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Ecology Vocabulary Quiz

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 49mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is Ecology?
a)
The study of interactions between abiotic and biotic factors
b)
The study of passing certain characteristics from one generation to the next 
c)
The study of life 
d)
A community of organisms and the abiotic environment of the community
2.
What is the correct order of the ecological levels of organization? 
a)
population, community, organism, ecosystem, biome, biosphere
b)
organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere
c)
biosphere, bioime, ecosystem, community, population, organism
d)
organism, community, population, ecosystem, biome, biosphere
3.
What does biotic mean? 
a)
Non-living 
b)
Decomposer
c)
Living and Non-living 
d)
Living 
4.
What does abiotic mean? 
a)
Non-living 
b)
Decomposer
c)
Living and Non-living 
d)
Living 
5.
What is a population? 
a)
Many different species that live and interact in the same area 
b)
A group of individuals of the same species 
c)
The part of the Earth where Life exists
d)
Many communities and its abiotic environment
6.
What is a community? 
a)
All of the populations of species that live in the same habitat and interact with each other 
b)
A group of organisms of the same species that live in a specific geographical area
c)
A living thing; anything that can carry out life processes independently
d)
The part of the Earth where Life exists
7.
What are the four types of consumers? 
a)
decomposers, scavengers, producers, carnivores
b)
carnivores, scavengers, decomposers, omnivores
c)
omnivores, producers, herbivores, scavengers
d)
carnivores, omnivores, herbivores, scavengers
8.
What is an omnivore?
a)
Eats plants
b)
Eats meat
c)
Eats plants and meat
d)
Breaks down dead material
9.
What is a decomposer? 
a)
Eats plants
b)
Eats meat 
c)
Eats plants and meat
d)
Breaks down dead material 
10.
Which is an example of a producer? 
a)
Brown Bear
b)
Lion
c)
Grass 
d)
Vulture 
11.
Which is an example of a herbivore? 
a)
Deer 
b)
Brown Bear
c)
Lion
d)
Flowers
12.
Which is an example of a scavenger? 
a)
Mushroom
b)
Fungi
c)
Crow 
d)
Pelican 
13.
Which answer best represents a food chain (one flow of energy)? 
a)
sun, grass, frog, grasshopper, hawk, snake
b)
sun, grass, grasshopper, frog, snake, hawk
c)
hawk, snake, frog, grasshopper, grass, sun 
d)
grass, grasshopper, sun, hawk, snake, frog
14.
What is a food web? 
a)
A diagram that shows an ecosystems loss of energy 
b)
A diagram that that shows how energy in food flows from one organism to another
c)
A diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem
d)
A structure made by organisms in an ecosystem
15.
What is an energy pyramid? 
a)
A diagram that shows an ecosystems loss of energy 
b)
A diagram that that shows how energy in food flows from one organism to another
c)
A diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem
d)
A structure made by organisms in an ecosystem
16.

Select the term that fits this definition:

Long term: One organism benefits while the other organism is harmed.

a)

parasitism

b)

predation

c)

mutualism

d)

symbiosis

17.

Select the term that fits this definition:

Long term: One organism benefits and the other organism is unaffected.

a)

mutualism

b)

predation

c)

commensalism

d)

predator-prey

18.

Select the term that fits this definition:

Long-term: Both organisms benefit

a)

parasitism

b)

mutualism

c)

predator-prey

d)

commensalism

19.

Select the term that fits this definition:

Short term: One organisms is eaten and the other organism is eaten.

a)

parasitism

b)

mutualism

c)

predation

d)

symbiosis

20.

What kind of relationship?

An oxpecker eats ticks or other parasites off of a zebras back

a)

parasitism

b)

mutualism

c)

predation

d)

commensalism

21.

What kind of relationship?

Athletes foot (fungus) on a human

a)

parasitism

b)

mutualism

c)

predation

d)

commensalism

22.

What kind of relationship?

An owl catching and eating a mouse

a)

parasitism

b)

mutualism

c)

predation

d)

commensalism

23.

What kind of relationship?

A cattle egret (bird) riding on a cows back to eat insects that are stirred up from the cow walking through the grass. The cow doesn't mind.

a)

parasitism

b)

mutualism

c)

predation

d)

commensalism

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