This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Ecology – Quiz 13 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ecology Quiz 13 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which answer best describes a decomposser? A) An organism that produces oxygen. B) An organism that is dead and decomposing. C) An organism that is not natures recycler. D) An organism that gets energy by breaking down dead organisms. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An organism that gets energy by breaking down dead organisms. 2. Factors plants compete for include: A) Space and light. B) Space, light and water. C) Space, light, water and mineral ions. D) Space, light, water, mineral ions and chloroplasts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Space, light, water and mineral ions. 3. ONE organism gets HELPED in the relationship and the other is HARMED A) Parasitism. B) Competition. C) Mutualism. D) Commensalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parasitism. 4. What is another name for consumers? A) Autotroph. B) Heterotroph. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Heterotroph. 5. Plants under direct sunlight are known as A) Heliophytes. B) Sciophytes. C) Psamophytes. D) Dicots. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heliophytes. 6. Two animals, one benefits, the other is not affected. A) Mutualism. B) Commensalism. C) Parasitism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Commensalism. 7. Increasing business, cultural and other contacts between countries A) Globalisation. B) World population. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Globalisation. 8. Which is an example of an organism? A) A rock. B) A beetle. C) A lake. D) A shell. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A beetle. 9. As resources become less available the growth of a population A) Slows or stops. B) Decreases or increases. C) Up or down. D) In or out. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Slows or stops. 10. Animals that eat plants and trees. A) Carnivores. B) Herbivores. C) Omnivores. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Herbivores. 11. The study of interactions that take place among organisms and their environment. A) Ecology. B) Ecosystem. C) Habitat. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ecology. 12. A food web shows how energy flows through an ecosystem. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 13. Who is considered to be the "Father of Evolution" ? A) Prince Charles. B) Charles Darwin. C) Charlie Chaplin. D) Charles Dickens. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Charles Darwin. 14. What will happen to the population when the birth rate is larger than the death rate? A) Grow. B) Shrink. C) Stay the same. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Grow. 15. The removal of a species of fish faster than it can be replenished, resulting in those species decreasing in that area is also known as A) Illegal fishing. B) Overfishing. C) Underfishing. D) Wasteful fishing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Overfishing. 16. What does a pyramid of numbers compare? A) The number of individual organisms at each trophic level. B) The number of individuals in each population. C) The number of predators and prey in an ecosystem. D) The number of different populations at each trophic level. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The number of individual organisms at each trophic level. 17. Meat eater A) Omnivore. B) Herbivore. C) Steakivore. D) Carnivore. E) C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carnivore. 18. What is the correct definition of population? A) Includes all the members of one species in a particular area. B) A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other. C) The place where an organism lives and that provides things the organism needs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Includes all the members of one species in a particular area. 19. Organisms that consume both plants and animals are referred to as A) Herbivore. B) Detrivorous. C) Carnivore. D) Omnivore. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Omnivore. 20. Rain, sunlight, temperature, and soil are ..... factors. A) Biotic. B) Abiotic. C) Living. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abiotic. ← 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