Ecology Quiz 267 (20 MCQs)

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1. What level on an energy pyramid has organisms having the MOST energy?
2. In this relationship, predators live on/in a host and depend on the host for nutrition
3. Natural selection or survival of the fittest, results in ..... such as webbed feet, special beaks on different birds, and coloration
4. Heterotrophs that eat producers and other heterotrophs are called .....
5. Which is not a decomposer
6. Which factor(s) affect aquatic ecosystems?
7. Variation of a species that live in different geographic areas
8. The most energy is available at the ..... level of an energy pyramid?
9. A tanker that runs aground causing oil to leak into the ocean is a ..... water pollutant.
10. If there is not enough food, a species may .....
11. All the organisms of the same species in an area
12. To be considered a community, populations must live close enough together to interact.
13. Identify an a example of an Abiotic Factor?
14. The main source of energy for all of earth's food chains is the .....
15. Competitive exclusion principle is
16. In the oxygen-carbon dioxide cycle, organisms such as plants release oxygen into the atmosphere during ....., where it can be taken in by animals, plants, and other organisms.
17. When only a few of its members are living that the entire species may become extinct.
18. The term ecologists use to describe the number of individuals moving away from a population is
19. What are abiotic factors?
20. As the hawk population increases in an ecosystem, the deer and mouse population will most likely decrease as a result of: