This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Ecology – Quiz 31 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ecology Quiz 31 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Barn owls hunt shrews. In this example what is a barn owl? A) Herbivore/Predator. B) Carnivore/Prey. C) Carnivore/Predator. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carnivore/Predator. 2. Step in the food chain, food web, or ecological pyramid A) Trophic Level. B) Abiotic factors. C) Community. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trophic Level. 3. What is an example of predator-prey relationship? A) A deer eat leaves from trees. B) An eagle dives, captures, and eats a fish from a local pond. C) Two male lions fight over territory. D) A deer tick attaches to a deer and receives a blood meal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An eagle dives, captures, and eats a fish from a local pond. 4. Animals that live in conditions of moderate humidity A) Hydrophytes. B) Mesofielder. C) Xerofitter. D) Hygrophytes. E) Hydatophyte. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mesofielder. 5. What abiotic factor would plants compete for? A) Food. B) Sunlight. C) Disease. D) Predators. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sunlight. 6. Which of these is a reason AGAINST intensive farming? A) More efficient. B) Improves food security. C) Easier to harvest e.g. eggs. D) Increases spread of diseases. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Increases spread of diseases. 7. Biotic or abiotic? A) Biotic. B) Abiotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biotic. 8. Which biome consists of long bitter winters, cool summers, and diverse coniferous trees? A) Taiga. B) Tundra. C) Temperate forest. D) Grassland. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Taiga. 9. The non-living things in an environment. A) Environment. B) Organisms. C) Biotic factors. D) Abiotic factors. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Abiotic factors. 10. Which primarily eats plants/producers? A) Carnivore. B) Herbivore. C) Omnivore. D) Detritivore/Decomposer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Herbivore. 11. This biome is contains water that moves continuously in one direction with rapidly changing communities ..... A) Ocean. B) Beach. C) Rivers and streams. D) Lakes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rivers and streams. 12. Which is NOT a way that nitrogen compounds are added to the soil? A) Decay of dead organisms. B) Denitrification. C) Animal waste. D) Nitrogen-fixation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Denitrification. 13. Biotic and Abiotic factors that make up an environment A) Population. B) Biome. C) Ecosystem. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ecosystem. 14. Which biome consists of salt water from 600ft and deeper? A) Marine Coastal. B) Marine open ocean. C) Freshwater. D) Ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Marine open ocean. 15. An organism, such as Sammy in the video A Turtle's Tale, that produces many offspring at a time with low parental care is ..... A) R-selected. B) K-selected. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) R-selected. 16. The biome with the least amount of biodiversity. A) Grassland. B) Taiga. C) Desert. D) Tundra. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tundra. 17. Climate is the average weather in an area over a long period of time. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 18. Which is an example of intraspecific competition A) 2 types of bacteria competing for food. B) Big horn sheep competing for mates. C) Trees in the rain forest competing for light. D) Lions and leopards competing for food. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Big horn sheep competing for mates. 19. Water is A) Nonrenewable natural resource. B) A renewable natural resource. C) Not a natural resource. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A renewable natural resource. 20. What Biome is covered in a dense canopy and an understory? A) Tropical Rain Forest. B) Desert. C) Tundra. D) Tropical Savanna. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tropical Rain Forest. ← 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