MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
Four possible answers are given for the following questions.
Tick (V) the correct answer.
(1) The term ecology comes from the Greek words Oikos, meaning.
(a) Fossils (b) Internal structure
(c) Macroscopic tissues (d) The family household
(2) The major unit of ecology is the.
(a) Ecosystem (b) Population (c) Community (d) Biome
(3) They consist of animals, plants, fungi, microorganisms.
(a) Abiotic components (b) Physical components
(c) Biotic components (d) Ecological factors
(4) Major types of ecosystems, those that occupy broad geographical regions are
called.
(a) Biomes (b) Marine ecosystem (c) Population (d) Community
(5) It is characterized by a uniform life and form of vegetation such as grass or
coniferous trees,
(a) Ecosystem (b) Biome (c) Individual (d) Population
(6) is a thin layer of earth in which all living organisms exist.
(a) Ecosystem (b) Biome (c) Air (d) Biosphere
(7) The actual location of place where an organism lives is called its.
(a) Environment (b) Niche (c) Habitat (d) Kingdom
(8) is defined as the ultimate distributional unit within which a species is
restrained by the limitations of its physical structure and its physiology.
(a) Niche (b) Habitat (c) Zone (d) Symbiosis
(9) Ecological niche with habitat also specifies how the organism gets its supply
of.
(a) Biomass and structure (b) Weight and biomass
(c) Energy and materials (d) Structure and components
(10) A niche is defined as the role plays in a community including
behavior and influence.
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(a) A population (b) An individual (c) A species (d) A biome
(11) When you are studying a single population's relationship to its environment
it will be called as.
(a) Gynecology (b) Autecology (c) Marine ecology (d) Histology
(12) Growth responses of individual plants to their environment are.
(a) Simple factor (b) Independent factor
(c) Negligible factor (d) Complex factor
(13) The study of the relationship of different communities to their environment
is called.
(a) Autecology (b) Embryology
(c) Community ecology (d) Morphology
(14) Biosphere is spread out over the surface of the planet earth extending about.
(a) 8-10 kilometers (b) 1-15 kilometers
(e) 100-115 kilometers (d) 30-70 kilometers
(15) Litho refers to.
(a) Water (b) Soil (c) Pollutants (d) Plants
(16) Producers are the.
(a) Fungi (b) Green photosynthetic plants
(c) Animals (d) Protists
(17) The combination of many food chains is a.
(a) Food web (b) Habitat (c) Biome (d) Energy pyramid
(18) All the food chains and food webs begin with a green plant.
(a) Consumer (b) Producer (c) Decomposer (d) None
(19) In a________you will find more complex trophic levels or food links.
(a) Food chain (b) Biomass pyramid (e) Food web (d) All
(20) The variety of pathways in a food web helps to maintain the stability of the.
(a) Biome (b) Community (c) Population (d) Ecosystem
(21) is a sequence of in the community structure of an ecosystem over a period
of time.
(a) Succession (b) Evolution
(c) Phyletic lineage (d) Biogeochemical cycle