Ecology Quiz 195 (20 MCQs)

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1. Why might a population in a food web increase?
2. Nature's recyclers
3. ..... washes agricultural wastes, including animal wastes, fertilizers, and pesticides, into bodies of water, causing algae to grow.
4. Organisms that live outside the host's body
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
6. A community of organisms and the abiotic factors in its environment
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.
8. All of the LIVING components of an environment (trees, plants, animals, bacteria, people)
9. Which of these organisms would receive energy from the snake?
10. What describes a possible cause of a negative carbon flux in the atmosphere due to processes occurring in a forest ecosystem?
11. Which of the following is an example of a living thing?
12. This organism coverts solar energy from the sun to chemical energy
13. Shows all possible flows of energy
14. Carbon is used by plants during which process?
15. Metals generally have the following properties EXCEPT for being:
16. A characteristic or behavior that allows an organism to survive in a changing environment
17. Which of the following is considered as a limit to the number of trophic levels in a food chain?
18. Individuals that can breed with one another make up a
19. What type of diagram shows the amount of energy that moves from one trophic level to another in a food web?
20. What part of the Carbon Cycle increases the amount of air pollution in in the atmosphere