Habitats & Interactions Pre-test

A habitat is

• an adaptation to an ecosystem

• interactions between organisms

• an environment that sustains an organism

• a diverse ecosystem

Abiotic environmental factors are non-living factors that include

• water, soil, rock, wind, temperature

• water, soil, bacteria, moss, wind

• water, , soil, prey, rock, bacteria

• soil, rock, wind, ice, fungus

A food web is

• a long food chain

• an interaction between two organisms where both benefit and neither is harmed

• an animal eating another animal

• a diagram showing feeding relationships and energy flow between organisms

When a snake eats a rat, the rat is

• the predator and the snake is the producer

• the first-order the consumer and the snake the producer

• the prey and the snake the predator

• The prey and the snake is the third-order consumer

Animals close to extinction are called

• remnant species

• vulnerable species

• rare species

• endangered species

A herbivore is an animal that

• eats only animals

• eats animals that eat herbs

• eats only plants

• eats plants and animals

Mutualism, commensalism and parasitism are

• Causes of the extinction of species

• biological controls used to contain introduced species

• ways organisms interact with each other

• processes used by plants in photosynthesis

A native species to China is the

• tapir

• koala

• ibex

• northern white-cheeked gibbon

In a sustainable ecosystem

• living things have one source of food.

• living things are not threatened with extinction.

• the needs of living things are not met.

• living things can survive for only short periods of time.

One of the biggest threats to pandas is

• habitat loss

• pollution

• flooding

• poaching