Ecology Quiz 180 (20 MCQs)

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1. Large bodies of water affect climate because

Correct Answer: A) Water heats up and cools more slowly than land.

2. What is the producer in this food chain? phytoplankton $\rightarrow$ krill $\rightarrow$ fish $\rightarrow$ shark

Correct Answer: A) Phytoplankton.

3. What is another word of saying producers?

Correct Answer: C) Autotrophic.

4. Which type of scientist studies ecology?

Correct Answer: D) Ecologist.

5. All the living and non-living factors that interact in an area

Correct Answer: A) Ecosystem.

6. A mosquito feeding off the blood of a human. Is an example of which relationship?

Correct Answer: C) Parasitism.

7. An organism that eats other organisms is called a .....

Correct Answer: A) Consumer.

8. A food chain begins with

Correct Answer: C) Primary energy source.

9. Forests in areas that are extremely cold during winter months and moderately warm in summer.

Correct Answer: D) Temperate deciduous.

10. In an energy pyramid, available energy ..... as trophic levels increase.

Correct Answer: B) Decreases.

11. Why is the carbon cycle important to living things?

Correct Answer: A) It transports the materials cells use for energy.

12. Animals that eat both plants and other animals.

Correct Answer: C) Omnivores.

13. A major type of ecosystem. Ex. rainforest, desert, tundra, deciduous forest, taiga, marine, etc.....

Correct Answer: A) Biome.

14. "All the living things on Woodland's baseball field" would be an example of a

Correct Answer: B) Community.

15. Which biome has the least amount of precipitation?

Correct Answer: C) Desert.

16. The things animals do to survive.

Correct Answer: A) Behavioral Adaptations.

17. All the organisms that belong to the same species living in a community.

Correct Answer: B) Population.

18. Which nutrient is not cycled through the atmosphere?

Correct Answer: C) Phosphorous.

19. Succession that occurs in an area where soil is already present

Correct Answer: C) Secondary succession.

20. Plants and animals need nitrogen to make .....

Correct Answer: A) Protein.