Biology(Ecology Test)

Question 1

Which biome is the coldest?

Answer 1

Tundra

Question 2

Which biome has no trees?

Answer 2

Grasslands

Question 3

What is a group of species living in the same area at the same time?

Answer 3

Population

Question 4

What are factors that affect the size of a population?

Answer 4

Natural disasters
Humans
Resources
Climate

Question 5

What are some basic needs that an individual In a population need to survive?

Answer 5

Food, H2O, shelter

Question 6

What is the study of organisms and their interactions between other organisms and their environment?

Answer 6

Ecology

Question 7

List the 6 levels of organization

Answer 7

Organism
Population 
Community
Ecosystem
Biome
Biosphere

Question 8

Who termed the word “Ecology”?

Answer 8

Ernst Haekel

Question 9

What is an area where an organism lives

Answer 9

Habitat

Ex:tree

Question 10

The role or position that an organism has in its environment

Answer 10

Niche

Ex:living space

Question 11

Two abiotic and biotic factors

Answer 11

Biotic- frog and plant

Abiotic-water and temperature

Question 12

3 types of symbiosis with example

Answer 12

Mutualism- (shark and algae eater)
Commensalism-clownfish and the sea anemone
Parasitism- dogs heart with heart worms

Question 13

What is the act of one organism consuming another organism for food?

Answer 13

Predation

Question 14

Contains the combined portions of the planet in which all of life exists, including land, water, and air, or atmosphere

Answer 14

Biosphere

Question 15

What is a group of organisms so similar to one another that they can breed and produce fertile offspring

Answer 15

Species

Question 16

What is a collection of all organisms that live in a particular place, together with their no living, or physical, environment

Answer 16

Ecosystem

Question 17

A group of ecosystems that have the same climate and similar dominant communities

Answer 17

Biome

Question 18

Plants and some algae, and certain bacteria can capture energy from: sunlight or chemicals and use that energy to produce food.

Answer 18

Autotrophs

Question 19

Organic molecules combine and recombine to produce living tissue

Answer 19

Producers

Question 20

These autotrophs use light energy to power chemical reactions that convert carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and energy rich carbohydrates such as sugars and starches.

Answer 20

Photosynthesis

Question 21

Organisms that rely on other organisms for their energy and food supply are called

Answer 21

Heterotrophs

Question 22

Obtain energy by eating only plants

Answer 22

Herbivores

Question 23

Eat animals

Answer 23

Carnivores

Question 24

Eat both plants and animals

Answer 24

Omnivores

Question 25

Feed on plant and animal remains and other dead matter collectively called detritus

Answer 25

Detritivores

Question 26

Breaks down organic matter

Answer 26

Decomposers

Question 27

Series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten

Answer 27

Food chain

Question 28

Links all the food webs in an ecosystem together

Answer 28

Food web

Question 29

Each step in a food chain or food web

Answer 29

Tropic level

Question 30

Total amount of living tissue within a given tropic level

Answer 30

Biomass

Question 31

Process by which water changes from liquid form to atmospheric gas

Answer 31

Evaporation

Question 32

The chemical substance that an organism needs to sustain life

Answer 32

Nutrients

Question 33

When bacteria, which live in the soil on the roots of plants called legumes, convert nitrogen gas into ammonia

Answer 33

Nitrogen fixation

Question 34

When other soil bacteria converts nitrates into nitrogen gas.

Answer 34

Denitrification

Question 35

Heterotrophs other name

Answer 35

Consumers

Question 36

States that matter is not created of destroyed

Answer 36

Law of conservation of mass

Question 37

The orderly and predictable change that takes place after a community or organisms has been removed but the soil has remained intact

Answer 37

Secondary succession | Ex: forest fire, flood, storm

Question 38

the living factors in an organisms environment

Answer 38

Biotic factors

Question 39

The no living factor in an organisms environment

Answer 39

Abiotic factors

Question 40

Occurs when more than one organism uses a resource at the same time

Answer 40

Competition | Ex: drought

Question 41

What is water in the atmosphere called

Answer 41

Water vapor

Question 42

What biome has the most diverse organisms?

Answer 42

Tropical rainforest