This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Ecology – Quiz 142 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ecology Quiz 142 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. If fish are caught faster than they can breed the population will ..... A) Increase. B) Stay the same. C) Emigrate. D) Decrease. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Decrease. 2. Sunlight, water, rocks are all Biotic Factors of an ecosystem. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 3. A place where rubbish is thrown away. A) Sewage. B) Recycle. C) A dumping site. D) Pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A dumping site. 4. What level of organization is it when three foxes work together to catch fish from a stream A) Ecosystem. B) Population. C) Individual. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population. 5. Four major resources that affect population density are habitat, food, mates, and ..... A) Air. B) Water. C) Stuff. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Water. 6. This compound can only be broken down by bacteria in the roots or lightning A) Type. B) Na. C) Ill. D) START. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Na. 7. ALL energy flow for an ecosystem begins with ..... A) Plants. B) The moon. C) The sun. D) Algae. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The sun. 8. Which of these scenarios is most like the relationship between a mosquito and a person? A) A tick feeding on a deer. B) A lion and a wildebeast. C) A goby fish and shrimp. D) A bear catching a fish. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A tick feeding on a deer. 9. These type of consumers are animals that consume the carcasses of other animals that have been killed by predators or have died of other causes A) Carnivores. B) Omnivores. C) Scavengers. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scavengers. 10. What type of symbiosis occurs when two organisms benefit from having the other there? ex) algae provides food for fungi and fungi provide habitat for algae. A) Parasitism. B) Commensalism. C) Mutualism. D) Predation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mutualism. 11. The top layer of an energy pyramid a primary consumer? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 12. Which of the following describes a habitat? A) A single set of living things showing what eats what. B) Where a living thing lives. C) A complex diagram with lots of connections of living things showing what eats what. D) The conditions where something lives. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Where a living thing lives. 13. Due to the fact that plants can make their own food using photosynthesis, what are plants considered in food chains? A) Omnivores. B) Consumbers. C) Producers. D) Carnivores. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Producers. 14. What is the term for each step in the transfer of energy and matter within a food web? A) Energy path. B) Food chain. C) Trophic level. D) Food pyramid. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trophic level. 15. What is unicellular? A) One cell. B) Many cells. C) No nucleus. D) DNA. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One cell. 16. An abandoned motel on HWY 17 that is now overgrown with trees and grass would be an example of A) Primary succession. B) Secondary succession. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Secondary succession. 17. Which animal gives birth the same way as a dog? A) Dolphin. B) Gold fish. C) Dove. D) Lizard. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dolphin. 18. The island of Surtsey came up from the ocean in the 1960's. According to what you have learned about succession, what would you expect the pioneer species to be on this new island? A) Wild flowers. B) Annual grasses. C) Lichen. D) Any kind of plants that have roots. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lichen. 19. Why do living things need nitrogen? A) To get energy. B) To make amino acids. C) To make proteins. D) To make proteins AND amino acids. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To make proteins AND amino acids. 20. Breaking News! A new island has formed off of Hawaii! What must occur for it to become an ecosystem? A) Secondary Succession. B) Aquatic succession. C) Primary Succession. D) Ferns must grow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Primary Succession. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesScience QuizzesEcology Quiz 1Ecology Quiz 2Ecology Quiz 3Ecology Quiz 4Ecology Quiz 5Ecology Quiz 6Ecology Quiz 7Ecology Quiz 8Ecology Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books