Flashcards
Ecology
Flashcards for quick repetition. Test your ecology knowledge. In this quiz you can find questions about ecosystems, niches, predators and prey etc.
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A type of wetland featuring grasses, reeds and other plants in shallow water.
All living and nonliving parts of an environment found in a specific location.
habitat
ecosystem
biome
population
The combined portions of Earth in which all living things exist is called the
hydrosphere
biome
biosphere
ecosystem
Match biotic and abiotic factors.
The non-living aspects of an Ecosystem are
biotic factors
abiotic factors
The original source of almost all energy in most ecosystems is
water
nitrogen
sunlight
carbon dioxide
Permanently frozen subsoil found in the tundra is called:
mantle
fauna
taiga
permafrost
A hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.
evolution
predator
foodchain
prey
Ffit of a species living under specific environmental conditions is called:
niche
ecosystem
enviroment
biome
Large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat is:
biosphere
ecosystem
biome
niche
Green plants are ( mostly)
carnivores
herbivores
omnivores
producers
The rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle is
biosphere
hydrosphere
litosphere
geosphere
A mixed woodland grassland ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close is:
tundra
savannah
taiga
estuary
Which organism in this food chain would be considered a secondary consumer?
octopus
zooplankton
small fish
shark
Which organism in this food chain would be considered an apex predator?
grey wolf
rabbit
beetle
grass
