Biology 3C Quiz

These organisms are critical in breaking down large dead biomass like carcasses to keep the environment clean and reduce the spread of disease.

• Apex predators

• Decomposers

• Primary consumers

• Scavengers

This is a relationship where one organism benefits while the other has detrimental maybe even lethal effects (-/+)

• Amensalism

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

This is a relationship where one organism is affected negatively while the other is not affected at all (-/0)

• Amensalism

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Neutralism

These organisms are essential to breaking down minute biomass

and returning nutrients back to the soil.

• Apex Predator

• Decomposers

• Producers

• Scavengers

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The name given to all the relationships between two organisms in an ecosystem.

• Partnership

• Participation

• Symbiosis

• Assistance

This is the relationship when two organisms share the same habitat

without directly affecting each other

• Amensalism

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Neutralism

An organism that can produce its own food from light or chemical energy

• Apex Predator

• Primary Consumer

• Producer

• Tertiary Consumer

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This symbiotic relationship is characterized by a mutual benefit to both organisms (+/+)

• Amensalism

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Neutralism

This symbiotic relationship is characterized by one organism benefiting while the other organism is unaffected (+/0)

• Amensalism

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Neutralism

Autotrophic means

• Non-nourishing

• Other-nourishing

• Self-nourishing