Ecology Practice

Ecology Practice

Will be taken as an accuracy grade! Use your notes and retake if needed.

Multiple Choice

The interaction of living and non-living things in a habitat is called ___

• an environment
• an ecosystem
• a food web
• a food chain

Multiple Choice

All energy on Earth ultimately comes from what source?

• Water

• Sun

• Consumers

• Oxygen

Multiple Choice

The mouse in this food web would be considered a:

• Primary Consumer

• Producer/Autotroph

• Tertiary Consumer

• Secondary Consumer

Multiple Select

The fox in this food web would be considered a (there are 2 correct answers):

• Tertiary Consumer

• Producer

• Secondary Consumer

• Primary Consumer

Multiple Choice

The rabbit in this food web would be considered a:

• Decomposer

• Producer/Autotroph

• Secondary Consumer

• Primary Consumer

Multiple Choice

An organism that uses sunlight to create its own food is known as a:

• Producer/Autotroph

• Heterotroph

• Consumer

• Decomposer

Multiple Choice

An organism that needs to eat other organisms to obtain energy is known as a:

• Autotroph

• Producer/Autotroph

• Consumer/Heterotroph

• Mutualist

Multiple Choice

Which is a producer/autotroph?

• deer

• tall grass

• lion

• worm

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a herbivore?

• cricket
• frog
• hawk
• shrew

Multiple Choice

An animal that eats other animals is a....

• carnivore

• omnivore

• herbivore

• decomposer

Multiple Choice

Bacteria, fungi, and earthworms are examples of: 

• scavengers
• predators
• prey
• decomposers

Multiple Choice

What does a food web represent?

• All connections of energy flow throughout all organisms in a ecosystem.

• The specific ways that mutualism is carried out.

• A single pathway or energy flow between organisms.

• How carnivores get their food.

Multiple Choice

In a food web, arrows point at:

• who gets energy.
• who gets eaten.

Multiple Choice

An organism that lives by breaking apart dead organic matter into simpler parts is...

• scavenger

• consumer/heterotroph

• decomposer

• carnivore

Multiple Choice

What does a Primary Consumer eat?

• Tertiary Consumers

• Secondary Consumers

• Producers/Autotrophs

Multiple Choice

Look at each picture carefully. Decide if the picture shows a population or a community.

The deer in the forest.

• Population

• Community

Multiple Choice

The largest population an area can support is called its...

• carrying capacity

• limited factor

• adaptation

• biotic factor

Multiple Choice

A community is a level in organization that is....

• made of populations of different species that live in the same place and interact.

• a single individual species of organisms that are similar.

• all the individual organisms of the same species in the same place.

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct levels of Organization from lowest to highest...

• population, community, ecosystem, organism

• organism, population, community, ecosystem

• organism, population, ecosystem, community

Multiple Choice

What is a niche?

• Where an organism lives.

• An organisms role, or job, within its ecosystem.

• What an organism eats.

Multiple Choice

What is a Niche of a honeybee?

• Pollenating Flowers

• A Honeycomb

• Eating other insects.

• Swimming.

Multiple Choice

A habitat is ___________________.

• the place or kind of place in which an animal or plant naturally lives.

• is how plants produce their own food.

• is an animal that only eats meat.

• the place where only one animal lives.

Multiple Choice

What are the biotic factors in this image?

• sunlight, elephants, and grasses

• sunlight, water, and air

• elephants, plants, trees

Multiple Choice

Which of the fallowing has only abiotic factors?

• Sunlight, algae, and temperature

• Guppy, crab, oxygen

• Sunlight, soil, and weather

• Algae, temperature, and dog

Multiple Choice

Which level will contain plants?

• A
• B
• C
• D

Multiple Choice

Which organism recieves the least amount of energy from the producer?

• Owl
• Grasshopper
• Lilypad
• Mouse

Multiple Select

Which of the following organisms is a primary or first level consumer (there are 2 correct answers)?

• Sea Urchins

• Small herbivorous fishes and invertebrates

• Sharks

• Sea Otters

Multiple Choice

Which of these is an example of an autotroph/producer?

• Sunflower

• Krill

• Leopard

• Hummingbird

Multiple Choice

What is the study of the interactions among organisms and  between organisms and their environments called?

• Biology
• Ecology
• Astronomy
• Biosphere

Multiple Choice

True or False. In this Food Web Pyramid the consumers on each level only get about 10 percent of energy that the plants have stored.

• True

• False