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Ecology

Total questions: 27

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Define "ecology".

a)

Where in the world is my dictionary?

b)

The study of how living things interact with each other and the environment

c)

The study of how things eat things

d)

The study of the many benefits of Hi-Chew

2.

Which of the following is a biotic factor?

a)

sine(45)

b)
c)

A barracuda

d)

HI-CHEW!!!!!!

3.

Which of the following is an abiotic factor?

a)

A computer

b)

A chameleon

c)

A crazy cuckoo

d)

A creepy chimpanzee

4.

Is this biotic or abiotic?

a)

Biotic

b)

Abiotic

c)

Neither or

d)

QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM

5.

Is this biotic or abiotic?

a)

Biotic

b)

Abiotic

c)

What picture?

d)

πιγκουίνος??????

6.

Is this biotic or abiotic?

a)

abiotic

b)

Biotic

c)

It's a .................................

d)

φαλαινοκαρχαρίας

7.

Alice is taking a test in which she has to define"commensalism". She gets this word confused with "communism". Please correct her mistake.

a)

commensalism means a relationship in which one benefits and the other neither suffers nor benefits

b)

This sounds like a math question...

c)

communism is what Russia does

d)

commensalism is where both are harmed

8.

Bob sees a brown owl at night sitting on a tree trunk. What strategy is the owl using?

a)

camouflage

b)

false coloring

c)

mimicry

d)

warning colors

e)

all of the above

9.

Steve is bored and goes outside. He sees a spider with a fly in its net, preparing to eat it. This is an example of...

a)

what you should not do in your free time

b)

Predation

c)

Parasitism

d)

Symbiosis

e)

Yummy food

10.

Monarchs are poisonous, viceroys are tasty. However, birds avoid both. This is an example of...

a)

plagiarism

b)

mimicry

c)

camouflage

d)

Parasitism

11.

a flea on a dog is a...

a)

Parasite

b)

Plastic Bug

c)

annoyance

d)

bug

12.

What are 4 ways to determine population size?

a)

Direct and Indirect observation, sampling, and Guess-and-check.

b)

Direct and Indirect observation, sampling, and mark-and recapture

c)

eating, Sleeping, playing, and breathing

d)

find the cosine of the bisector of angle a, then add it to the square root of 101010101012, and then divide by 253.5

13.

what are 3 limiting factors?

a)

food, space, and water

b)

food, space, and weather

c)

sun, moon, and earth

d)

sine, cosine, and tangent

14.

How do you calculate population growth?

a)

(Birth-death)rate

b)

Birth rate-death rate

c)

(1+2364)1012x

d)

You don't calculate it

15.

An example of protective coverings in action is...

a)
b)
c)
d)
16.

An example of mimicry is...

a)
b)
c)
d)
17.

An example of parasitism is...

a)
b)
c)
d)
18.

What is a defense strategy?

a)

camouflage

b)

mimicry

c)

a way to keep something from being eaten by a predator

d)

a way to spawn armor every time an organism comes withen a 10-meter radius

19.

what is a host in ecology?

a)

The guy who welcomes everybody in

b)

an organism that provides a suitable environment for a parasite or something else to live

c)

a host

d)

a dog, cat, or a human

20.

what is an example of an abiotic habitat?

a)

A big dinosaur

b)

A virus

c)

Outer space

d)

A lake

21.

What is the difference between "emigration" and "immigration"?

a)

There is no difference

b)

emigration is when organisms move in, and immigration is when organisms leave

c)

emigration is when organisms leave and immigration is when organisms move in

d)

emigration is when organisms eat, immigration is when organisms sleep

22.

What is a "carrying capacity"?

a)

A capacity that carries its team

b)

The max population a certain area can hold

c)

the max population the world can hold

d)

The max population the universe can hold

23.

What is a subatomic particle?

a)

The lowest level of organization

b)

a neutron, electron, or proton

c)

The highest level of organization

d)

A thing smaller than an atom

24.

what is a niche?

a)

A misspelling

b)

an organism's role in the environment

c)

an organism's way of making its living

d)

all of the above are the definitions of a niche

25.

Find the product of sine(tangent(cosine(456))) and 0

a)

0

b)

Secant(54)

c)

Cosecant(456)

d)

321

26.

The scientific name of a penguin is...

a)

Spheniscidae

b)

Sphenispidae

c)

Sphenuepio

d)

Cephalopod

27.

A airplane that looks like a bird in the sky is biotic.

a)

True

b)

Abiotic

c)

An airplane

d)

Nothing