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