This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Ecology – Quiz 120 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ecology Quiz 120 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the main source of energy for producers? A) Inorganic substances. B) Sunlight. C) Oxygen gas. D) Carbon dioxide gas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sunlight. 2. Many types of animals like the bear store up fat during the warm summer months and then hibernate during the cold winter months. Hibernation is a common adaptation of animals in which biome? A) Savanna. B) Temperate deciduous forest. C) Tropical rain forest. D) Desert. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Temperate deciduous forest. 3. Mistletoe is a plant that grows in the branches of other plants. It grows by taking nutrients and water from these plants. This is an example of: A) Mutualism. B) Commensalism. C) Parasitism. D) Amensalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parasitism. 4. In this type of symbiotic relationship both species benefit from each other A) Parasitism. B) Mutualism. C) Commensalism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mutualism. 5. Limitations of ecological pyramids involve all these statements, except A) They assume a simple food chain and do not consider food webs. B) In the ecological pyramids, saprotrophs are not given any place. C) They do not take into account the same species belonging to two or more trophic levels. D) They do not represent relationships between organisms at different trophic levels. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They do not represent relationships between organisms at different trophic levels. 6. Mushrooms, bacteria and mold are types of ..... A) Decomposers. B) Scavengers. C) Herbivores. D) Carnivores. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Decomposers. 7. If a scientist in New Zealand was studying how a group of herbivores interacted with a group of omnivores, and all of their abiotic surroundings, what level of ecology would she be studying? A) Community. B) Population. C) Species. D) Ecosystem. E) Biome. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ecosystem. 8. What animals prey on other animals? A) Herbivores. B) Carnivores. C) Autotrophs. D) Decomposers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carnivores. 9. A group of the same organisms living together in the same place at the same time is: A) An organism. B) A population. C) A community. D) A biome. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A population. 10. What is a subatomic particle? A) The lowest level of organization. B) A neutron, electron, or proton. C) The highest level of organization. D) A thing smaller than an atom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The lowest level of organization. 11. Where does nitrogen move? A) In human bodies. B) In buildings. C) Between animals, bacteria, plants, and the atmosphere. D) Only in the air. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Between animals, bacteria, plants, and the atmosphere. 12. Group of the same species. A) Community. B) Ecosystem. C) Population. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Population. 13. After 1995, how did the river landscape change? A) Rivers had strong edges, low erosion, and high flow. B) Rivers had weak edges, high erosion, and low flow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rivers had strong edges, low erosion, and high flow. 14. The nonliving factors found in an ecosytem. A) Food Web Factors. B) Biotic Factors. C) Abiotic Factors. D) Biosphere Factors. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Abiotic Factors. 15. How is energy transferred from the sun to producers? A) Photosynthesis. B) Chemosynthesis. C) Cellular respiration. D) Glycolysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Photosynthesis. 16. What climate zone experiences four distinct seasons and average year-round precipitation? A) Tropical. B) Temperate. C) Polar. D) HIghland. E) Dry . Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Temperate. 17. What type of symbiosis occurs when one organisms benefits and the other does not but is also not harmed. Ex) Moss growing on a tree. A) Parasitism. B) Commensalism. C) Mutualism. D) Predation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Commensalism. 18. Barnacles living on a whale A) Mutualism. B) Commensalism. C) Parasitism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Commensalism. 19. Magnetism A) Biotic. B) Abiotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abiotic. 20. Many animals of the grasslands do this. A) Latitudes. B) Trees. C) Fast. D) Graze. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Graze. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesEcology Quiz 1Ecology Quiz 2Ecology Quiz 3Ecology Quiz 4Ecology Quiz 5Ecology Quiz 6Ecology Quiz 7Ecology Quiz 8Ecology Quiz 9Ecology Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books