This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Ecology – Quiz 84 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ecology Quiz 84 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Are passed down to future generations more often A) Favorable Adaptations. B) Abilities. C) Evolution. D) Mutations. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Favorable Adaptations. 2. "The process of organisms migrating into a new or disturbed area" is the definition of: A) Pioneer Species. B) Climax Community. C) Succession. D) Biodiversity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Succession. 3. Food is broken down into simple materials as it A) Is processed in the small intestine. B) Is chewed and mixed with digestive juices. C) Travels through the bloodstream. D) Absorbs energy from the sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Is chewed and mixed with digestive juices. 4. What are organisms that feed on ready-made organic matter called? A) Heterotrophs. B) Autotrophs. C) Hydrobionts. D) Edaphites. E) Chemotrophs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heterotrophs. 5. Which greenhouse gas is the biggest contributor to climate change? A) Carbon Dioxide (CO2). B) Methane (CH4). C) Water (H2O) vapor. D) Oxygen gas (O2). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carbon Dioxide (CO2). 6. A relationship where one species benefits but the other is neither helped or harmed is called a(n) ..... A) Commensalism. B) Mutalismsm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Commensalism. 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? A) Biome. B) Ecosystem. C) Ecology. D) Biodiversity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ecosystem. 8. What is the role of an organism in its habitat or how it makes its living? A) Population. B) Ecosystem. C) Niche. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Niche. 9. All of the following are abiotic factors except: A) Sunlight. B) Tree. C) PH. D) Temperature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tree. 10. Who was a lover of nature and convinced Teddy Roosevelt to preserve lands for National Parks? A) John Muir. B) Albert Einstein. C) George Washington. D) Teddy Roosevelt. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Muir. 11. What is another word for consumers? A) Autotroph. B) Heterotroph. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Heterotroph. 12. This biome is near the equator. A) Temperate deciduous forest. B) Grassland. C) Rainforest. D) Desert. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rainforest. 13. Which of the following is not a biotic factor that can affect plants? A) New pathogens. B) Availability of food. C) Amount of carbon dioxide. D) New predators. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Amount of carbon dioxide. 14. Parts of the seed that becomes the root A) Hypocotyl. B) Radicle. C) Cotyledon. D) Epicotyl. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Radicle. 15. What is the main use of coal today? A) Powering solar panels. B) Heating homes. C) Making electricity. D) Fuel for vehicles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Making electricity. 16. Series of changes where other organisms have not previously lived A) Competition. B) Secondary succession. C) Commensalism. D) Primary succession. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Primary succession. 17. Learned behavior A) Behavior most likely learned from parent, sibling or someone close to you. B) Born with a behavior. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Behavior most likely learned from parent, sibling or someone close to you. 18. By looking at the skull of a mammal you can tell if the animal is a(n) A) Carnivore, herbivore or omnivore. B) Biotic or abiotic. C) Incisors, molars, premolars. D) Organism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carnivore, herbivore or omnivore. 19. It is raining outside right now. A) Weather. B) Climate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Weather. 20. Which of the following is the sum of all living organisms on Earth? A) Biosphere. B) Community. C) Population. D) Food web. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biosphere. 21. Sustainable means A) Using a lot of energy. B) Being able to last for a long time by creating as much as you use. C) Being able to cause a stain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Being able to last for a long time by creating as much as you use. 22. The greater the biodiversity is, the ..... sustainable an ecosystem is. A) Less. B) Equal. C) More. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) More. 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 A) Minerals, water, plant enzymes. B) Water, minerals, bacteria. C) Sunlight, oxygen, plant receptors. D) Water, sunlight, carbon dioxide. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Water, sunlight, carbon dioxide. 24. Selective breeding leads to genetic change in a population.Which factor causes the population to change in selective breeding? A) Environmental conditions or challenges. B) Individual choice. C) Human intervention. D) Migration over long distances. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Human intervention. 25. Which type of succession happens when a new island is formed by a volcano erupting? A) Primary succession. B) Secondary succession. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Primary succession. 26. Organism of the same species that live in the same area A) Community. B) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population. 27. What is evaporation? A) The change of solid water (ice) into liquid water. B) The change of liquid water into water vapor. C) The change of water vapor into liquid water. D) The falling of liquid water from the atmosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The change of liquid water into water vapor. 28. A type of consumer that eats only meat is called a ..... A) Brucivore. B) Herbivore. C) Carnivore. D) Omnivore. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carnivore. 29. Food, water, sunlight, air, soil are resources that are often ..... A) Limiting factors. B) Symbiosis. C) Communities. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limiting factors. 30. How are populations different from communities? A) Populations consist of one species; communities consist of many species. B) Populations can contain plants and fungi; communities consist of animals only. C) Populations consist of many species; communities consist of one species. D) Populations consist of animals only; communities can contain plants and fungi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Populations consist of one species; communities consist of many species. 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? A) Increased growth of algae. B) Decreased biodiversity. C) Runoff from fertilizer. D) Chemical reactions with pesticides and fertilizers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Runoff from fertilizer. 32. Two male Giraffes are fighting over the last green leaf of a tree that is dying. A) Commensalism. B) Competition. C) Mutualism. D) Predation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Competition. 33. Barnacles create home sites by attaching themselves to whales. The whale is unaffected. A) Laziness. B) Mutualism. C) Commensalism. D) Predation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Commensalism. 34. In the water cycle, what step occurs when water goes directly from a solid to a gas? A) Precipitation. B) Sublimation. C) Condensation. D) Infiltration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sublimation. 35. A group of organisms A) Ecosystem. B) Organism. C) Community. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Population. 36. Ecology means-study of living things and their interactions with the eniviorment of abiotic and biotic organisms A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 37. Organism that is consumed by another organism A) Producer. B) Herbivore. C) Predator. D) Prey. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prey. 38. When one organism copies the behavior or physical appearance of another organism in order to benefit itself A) Predation. B) Biodiversity. C) Adaptation. D) Mimicry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mimicry. 39. Over the last decade we have had an increase in the amount of rain in our area. A) Weather. B) Climate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Climate. 40. All the members of one species (organisms) that live within an area of an ecosystem is a? A) Population. B) Community. C) Niche. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Population. 41. The relationship between two or more species (or individuals) that use the same limited resource, both are negatively affected by the relationship A) Community. B) Population. C) Competition. D) Predation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Competition. 42. Which of the following relationships are least like a snake and a rodent? A) A bird eating a worm. B) A fox hunting a rabbit. C) A frog swallowing a fly. D) A tick feeding on a deer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A tick feeding on a deer. 43. Food webs always start with: A) Microorganisms. B) The sun. C) Primary consumers. D) Producers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Producers. 44. Nearly all energy that fuels life on Earth comes from A) The sun. B) The soil. C) The air. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The sun. 45. Which major biome is home to cacti, mesquite, white torn, pack rats, small reptiles, and coyotes? A) Desert. B) Taiga. C) Tundra. D) Grassland. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Desert. 46. Arrows in a food web show the flow of A) Glucose. B) Energy. C) Nutrients. D) Protein. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Energy. 47. If a keystone species is removed from an ecosystem, A) Abiotic and biotic factors can be affected. B) Only biotic factors can be affected. C) Only abiotic factors can be affected. D) Neither abiotic nor biotic factors can be affected. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abiotic and biotic factors can be affected. 48. Animals fighting over food or territory is an example of A) Competition. B) Cooperation. C) Commensalism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Competition. 49. People should protect the ..... they live in. A) Endangered species. B) Environment. C) Dumping site. D) Exhaust fumes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Environment. 50. The total mass of organisms at a trophic level A) Biomass. B) Biotic factor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biomass. 51. We should (protect the environment). A) Take care of the environment. B) Recycle the environment. C) Save the environment. D) Protect the environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Protect the environment. 52. One organism benefits, the other is harmed or killed; tapeworms A) Mutualism. B) Symbiosis. C) Parasitism. D) Rain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parasitism. 53. This level of the energy pyramid contains the least energy A) Primary consumers. B) Producers. C) Tertiary consumers. D) Secondary consumers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tertiary consumers. 54. The levels organism, population and community have only which type of factors? A) Biotic. B) Abiotic. C) Biotic and abiotic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biotic. 55. Which nutrient is not cycled through the atmosphere and stays only on ground level? A) Phosphorus. B) Water. C) Nitrogen. D) Carbon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phosphorus. 56. Which of the following are included within a community? A) Fungi, Bacteria, rocks, sunlight. B) Water, sunlight, plants, animals. C) Plants, animals, rocks, water. D) Plants, animals, fungi, bacteria. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plants, animals, fungi, bacteria. 57. Living parts of environment A) Biotic factors. B) Habitat. C) Abiotic factors. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biotic factors. 58. A group of zebras makes up a(n) ..... A) Biosphere. B) Community. C) Ecosystem. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Population. 59. What is an example of a limiting factor that is biotic? A) Wind. B) Grass. C) Water. D) Rocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Grass. 60. Human-built dams across rivers have both positive & negative effects on the environment. What effect does building dams have on environments downstream? A) A positive effect due to increasing the natural flow of nutrients. B) A negative effect due to increasing the populations of native species. C) A negative effect due to reducing populations of non-native species. D) A negative effect due to decreasing the natural flow of nutrients. 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