Ecology Quiz 149 (20 MCQs)

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1. This type of consumer eats only meat.

Correct Answer: C) Carnivore.

2. A fully functioning terrestrial ecosystem should always include .....

Correct Answer: B) More producers than consumers.

3. The trees in this biome shed their leaves and grow new ones each year:

Correct Answer: A) Temperate deciduous forest.

4. In creating food for the producer groups in the ecosystem, light energy is converted into what type of energy?

Correct Answer: A) Chemical energy.

5. Identify the producer in this food chain.

Correct Answer: D) The plant.

6. The prefix sphere means?

Correct Answer: B) Ball, round.

7. How does energy contain in producers get released in consumers?

Correct Answer: C) Cellular respiration.

8. Choose the correct order from smallest to largest.

Correct Answer: C) Individual, Population, Community, Ecosystem, Biosphere.

9. A decomposer is a living thing that gets energy by breaking down dead plants and animals.

Correct Answer: A) True.

10. A tree is a .....

Correct Answer: C) Producer.

11. Is the part of Earth where life exists

Correct Answer: A) Biosphere.

12. A diagram that shows the transfer of energy in one line is a .....

Correct Answer: B) Food chain.

13. A system of food chains that shows the transfer of energy is termed

Correct Answer: A) Food web.

14. Arbor means

Correct Answer: B) Tree.

15. Energy and Matter cycles through an ecosystem by

Correct Answer: A) Being consumed or absorbed by an organism.

16. What is the layer of Earth that contains all life?

Correct Answer: D) Biosphere.

17. An animal or person that eats only meat.

Correct Answer: C) Carnivore.

18. All the populations in an ecosystem

Correct Answer: A) Community.

19. ..... is the conversion of organic nitrogen into ammonia

Correct Answer: B) Ammonification.

20. What is the defintion of an organism?

Correct Answer: A) A living thing.