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SOL Review Bio.8 -Ecology

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 47mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What does a food web represent?
a)
All connections of energy flow throughout all organisms in a habitat.
b)
The specific ways that mutualism is carried out.
c)
A single pathway or energy flow between organisms. 
d)
How carnivores get their food. 
2.
The amount of energy that usually transfers from one trophic level to the next...
a)
10%
b)
20%
c)
80%
d)
50%
3.
All of the living and nonliving things in an area that interact with each other are called a/an ______.
a)
community
b)
habitat
c)
population
d)
ecosystem
4.
An area where an organism finds food, shelter and water in a specific arrangement
a)
niche
b)
biosphere
c)
biome
d)
habitat
5.
The study of how living things interact with one another and with their environment.
a)
Biology
b)
Lithology
c)
Ecology
d)
Farmacology
6.
largest number of individuals of a population that the environment can support  
a)
carrying capacity
b)
primary succession 
c)
denitrification
d)
mutualism
7.
What type of growth model is this?
a)
exponential growth model
b)
logistic growth model
c)
Type I curve
d)
Type III curve
8.
Name this symbiosis:
a)
Mutualism
b)
Commensalism
c)
Parasitism
d)
Predation
9.
Name this symbiosis:
a)
Mutualism
b)
Parasitism
c)
Commensalism
d)
Predation
10.
The largest group of organisms found in a food web would be:
a)
Primary Consumers
b)
Producers
c)
Decomposers
d)
Tertiary Consumers
11.
The rabbit in this food web would be considered a:
a)
Decomposer
b)
Producer
c)
Secondary Consumer
d)
Primary Consumer
12.
Elephants only eat plants.  What kind of consumer is an elephant?
a)
producer
b)
omnivore
c)
herbivore
d)
carnivore
13.
Organisms that feed on both living producers and other consumers.
a)
Carnivores
b)
Omnivores
c)
Herbivores
d)
Detritivores
14.
This is the most important thing that makes each biome different from each other.
a)
Animals
b)
Location
c)
Climate
d)
People
15.
The picture shows what type of succession?
a)
primary
b)
secondary
c)
tertiary
d)
quadanary
16.
The final stable community of plants and animals is called:
a)
pioneer community
b)
farmland
c)
climax community
d)
old field
17.
The first organisms that appear in an ecological community
a)
ecological succession 
b)
primary succession 
c)
secondary succession
d)
pioneer speciles
18.
How would the biodiversity of this ecosystem be affected if the lantern fish disappeared?
a)
The ocean sunfish population would increase.
b)
The large shark population would die out.
c)
The squid would die out.
d)
There would be no change.
19.
A drought has hit this grassland biome. How will this effect the rabbit population?
a)
The rabbits will increase in number.
b)
The rabbit population will stay the same.
c)
The rabbit population will decrease.
d)
The rabbit population will become extinct immediately.
20.
What is the order of succession shown in this figure?
a)
A, B, C, D
b)
B, A, D, C
c)
C, D, A, B
d)
D, A, B, C