MCQ Questions
Q.1.
The cycle in which nitrogen gas is changed into forms of nitrogen that plants can use
  • 50%
    Food Chain
  • 50%
    Nitrogen Cycle
  • 0%
    Phosphorus Cycle
  • 0%
    Carbon Cycle
Q.2.
The entire range of resource opportunities an organism is potentially able to occupy within an ecostystem
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    Fundamental Niche
  • 0%
    Potential Niche
  • 0%
    Carrying Capacity
  • 100%
    Generation Time
Q.3.
Places where animals or plants naturally live and grow
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    Abiotic Factors
  • 0%
    Communities
  • 0%
    Habitats
  • 100%
    Ecosystems
Q.4.
A stable, mature community that undergoes little or no change in species over time.
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    Climax Community
  • 0%
    Ecological Succession
  • 100%
    Pioneer Species
  • 0%
    Primary Succession
Q.5.
Any living thing
  • 0%
    Communities
  • 0%
    Organisms
  • 0%
    Ecosystems
  • 0%
    Species
Q.6.
The relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent
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    Mutualism
  • 0%
    Parasitism
  • 0%
    Symbiosis
  • 0%
    Commensalism
Q.7.
Rate at which a specices can increase population
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    Reproductive Potential
  • 0%
    Exponential Growth
  • 0%
    Generation Time
  • 0%
    Carrying Capacity
Q.8.
Living things in an ecosystem
  • 0%
    Photosynthesis
  • 0%
    Population
  • 0%
    Biotic Factors
  • 0%
    Ecosystems
Q.9.
Taxonomic group whose members can interbreed
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    Species
  • 0%
    Population
  • 0%
    Communities
  • 0%
    Ecosystems
Q.10.
A close relationship; one species benefits, the other is harmed
  • 0%
    Parasitism
  • 0%
    Competition
  • 0%
    Mutualism
  • 0%
    Commensalism
Q.11.
Trees lose their leaves in fall and regrow in spring
  • 0%
    Temperate Deciduous Forest
  • 0%
    Tundra
  • 0%
    Taiga
  • 0%
    Desert
Q.12.
A group of organisms of the same species populating a given area
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    Population
  • 0%
    Carrying Capacity
  • 0%
    Food Web
  • 0%
    Species
Q.13.
Niche where an organism is actually able to live
  • 0%
    Carrying Capacity
  • 0%
    Competition
  • 0%
    Fundamental Niche
  • 0%
    Commensalism
Q.14.
A short supply of resources restricting the growth of a population
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    Trophic Level
  • 0%
    Commensalism
  • 0%
    Mutualism
  • 0%
    Limiting Resource
Q.15.
Groups of organisms at progressive levels
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    Climax community
  • 0%
    Species
  • 0%
    Levels of ecological organization
  • 0%
    Population
Q.16.
The series of changes that occur in an area where no ecosystem previously existed
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    Primary Succession
  • 0%
    Mutualism
  • 0%
    Climax Community
  • 100%
    Pioneer Species
Q.17.
Permanently frozen layer of soil under the surface
  • 0%
    Desert
  • 0%
    Permafrost
  • 0%
    Tundra
  • 0%
    Taiga
Q.18.
The process by which phosphorus is recycled in the ecosystem
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    Photosynthesis
  • 0%
    Carbon Cycle
  • 0%
    Nitrogen Cycle
  • 0%
    Phosphorus Cycle
Q.19.
A series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten User-
  • 0%
    Population
  • 0%
    Food Chain
  • 0%
    Trophic Level
  • 0%
    Food Web
Q.20.
A forested biome dominated by coniferous trees
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    Taiga
  • 0%
    Tundra
  • 0%
    Desert
  • 0%
    Temperate Deciduous Forest
Q.21.
The organic circulation of carbon from the atmosphere into organisms and back again
  • 0%
    Carbon Cycle
  • 0%
    Food Web
  • 0%
    Phosphorus Cycle
  • 0%
    Nitrogen Cycle
Q.22.
Rate of increase or decrease of a population
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    Population
  • 0%
    Generation Time
  • 0%
    Carrying Capacity
  • 0%
    Growth Rate
Q.23.
Cold and largely treeless across northern North America
  • 0%
    Taiga
  • 0%
    Tundra
  • 0%
    Temperate Deciduous Forest
  • 0%
    Desert
Q.24.
Different populations that live together in a defined area
  • 0%
    Species
  • 0%
    Ecosystems
  • 0%
    Communities
  • 0%
    Habitats
Q.25.
A close relationship; both species benefit
  • 0%
    Competition
  • 0%
    Mutualism
  • 0%
    Commensalism
  • 0%
    Parasitism
Q.26.
Distinct seasons and moderate climate
  • 0%
    Temperate Forest
  • 0%
    Tundra
  • 0%
    Desert
  • 0%
    Taiga
Q.27.
Interaction in which two or more species use the same limited resource
  • 0%
    Parasitism
  • 0%
    Commensalism
  • 0%
    Mutualism
  • 0%
    Competition
Q.28.
Shows how food chains are related within an ecosystem
  • 0%
    Trophic Level
  • 0%
    Population
  • 0%
    Food Web
  • 0%
    Food Chain
Q.29.
Rainfall less than 9.9 inches per year
  • 0%
    Taiga
  • 0%
    Desert
  • 0%
    Tundra
  • 0%
    Temperate Forest
Q.30.
A close relationship; one species benefits, the other doesn't benefit but isn't harmed
  • 0%
    Mutualism
  • 0%
    Commensalism
  • 0%
    Competition
  • 0%
    Parasitism
Q.31.
The first species to live in an area of primary succession
  • 0%
    Climax Community
  • 0%
    Primary Succession
  • 0%
    Invasive Species
  • 0%
    Pioneer Species