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Ecology Final Review

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In the energy pyramid here, how much of the energy in each level gets lost as heat?

a)

80%

b)

90%

c)

10%

d)

20%

2.

What is the correct order of changes during primary succession?

a)

Climax community, consumers, producers, pioneer species

b)

Soil, producers, consumers, climax community

c)

New rock, pioneer species, producers, consumers, climax community

3.

What is the order that plants grow to repopulate the area in primary succession, such as a glacier receding or a volcano covering land with lava?

a)

Lichens → Shrubs → Grasses → Trees

b)

Lichens → tree → shrubs→Grasses

c)

Grasses → Lichens → Shrubs → Trees

d)

Lichens → Grasses → Shrubs → Trees

4.

How much energy is lost as heat between the trophic level of the producers and the primary consumers?

a)

10%

b)

50%

c)

70%

d)

90%

5.
What type of symbiosis?  Hummingbirds feed on nectar from flowers.  The flowers are pollinated by hummingbirds as they move from flower to flower.
a)
commensalism
b)
mutualism
c)
parasitism
d)
predation
6.

Which of these are examples of combustion?

a)

Burning fossil fuels and trees

b)

Decomposition

c)

Diffusion

d)

Cellular respiration

7.

Which of these is an abiotic factor?

a)

Competition between organisms for food

b)

Seasonal variations in precipitation and temperature

c)

Predators

d)

Parasites that affects the host

8.

Why is nitrogen limited when the atmosphere is 78% nitrogen?

a)

It isn't limited

b)

Not many organisms can fix nitrogen, which means turn it into a useful form

c)

Nitrogen is so light that it floats above the rest of the gases in the atmosphere and most organisms can reach it

9.

What would happen if all the producers in an ecosystem suddenly died?

a)

Consumers would increase

b)

Within a week, consumers would evolve the ability to do photosynthesis.

c)

Consumers would die, causing their numbers to decrease

10.
Uses energy from the sun to make sugars/food for the cell
a)
Mitochondria
b)
Chloroplast
c)
Vacuole
d)
Lysosome
11.

Controls what enters and exits the cell

a)

Lipid bilayer (another name for cell membrane)

b)

Cytoplasm

c)

Nucleus

d)

Ribosome

12.

Some toxins and poisons accumulate in the tissues of organisms. Which trophic level has organisms with the most concentrated toxins?

a)

Producers

b)

Primary consumers

c)

Secondary consumers

d)

Top consumers

13.

A lichen grows on rocks at base of a waterfall. What might be happening in this environment?

a)

Primary succession

b)

Secondary Succession

c)

A volcano erupted

d)

Moisture level around the waterfall increased

14.

Cell membranes are semipermeable, which means that some things can go through the membrane, but some things cannot. If a membrane is permeable to iodine, but not permeable to starch, which molecules will move through the membrane

a)

Only starch

b)

Only iodine

c)

Neither

d)

Both

15.

What would happen if an alien destroyed all the decomposers in an ecosystem?

a)

The ecosystem would become more stable because there would be fewer organisms.

b)

The ecosystem would become less stable because nutrients could not be recycled and returned to the soil

c)

Nothing would change.