Understanding Ecological Interactions

This quiz contains various questions related to ecological interactions. Different type of various multiple-choice questions are added in the quiz in such a way that the student will get to learn the topic efficiently.

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An organism that needs to eat other organisms to obtain energy is known as a:

Autotroph

Producer

Consumer

Mutualist

 An organism that uses sunlight to create its own food is known as a:

Producer

Heterotroph

Consumer

Decomposer

What does a food chain represent?

A single path of energy transfer within a habitat.

How all living organisms within a habitat are connected.

All of the things that a particular animal eats.

How plants create their own food.

The largest group of organisms found in a food web would be:

Primary Consumers

Producers

Decomposers

Tertiary Consumers

A botanist discovers a new plant in the jungle. Which of the
following observations of the plant’s characteristics would be useful in determining its identity with a dichotomous key?

It is wet from a recent rain storm.

Its leaves curl up on the edges.

It is eaten by native jungle ants.

It was discovered in the summertime

What islands did Darwin do most of his research on?

Galapagos Islands

Hawaiian Islands

Indonesia Archipelagos

Malta Islands

What would happen to the rabbit population if the fox population moved out of the area represented by the food web?

The rabbit population would decrease

The rabbit population would increase

The rabbit population would neither increase nor decrease

An organism that lives by breaking apart dead organic matter into simpler parts is-

carnivore

decomposer

scavenger

consumer

Quiz/Test Summary
Title: Understanding Ecological Interactions
Questions: 8
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