This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Ecology – Quiz 86 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ecology Quiz 86 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is a native specie? A) A specie that is local and has lived in the same place. B) A specie who has come from another state or country. C) A specie that has no "home" and travels for its whole life. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A specie that is local and has lived in the same place. 2. Occurs when ice and snow change directly to water vapor A) Nitrogen cycle. B) Sublimation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sublimation. 3. Which of these is NOT a freshwater biome? A) Coral reef. B) Flowing water. C) Wetlands. D) Ponds and lakes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Coral reef. 4. Select the right translation:waste A) Size. B) Heavy. C) Sale. D) Waste. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Waste. 5. Many science words can be easily broken down to find their true meaning. Look at the PREFIX below and match it to its meaning. BIO A) Not. B) Home. C) Life. D) Without. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Life. 6. A science that studies the living conditions of living organisms, their relationship with each other and the surrounding inorganic nature. A) Ecology. B) Geology. C) Economy. D) Physiology. E) Medicine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ecology. 7. Consist of non living things in an ecosystem A) Living environment. B) Food chain. C) Physical environment. D) Consumer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Physical environment. 8. What are two processes by which autotrophs make food? A) Chemosynthesis and photosynthesis. B) Photosynthesis and respiration. C) Chemosynthesis and decomposition. D) Decomposition and combustion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chemosynthesis and photosynthesis. 9. An exchange pool holds an element or water for a ..... period. A) Fossil. B) Short. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Short. 10. Which event would not cause secondary succession? A) Forest fire. B) Flooding of a valley. C) Volcanic lava flow. D) Tornado. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Volcanic lava flow. 11. An organism that east meat is called an ..... A) Meat eater. B) Omnivore. C) Carnivore. D) Herbivore. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carnivore. 12. In a simple food chain, small fish eat algae; bigger fish eat the smaller fish; bears eat the bigger fish. Using the above scenario, which of these would have the largest amount of energy? A) Algae. B) Bears. C) Big fish. D) Small fish. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Algae. 13. What type of symbiosis? **Kudzu vines grow by climbing, and wrapping around trees. **Kundzu covered trees die as they are smothered and break under the weight of the growing Kudzu vines. A) Commensalism. B) Parasitism. C) Predation. D) Mutualism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Predation. 14. Which of the entities is non-gaseous? A) Sulphur. B) Phosphorus. C) Nitrogen. D) Energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Energy. 15. This biome generally has 4 seasons. A) Temperate deciduous forest. B) Boreal forest (Taiga). C) Desert. D) Arctic tundra. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Temperate deciduous forest. 16. In the food chain system, what function do fungi play? A) Hunter. B) Consumer. C) Manufacturer. D) Decomposer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Decomposer. 17. Charles Darwin observed species while working on the HMS Beagle. What was his job? A) To observe the weather and climate at different locations. B) Study the formation of landscapes. C) Understand living things he saw. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Understand living things he saw. 18. A close interaction between tow or more different species is known as A) Botulism. B) Commensalism. C) Mutualism. D) Symbiosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbiosis. 19. How did increasing wolves increase bird populations? A) Wolves eat the bird's predators. B) Less deer means more food for birds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Less deer means more food for birds. 20. Which term defined:Chemical elements in inorganic forms in the abiotic components of biosphere A) Reservoir pool. B) Cycling pool. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reservoir pool. 21. True or False:Extinction lasts forever? (not thinking about new DNA technology) A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 22. True or false biotic is all living parts in an ecosystem A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 23. An organism at the second trophic level would be considered a ..... A) Herbivore. B) Carnivore. C) Producer. D) Top carnivore. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Herbivore. 24. Which of the following resource is renewable? A) Plants and natural gas. B) Petroleum and oil. C) Water and plants. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Water and plants. 25. Which of these is NOT a way that energy is wasted by animals in a food chain? A) Respiration. B) Keeping warm. C) Movement. D) Photosynthesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Photosynthesis. 26. A group of fish with synchronized direction and speed is called a ..... A) Pod. B) School. C) Shoal. D) Aggregation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) School. 27. All living and nonliving parts of an environment found in a specificlocation. A) Ecosystem. B) Habitat. C) Community. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ecosystem. 28. Invasive species have a negative impact on ..... A) The ecosystem. B) The economy. C) Both the ecosystem and the economy. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both the ecosystem and the economy. 29. In most food webs, bacteria and fungi are labeled as the A) Decomposers. B) Consumers. C) Producers. D) Scavengers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Decomposers. 30. When algae levels increase in a body of water, it A) Causes bacteria populations decrease. B) Causes dissolved Oxygen levels increase. C) Cuts off light to plants at the bottom. D) Increases light to the plants on the bottom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cuts off light to plants at the bottom. 31. Anytime there is a close and permanent association between organisms, it is known as ..... A) Prey. B) A Keystone Species. C) Predator. D) Symbiosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbiosis. 32. The slight differences in stripe patterns in a zebra population is known as A) Adaptation. B) Variation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Variation. 33. The term abiotic means;- A) Water based environments. B) Not a robot or robotic. C) Living Things. D) Non-living things. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Non-living things. 34. When organisms of different species compete for the same resources, it is called A) Interspecific competition. B) Intraspecific competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Interspecific competition. 35. The source of all energy is ..... A) Producers. B) Consumers. C) The Sun. D) Decomposers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Sun. 36. What is a defense strategy? A) A way to spawn armor every time an organism comes withen a 10-meter radius. B) A way to keep something from being eaten by a predator. C) Mimicry. D) Camouflage. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A way to keep something from being eaten by a predator. 37. ..... are all organisms that break down dead/dying matter, and release carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous, etc. into their surroundings A) Microbes. B) Decomposers. C) Bacteria. D) Fungi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decomposers. 38. Which level of organization is more complex than a population and less complex than an ecosystem? A) Organism. B) Community. C) Ecosystem. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Community. 39. Carrying Capacity:definition A) The average number of individuals an environment can support. B) The maximum number of individuals a Popeye's can support. C) The minimum number of individuals an environment can support. D) The maximum number of individuals an environment can support. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The maximum number of individuals an environment can support. 40. All the biotic and abiotic factors in an area A) Community. B) Population. C) Biome. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ecosystem. 41. Carnivores, herbivores, omnivores, and scavengers are all examples of ..... A) Consumers. B) Producers. C) Abiotic factors. D) Decomposers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consumers. 42. All organisms in a community A) Niche. B) Community. C) Population. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Population. 43. What occurs when ice and snow change directly to water vapor? A) Sublimation. B) Precipitation. C) Transpiration. D) Evaporation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sublimation. 44. Read the definition:It is when and animal or plant have to adjust to new surroundings or a new situation. A) Adapt. B) Biome. C) Climate. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adapt. 45. What form of light from the Sun is important to warming Earth? A) Infrared. B) Visible light. C) X ray. D) UV light. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Infrared. 46. Which of the following is an example of an abiotic limiting factor on population size? A) Availability of food. B) Water availability. C) Disease. D) Predation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Water availability. 47. Nonliving factors in an environment are ..... A) Biotic. B) Abiotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abiotic. 48. The movement of carbon dioxide and oxygen on Earth by the processes of respiration and photosynthesis. A) Carbon Dioxide. B) Carbon Dioxide-Oxygen Cycle. C) Respiration. D) Oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carbon Dioxide-Oxygen Cycle. 49. Why is matter not lost as it passes through an ecosystem? A) Matter is recycled. This recycling involves specific interactions between the biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem. B) The chemical elements and water that are needed by organisms continuously recycle in ecosystems. They pass through biotic and abiotic components of the biosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Matter is recycled. This recycling involves specific interactions between the biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem. 50. A relationship between two species in which both species benefit A) Symbiosis. B) Mutualism. C) Camouflage. D) Commensalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mutualism. 51. Anything that prevents a population from growing larger. A) Limiting factor. B) Disease. C) Availability. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limiting factor. 52. What do antibodies do? A) Bind and flag infectious agents. B) Destroy infectious agents. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bind and flag infectious agents. 53. A one-way relationship where one species benefits at the expense of another is called ..... ? A) Commensalism. B) Competitive exclusion. C) Parasitism. D) An obligatory relationship. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parasitism. 54. Which of the following is the most simple level of ecological organization? A) An ecosystem. B) A population. C) A community. D) An individual or species. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An individual or species. 55. Which energy level is an interrelated food chain in an ecosystem? A) Food sphere. B) Food trophic. C) Food web. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Food web. 56. What type of population measurement is it when organisms are captured and marked then captured again? A) Estimate by sampling. B) Count every individual. C) Mark and Recapture. D) Population Density. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mark and Recapture. 57. Honey guide birds alert and direct badgers to bee hives. The badgers then expose the hives and feed on the honey first. Then the honey guide birds eat. A) Mutualism. B) Competition. C) Commensalism. D) Predation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mutualism. 58. If only 10% of an organism's energy is available for the next trophic level, what happens with the other 90% of the energy? A) It is destroyed after it is used up. B) It is lost completely as body heat. C) It is used for life processes like movement, creating offspring producing waste or lost as body heat. D) It is used to grow plants. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is used for life processes like movement, creating offspring producing waste or lost as body heat. 59. Animals obtain the nitrogen they need directly from the A) Bacteria living within them. B) Plants they eat. C) Soil in their habitat. D) Air they breathe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plants they eat. 60. What is the level of organization where the community is interacting with abiotic factors? A) Ecosystem. B) Community. C) Biome. D) Population. 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