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        1. What do decomposers do?
 a. eat producers
 b. eat consumers
 c. make food
 d. break down dead organisms   Answer... D?
 
 
 2. Which of the following do organisms compete for?
 
 a. niches
 b. trophic levels
 c. resources
 d. consumers     answer... C?
 
 
 3. Which of the following is released into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels?
 
 a. carbon dioxide
 b. oxygen
 c. phosphorus         Answer... A?
 d. calcium
 
 
 4. A __________ is an organism that captures and eats another organism.
 
 a. decomposer
 b. producer
 c. prey
 d. predator       Anbswer... D?
 
 
 5. Which of the following is not an intermediate step in the cycling of nitrogen?
 
 a. amino acids
 b. nitrites
 c. lightning
 d. ammonia      Answer... C?
 
 
 6. Abiotic factors are __________ in the environment.
 
 a. living factors
 b. plants
 c. nonliving factors       answer... C?
 d. animals
 
 
 7. What is a population?
 
 a. a community of organisms in an ecosystem
 b. a group of the same species living in an area
 c. the place where organisms live                             answer... A?
 d. the role organisms play in their environment
 
 
 8. The process by which plants make food is called
 
 a. transpiration
 b. respiration
 c. commensalism           answer... D?
 d. photosynthesis
 
 
 9. What is considered a successful parasite?
 
 a. one that benefits its host
 b. one that does not kill its host
 c. one that has no effect on its host
 d. one that does kill its host            answer... D?
 
 
 10. Which of the following organisms eats both plants and animals?
 
 a. carnivore
 b. herbivore
 c. insectivore
 d. omnivore      answer... B?
 
 
 11. On a trophic pyramid, what level do secondary consumers belong?
 
 a. first
 b. second
 c. third          answer... C?
 d. fourth
 
 
 12. Populations of maple trees, wood frogs, and morel mushrooms might compose a
 
 a. community
 b. niche     answer... C?
 c. habitat
 d. trophic
 
 
 13. What is symbiosis?
 
 a. a relationship between species
 b. the number of species in a community
 c. the amount of food available to an organism
 d. the cycling of nutrients within an ecosystem    Honestly don't know
 
 
 14. What is ecology?
 
 a. the study of living things
 b. the study of relationships between living things and environment
 c. the study of animals
 d. the study of plants         answer... B?
 
 
 15. On what cycle do all the other cycles depend?
 
 a. carbon
 b. water
 c. phosphorus
 d. nitrogen               answer... B?
 
 
 16. Which of the following is a category of symbiosis?
 
 a. mutualism
 b. commensalism      answer... D?
 c. parasitism
 d. all of the above
 
 
 17. The portion of Earth that contains everything necessary to sustain life is called the
 
 a. biosphere
 b. atmosphere
 c. hydrosphere            answer... B?
 d. lithosphere
 
 
 18. Which of the following is not a place where pioneer species begin growing?
 
 a. land beneath melted glacier
 b. new volcanic islands                   answer... B?
 c. newly exposed coral reef
 d. burned out forest
 
 19. Primary succession occurs on
 
 a. burned out forests
 b. logged forests
 c. volcanic land                answer... C?
 d. plowed fields
 
 
 20. In 1989, there was a large forest fire in Yellowstone National Park. What is now happening in the park?
 
 a. primary succession
 b. pioneer species
 c. climax community             answer... D?
 d. secondary succession
 
 
 21. The final stage of succession is called
 
 a. primary community
 b. secondary community
 c. climax community            answer... B?
 d. biotic community
 
 
 22. An area's return to a stable condition after being disturbed is called
 
 a. primary succession
 b. secondary succession    answer... A?
 c. limiting factors
 d. abiotic factors
 
 
 23. The scientific name for rain falling to the Earth is called
 
 a. evaporation
 b. precipitation
 c. condensation
 d. succession           answer... B?
 
 
 
 24. What is the primary source of all energy on planet Earth?
 
 a. producers
 b. nuclear
 c. sun                  answer... B?
 d. volcanoes
 
 
 25. Another name for a primary consumer could be a(n)
 
 a. producer
 b. omnivore
 c. herbivore
 d. decomposer           answer,, A?
 
 
 26. The lawn of a golf course is an example of a(n)
 
 a. producer
 b. primary consumer
 c. herbivore
 d. abiotic factor           answer... B?
 
 
 27. A teacher sitting at her desk could be considered an example of a(n)
 
 a. producer
 b. consumer
 c. decomposer      Answer... A?
 d. autotroph
 
 
 28. Green plants produce their own food through the process of
 
 a. respiration
 b. photosynthesis
 c. decomposition    Answer... B?
 d. fixation
 
 
 29. A primary consumer would obtain food by eating a(n)
 
 a. producer
 b. herbivore
 c. carnivore          answer... A?
 d. omnivore
 
 
 30. An organism's role in its environment is called its
 
 a. habitat
 b. ecosystem
 c. niche                             Answer... A?
 d. food chain
 
 
 31. A slug eating the leaves of your mother's prize winning roses is an example of a
 
 a. parasitic relationship
 b. predator hunting its prey                        answer... D?
 c. decomposer recycling nutrients
 d. consumer feeding on a producer
 
 
 32. If all of the herbivores in a forest suddenly died, which group of organisms would most likely be the next group to die?
 
 a. carnivores                        Answer... B?
 b. producers
 c. omnivores
 d. decomposer
 
 If you opened the last thing I had posted I put the answers that I thought   I would appreciate if someone would go through and make corrections
 
 Thanks
 
 Sarah
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