ecology

Which definition best fits the term BIOTIC?

• The study of the interactions between animals and their environment

• Factors in the environment that are considered not alive

• Factors in the environment that are considered living or the remains of living things

One species benefits, the other is unaffected

• symbiosis

• parasitism

• mutualism

• commensalism

Honey guide birds alert and direct badgers to bee hives. The badgers then expose the hives and feed on the honey first. Then, the honey guide birds eat as well.

• symbiosis

• parasitism

• mutualism

• commensalism

Tapeworms reside in human intestine and take nutrients from the human

• symbiosis

• parasitism

• mutualism

• commensalism

Vines grow on a tree. The vines get light but the tree is not affected. What kind of relationship is this?

• Competition

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

The ecological role an organism performs in their specific environment is considered the organism's...

• Habitat

• Population

• Biome

• Niche

The arrows in a food chain or web represents what?

• They point to the organism that is being eaten.

• It shows how sunlight flows within an ecosystem.

• They show what direction the energy is flowing between organisms. 

• They represent how water is transferred within a habitat.

The fox in this food web would be considered a:

• Tertiary Consumer
• Producer
• Secondary Consumer
• Primary Consumer

The populations of which organisms will most likely increase as a result of a disease that suddenly reduced the population of Texas horned lizards?

• Grasses and ants

• Ants and grasshoppers

• Grasshoppers and Texas Cottonmouths

• Texas cottonmouths and red shouldered hawks

What are plants called in a food chain?

• Producers /Autotrophs

• Consumers /Heterotrophs

• Decomposers

• Scavengers