This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Ecology – Quiz 179 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ecology Quiz 179 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Lastly cell theory states ..... A) Cells don't do much. B) Cells are microscopic. C) All living things are made up of cells (either unicellular or multicellular). D) Bacteria aren't cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All living things are made up of cells (either unicellular or multicellular). 2. Known as the "Power Houses" of the cell. These organelles convert energy stored in food to energy that the cell can use to live and function A) Mitochondria. B) Golgi Apparatus. C) Cell membrane. D) Endoplasmic Reticulum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mitochondria. 3. What comes 3rd in the scientific method after researching the problem? A) Identify problem. B) Make hypothesis. C) Observe and record. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Make hypothesis. 4. Series of changes that occur in an area where soil or organisms exist A) Primary succession. B) Secondary succession. C) Tertiary succession. D) Climax succession. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Secondary succession. 5. A major regional or global community of organisms is called A) An ecosystem. B) A biome. C) A species. D) A population. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A biome. 6. Which process takes Carbon Dioxide from the air and converts it into a form of carbon used by living things? A) Precipitation. B) Photosynthesis. C) Respiration. D) Bioremediation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Photosynthesis. 7. During a science class, Charlotte, Henry, and James were learning about different types of organisms. They learned that some organisms synthesize their own energy using sunlight. What are these organisms called? A) Secondary. B) Autotrophs. C) Heterotrophs. D) Primary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Autotrophs. 8. An animal or person that eats both meat and plants. A) Herbivore. B) Omnivore. C) Carnivore. D) Producer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Omnivore. 9. Which of the following elements is NOT found in the atmosphere? A) Carbon. B) Phosphorus. C) Nitrogen. D) Sulfur. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Phosphorus. 10. A snake eats a mouse that was eating grain. If the grain had 200 Calories in it, the snake would gain about ..... Calories from the mouse. A) 200. B) 20. C) 2. D) .2. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2. 11. Which of the following is an example of energy conservation? A) Driving a car alone into the city at rush hour. B) Leaving lights on whenever you leave a room. C) Riding a bike to school instead of being driven in a car. D) Leaving your home uninsulated. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Riding a bike to school instead of being driven in a car. 12. Which of the following is NOT a "cycle" ? A) Water. B) Energy. C) Nitrogen. D) Phosphorus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Energy. 13. A ..... is a forest biome consisting mostly of cone-bearing evergreen trees A) Desert. B) Temperate deciduous forest. C) Boreal forest. D) Tundra. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Boreal forest. 14. "To eat" animals and/or plants A) Decoposer. B) Consumer. C) Producer. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consumer. 15. This shows how food energy passes from one organism to the next in a simple, linear fashion A) Food Chain. B) Food Web. C) Carrying Capacity. D) Symbiosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Food Chain. 16. The number of individuals the environment can support over a long period of time A) Trophic level. B) Limiting factors. C) Carrying capacity. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carrying capacity. 17. How do vaccines help to fight infection? A) The body creates memory cells that stay in the blood to fight infection if they are exposed again. B) The body creates brain cells that stay in the blood to fight infection if they are exposed again. C) The body creates antibiotics that stay in the blood to fight infection if they are exposed again. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The body creates memory cells that stay in the blood to fight infection if they are exposed again. 18. A model that shows the amount of energy available at each feeding level of an ecosystem A) Ecosystem. B) Nitrogen cycle. C) Energy pyramid. D) Food web. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Energy pyramid. 19. Which process takes the sun's energy, water, and carbon dioxide to make sugar and oxygen? A) Decomposition. B) Photosynthesis. C) Predation. D) Magnification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Photosynthesis. 20. In heterotrophs, energy for the life processes comes from the chemical energy stored in the bonds of A) Water molecules. B) Oxygen molecules. C) Organic compounds. D) Inorganic compounds. 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