This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Agriculture > Ecology Environment > Studies > Ecology And Environment – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ecology And Environment Quiz 5 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When organisms fight over food, water, shelter, and mates A) Competition. B) Biology. C) Biodiversity. D) Pioneer species. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Competition. 2. A group of individuals of the same species living in the same area is a/an A) Community. B) Population. C) Biome. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population. 3. Complex network of many interconnected food chains and feeding relationships. A) Energy pyramid. B) Food web. C) Limiting factor. D) Habitat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Food web. 4. Which is a producer? A) Deer. B) Tall grass. C) Lion. D) Worm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tall grass. 5. When a population has reached carrying capacity A) Growth & Immigration are greater than Death & emigration. B) Growth & Immigration are equal to Death & emigration. C) Growth is exponential. D) Growth & Immigration are less than Death & emigration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Growth & Immigration are equal to Death & emigration. 6. Are a diverse group of both unicellular and multicellular organisms A) Bacteria. B) Protist. C) Fungus. D) Archaea. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Protist. 7. The number and variety of organisms in an area at one time is called A) Biodegradable. B) Point-source pollutant. C) Deforestation. D) Biodiversity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Biodiversity. 8. What term describes the spacing of organisms relative to each other? A) Density. B) Population. C) Size. D) Dispersion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dispersion. 9. What type of soil is the LEAST permeable? A) Clay. B) Gravel. C) Silt. D) Sand. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Clay. 10. Which of the following is NOT a consumer A) Fish. B) Dog. C) Grass. D) Shark. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Grass. 11. The ecological pyramid that is always upright A) Pyramid of energy. B) Pyramid of number. C) Pyramid of biomass. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pyramid of energy. 12. A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is not affected. A) Commensalism. B) Producism. C) Mutualism. D) Parasitism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Commensalism. 13. What is the part of Earth that supports life? A) Geosphere. B) Biosphere. C) Atmosphere. D) Hydrosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biosphere. 14. What are the living factors in an environment? A) Abiotical. B) Abiotic. C) Biotical. D) Biotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Biotic. 15. Albert wants to practice conservation. He has decided to examine his lifestyle in order to identify areas in which he can reduce the resources he consumes, reuse resources he already has, and recycle resources that he cannot reuse. In which of the following ways can Albert best reduce the resources he currently consumes? A) Usepaper grocery bags as gift wrap. B) Usean organic rather than synthetic fertilizer in his garden. C) Subscribeto a daily rather than a weekly newspaper. D) Ridea bike to work instead of taking his car. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ridea bike to work instead of taking his car. 16. What trophic level would a hawk eating a snake be? A) Tertiary consumers. B) Secondary consumers. C) Producers. D) Primary consumers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tertiary consumers. 17. Which of the following is not an abiotic factor? A) Temperature. B) Grass. C) Sun. D) Soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Grass. 18. Study of interactions among organisms and their environment A) Habitat. B) Biodiversity. C) Ecology. D) Niche. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ecology. 19. Drought is a weather condition that may limit the amount of water resources available to an ecosystem. Which of the following may be one result of drought? A) Predator populations may increase due to increased prey populations. B) Fish populations may decline due to lower river levels. C) Birds may not build nests due to temperature change. D) Flowering plants may produce more seeds due to lack of water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fish populations may decline due to lower river levels. 20. Symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit A) Mutualism. B) Energy pyramid. C) Competition. D) Nitrogen fixation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mutualism. 21. Community and the abiotic factors that affect it. A) Biosphere. B) Ecosystem. C) Population. D) Organism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ecosystem. 22. Part of the earth that living organisms inhabit A) Biome. B) Niche. C) Biosphere. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biosphere. 23. Which of the following would have a negative impact on an ecosystem A) Constructing highways. B) Planting trees. C) Recycling paper. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Constructing highways. 24. Which of the following is not a renewable resource? A) Solar energy. B) Wind energy. C) Coal. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coal. 25. A common type of succession that occurs on a surface where an ecosystem HAS previously existed A) Old-field succession. B) Secondary succession. C) Ecological succession. D) Algal bloom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Secondary succession. 26. Choose which of the following is NOT an example of a natural resource. A) Timber (trees). B) Sunlight. C) Plastic. D) Coal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plastic. 27. Which of the following is an example of a biotic component of the environment? A) Vegetation. B) Temperature. C) Wind. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vegetation. 28. What does the "I" in HIPPCO represent? A) Incumbent species. B) Isolated species. C) Invasive Species. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Invasive Species. 29. Populations of different organisms living in an area A) Community. B) Biome. C) Niche. D) Species. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Community. 30. A secondary consumer A) Eats primary consumers. B) Eats producers. C) Eats plants. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eats primary consumers. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesEcology Environment QuizzesAgriculture QuizzesEcology And Environment Quiz 1Ecology And Environment Quiz 2Ecology And Environment Quiz 3Ecology And Environment Quiz 4Ecology And Environment Quiz 6Ecology And Environment Quiz 7Ecology And Environment Quiz 8Ecology And Environment Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books