Ecology Quiz | Test Your Knowledge of Ecosystems & Nature

Q1. What is the initial source for global winds and convection in the atmosphere?

Q2. The plankton that are microscopic and plant like are called

Q3. TRUE OR FALSE?Water is a biotic factor

Q4. one organism kills and eats another

Q5. Plants cannot grow in the ___ because sunlight cannot reach the cold depths.

Q6. If the plant population decreased, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would

Q7. The non-living part of an ecosystem

Q8. How do animals get the nitrogen they need?

Q9. What is the smallest level of ecological organization

Q10. disease

Q11. Eutrophication in lakes results from

Q12. Most desert animals are small because

Q13. When two species benefit from a relationship, it is considered to be

Q14. Habitat loss from separation of an ecosystem into small pieces of land.

Q15. In the ecological pyramids above, which type(s) of pyramid provides an example with an inversion?

Q16. What is the type of variation shown in this chart? Tick one box

Q17. An interaction in which an animal feeds on plants is called

Q18. The development of an ecological community in an area that was once inhabited but experienced a catastrophe; soil is present

Q19. Which is true of adaptations

Q20. Which organism is a link between an aquatic food web and a terrestrial food web?

Q21. population

Q22. What is the carrying capacity of the deer population?

Q23. What most likely caused the rabbit population to decrease over the f irst time unit shown in the following graph? Pay close attention to the (y) axis | and what it is telling you.

Q24. What are two letters that represent tertiary consumers in the food web?

Q25. Hookworms enter the human body by burrowing into the skin of the feet. Once in the skin, they enter the bloodstream and travel to the small intestine where they attach to the walls and begin to drink the person’s blood and weaken the victim.

ECology - Part 2

Q1. What is the initial source for global winds and convection in the atmosphere?

Q2. The plankton that are microscopic and plant like are called

Q3. TRUE OR FALSE?Water is a biotic factor

Q4. one organism kills and eats another

Q5. Plants cannot grow in the ___ because sunlight cannot reach the cold depths.

Q6. If the plant population decreased, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would

Q7. The non-living part of an ecosystem

Q8. How do animals get the nitrogen they need?

Q9. What is the smallest level of ecological organization

Q10. disease

Q11. Eutrophication in lakes results from

Q12. Most desert animals are small because

Q13. When two species benefit from a relationship, it is considered to be

Q14. Habitat loss from separation of an ecosystem into small pieces of land.

Q15. In the ecological pyramids above, which type(s) of pyramid provides an example with an inversion?

Q16. What is the type of variation shown in this chart? Tick one box

Q17. An interaction in which an animal feeds on plants is called

Q18. The development of an ecological community in an area that was once inhabited but experienced a catastrophe; soil is present

Q19. Which is true of adaptations

Q20. Which organism is a link between an aquatic food web and a terrestrial food web?

Q21. population

Q22. What is the carrying capacity of the deer population?

Q23. What most likely caused the rabbit population to decrease over the f irst time unit shown in the following graph? Pay close attention to the (y) axis | and what it is telling you.

Q24. What are two letters that represent tertiary consumers in the food web?

Q25. Hookworms enter the human body by burrowing into the skin of the feet. Once in the skin, they enter the bloodstream and travel to the small intestine where they attach to the walls and begin to drink the person’s blood and weaken the victim.