Ecology Quiz | Test Your Knowledge of Ecosystems & Nature

Q1. The non-living part of an ecosystem

Q2. In the ecological pyramids above, which type(s) of pyramid provides an example with an inversion?

Q3. How do animals get the nitrogen they need?

Q4. The development of an ecological community in an area that was once inhabited but experienced a catastrophe; soil is present

Q5. What is the type of variation shown in this chart? Tick one box

Q6. What is the smallest level of ecological organization

Q7. The plankton that are microscopic and plant like are called

Q8. An interaction in which an animal feeds on plants is called

Q9. Which organism is a link between an aquatic food web and a terrestrial food web?

Q10. What are two letters that represent tertiary consumers in the food web?

Q11. Habitat loss from separation of an ecosystem into small pieces of land.

Q12. Eutrophication in lakes results from

Q13. population

Q14. What is the initial source for global winds and convection in the atmosphere?

Q15. 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.

Q16. TRUE OR FALSE?Water is a biotic factor

Q17. When two species benefit from a relationship, it is considered to be

Q18. Which is true of adaptations

Q19. disease

Q20. one organism kills and eats another

Q21. Most desert animals are small because

Q22. 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.

Q23. If the plant population decreased, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would

Q24. Plants cannot grow in the ___ because sunlight cannot reach the cold depths.

Q25. What is the carrying capacity of the deer population?

ECology - Part 2

Q1. The non-living part of an ecosystem

Q2. In the ecological pyramids above, which type(s) of pyramid provides an example with an inversion?

Q3. How do animals get the nitrogen they need?

Q4. The development of an ecological community in an area that was once inhabited but experienced a catastrophe; soil is present

Q5. What is the type of variation shown in this chart? Tick one box

Q6. What is the smallest level of ecological organization

Q7. The plankton that are microscopic and plant like are called

Q8. An interaction in which an animal feeds on plants is called

Q9. Which organism is a link between an aquatic food web and a terrestrial food web?

Q10. What are two letters that represent tertiary consumers in the food web?

Q11. Habitat loss from separation of an ecosystem into small pieces of land.

Q12. Eutrophication in lakes results from

Q13. population

Q14. What is the initial source for global winds and convection in the atmosphere?

Q15. 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.

Q16. TRUE OR FALSE?Water is a biotic factor

Q17. When two species benefit from a relationship, it is considered to be

Q18. Which is true of adaptations

Q19. disease

Q20. one organism kills and eats another

Q21. Most desert animals are small because

Q22. 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.

Q23. If the plant population decreased, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would

Q24. Plants cannot grow in the ___ because sunlight cannot reach the cold depths.

Q25. What is the carrying capacity of the deer population?