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Ecology Quiz #1

This document contains a 15 question quiz about ecology. The questions cover topics like defining ecological terms such as community, niche, trophic levels, and the roles of different organisms in food webs and energy cycles as producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, and decomposers. The quiz is meant to test students' understanding of fundamental concepts in ecology.

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Ecology Quiz #1

This document contains a 15 question quiz about ecology. The questions cover topics like defining ecological terms such as community, niche, trophic levels, and the roles of different organisms in food webs and energy cycles as producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, and decomposers. The quiz is meant to test students' understanding of fundamental concepts in ecology.

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Quiz: Ecology SNC 1D

Name: ____________________________ Date: ____________

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

a. niche
b. biosphere
c. community
d. ecosystem

2. In a natural community, the primary consumers are:

a. herbivores
b. carnivores
c. scavengers
d. decomposers

3. In the food web shown on the right, which of


the following is a primary consumer?

a. deer
b. dog
c. hawk
d. bear

4. Which of the following lists include only abiotic environmental factors?

a. food, temperature, fire, wind\


b. soil minerals, oxygen level, light, predators
c. wind, rainfall, temperature, soil minerals
d. light, food, predators, competitors

5. All of the organisms living in a particular area make up:

a. a food chain
b. a population
c. a biological community
d. a biosphere

6. An organism's "trophic" level refers to:

a. the rate at which it uses energy


b. where it lives
c. what it eats
d. whether it is early or late in ecological succession

7. The niche of an animal is best defined as?

a. the number of individuals of the species the environment will support


b. the same as its habitat
c. all the ways an animal fits into its environment
d. the specific place within the habitat where the animal lives
Name: ____________________________ Date: ____________

8. Primary consumers would be found at the following levels:

a. 1 and 2 only
b. 2 only
c. 3 only
d. 2 and 3 only

9. At which level would autotrophs be found?

a.
b. 1 d. 3
c. 2 e. 4

The following questions refer to the diagram on the bottom-right.

10. Which role do mushrooms play in the energy cycle?

a. producers
b. primary consumers
c. secondary consumers
d. decomposers

11. Which role do owls play in the energy cycle?

a. producers
b. primary consumers
c. secondary consumers
d. decomposers

12. Which role do bacteria play in the energy cycle?

a. producers
b. primary consumers
c. secondary consumers
d. decomposers

13. Which role do mice play in the energy cycle?

a. producers
b. primary consumers
c. secondary consumers
d. decomposers

14. Which role do mountain lions play in the energy cycle?

a. primary consumers
b. secondary consumers
c. primary carnivore
d. secondary carnivore

15. Which role do plants play in the energy cycle?


Name: ____________________________ Date: ____________
a. producers
b. primary consumers
c. secondary consumers
d. decomposers

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