Ecology Quiz 238 (20 MCQs)

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1. A primary consumer is considered an?
2. If a population grows larger than the carrying capacity of the environment, the population is likely to
3. What activity is increasing green house gases?
4. How do turtles release excess salt?
5. What type of symbiosis? *Hookworms can enter the body, live off of the host's blood. *The host can suffer from blood loss, anemia and iron deficiency.
6. What fraction of amphibians are threatened with extinction
7. Which is a problem with using wind turbines to produce energy?
8. All the populations in an ecosystem are called
9. When ONE species/organism BENEFITS and the other organism is NOT HARMED or HELPED
10. Eats producers
11. As you move up an energy pyramid, energy is .....
12. Just one species in a given area is called a
13. Which of the following is NOT a conservation method used to maintain biodiversity?
14. Ecology
15. All the living organisms in an area together with the non-living environment.
16. Carnivores that eat freshly dead organisms are
17. A ..... is a large area characterized by its climate and the plants and animals that live in the area
18. If trophic level 1 has 450, 000 kcal how much energy would be at trophic level 4?
19. True or False:Healthy ecosystems have many species that interact with eachother in a variety of ways, to form a web of relationships.
20. Processes responsible for the transformation an recuperation of the bioelements of nature within the biosphere