Ecology Vocab Quiz

Organism that feeds on both producers and consumers.

• Carnivore

• Consumer

• Omnivore

• Producer

Non-living things such as sunlight, water, wind and soil.

• Abiotic

• Biotic

• Dead

• Living

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The position an organism occupies in a food chain or pyramid.

• Biotic

• Population

• Ecosystem

• Trophic Level

A ​ (a)   is the roll an organism plays in its ecosystem.

• niche
• symbiosis
• limiting factor
• biotic
• pioneer species

Match the following:

• Relationship between 2 organisms where one species benefits and the other is not affected

• Mutualism

• Relationship between 2 organisms where one species benefits and the other is harmed (not killed)

• Parasitism

• A relationship in which one organism consumes another for food

• Symbiosis

• Relationship between 2 organisms where both species benefit

• Commensalism

• Interaction between 2 different organisms living in close physical association

• Predator-Prey

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A ___________________ is a factor present in an environment that controls a process, particularly the growth, abundance, or distribution of a population of organisms in an ecosystem.

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​ (a)   is a process in which free nitrogen in the atmosphere is converted into ammonium. Conversion of unusable nitrogen into usable nitrogen.

• Nitrogen fixation
• Primary succession
• Secondary succession
• Carrying capacity
• Trophic level

Click on the apex predator. Also, click on the level with the most available energy.

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More than one of one species in an area.

• population

• community

• ecosystem

• organism

All the different populations living together in a specific area/region at a certain time.

• population

• community

• ecosystem

• biome