Chapter 4: Ecology Revision Questions

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Ecology revision questions
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Questão 1

Questão
Ecology:
Responda
  • is the place where a plant or animal lives
  • is the study of the interactions between organisms and between organisms and their environment
  • is all the members of the same species living in the habitat
  • is that part of the planet in which living organisms can be found

Questão 2

Questão
An ecosystem:
Responda
  • is the study of the interactions between organisms and between organisms and their environment
  • is that part of the planet in which living organisms can be found
  • is the place where a plant or animal lives
  • is a group of clearly distinguished organisms that interact with their environment as a unit

Questão 3

Questão
The biosphere:
Responda
  • is that part of the planet in which living organisms can be found
  • is the place where a plant or animal lives
  • is all the members of the same species living in the habitat
  • is the study of the interactions between organisms and between organisms and their environment

Questão 4

Questão
A habitat:
Responda
  • is the study of the interactions between organisms and between organisms and their environment
  • is all the different populations of species living in the habitat
  • is the place where a plant or animal lives
  • is that part of the planet in which living organisms can be found

Questão 5

Questão
A population:
Responda
  • is the study of the interactions between organisms and between organisms and their environment
  • is all the members of the same species living in the habitat
  • is all the different populations of species living in the habitat
  • is a group of clearly distinguished organisms that interact with their environment as a unit

Questão 6

Questão
A community:
Responda
  • is all the different populations of species living in the habitat
  • is all the members of the same species living in the habitat
  • is the study of the interactions between organisms and between organisms and their environment
  • is that part of the planet in which living organisms can be found

Questão 7

Questão
What type of factors are abiotic factors?
Responda
  • Living
  • Non-living
  • Disease-causing
  • Healthy

Questão 8

Questão
What type of factors are biotic factors?
Responda
  • Living
  • Non-living
  • Disease-causing
  • Healthy

Questão 9

Questão
Edaphic factors have to do with the:
Responda
  • Water
  • Weather
  • Air
  • Soil

Questão 10

Questão
What is a 'producer'?
Responda
  • An organism that gets its food from other living organisms
  • An organism that makes its own food
  • An organism that does not need food
  • An organism that can both make its own food and get food from other living organisms

Questão 11

Questão
Consumers are:
Responda
  • organisms that do not require food
  • organisms that make their own food
  • organisms that kill other organisms
  • organisms that obtain their food from other organisms

Questão 12

Questão
A grazing food chain is a:
Responda
  • sequence of organisms in which each one is eaten by the next member in the chain
  • sequence of organisms that live in the same habitat
  • sequence of organisms in which the last organism eats all the others
  • sequence of organisms in which the first organism eats the others

Questão 13

Questão
[blank_start]Grass[blank_end] →Rabbit → Fox
Responda
  • Grass
  • Ash tree
  • Horse Chestnut tree
  • Bamboo

Questão 14

Questão
A pyramid of numbers
Responda
  • represents the number of organisms in each food chain
  • represents the number of organisms at each stage in a food chain
  • represents the number of stages in a food chain
  • represents the number of food chains in an ecosystem

Questão 15

Questão
A food web
Responda
  • consists of a population of organisms living in a habitat
  • consists of a number of different species living in the same habitat
  • consists of two or more interlinked food chains
  • consists of two or more separate food chains

Questão 16

Questão
A niche is
Responda
  • the functional role an organism plays in a particular habitat
  • the way an organism feeds in its habitat
  • an organism's food supply
  • an organism's offspring

Questão 17

Questão
In the carbon cycle elemental carbon in carbon dioxide enters living organisms through the process of:
Responda
  • Digestion
  • Respiration
  • Protein synthesis
  • Photosynthesis

Questão 18

Questão
In the carbon cycle, elemental carbon in living organisms enters the atmosphere through the process of:
Responda
  • Respiration
  • Protein synthesis
  • Photosynthesis
  • Digestion

Questão 19

Questão
Burning of fossil fuels is a major contributor to the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 20

Questão
In the nitrogen cycle, elemental nitrogen enters living organisms mostly via:
Responda
  • Plants
  • Fungi
  • Bacteria
  • Animals

Questão 21

Questão
In the nitrogen cycle, nitrogen fixation is:
Responda
  • the conversion of nitrates to ammonia
  • the conversion of ammonia to nitrates
  • the conversion of nitrogen gas to nitrates
  • the conversion of nitrates to nitrogen gas

Questão 22

Questão
In the nitrogen cycle, nitrification is:
Responda
  • the conversion of ammonia to nitrates
  • the conversion of nitrates to ammonia
  • the conversion of nitrogen gas to nitrates
  • the conversion of nitrates to nitrogen gas

Questão 23

Questão
Denitrification is:
Responda
  • the conversion of nitrates to nitrogen gas
  • the conversion of nitrogen gas to nitrates
  • the conversion of nitrates to ammonia
  • the conversion of ammonia to nitrates

Questão 24

Questão
Assimilation is an important process in both the carbon and nitrogen cycles. Which of the following statements correctly describes assimilation?
Responda
  • Conversion of plant biomolecules into animal biomolecules
  • Conversion of animal biomolecules into plant biomolecules
  • Conversion of animal remains into humus
  • Conversion of plant remains into fossil fuels

Questão 25

Questão
The carbon and nitrogen cycles are important parts of 'nutrient recycling'. Which of the following statements correctly describes nutrient recycling?
Responda
  • Nutrients are passed from one organism to the next
  • Reuse of elements present in living organisms
  • Nutrients are passed back and forth between two organisms
  • Reuse of food by a particular organism

Questão 26

Questão
Pollution is
Responda
  • the reuse of elements in living organisms
  • any harmful addition to the environment
  • the getting rid of waste products of metabolism
  • the sum of all the chemical reactions in an organism

Questão 27

Questão
Conservation is:
Responda
  • the wise management of our existing natural resources
  • any harmful addition to the environment
  • the reabsorption of water in an organism
  • the management of a living organsism

Questão 28

Questão
Which of the following is NOT a problem associated with waste disposal?
Responda
  • Landfill sites are unsightly
  • Pollution
  • Disease-causing organisms
  • Can be used to produce energy

Questão 29

Questão
Which of the following is NOT one of the 'three Rs' associated with waste minimisation?
Responda
  • Reduce
  • Recycle
  • Restriction
  • Reuse

Questão 30

Questão
Which of the following is NOT an ecological relationship?
Responda
  • Symbiosis
  • Predation
  • Competition
  • Parasitism
  • Pollution

Questão 31

Questão
Competition is
Responda
  • the struggle for a resource
  • the catching, killing, and eating of another organism
  • when one organism lives in or on another organism, called the host, and the host is harmed
  • when two organisms of different species live in close association and at least one of them benefits

Questão 32

Questão
Predation is:
Responda
  • the struggle for a resource
  • the catching, killing and eating of another organism
  • where one organism lives in or on another organism, called the host, and the host is harmed
  • where two organisms of different species live in close association and at least one of them benefits

Questão 33

Questão
Symbiosis is:
Responda
  • where two organisms of different species live in close association and at least one of them benefits
  • where one organism lives in or on another organism, called the host, and the host is harmed
  • the catching, killing and eating of another organism
  • the struggle for a resource

Questão 34

Questão
Parasitism is:
Responda
  • where two organisms of different species live in close association and at least one of them benefits
  • where one organisms lives in or on another organism, called the host, and the host is harmed
  • the catching, killing and eating of another organism
  • the struggle for a resource

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