Ecosystems Interactions

An animal that eats another animal is called...

• Prey

• Organism

• Predator

• Mammal

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An animal that gets eaten by another animal is called...

• Mammal

• Organism

• Predator

• Prey

This occurs when organisms in a community fight for the same limited resource.

• Commensalism

• Competition

• Mutualism

• Symbiosis

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The lavender plant serves an important role in the life cycle of the monarch butterfly. Adult monarchs lay their eggs in the lavender plant, and then the monarch caterpillars eat that same plant during their development.

Based on the relationship between monarchs and lavender, what is one reasonable prediction a scientist could make?

• If the lavender population goes down, the monarch population will do down.

• Population of monarch butterflies should remain constant when lavender population decreases.

• A decrease in the lavender population would cause a monarch butterfly population increase.

• If the population of lavender remains constant (the same), the monarch butterfly population increases.

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The following picture is an example of...

• population
• community
• microorganism
• predator

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Ava decides to spend the weekend observing the squirrels in the neighborhood. As she watches them, she takes photos and makes notes about their activities. The drawing shows one of the activities she observes. Ava observes the squirrels in many types of interactions. Which of the following is an interaction with an abiotic factor of the environment?

• Catching beetles on the lawn
• Drinking water from a stream
• Burying acorns by an oak tree
• Running from a neighbor's cat

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An organism, such as a plant that makes its own food.

• biotic factor

• abiotic factor

• terrestrial

• producer

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an organism that breaks down wastes and the remains of other organisms into simpler substances

• food chain

• decomposer

• consumer

• aquatic

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the path that energy takes from one organism to another in the form of food.

• food chain

• decomposer

• consumer

• aquatic

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the food chains that overlap in an ecosystem

• food chain

• decomposer

• food web

• aquatic

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