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