This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Ecology – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ecology Quiz 7 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The first organisms that appear in an ecological community A) Ecological succession. B) Primary succession. C) Pioneer specs. D) Secondary succession. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pioneer specs. 2. A group of organisms of the same species living in the same space A) Population. B) Habitat. C) Niche. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Population. 3. A good example of an indicator species would be A) People. B) Roaches. C) Frogs. D) Pigeons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Frogs. 4. Which type of immune system is faster? A) Adaptive Immunity. B) Innate Immunity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Innate Immunity. 5. Overpopulation can lead to all of the following except ..... A) Unhygienic living conditions. B) Disturbance of ecosystems. C) Starvation and malnutrition. D) A shift in the carrying capacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A shift in the carrying capacity. 6. What does the ozone protect us from? A) Ultraviolet radiation. B) Homework. C) Aliens. D) Carbon dioxide. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ultraviolet radiation. 7. Be careful! The floor is ..... A) White. B) Wet. C) Clean. D) Dry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wet. 8. A tick on a dog is an example of what kind of symbiotic relationship? A) Commensalism. B) Parasitism. C) Competition. D) Mutualism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parasitism. 9. Which of the following did we discuss as a keystone species? A) Lions. B) Zebras. C) Beavers. D) Frogs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beavers. 10. A claim is ..... A) A fact. B) A statement or conclusion that answers the original question or problem. C) A bad thing to make about something. D) A kind of shellfish often used in chowder. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A statement or conclusion that answers the original question or problem. 11. How do producers get the nutrients they need to survive? A) They obtain energy from eating other organisms. B) The break down and use the nutrients in dead organisms. C) They absorb nutrients from the atmosphere. D) They use energy from the sun to make food from water and carbon dioxide. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They use energy from the sun to make food from water and carbon dioxide. 12. ..... are the non living parts of the ecosystem that are necessary for life. A) Limiting Factors. B) Pioneer Species. C) Biotic Factors. D) Abiotic Factors. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Abiotic Factors. 13. I am a carnivore that eats mice, lives in the desert and not the apex predator.Who am I? A) Hawk. B) Snake. C) Cactus. D) Mice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Snake. 14. When wolves were absent from the Yellowstone food web, what type of trophic cascade did their absence cause? A) Top-down. B) Bottom-up. C) Neither. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Top-down. 15. Parasitism What does "parasitus" mean in Greek? A) Dishonesty. B) Eating together. C) Competitor. D) Food, food. E) Predatory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dishonesty. 16. What is an ecological succession? A) Series of gradual changes that occur after a disturbance. B) A series of changes that cause a population to increase or decrease. C) An INSTANT change caused by a disturbance. D) Changes that only happen when species die. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Series of gradual changes that occur after a disturbance. 17. ..... climate is described as hot and wet, and is located in low latitudes. A) Dry. B) Moderate. C) Tropical. D) Continental. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tropical. 18. The prefix Eco-means? A) House. B) Life, living. C) Small, millionth. D) With, together. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) House. 19. When an animal looks like another animal it is called ..... A) Protective resemblance. B) Mimicry. C) Warning coloration. D) Camouflage. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mimicry. 20. What do plants need to grow? How are these needs affected by climate? A) Plants need air, warmth, sunlight, water, and nutrients to grow. Climate is the major factor affecting the number and diversity of plants that can grow in a terrestrial biome. B) Plants need air, warmth, sunlight, and salt water. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plants need air, warmth, sunlight, water, and nutrients to grow. Climate is the major factor affecting the number and diversity of plants that can grow in a terrestrial biome. 21. A company wants to sell more sports drinks so they decide to add more sugar. For Group A they give them gatorade with an added teaspoon of sugar. For Group B they give them plain gatorade without adding sugar. Which Group is the CONTROL GROUP? A) The Gatorade. B) The Company. C) Group B. D) Group A. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Group B. 22. All the different populations in a specific area A) Population. B) Species. C) Community. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Community. 23. In population ecology, one of the factors that is studied is a density-dependent factor. Density-dependent factors have the greatest effect on dense populations and little to no effect on very sparse populations. What would NOT be an example of a density-dependent factor? A) Parasitism. B) Predation. C) Communicable disease. D) The average rainfall of a region. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The average rainfall of a region. 24. An example of a density-independent factor is ..... A) Food source. B) Water. C) Weather. D) Shelter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Weather. 25. Organism that share the same habitat and have to sompete for resources A) Competitive Relationships. B) Predator-PreyRelationships. C) Cooperative Relationships. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Competitive Relationships. 26. Human activities vary depending on its goal, and all this are good for everyone even to the environment. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 27. Substances in food that provide nourishment essential for growth and the maintenance of life are called: A) Nutrients. B) Water. C) Red dye #10. D) Probiotics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nutrients. 28. The Sun is important to: A) Warming the Earth. B) Photosynthesis in plants. C) Observing the natural world. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 29. How do animals get the phosphorous they need? A) Decomposing. B) Breathing it in. C) Combustion. D) Eating plants. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Eating plants. 30. One species benefits, the other is unaffected A) Commensalism. B) Mutualism. C) Symbiosis. D) Parasitism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Commensalism. 31. Striped fish are affected by abiotic and biotic factors in the environment. Which of these factors is biotic? A) Sediment. B) Mineral nutrients. C) Algae. D) Water temperature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Algae. 32. Which is an example of a biotic factor? A) A tree and blue crabs. B) Climate and a lion. C) Sunlight and temperature. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A tree and blue crabs. 33. Variety of different species A) Ecosystem diversity. B) Species diversity. C) Trophic diversity. D) Genetic diversity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Species diversity. 34. All of the following are abiotic except ..... A) WATER. B) TEMPERATURE. C) MINERALS. D) FUNGI. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) FUNGI. 35. What does a biotic do? A) Do nothing. B) Move, repopulate, and live. C) Stand still. D) Dead things. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Move, repopulate, and live. 36. Where is most fresh water on Earth located? A) Rivers, Lakes and Streams. B) Ice Caps and Glaciers. C) Ground Water. D) Oceans. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ice Caps and Glaciers. 37. The egrets, marsh crabs, and cord grass make up what level of ecology A) Ecosystem. B) Population. C) Individual. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Community. 38. Which biome is located in the Central US and used for farmlands? A) Temperate Grassland. B) Temperate Forest. C) Taiga. D) Savanna. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Temperate Grassland. 39. The struggle of organisms to survive as they use the same limited resource describes ..... A) Predation. B) Mutualism. C) Competition (competitors). D) Herbivores. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Competition (competitors). 40. Tree kangaroos live in the upper branches of trees in the rainforests of Queensland, as well as on the island of New Guinea. This is an example of the tree kangaroos ..... A) Habitat. B) Community. C) Niche. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Habitat. 41. Which natural resource is inexhaustible? A) Air, light. B) Forest, wildlife. C) Petroleum oil, coal. D) Soil, water. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Air, light. 42. Show the types of biotic factors A) Public and private. B) Intraspecies and interspecies. C) Direct and indirect. D) Specific and general. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Intraspecies and interspecies. 43. What kingdom has organisms that feed off dead or decaying organisms? A) Plants. B) Fungi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fungi. 44. In a process known as ....., water vapor in the atmosphere condenses to form clouds and then falls back to earth as rain or snow. A) Evaporation. B) Exhalation. C) Transpiration. D) Precipitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Precipitation. 45. From where do autotrophs obtain their energy? A) Other organisms. B) The sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The sun. 46. All of the carbon in existence is continually recycled in the carbon cycle A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 47. The biome that would best fit the description of "trees that lose their leaves in autumn" is: A) Tundra. B) Desert. C) Deciduous forest. D) Coniferous forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deciduous forest. 48. Organism that eats producers (plants) ONLY A) Herbivore. B) Carnivore. C) Omnivore. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Herbivore. 49. A group of interacting individuals of the same species located in the same area A) Population. B) Habitat. C) Ecosystem. D) Environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Population. 50. The unique position that a species has in the physical use of its habitat and in its function (job) within an ecosystem A) Ecosystem. B) Producer. C) Biotic factors. D) Niche. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Niche. 51. ..... is the study of interactions that occur among organisms and their environment. A) Ecologist. B) Ecosystem. C) Biology. D) Ecology. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ecology. 52. This cycle deals with Carbon dioxide and respiration A) Nitrogen. B) Phosphorus. C) Carbon. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carbon. 53. Succession that starts from rock A) Secondary. B) Tertiary. C) Primary. D) Pioneering. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Primary. 54. Which two biomes have the least precipitation? A) Tropical rain forest and temperate grasslan. B) Savanna and tropical dry forest. C) Tundra and desert. D) Boreal forest and temperate woodland. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tundra and desert. 55. A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to the next is called a A) Food chain. B) Food web. C) Energy pyramid. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Energy pyramid. 56. Which represents the distribution of water on Earth? A) 29% freshwater, 71% salt water. B) 3% freshwater, 97% salt water. C) 71% freshwater, 29% salt water. D) 97% freshwater, 3% salt water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3% freshwater, 97% salt water. 57. In an Energy Pyramid, the most energy is located ..... A) At the bottom. B) In the center. C) At the top. D) In the middle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) At the bottom. 58. Antonio and Javier are astronauts in space looking back at Earth and discussing how all the life on Earth interacts with each other as well as the nonliving things. What level of organization are they discussing? A) A biosphere. B) An ecosystem. C) A community. D) A biome. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A biosphere. 59. Which statement is true about predators? A) A predator is an organism that is eaten by other organisms. B) A predator is an organism that eats other organisms. C) A predator is an organism that eats decaying organisms. D) A predator can never be eaten by other organisms. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A predator is an organism that eats other organisms. 60. All food chains begin with this ..... A) Animals. B) Plants. C) Sun. D) Moon. 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