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ECOLOGY 1

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which organism have the ability to make energy-rich organic molecules (glucose)

            from inorganic raw materials available in the environment?

a)

heterotrophs

b)

autotrophs

c)

primary consumers

d)

decomposers

2.

Which organism must obtain glucose by consuming other organism?

a)

heterotrophs   

b)

autotrophs

c)

producers

d)

decomposers

3.

Which organism break large molecules into smaller ones and return them to the abiotic environment?

a)

heterotrophs

b)

tertiary comsumers

c)

decomposers

d)

producers

4.

Given the food chain below, which organism occupies the third trophic level?

      Grass  -----> grasshopper -----> mouse -----> snake    

a)

grasshopper

b)

mouse

c)

snake

d)

grass

5.

Which pyramids of numbers might have fewer producers than primary consumers?

a)

a forest

b)

an aquatic ecosystem

c)

grasslands

d)

a forest and aquatic ecosystem

6.

All of the following are abiotic factors except:

a)

Tree

b)

Temperature

c)

pH

d)

Sunlight

7.

Which of the following is not part of the nitrogen cycle:

a)

Ammonification

b)

Transpiration

c)

Nitrification

d)

Rhizobacteria sp.

8.

A population that is growing exponentially in the absence of limiting factors can be illustrated by a (n) ___________.

a)

S-shaped curve

b)

J-shaped curve

c)

curve  that terminates a plateau phase

d)

tolerance curve

9.

All the populations of different species that occupy and are adapted to a given area, are referred to as a (n) ______________?

a)

ecosystem

b)

community

c)

biosphere

d)

niche

10.

A one-way relationship where one species benefits at the expense of another is called _______________?

a)

commensalisms

b)

competitive exclusion

c)

parasitism

d)

an obligatory relationship