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Mrs. Coble's Ecology Review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is ecology?

a)

The study of living things

b)

The study of feet

c)

The study of math

d)

The study of organisms and how they interact with their environment.

2.

Which level of organization is the smallest?

a)

Ecosystem

b)

Population

c)

Community

d)

Biosphere

3.

What is a population?

a)

A group of different species living in the same area

b)

All living and non-living factors in an area

c)

A single individual living in an area

d)

A group of the same species living in the same area

4.

What are the three types of dispersion?

a)

Mutualism, parasitism, commensalism

b)

Uniform, clumped, random

c)

Primary, secondary, and tertiary

d)

First, second, and third

5.

What is a community?

a)

A group of different species living in the same area

b)

All living and non-living factors in an area

c)

A single individual living in an area

d)

A group of the same species living in the same area

6.

Which biome has the intertidal, neritic and oceanic zones?

a)

Lakes and ponds

b)

Rivers and Streams

c)

The ocean

d)

Swamps and bogs

7.

Which biome has the most rainfall?

a)

The tropical rainforest

b)

The temperate forest

c)

The desert

d)

the savanna

8.

What is a decomposer?

a)

an organism that can cause decay and breakdown material

b)

An organism that can make its own food

c)

The amount of organic compounds produced by an ecosystem

d)

All of the same species in the same area

9.

What is biomass?

a)

How heavy the world is

b)

The highest level of organization

c)

All the organic material produced by an ecosystem

d)

A mass of all living species in an environment

10.

Which of the following is a correct statement about the energy flow of food pyramids?

a)

More energy gets transferred as you go up the pyramid

b)

Energy is never lost going from level to level

c)

The tertiary consumers get the most energy

d)

Energy gets used by the organism so less gets passed on

11.

Which of the following is an example of a primary consumer?

a)

Hawk

b)

Tiger

c)

Grasshopper

d)

Shark

12.

What is a predator adaptation?

a)

Anything that allows a predator to be eaten by a prey

b)

Something that helps a predator hunt and capture its prey

c)

Something that helps prey survive or hide from predators

d)

A predator being eaten by a parasite

13.

Which of the following is an example of competitive exclusion?

a)

Birds eating insects from different parts of the same tree

b)

Different beaks sizes of birds on the Galapagos Islands

c)

The camouflage coloring of the mantis

d)

Two species competing for the same resource and one wins

14.

What do nitrogen fixing bacteria do?

a)

They eat nitrogen so it does not harm the plants

b)

They take nitrogen from the air and put it in the soil

c)

They take nitrogen out of the plants and put it in the soi

d)

They are a way for plants to defend themselves

15.

What is secondary succession?

a)

It is the re-growth of a community after a disturbance.

b)

It is the second consumer in a food chain

c)

It is the growth of a community in an area that has no soil

d)

It is the second plant in a community

16.

Which of the following is a difference between logistic and exponential growth?

a)

The logistic model is truer than the exponential model

b)

The logistic is S shaped and the exponential is J shaped

c)

The logistic model accounts for carrying capacity

d)

All of the above are differences

17.

The number of individuals an environment can support over a period of time is knows as:

a)

Limiting factors

b)

Biomass

c)

Carrying Capacity

d)

Population Growth

18.

What is commensalism?

a)

Where one species benefits and the other has no affect

b)

Where one organism is harmed and the other is helped

c)

Where both species are helped

d)

When two species are using the same resource

19.

What is mutualism?

a)

Where one species benefits and the other has no affect

b)

Where one organism is harmed and the other is helped

c)

Where both species are helped

d)

When two species are using the same resource

20.

What is parasitism?

a)

Where one species benefits and the other has no affect

b)

Where one organism is harmed and the other is helped

c)

Where both species are helped

d)

When two species are using the same resource