This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Ecology – Quiz 174 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ecology Quiz 174 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A bird eats a worm. Who is the prey? A) Worm. B) The bird and the worm. C) Bird. D) Neither the bird or the worm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Worm. 2. Which of the following shows the levels of organization in order from the smallest to the largest? A) Organism, population, community, ecosystem. B) Ecosystem, community, population, organism. C) Population, organism, community, ecosystem. D) Organism, community, population, ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Organism, population, community, ecosystem. 3. Things that keep the population from growing are called ..... A) Limiting factors. B) Carrying capacity. C) Demography. D) Dispersion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limiting factors. 4. When a jellyfish paralyzes a tiny fish with its poisonous tentacles, the fish is the A) Predator. B) Prey. C) Host. D) Parasite. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prey. 5. Where all life exists; Everything in water, on land, and in air A) Biosphere. B) Ecosystem. C) Community. D) Biome. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biosphere. 6. A strip mining company wants to lease some land that is currently part of a national park. They promise to reclaim the land should any minerals be mined from the area, and they are willing to pay top dollar for the rights. As an ecologist, what factors would you raise with the local government? A) The threat to local biodiversity. B) Management of the land after the company leaves. C) The new jobs that would be created. D) The increased traffic in the area. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The threat to local biodiversity. 7. The lion is the natural predator of the zebra. If the zebra population drops, the lion population will most likely A) Drop. B) Thrive. C) Be unaffected. D) Decrease, then increase exponentially. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Drop. 8. Which of the following is a way a person could conserve natural resources? A) Recycling waste materials like plastic, glass, paper, and aluminum. B) Limiting water use when showering, brushing teeth, and shaving. C) Using rechargeable batteries. D) All of the above are good conservation practices. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above are good conservation practices. 9. What are all biotic and abiotic things that interact in an area? A) Ecosystem. B) Environment. C) Plants. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ecosystem. 10. Earth's solid rock layer-one of 4 spheres into which scientists divide Earth A) Atmosphere. B) Biosphere. C) Hydrosphere. D) Lithosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lithosphere. 11. The term ecologists use to describe the number of individuals moving into a population is A) Emigration. B) Immigration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Immigration. 12. Within an ecosystem, there will be more ..... than ..... A) Carnivores, herbivores. B) Herbivores, carnivores. C) Animals, plants. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Herbivores, carnivores. 13. The diagram shows a food chain in a rock pool.seaweed $\rightarrow$ whelks $\rightarrow$ crabs $\rightarrow$ seagullsWhat will happen if the number of secondary consumers increases? There will be A) Fewer crabs. B) Fewer seagulls. C) Fewer whelks. D) Less seaweed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fewer whelks. 14. Gary wolves and lynx are consumers found in the ..... A) Savanna. B) Deciduous forest. C) Taiga. D) Rainforest. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Taiga. 15. Which one is not a consumer? A) Tapeworm. B) Bear. C) Shark. D) Daffodil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Daffodil. 16. All living things in an ecosystem, including animals, bacteria, plants, fungi, and other living species A) Ecology. B) Limiting factor. C) Biotic factor. D) Abiotic factor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biotic factor. 17. Which is NOT one of the four steps in Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection? A) Overproduction. B) Biodiversity. C) Variation. D) Competition. E) Selection. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biodiversity. 18. The organisms that make up a community and the nonliving parts of the environment that they interact with are a(n) A) Population. B) Community. C) Habitat. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ecosystem. 19. A population contains A) Only one species. B) Multiple species. C) Living and non-living components. D) All the similar biomes across the world. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Only one species. 20. What do you call a period of rapid growth? A) Exponential growth. B) Logistic growth. C) Emigration. D) Predator-prey cycle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exponential growth. ← 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