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Ecology
All questions and answers from this set. Test your ecology knowledge. In this quiz you can find questions about ecosystems, niches, predators and prey etc.
Questions: 15
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Question 1
A type of wetland featuring grasses, reeds and other plants in shallow water.
Marsh
Question 2
All living and nonliving parts of an environment found in a specific location.
ecosystem
Question 3
The combined portions of Earth in which all living things exist is called the
biosphere
Question 4
Match biotic and abiotic factors.
biotic factor
grass
abiotic factor
air
Question 5
The non-living aspects of an Ecosystem are
abiotic factors
Question 6
The original source of almost all energy in most ecosystems is
sunlight
Question 7
Permanently frozen subsoil found in the tundra is called:
permafrost
Question 8
A hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.
foodchain
Question 9
Ffit of a species living under specific environmental conditions is called:
niche
Question 10
Large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat is:
biome
Question 11
Green plants are ( mostly)
producers
Question 12
The rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle is
litosphere
Question 13
A mixed woodland grassland ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close is:
savannah
Question 14
Which organism in this food chain would be considered a secondary consumer?
small fish
Question 15
Which organism in this food chain would be considered an apex predator?
grey wolf