This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Ecology – Quiz 274 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ecology Quiz 274 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. An organism that can make its own food is called a A) Consumer. B) Producer. C) Decoposer. D) Composer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Producer. 2. Which word means nonliving A) Biotic. B) Ecosystem. C) Abiotic. D) Species. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Abiotic. 3. After the first trophic level-what percentage of energy is available to each of the following levels? A) 100%. B) 90%. C) 10%. D) 8.5%. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 10%. 4. An area that is partly covered by water or flooded part of each year. A) Coral reef. B) Wetland. C) River. D) Deep sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wetland. 5. Plants in the desert are able to store ..... in their roots, stems and leaves. A) Evaporation. B) Nocturnal. C) Water. D) Driest. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Water. 6. A necessary link between autotrophs and carnivores is filled by A) More destructive. B) Herbivores. C) Scavengers. D) Decomposers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Herbivores. 7. Which type of population growth occurs under ideal conditions with unlimited resources? A) Economic Growth. B) Exponential Growth. C) Logistic Growth. D) Linear Growth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exponential Growth. 8. Coal is a solid fossil fuel formed from ..... A) The remains of animals. B) Rocks. C) Decaying plant remains. D) Hardened lava. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Decaying plant remains. 9. Slight differences in inherited traits in individual organisms in a species A) Natural selection. B) Variations. C) Competition. D) Camouflage. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Variations. 10. Which relationship is referring an interaction in which one organism kills another for food or nutrients? A) Symbiosis. B) Predator-Prey. C) Parasite-Host. D) Parasitism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Predator-Prey. 11. Select the right translation:to throw away A) Dismiss. B) Jeter. C) Scatter. D) Exceed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jeter. 12. Just like energy, matter is lost as it passes through an ecosystem. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 13. Which two Biome is the most biologically diverse A) Tropical Rain Forest and coral reefs. B) Desert and tundra. C) Tundra and grassland. D) Tropical Savanna and tropical rainforest. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tropical Rain Forest and coral reefs. 14. A type of symbiosis in which one organism benefits and the other in neither benefited nor hurt is ..... A) Symbiosis. B) Parasitism. C) Commensalism. D) Mutualism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Commensalism. 15. Select all the following answers for:Ecology is the study of A) Ecosystems and how many different species interact in an environment. B) Micro organisms. C) Non-living factors. D) Echolocation by dolphins and whales. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ecosystems and how many different species interact in an environment. 16. Which of these is a biotic factor in a river ecosystem? A) The types of microorganisms that live in the river water. B) The amount of soil and other particles carried by the river. C) The speed at which the river water flows toward the ocean. D) The amount of rain that flows off the land and into the river. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The types of microorganisms that live in the river water. 17. ..... is a series of organized changes in an ecosystem over time. A) Evolution. B) Mutation. C) Succession. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Succession. 18. Relationship in which one organism benefits at the expense of the other organism A) Parasitism. B) Symbiosis. C) Mutualism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parasitism. 19. Organisms living here must have adaptations to tolerate being exposed to the atmosphere A) Photic Zone. B) Neritic Zone. C) Talk Zone. D) Intertidal Zoné. E) Oceanic Zone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Intertidal Zoné. 20. Indicate if the organisms below are herbivores, carnivores, or plants.secondary consumer A) Plants. B) Herbivores. C) Carnivores. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carnivores. ← 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