This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Ecology – Quiz 77 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ecology Quiz 77 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following describes an energy pyramid? A) It shows how food energy passes from one organism to the next. B) It shows the direction that energy flows and each trophic level. C) It is complex and shows the network of many interconnected food chains. D) It is any close relationship between different species. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It shows the direction that energy flows and each trophic level. 2. No living things can live without ..... A) Food. B) Plants. C) Water. D) Animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Water. 3. How might a lack of sunlight disrupt the food web? A) It would cause consumers to consume less. B) It would prevent decomposers from decomposing matter. C) It would prevent producers from producing nutrients. D) It would not disrupt the food web at all. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It would prevent producers from producing nutrients. 4. Which of the following is an example of a community? A) Herds of zebras. B) One zebra. C) Zebras, lions, and cheetahs all living together. D) Zebras, lions, cheetahs, and their nonliving elements in their environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Zebras, lions, and cheetahs all living together. 5. Red-billed oxpeckers are birds that feed on parasites found on an impala. The impala gets rid of parasites and the red-billed oxpeckers get a yummy dinner. This is an example of ..... A) Commensalism. B) Mutualism. C) Neutralism. D) Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mutualism. 6. Which level of organization in ecology is a major regional or global community of organisms? A) An ecosystem. B) Population. C) Community. D) Biome. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Biome. 7. Sedimentary A) Formed by deposition, material from Earth and within bodies of water, ex-sandstone, weathering debris. B) From magma in a volcano and then came up to Earth's surface to cool. C) Formed from loamy soil and then mixed with cement. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Formed by deposition, material from Earth and within bodies of water, ex-sandstone, weathering debris. 8. Find the product of sine(tangent(cosine(456))) and 0 A) 0. B) Secant(54). C) Cosecant(456). D) 321. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 0. 9. What is the dispersion pattern of solitary apex predators that protect their territory? A) Logistic. B) Random. C) Clumped. D) Uniform. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Uniform. 10. Which of the following correctly names the levels in an ecosystem from largest to smallest? A) Ecosystem, community, population. B) Community, ecosystem, population. C) Population, ecosystem, community. D) Ecosystem, population, community. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ecosystem, community, population. 11. Which word goes with the following definition:A relationship where one is helped, but the other is not hurt or helped. (EX. A bird in a tree) A) Relationship. B) Symbiosis. C) Mutualism. D) Commensalism. E) Scavenger. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Commensalism. 12. Due to stress, large numbers of female lemmings miscarry their young and fail to reproduce. A) Density-Dependent. B) Density-Independent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Density-Dependent. 13. Eukaryotes have a cell membrane? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 14. My dad ..... the car every week A) Drinks. B) Learns. C) Washes. D) Plants. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Washes. 15. Match:running..... A) Waste. B) Food. C) Water. D) Bins. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Water. 16. Organisms that do not decompose can be buried and become what? A) Water. B) Nutrients. C) Air. D) Fossil fuels. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fossil fuels. 17. This climate zone experiences long cold winters and has very little precipitation. A) Tropical. B) Temperate. C) Polar. D) Dry. E) Highlands. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Polar. 18. The biogeochemical cycle is A) The process in which elements, chemical compounds, and other forms of matter are passed from one organism to another and from one biosphere to another. B) A bike ride with chemicals. C) The total amount of living tissue in a chemical. D) The number of chemicals in a body. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The process in which elements, chemical compounds, and other forms of matter are passed from one organism to another and from one biosphere to another. 19. It is possible that an organism can be both predator and prey in a food web. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 20. What Biome is very dry; receives very little rainfall? A) Tropical Rain Forest. B) Desert. C) Tundra. D) Tropical Savanna. 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