Ecology Quiz 183 (20 MCQs)

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1. An animal or person that eats both meat and plants.

Correct Answer: B) Omnivore.

2. Which of the following elements is NOT found in the atmosphere?

Correct Answer: B) Phosphorus.

3. A snake eats a mouse that was eating grain. If the grain had 200 Calories in it, the snake would gain about ..... Calories from the mouse.

Correct Answer: C) 2.

4. Which of the following is an example of energy conservation?

Correct Answer: C) Riding a bike to school instead of being driven in a car.

5. Which of the following is NOT a "cycle" ?

Correct Answer: B) Energy.

6. A ..... is a forest biome consisting mostly of cone-bearing evergreen trees

Correct Answer: C) Boreal forest.

7. "To eat" animals and/or plants

Correct Answer: B) Consumer.

8. This shows how food energy passes from one organism to the next in a simple, linear fashion

Correct Answer: A) Food Chain.

9. The number of individuals the environment can support over a long period of time

Correct Answer: C) Carrying capacity.

10. How do vaccines help to fight infection?

Correct Answer: A) The body creates memory cells that stay in the blood to fight infection if they are exposed again.

11. A model that shows the amount of energy available at each feeding level of an ecosystem

Correct Answer: C) Energy pyramid.

12. Which process takes the sun's energy, water, and carbon dioxide to make sugar and oxygen?

Correct Answer: B) Photosynthesis.

13. In heterotrophs, energy for the life processes comes from the chemical energy stored in the bonds of

Correct Answer: C) Organic compounds.

14. Large bodies of water affect climate because

Correct Answer: A) Water heats up and cools more slowly than land.

15. What is the producer in this food chain? phytoplankton $\rightarrow$ krill $\rightarrow$ fish $\rightarrow$ shark

Correct Answer: A) Phytoplankton.

16. What is another word of saying producers?

Correct Answer: C) Autotrophic.

17. Which type of scientist studies ecology?

Correct Answer: D) Ecologist.

18. All the living and non-living factors that interact in an area

Correct Answer: A) Ecosystem.

19. A mosquito feeding off the blood of a human. Is an example of which relationship?

Correct Answer: C) Parasitism.

20. An organism that eats other organisms is called a .....

Correct Answer: A) Consumer.