Ecology Review

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What do you call organisms that feed on both living producers and other consumers?

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Omnivores

Front

What type of symbiotic relationship is exemplified by honey guide birds and badgers?

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Mutualism

Front

What is the original source of almost all energy in most ecosystems?

Back

Sunlight

Front

How would you best describe a population in ecology?

Back

Members of the same species living in the same place at the same time.

Front

What type of growth model is characterized by a rapid increase in population size?

Back

Exponential growth model.

Front

What is the term for organisms that only eat plants?

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Herbivores

Front

What is the term for organisms that only eat other animals?

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Carnivores

Front

What type of ecological relationship benefits one species without affecting the other?

Back

Commensalism.

Front

What is the term for the maximum population size that an environment can sustain?

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Carrying capacity.

Front

What is the process by which plants convert sunlight into energy?

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Photosynthesis.