Ecology Quiz 157 (20 MCQs)

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1. What does macrohabitat mean?

Correct Answer: B) Large-scale of environment.

2. This level of ecology looks at species interacting with each other

Correct Answer: C) Community.

3. I want to sleep. I am.....

Correct Answer: B) Tired.

4. After walking through a field, you find a tick attached to your leg. What is the tick's relationship to you?

Correct Answer: A) Predator.

5. In a food chain or food web, the arrows represent:

Correct Answer: D) The flow of energy.

6. What process occurs when light energy is captured in autotrophs and converted into sugar?

Correct Answer: A) Photosynthesis.

7. Where does cellular respiration occur in a prokaryotic cell?

Correct Answer: C) Cytoplasm.

8. All the non living and living parts of an environment make up the

Correct Answer: B) Ecosystem.

9. Rinderpest is a?

Correct Answer: A) Cattle disease in Africa.

10. A condition that would restrict a a population's growth is a

Correct Answer: C) Limiting factor.

11. What link in the food chain can be destroyed that can lead to harmful results for the biocenosis?

Correct Answer: A) Reductants.

12. Four earth systems-atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere, and hydrosphere

Correct Answer: D) Both the causes and effects of global change may involve all Earth systems.

13. Example of 1st consumer

Correct Answer: A) Cow.

14. What is the place where an organism usually lives?

Correct Answer: C) Habitat.

15. A non-native plant that causes problems to the environment that it is introduced to is called .....

Correct Answer: A) Invasive.

16. A niche refers to the place an organism lives within its ecosystem.

Correct Answer: B) False.

17. Which energy role obtains energy through eating other organisms?

Correct Answer: B) Consumer.

18. The number of individuals in a population per unit area.

Correct Answer: C) Density.

19. The ecological role an organism performs in their specific environment is considered the organism's .....

Correct Answer: D) Niche.

20. What is the name of the area of groundwater where it is saturated?

Correct Answer: A) Zone of Saturation.