Ecology Quiz 216 (20 MCQs)

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1. The process by which plants use sunlight to make sugar from water and carbon dioxide is called

Correct Answer: B) Photosysthesis.

2. An ..... includes all living and nonliving things together in an area.

Correct Answer: B) Ecosystem.

3. Renewable energy

Correct Answer: D) Renewable energy.

4. Biodiversity recognizes all the different .....

Correct Answer: B) All the different species in an ecosystem.

5. Igneous

Correct Answer: C) Solidified lava or magma rock.

6. A food web shows how food chains in a community are interconnected.

Correct Answer: A) True.

7. Stable, final stage of succession

Correct Answer: D) Climax community.

8. A non-native species introduced to a new environment and there are consequences

Correct Answer: A) Invasive species.

9. The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms

Correct Answer: C) Ecology.

10. Why is recycling of carbon essential for living organisms?

Correct Answer: B) Carbon is needed to make organic molecules like proteins.

11. One biotic factor that affects in an ocean ecosystem is

Correct Answer: A) Number of autotrophs.

12. Which activity would MOST likely increase soil content in a nearby stream?

Correct Answer: C) Clear-cutting a forest.

13. The average temperature range in the savanna is .....

Correct Answer: B) 68-86*F.

14. Community, a branch of ecology that studies associations

Correct Answer: B) Synecology.

15. Which of these would NOT be found in trophic level 1?

Correct Answer: D) Grasshopper.

16. Which of these processes add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere?

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

17. An ..... eats both plants and animals.

Correct Answer: B) Omnivore.

18. Legumes are crops like beans or lentils that help return which nutrient back into the soil?

Correct Answer: C) Nitrogen.

19. Kills, hunts, stalks and eats its prey

Correct Answer: A) Carnivore.

20. What would happen if their were no producers?

Correct Answer: B) Everything would die out.