Ecology is____________?

A. The science that studies the evolution of life,
B. Integrates both social and natural sciences to help us understand how the earth works,
C. The study of the relationships between organisms and their environment
D. The study of the environment in the absence of humans

A food web is____________?

A. Like a food chain
B. A set of interconnected food chains, illustrating the tropic relationships among species
C. The set of prey species that are consumed by animals in an ecosystem
D. The tropic (feeding) levels that can be observed in an ecosystem

Which of the following is false ?

A. Quantity of biomass in a trophic level at a particular period is called as standing crop
B. The energy content in a trophic level is determined is determined by considering a few individuals of a species in that trophic level.
C. The succession that occurs in newly cooled lava is called primary succession
D. Rate of succession is faster in secondary succession
E. Phytoplanktons are the pioneers in the aquatic ecosystem