Ecology Quiz 84 (60 MCQs)

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1. Are passed down to future generations more often
2. "The process of organisms migrating into a new or disturbed area" is the definition of:
3. Food is broken down into simple materials as it
4. What are organisms that feed on ready-made organic matter called?
5. Which greenhouse gas is the biggest contributor to climate change?
6. A relationship where one species benefits but the other is neither helped or harmed is called a(n) .....
7. What is a GEOGRAPHIC AREA where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscapes, work together to form a bubble of life?
8. What is the role of an organism in its habitat or how it makes its living?
9. All of the following are abiotic factors except:
10. Who was a lover of nature and convinced Teddy Roosevelt to preserve lands for National Parks?
11. What is another word for consumers?
12. This biome is near the equator.
13. Which of the following is not a biotic factor that can affect plants?
14. Parts of the seed that becomes the root
15. What is the main use of coal today?
16. Series of changes where other organisms have not previously lived
17. Learned behavior
18. By looking at the skull of a mammal you can tell if the animal is a(n)
19. It is raining outside right now.
20. Which of the following is the sum of all living organisms on Earth?
21. Sustainable means
22. The greater the biodiversity is, the ..... sustainable an ecosystem is.
23. As it grows from a seed to a mature plant, aplant will grow taller and thicker. which are abiotic factors most responcible for the increase in the mass of the plant
24. Selective breeding leads to genetic change in a population.Which factor causes the population to change in selective breeding?
25. Which type of succession happens when a new island is formed by a volcano erupting?
26. Organism of the same species that live in the same area
27. What is evaporation?
28. A type of consumer that eats only meat is called a .....
29. Food, water, sunlight, air, soil are resources that are often .....
30. How are populations different from communities?
31. A new golf course is built next to a river. Over the past several months, the nitrate levels of the water in the river have been increasing. Which best explains the cause of the increasing nitrate levels?
32. Two male Giraffes are fighting over the last green leaf of a tree that is dying.
33. Barnacles create home sites by attaching themselves to whales. The whale is unaffected.
34. In the water cycle, what step occurs when water goes directly from a solid to a gas?
35. A group of organisms
36. Ecology means-study of living things and their interactions with the eniviorment of abiotic and biotic organisms
37. Organism that is consumed by another organism
38. When one organism copies the behavior or physical appearance of another organism in order to benefit itself
39. Over the last decade we have had an increase in the amount of rain in our area.
40. All the members of one species (organisms) that live within an area of an ecosystem is a?
41. The relationship between two or more species (or individuals) that use the same limited resource, both are negatively affected by the relationship
42. Which of the following relationships are least like a snake and a rodent?
43. Food webs always start with:
44. Nearly all energy that fuels life on Earth comes from
45. Which major biome is home to cacti, mesquite, white torn, pack rats, small reptiles, and coyotes?
46. Arrows in a food web show the flow of
47. If a keystone species is removed from an ecosystem,
48. Animals fighting over food or territory is an example of
49. People should protect the ..... they live in.
50. The total mass of organisms at a trophic level
51. We should (protect the environment).
52. One organism benefits, the other is harmed or killed; tapeworms
53. This level of the energy pyramid contains the least energy
54. The levels organism, population and community have only which type of factors?
55. Which nutrient is not cycled through the atmosphere and stays only on ground level?
56. Which of the following are included within a community?
57. Living parts of environment
58. A group of zebras makes up a(n) .....
59. What is an example of a limiting factor that is biotic?
60. Human-built dams across rivers have both positive & negative effects on the environment. What effect does building dams have on environments downstream?