This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Ecology – Quiz 195 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ecology Quiz 195 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Why might a population in a food web increase? A) Too many predators. B) Too little food. C) More food. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) More food. 2. Nature's recyclers A) Scavengers. B) Decomposers. C) Parasite. D) Host. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decomposers. 3. ..... washes agricultural wastes, including animal wastes, fertilizers, and pesticides, into bodies of water, causing algae to grow. A) Runoff. B) Peak flow. C) Groundwater. D) Municipal sewage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Runoff. 4. Organisms that live outside the host's body A) Geoxenes. B) A gallophile. C) Endoparasite. D) Xerophyte. E) Ectoparasite. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Ectoparasite. 5. A white shark eats a seal, the seal eats a fish, the fish eats zooplankton, and the zooplankton eats phytoplankton which is an autotroph. The white shark is a A) Primary consumer. B) Secondary consumer. C) Tertiary consumer. D) Quaternary consumer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Quaternary consumer. 6. A community of organisms and the abiotic factors in its environment A) Organism. B) Population. C) Community. D) Ecosystem. E) Biosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ecosystem. 7. Are found near the equator. They have the largest variety of plant and animal life. They are very warm and very wet. Some of them can get as much as 400 inches of rain every year. A) Desert rain forest. B) Tropical rain forest. C) Arctic rain forest. D) Temperate rain forests. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tropical rain forest. 8. All of the LIVING components of an environment (trees, plants, animals, bacteria, people) A) Biotic Factors. B) Abiotic Factors. C) Population. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biotic Factors. 9. Which of these organisms would receive energy from the snake? A) Plant. B) Mouse. C) Rabbit. D) Hawk. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hawk. 10. What describes a possible cause of a negative carbon flux in the atmosphere due to processes occurring in a forest ecosystem? A) The trees grew more so fixed more carbon dioxide. B) There was more respiration by soil organisms. C) There was more burning of forests. D) There was more decomposition of leaf litter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The trees grew more so fixed more carbon dioxide. 11. Which of the following is an example of a living thing? A) A bacerium. B) A shell. C) Water. D) Sweat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A bacerium. 12. This organism coverts solar energy from the sun to chemical energy A) Consumer. B) Producer. C) Scavenger. D) Decoposer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Producer. 13. Shows all possible flows of energy A) Food web. B) Food chain. C) Energy pyramid. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Food web. 14. Carbon is used by plants during which process? A) Respiration. B) Transpiration. C) Photosynthesis. D) Transportation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Photosynthesis. 15. Metals generally have the following properties EXCEPT for being: A) Shiny. B) Non-conductors. C) Malleable. D) Reactive with HCl/CuCl2. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Non-conductors. 16. A characteristic or behavior that allows an organism to survive in a changing environment A) Adaptation. B) Extiction. C) Long-term environmental change. D) Short-term environmental change. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adaptation. 17. Which of the following is considered as a limit to the number of trophic levels in a food chain? A) The diversity of species in the ecosystem. B) A high percentage of the energy consumed is converted to heat. C) Some of the energy consumed is lost in faeces and urine. D) The net productivity of the ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A high percentage of the energy consumed is converted to heat. 18. Individuals that can breed with one another make up a A) Species. B) Population. C) Community. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Species. 19. What type of diagram shows the amount of energy that moves from one trophic level to another in a food web? A) Energy Pyramid. B) Food Web. C) Ecosystem. D) Food Chain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Energy Pyramid. 20. What part of the Carbon Cycle increases the amount of air pollution in in the atmosphere A) Respiration. B) Burning fossil fuels. C) Photosynthesis. D) Oxidation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Burning fossil fuels. ← 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