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Welcome to this amazing and fun
'Ecosystem Quiz'. An ecosystem is the
living organisms, their environment,
and their interrelations with their
environment's nonliving components.
Different ecosystems help some living
this prospers where others cannot.
Understanding our ecosystem and
those of the world helps us understand
the earth better.
Instructions: There are __ pages and 1 question in this a. Sampling d. Niche
quiz. You must answer the question and encircle the b. Community e. Biosphere
correct answer. Read the questions carefully and confine c. Population
your responses to an analysis of the questions as written.
Do not assume any facts not set forth in the questions. 6. An organism that creates its own food is called:
You have one hour to complete the quiz. I have given a. A producer d. A decomposer
suggested times for each question. You may allocate your b. A consumer e. A Carnivore
time as you wish. I recommend that you spend some time c. A scavenger
organizing your thoughts before you begin to write and
that you reserve some time to go over your responses 7. A consumer is:
after you have completed the quiz. Good luck! a. An organism that produces its own food
b. An organism that does not need food to survive
c. An abiotic organism
1. Temperature, light, air, water, soil, and climate are all d. An organism that cannot produce its own food
__________ parts of the environment.
8. Which of the following two organisms are producers?
a. Biotic c. Boreal
a. Plants and phytoplankton.
b. Abiotic d. Living
b. Plants and consumers.
2. Choose the phrase that correctly finishes this c. Consumers and phytoplankton.
statement: "A species is..." d. Phytoplankton and chlorophyll.
a. A Specific part of the abiotic environment e. Phytoplankton and herbivores.
b. A way of describing all the living parts of an ecosystem
9. A food web is more realistic than a food chain for
c. A group of organisms that can successfully mate with
showing the feeding relationships in ecosystems
D. Part of the natural decomposing materials in soil
because:
3. What is an ecosystem? a. It compares the number of consumers to the number
a. All the interacting organisms that live in an of micro-organisms in an ecosystem.
environment and the abiotic parts of the environment b. Food chains use only a small sampling of organisms.
that affect the organisms. c. A food web explains why there are more producers
b. A person who observes and studies the interactions than consumers.
between the biotic and abiotic parts of the environment. d. Producers are usually eaten by many different
c. The relationship among the biotic of the environment. consumers and most consumers are eaten by more
D. the relationship between all the abiotic elements of than one predator.
the pond.
10. The largest percentage of solar energy that
4. When populations share their environment and penetrates the atmosphere of the Earth is used to:
interact with populations of other species, it is called a: a. Heat the atmosphere and the Earth’s surface.
a. Biome d. Species b. Carry on photosynthesis.
b. Eco province e. Ecotone c. Generate winds.
c. Community d. Heat and evaporate water.
5. Space where an organism lives and the role an 11. Albedo is a measure of the percentage of light that
organism plays within its ecosystem is referred to as a: is:
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a. Absorbed by an object. 18. The graph below shows the changes in the size of the
b. Transmitted through the atmosphere. populations of two different species of paramecia placed
c. Converted into sugar by photosynthesis. in one beaker. What can be concluded from this graph?
d. Reflected by an object.
e. Transferred to plants. a. Paramecium A is the predator, paramecium B is the
prey.
12. A species of plant or animal that is facing imminent b. Paramecium B is the predator, paramecium A is the
extinction or extirpation is said to be: prey.
a. Extinct d. Threatened c. The introduction of paramecium B is followed by a
b. Extirpated e. Special concern decline in the population of paramecium A.
c. Endangered d. Paramecium B reaches a steady state of growth.
e. Paramecium A reaches a steady state of growth.
13. Consider this food chain: algae --> water
fleas --> minnows --> trout --> bear the 19. Abiotic factors are living things in an ecosystem.
minnows (Species of fish) in this food chain are: a. True c. none of these
a. Top carnivores. b. False d. All of the above
b. Tertiary carnivores.
c. Secondary carnivores. 20. An ABIOTIC factor can kill a BIOTIC factor.
d. Primary carnivores. a. True c. none of these
e. Herbivores. b. False d. All of the above
14. Heterotrophs obtain energy from all of the following 21. How does the fixed nitrogen that plants need to get
except: to the soil?
a. Decomposition a. The nitrogen in the air is dissolved into the soil
b. Parasitism b. Decomposers decay plants and animals and release it
c. Solar radiation c. Plants that produce it during photosynthesis
d. other heterotrophs d. Both answers A and C
e. Animal’s solid and liquid waste
15. For the food web below: What does the praying
mantis represent? 22. What gas do plants breathe in?
a. Oxygen d. Zinc
a. Primary consumer b. Carbon Dioxide e. Copper
b. Secondary consumer c. Nitrogen
c. Tertiary consumer
d. Producer 23. What gas to animals breathe in?
e. Decomposer a. Oxygen d. Zinc
b. Carbon Dioxide e. Copper
16. For the following food chain: seeds a sparrow an c. Nitrogen
owl if there are 100 000 kJ of energy available in the
seeds, how many kilojoules are passed on to the owl? 24. What are the types of aquatic ecosystems?
a. None a. Streams and ocean
b. 1 KJ b. Salty and fresh
c. 10 KJ c. Freshwater and marine
d. 100 KJ d. Surface zone and deep zone
e. 1000 KJ 25. A depression in ocean sediments in the intertidal
17. Which of the following is NOT an abiotic factor? zone which holds ocean water and supports life, even
a. Decomposer when the tide goes out, is known as a ___________.
b. Light intensity a. Marsh
c. Wind b. Abyssal plain
d. Humidity c. Coral reef
e. Temperature d. Tidal Pool
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