Unit 3 Ecology Post Test Review

Earth's surrounding atmosphere is part of its

• Biosphere

• Food Chains

• Niche

• Population

The organisms living in an area and the nonliving features of that environment form.

(a)  

• An ecosystem
• Competition
• Symbiotic Relationships
• Its limiting Factors

Which of these organisms is a producer?

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Your sick puppy is diagnosed with roundworms. What type of symbiotic relationship do the puppy and the roundworms have?

• Cooperative

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

A sea anemone makes an ideal home for a clownfish. Its poisonous tentacles provide protection from predators and a clownfish makes its meals from the anemone's leftovers. What type of symbiotic relationship do the clownfish and the sea anemone have?

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

• Consumerism

Consumers that capture and eat other consumers are __________.

• Prey

• Predator

• Herbivore

• Producer

Which of the following is not a cause for loss of biodiversity?

• monitoring and conserving wildlife species and their habitat

• Destruction of habitat

• Introducing invasive species

• Hunting

In the food web, if the population of grasshoppers increased, what would be a result?

• The population of rabbits would decrease 

• The population of mice would increase

• The population of lizards would decrease

• The population of deer would decrease

A drought condition affects an area. Lack of rain is ___ of that areas’s organisms.

• An adaptation

• A limiting factor

• The Community

• The carrying capacity

All the orange fish living in a specific region of an ocean ecosystem make up a ___.

• Carrying Capacity

• Population

• Food Chain

• Community