Ecology Review Quiz

The science that studies how living things live in relation to each other and to their environment is called__________.

• Oceanography

• Ecology

• Geology

• Geography

Large natural areas or group of ecosystems where certain types of plants grow. These ecosystems share the same climate and have similar types of communities.

• genome

• goldome

• biome

• honeycomb

A biological community made up of all the nonliving and living things within a certain area is called a/an_________.

• Population

• Ecosystem

• Community

• Biome

Green plants are called ___________

• primary

  producers

• primary

  consumers

• secondary

  producers

• secondary

  consumers

The arrows in a food web display

• Symbiotic relationships

• That nutrients move from predator, to prey

• The direction energy is moving

• Trophic levels

The phytoplankton are found on trophic level ___, and are ___.

• 1 ; producers

• 2 ; consumers

• 1 ; heterotrophs

• 3 ; producers

The primary consumer of this energy pyramid is

• B

• A

• D

• C

Which of the 4 words least fits the other 3?

• Primary consumer
• Herbivore
• Heterotroph
• Omnivore

This is an example of a

• food chain
• water cycle
• food cycle
• food web

In this food web, the producers are the ____________________.

• grass and tree

• grass and insects

• frog and mouse

• frog and tree