred up ny the grazers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prairie dogs that are also herbivores. 48. Bacteria are an example of producers. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 49. The role a species plays within a community is its? A) HABITAT. B) NICHE. C) ENVIRONMENT. D) BIOSPHERE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) NICHE. 50. Invasive species alter the ecosystem by ..... in number quickly. This leads to ..... food for the native species. A) Decreasing, more. B) Increasing, less. C) Decreasing, less. D) Increasing, more. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Increasing, less. 51. A green pigment that captures light energy for photosynthesis. A) Mitochondria. B) Vacuoles. C) Chloroplast. D) Chlorophyll. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chlorophyll. 52. In an ecosystem, everything is ..... A) Alive. B) Must eat other organisms to survive. C) Separate from each other. D) Connected to everything else. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Connected to everything else. 53. How is a food web different from a food chain? A) Food webs exist in aquatic environments; food chains exist in terrestrial environments. B) Food webs contain many different, linked food chains. C) Food webs contain only producers, not consumers. D) . Food webs do not include decomposers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Food webs contain many different, linked food chains. 54. What type of invasive control involves physically removing the animal by hunting, trapping, fishing, or other methods? A) Mechanical Control. B) Chemical Control. C) Biological Control. D) Kinetic Control. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mechanical Control. 55. When species do not have the traits necessary to survive, what can happen to them? A) Extinction. B) Adaptation. C) Evolution. D) Fossils. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Extinction. 56. A species that supports an entire ecosystem. A) Keystone Species. B) Herbivores. C) Umbrella Species. D) Predators. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Keystone Species. 57. Example of a decomposer A) Plants. B) Fungus. C) Mouse. D) Frogs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fungus. 58. If a population has reached the largest number of individuals the environment can support and maintain for a long period of time, then it has reached its: A) Limiting factor. B) Carrying Capacity. C) Biomagnification. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carrying Capacity. 59. Biomes are deturmend by what 3 things A) Temperture, rain fall, and adaptions. B) Climate weather adaptions. C) Temperture, weather, snow. D) Snow, rain, sand. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Temperture, rain fall, and adaptions. 60. Noah, Lily, and Aria are studying the flow of energy in an ecosystem for their science project. They are trying to represent it in a complex way that includes crossover. What method should they use? A) Food web. B) Energy circle. C) Food chain. D) Energy chain. 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