Review for Ecology Quiz 1

What is it called when a group of the same organisms living together in the same place at the same time?

• An organism
• A population
• A community
• A biome

Temperature, light, air, water, and soil are all  _____  parts of the environment

• alive
• biotic 
• abiotic
• living

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Which of the following is not an abiotic factor?

• sun
• temperature
• soil
• grass

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What is a producer?

• an organism that gets energy from eating other organisms
• an organisms that uses sunlight to make its own food
• an organism that gets energy from eating dead organisms, non-living material or waste
• an organism that uses chemical energy to make its own food

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The efficiency of energy transfer from a lower trophic level to the next highest level is roughly

• 1%
• 10%
• 100%
• 1000%

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According to this food web, how many consumers are herbivores?

• 2
• 1
• 4
• 5

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What is it called when plants give off water vapor as a waste product?

• condensation
• evaporation
• sublimation
• transpiration

Burning fossil fuels has raised the concentration of ___________ in the atmosphere.

• oxygen

• rain

• carbon

• nitrogen

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What converts nitrogen into a useable form for plants and animals?

• bacteria
• fungi
• rain

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How do living organisms return carbon to the atmosphere in the carbon cycle?

• respiration and photosynthesis
•  decomposition and respiration

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