Ecology Quiz | Test Your Knowledge of Ecosystems & Nature

Q1. What is the smallest level of ecological organization

Q2. What is the type of variation shown in this chart? Tick one box

Q3. The non-living part of an ecosystem

Q4. If the plant population decreased, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would

Q5. How do animals get the nitrogen they need?

Q6. An interaction in which an animal feeds on plants is called

Q7. The development of an ecological community in an area that was once inhabited but experienced a catastrophe; soil is present

Q8. 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.

Q9. When two species benefit from a relationship, it is considered to be

Q10. What is the carrying capacity of the deer population?

Q11. Which is true of adaptations

Q12. Plants cannot grow in the ___ because sunlight cannot reach the cold depths.

Q13. TRUE OR FALSE?Water is a biotic factor

Q14. Eutrophication in lakes results from

Q15. What is the initial source for global winds and convection in the atmosphere?

Q16. one organism kills and eats another

Q17. What are two letters that represent tertiary consumers in the food web?

Q18. Habitat loss from separation of an ecosystem into small pieces of land.

Q19. In the ecological pyramids above, which type(s) of pyramid provides an example with an inversion?

Q20. population

Q21. Which organism is a link between an aquatic food web and a terrestrial food web?

Q22. 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.

Q23. disease

Q24. The plankton that are microscopic and plant like are called

Q25. Most desert animals are small because

ECology - Part 2

Q1. What is the smallest level of ecological organization

Q2. What is the type of variation shown in this chart? Tick one box

Q3. The non-living part of an ecosystem

Q4. If the plant population decreased, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would

Q5. How do animals get the nitrogen they need?

Q6. An interaction in which an animal feeds on plants is called

Q7. The development of an ecological community in an area that was once inhabited but experienced a catastrophe; soil is present

Q8. 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.

Q9. When two species benefit from a relationship, it is considered to be

Q10. What is the carrying capacity of the deer population?

Q11. Which is true of adaptations

Q12. Plants cannot grow in the ___ because sunlight cannot reach the cold depths.

Q13. TRUE OR FALSE?Water is a biotic factor

Q14. Eutrophication in lakes results from

Q15. What is the initial source for global winds and convection in the atmosphere?

Q16. one organism kills and eats another

Q17. What are two letters that represent tertiary consumers in the food web?

Q18. Habitat loss from separation of an ecosystem into small pieces of land.

Q19. In the ecological pyramids above, which type(s) of pyramid provides an example with an inversion?

Q20. population

Q21. Which organism is a link between an aquatic food web and a terrestrial food web?

Q22. 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.

Q23. disease

Q24. The plankton that are microscopic and plant like are called

Q25. Most desert animals are small because