This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Ecology – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ecology Quiz 8 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This level focuses on the amount of same species in the area A) Ecosystem. B) Population. C) Organism. D) Biome. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population. 2. A consumer that eats both plants and animals is called a(n) what? A) Omnivore. B) Herbivore. C) Carnivore. D) Decomposer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Omnivore. 3. Which of the following is a biotic factor? A) Humidity. B) Clouds. C) Lizards. D) Temperature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lizards. 4. True or False:A organism is a single individual of a species that are physically similar and can reproduce. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. Harmful gases produced by cars A) Fumes. B) Exhaust fumes. C) Exhaust fumes. D) Exhaust fumes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exhaust fumes. 6. The western United States would be considered what biome? A) Shrubland. B) Grassland. C) Tropical rainforest. D) Desert. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Grassland. 7. Resource partitioning is a way for organisms to A) Be a parasite. B) Share resources. C) Hunt. D) Compete. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Share resources. 8. What type of symbiosis? *Skunks often live in burrows that have been dug and abandoned by woodchucks. *Woodchucks abandon holes which are later used by skunks. A) Predation. B) Mutualism. C) Commensalism. D) Parasitism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Commensalism. 9. Which biome is warm year-round, receives LOTS of rain, and is rich in. biodiversity? A) Temperate forest. B) Temperate grassland. C) Boreal Forest. D) Tropical rainforest. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tropical rainforest. 10. All the interconnected feeding relationships in an ecosystem make up a food ..... ? A) Ecosystem. B) Web. C) Chain. D) Interaction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Web. 11. The third consumer in the food chain is called ..... A) Primary consumer. B) Secondary consumer. C) Tertiary consumer. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tertiary consumer. 12. This type of organism eats only animal tissue. A) Predator. B) Omnivore. C) Producer. D) Carnivore. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carnivore. 13. This is the type of biome on land A) Aquatic. B) Terrestrial. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Terrestrial. 14. In which type of symbiotic relationship do both species benefit? A) Parasitism. B) Predation. C) Commensalism. D) Mutualism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mutualism. 15. An ecosystem that has been clear cut showed a dramatic decrease in the amount of nutrients and energy that were cycled in the ecosystem. In this example, the ecosystem has: A) High resistance. B) Low resistance. C) High resiliance. D) Low resilience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Low resistance. 16. A consumer that eats plants A) Carnivore. B) Omnivore. C) Herbivore. D) Scavenger. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Herbivore. 17. Lightning plays a role of breaking chemical bonds during which nutrient cycle? A) Water. B) Phosphorus. C) Carbon. D) Oxygen. E) Nitrogen. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Nitrogen. 18. Warm temps, wet weather, lush plants, most diverse kinds of animals and plants, near equator. A) Desert. B) One. C) Tropical rainforest. D) Biosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tropical rainforest. 19. Eats dead things A) Scavengers and decomposers. B) Lion. C) Dogs and cats. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scavengers and decomposers. 20. The direction of the flow of energy in a food web is represented by ..... A) Arrows. B) Light bulbs. C) Dotted Lines. D) Bubbles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Arrows. 21. As a population grows, it will most likely stop growing at what size? A) Carrying Capacity. B) Exponential limit. C) It won't stop growing. D) Growth limit. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carrying Capacity. 22. Is sunlight an abiotic or biotic factor? A) Abiotic. B) Biotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abiotic. 23. ..... levels are the positions in a food chain or food web A) Nonliving. B) Trophic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Trophic. 24. What is an abiotic factor in an ecosystem? A) Trees. B) Water. C) Zebra. D) Bacteria. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Water. 25. Occurs when water on the surface changes to water vapor A) Evaporation. B) Groundwater. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Evaporation. 26. The terrifying anglerfish lives between 100 and 400 feet below sea level. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 27. A group of different species that live together and interact in an environment are called a/an ..... A) Community. B) Habitat. C) Population. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Community. 28. How do lichens contribute to primary succession? A) Lichens decompose organic matter from animals and plants. B) Lichens begin to break down rock to form soil. C) Lichens are nitrogen fixing bacteria. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lichens begin to break down rock to form soil. 29. Which definition best fits the term BIOTIC? A) The study of the interactions between animals and their environment. B) Factors in the environment that are considered living or the remains of living things. C) Factors in the environment that are considered non-living. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Factors in the environment that are considered living or the remains of living things. 30. Process that converts atmospheric CO2 and water into a form that animals can ingest as food A) Photosynthesis. B) Respiration. C) Transpiration. D) Cellular Respiration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Photosynthesis. 31. ..... are consumers. A) All plants. B) All animals. C) Only people. D) The sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All animals. 32. A single organism is called A) Biome. B) Population. C) Individual. D) Biosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Individual. 33. Which of the following would most likely be a carnivore with no natural predators? A) Producer. B) Tertiary consumer. C) Primary consumer. D) Secondary consumer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tertiary consumer. 34. A biome in the world that has forests that lose their leaves seasonally is A) Coniferous biome. B) Deciduous biome. C) Grassland biome. D) Tropical rain forest biome. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deciduous biome. 35. Which type of dispersion is most common? A) Clumped. B) Random. C) Uniform. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Clumped. 36. A testable prediction is a(n) ..... A) Data. B) Hypothesis. C) Observation. D) Experiment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hypothesis. 37. What is the order of ecological organization from most inclusive to most specific? A) Organism-community-population-biosphere-ecosystem. B) Organism-population-community-ecosystem-biosphere. C) Biosphere-ecosystem-community-population-organism. D) Biosphere-community-population-ecosystem-organism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biosphere-ecosystem-community-population-organism. 38. A squirrel's habitat in a dead log is considered a ..... factor A) Cool. B) Biotic. C) Abiotic. D) Secret. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Abiotic. 39. The number of trophic levels in an ecosystem are limited by ..... A) The number of decomposers. B) The number of consumers. C) The number of species. D) The number of producers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The number of producers. 40. Which is an example of an abiotic factor in a pond environment? A) The water. B) A grasshopper. C) A frog. D) A snake. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The water. 41. Examples of Abiotic Factors include: A) Weather, birds, plants, and animals. B) Rocks, reptiles, shrubs, trees, and grasses. C) Weather, wind, rain, sunlight, and rocks. D) Birds, plants, animals, reptiles, shrubs, trees, and grasses. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Weather, wind, rain, sunlight, and rocks. 42. An energy pyramid is broader at base and narrower at the apex, as the energy A) May increase or decrease along the food chain. B) Decreases along the food chain. C) Increases along the food chain. D) Remains same along the food chain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decreases along the food chain. 43. Choose the right meaning:recycle A) To recycle. B) Harm. C) Pick. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To recycle. 44. Molds, bacteria, and worms are ..... A) Food chains. B) Decomposers. C) Consumers. D) Producers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decomposers. 45. Water, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen cycle through the earth and are reused by organisms. A) Tundra. B) Weather. C) Nature's cycle. D) Taiga. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nature's cycle. 46. Obtains energy from other living things "consumer" A) Prokaryotes. B) Heterotrophic. C) Eukaryote. D) Autotrophic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Heterotrophic. 47. Adaptation of organisms to the environment A) Variability. B) Population. C) Adaptability. D) Competition. E) Recreation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adaptability. 48. This zone is from the surface to 200 meters deep and is also called the photic zone: A) Epipelagic zone. B) Bathypelagic zone. C) Mesopelagic zone. D) Benthic zone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epipelagic zone. 49. Plants in a food chain are referred to as: A) Scavengers. B) Decomposers. C) Consumers/heterotrophs. D) Producers/autotrophs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Producers/autotrophs. 50. "There is only enough space in this room to sit 27 students."27 would be this rooms ..... A) Death Variable. B) Deflector. C) Carrying Capactiy. D) Limiting Factor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carrying Capactiy. 51. Substance that's in the wrong place or wrong concentration. A) Pollution. B) Trophic. C) Heterotroph. D) Invasive Species. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pollution. 52. What organism has the greatest amount of energy? A) Decomposers. B) Producers. C) Herbivore. D) Carnivores. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Producers. 53. A habitat is..... A) The place or kind of place in which an animal or plant naturally lives. B) Is how plants produce their own food. C) Is an animal that only eats meat. D) The place where only one animal lives. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The place or kind of place in which an animal or plant naturally lives. 54. Two species of fish live in the same pond. Which of the following would increase competition between these two species of fish? A) Population of birds that eat the fish increases. B) Number of food plants the fish eat increases. C) Water level in the pond decreases. D) Habitat temperature increases. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Water level in the pond decreases. 55. A biotic thing in an environment is one that A) Is or was alive. B) Is non-living (never has been alive). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Is or was alive. 56. How does energy flow in an energy pyramid? A) Left to right. B) Right to left. C) Top to bottom. D) Bottom to top. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bottom to top. 57. Which of the following processes does not return CO2 into the atmosphere? A) Cellular respiration. B) Decomposition. C) Burning fossil fuels. D) Photosynthesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Photosynthesis. 58. Air ..... is a serious problem in cities. A) Oxygen. B) Exhaust fumes. C) Recycle. D) Pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pollution. 59. Carrying Capacity A) How many organisms an ecosystem can hold and sustain. B) Means the ecosystem is overpopulated. C) How much candy you can carry. D) Is an endangered species. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) How many organisms an ecosystem can hold and sustain. 60. Biotic factors would include all but ..... A) Humans. B) Fish. C) Soil. D) Trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Soil. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesScience QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesEcology Quiz 1Ecology Quiz 2Ecology Quiz 3Ecology Quiz 4Ecology Quiz 5Ecology Quiz 6Ecology Quiz 7Ecology Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books