Ecology Quiz

Q 1: What do we call the process of taking in

Oxygen and Glucose to make energy?

A: Respiration
Q 2: What is the source for all
energy in our solar system?

A: The Sun
Q 3: Which form of energy do plants
make as a result of Photosynthesis?

A: Chemical
Q 4: All energy from the sun arrives
as what two forms?

A: Heat and Light

Q 5: What chemicals are formed
through the process of
Photosynthesis?

A: Glucose & Oxygen

Q 6: Why do we call the producers;
producers?

A: They produce
their own food
Q 7: Which level of organisms
recycles waste back into the
ecosystem?

A: Decomposers
Q 8: Why did the Stromatolites die
off?

A: There was nothing to recycle

the Oxygen they created
Q 9: What do the arrows in a food
web represent?

A: Where the
energy goes
Q 10: Humans exhale what
important chemical?

A: CO2
Q 11: Why are vegetarians NOT
primary consumers?

A: They only eat

plants by choice!
Q 12: What do we call the non-living
things in an ecosystem?

A: Abiotic
Factors
Q 13: Which level
A: Secondary
ofConsumers
ecosystems
needs the most
energy to live?
Q
A:14: WhatSpace,
Living do all
Energy (food),
organisms
water,
compete for?
reproduction,
etc
 Q 15: How would
A: Likely, the
an Elk population
Elk population
respond to the loss
would increase
of Wolves in the
ecosystem?
 Q 16: Which type
of relationship
A: Mutualism
would a doctor
fish & a shark be?
 Q 17: Which type of
relationship involves
one organism
A:
Commensalism
receiving a positive
benefit, while the
other isnt helped or
harmed?
Q 18: If the population
A: The wolf
of rabbits inwould
population an
ecosystem
likely drop dropped,
as
wellunless
what would you they
found
expect theanother
population
food source
of wolves to do?
Q 19: What are the
products of the
A: CO2 + H2O
Respiration
Reaction?
 Q 20: A Tic that has
burrowed its way into
A: Parasitism
a persons skin would
be which type of
relationship?
Q 21: Predators
hunt what?

A: Prey
 A: Nothing can
Q 22: Why
survive in are
its
own waste.
decomposers so
They recycle
important
the to
ecosystems
dead/waste ?
Q 23: Which level
of ecosystems
A: Producers
performs
Photosynthesis?
Q 24: What are the
products of the
A: Glucose &
Oxygen
Photosynthesis
reaction?