This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Ecology – Quiz 205 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ecology Quiz 205 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which organisms have access to the least amount of energy according to an energy pyramid A) Producers. B) Secondary consumers. C) Primary consumers. D) Tertiary consumers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tertiary consumers. 2. An animal can extinct due to A) Presence of plenty of food. B) Appearance of new predator. C) Disappearance of predator. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Appearance of new predator. 3. Global environment facility (gef)-global environmental fundgloom-gloom, darkness A) Right. B) Wrong. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Right. 4. A system of interacting organisms and nonliving factors in a specified area A) Community. B) Ecosystem. C) Habitat. D) Niche. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ecosystem. 5. Each of the living things in an ecosystem has a different role. What does role mean? A) Job, function. B) Sun. C) Energy. D) Air. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Job, function. 6. An organism that makes its own food is called a A) Consumer. B) Producer. C) Heterotroph. D) Chloroplast. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Producer. 7. Is a weather an abiotic or biotic factor? A) Abiotic. B) Biotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abiotic. 8. List the zones of ocean areas from shallow to deep. A) Neritic, intertidal, oceanic. B) Oceanic, neritic, intertidal. C) Intertidal, neritic, oceanic. D) Intertidal, oceanic, neritic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Intertidal, neritic, oceanic. 9. Which biome would be found near the poles? A) Temperate deciduous. B) Tropical rainforest. C) Taiga. D) Desert. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Taiga. 10. Water would be an example of: A) Biotic. B) Abiotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abiotic. 11. Maria and her classmates are observing animals at the pond. They notice that wood storks and ibisies both feed on fish. Which of these describes the relationship between these two birds. A) Parasitism. B) Competition. C) Predator and prey. D) Producer and consumer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Competition. 12. What factors do temperature, pressure, radiation background, humidity belong to? A) Anthropogenic. B) Abiotic. C) Artificial. D) Alive. E) Anthropogenic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abiotic. 13. Which of the following is true of the taiga but NOT the tundra? A) The tundra has many species of reptiles. B) Elk and caribou often migrate to the tundra at different times of the year. C) It is often called the coniferous forest because of the conical trees there. D) The subsoil is referred to as permafrost because it is frozen solid all year. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The tundra has many species of reptiles. 14. Tapeworms reside in human intestine and take nutrients from the human A) Symbiosis. B) Parasitism. C) Commensalism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parasitism. 15. If a tertiary consumer (predator) was the keystone species for an ecosystem and a trophic cascade occured due to its lower population. That would be a: A) Top-Down Effect. B) Bottom-Up Effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Top-Down Effect. 16. How are populations affected by short-term environmental changes? A) They do not have time to adapt to the changes that take place. B) They increase in number significantly due to the changes that take place. C) Only certain individuals are affected by the changes that take place. D) They are not affected by the changed that take place. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They do not have time to adapt to the changes that take place. 17. Some birds fly south in the winter to avoid the cold. This is an example of ..... A) Instinct and migration. B) Migration and hibernation. C) Physical adaptation and migration. D) Instinct and physical adaptation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Instinct and migration. 18. What is the purpose of fungi in an ecosystem? A) Decomposer-breaks down dead material to add new proteins to the soil. B) Consumer-eats other organisms to receive energy. C) Producer-uses energy from the sun to make its own food. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Decomposer-breaks down dead material to add new proteins to the soil. 19. The study of living things and their interactions with the environment. A) Biology. B) Ecology. C) Symbiosis. D) Paleontology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ecology. 20. Homeostasis allows organisms to do all the following, except: A) Control their temperature. B) Control their amount of water. C) Maintain their personality. D) Maintain cell functions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Maintain their personality. ← 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