Evolution and Ecology Review

Which are causes of speciation? Choose all that apply

• Isolation caused by mountains, rivers and man-made structures

• preference for different foods

• change in environment

• different mating behaviors

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Which one best describes what a food chain is?

• Energy flowing through the ecosystem

• A chain that shows who eats who

• A chain that shows how life works

• Energy flowing through animal cells

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What is a producer?

• an organism that gets energy from eating other organisms

• an organisms that uses sunlight to make its own food

• an organism that gets energy from eating dead organisms, non-living material or waste

• an organism that uses chemical energy to make its own food

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To adjust to a changing environment

• Mutation

• Adapt

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what organism breaks down waste and recycles it into the ecosystem?

• producers

• teritary consumers

• decomposers

• primary consumers

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Which one is another name for a consumer?

• Homologous

• Sun

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

Change over time...

• Evolution

• Nucleotide 

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this bee is pollinating the flower. this is an example of 

• mutualism

• commensalism

• parasitism

• interspecific competition 

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What is the source of energy that flows through most of the food chains on Earth?

• Plants

• Animals

• The Sun

• Water

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The shark and seal relationship is an example of which species interaction? 

• commensalism

• predation

• parasitism

• mutualism

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