Quiz about Ecology Organization Levels

Question 1

What are groups of different populations living togther in the same place at the same time called?

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A community

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An organism

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A population

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A biosphere

Question 2

The Biosphere contains all ecosystems

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True

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False

Question 3

Select the examples of biotic things

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Plants

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Animals

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Soil

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Sun

Question 4

Select examples of abiotic things

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Soil

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Air

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Rocks

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Water

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Animals

Question 5

Select from the following, examples of a population.

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Herd of buffalo

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School of fish

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All the people living in a town

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The people, animals, and plants at Liberty Elementary School.

Question 6

What level of organization can be seen here?

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Population

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Species

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Community

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Ecosystem

Question 7

What level of organization can be observed in the image?

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Ecosystem

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Species

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Population

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Community

Question 8

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

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10%

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1%

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100%

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1000%

Question 9

An organism that gets energy from breaking down dead organisms, non-living material or waste is a(an) ___________.

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decomposer

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producer

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consumer

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autotroph

Question 10

An organism that uses an outside source of energy like the sun to create energy-rich food molecules.

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Producer

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Consumer

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Decomposer

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Parasite

Question 11

Biomass refers to

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Amount of living tissue at the tropic level

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Chemical Energy

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Light Energy

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Rank in the feeding heirarchy

Question 12

If only 10% of an organism's energy is available for the next trophic level, what happens with the other 90% of the energy?

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It is used for life processes or lost as body heat.

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It is destroyed after it is used up.

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It remains for the next trophic level IF the predator consumes ALL of the organism.

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It is lost completely as body heat.

Question 13

The second  law of thermodynamics states that entropy of a system  tends to ______________.

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increase

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decrease

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stay constant

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fluctuate wildly

Question 14

The first law of thermodynamics states that energy is

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conserved

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created

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destroyed

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created and destroyed

Question 15

What animal is on the top of the food chain?

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Owl

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Grass

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Grasshopper

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Mouse

Question 16

Who does the grasshopper get energy from?

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Grass

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Grasshopper

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Mouse

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Ow

Question 17

What is a food chain?

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The flow of energy from one thing to another

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The way animals eat each other

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The way the sun makes everything

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How the plants grow

Question 18

An owl eats a rat that lived in an ecosystem where there was 2,800 kcals of energy in the insect population that the rat consumed. How many kcals would transfer to the trophic level the owl is in?

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28

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280

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2,800

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28,000

Question 19

A hawk eats a mouse that lived in an ecosystem where there is 10,000 kcals of energy in the insect population the mouse consumes. How much energy, in kcals, moves up to the trophic level the hawk is in?

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100 kcals

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1 kcals

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10 kcals

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1000 kcals

Question 20

How might a lack of sunlight disrupt the food web

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It would prevent producers from producing nutrients.

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It would cause consumers to consume less

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It would prevent decomposers from decomposing matter

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It would not disrupt the food web at all.

Question 21

How are primary consumers different from secondary consumers?

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Primary consumers eat only plants;secondary consumers eat other consumers.

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Primary consumers eat other consumers;secondary consumers eat only plants.

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primary consumers eat plants and other consumer;secondary consumers eat plants and decompose matter

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Primary consumers eat plants and decompose matter ;secondary consumers consumers eat plants and other consumers.

Question 22

How is a food web different from a food chain?

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Food webs contain many different,linked food chains.

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Foods webs contain only producers, not consumers.

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Food webs do not include decomposers.

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Food webs exist in aquatic environment;food chain exist in terrestrial environment

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