Ecological Interactions Quiz Review

What level of ecological organization does this entire picture represent?

• Organism

• Population

• Community

• Ecosystem

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What level of ecological organization does the bird represent?

• Organism

• Population

• Community

• Ecosystem

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Rabbits and sheep both graze on shrubs, grasses, and other plants. The increase in the population of rabbits in a region may result in a shortage of plants for sheep to graze upon. After the increase of rabbits the relationship between sheep and rabbits will be __________.

• Competition

• Predation

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

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An interaction among species where one organism hunts, kills, and eats another organism.

• Predation
• Cooperation
• Mutualism
• Parasitism

Sloths and monkeys share the same tropical habitat. Deforestation is occurring, limiting the space for these two species. What will now occur between the two species?

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

• Cooperation

• Competition

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An interaction between organisms or species that is helpful to both.

• Dependent interaction

• Predatory interaction

• Mutually beneficial interaction

• Competitive interaction

When predator numbers decrease, prey numbers ____________ because fewer of them are being consumed.

• decrease
• increase
• stay the same
• divide in half

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Clownfish are tiny, omnivorous fish that find shelter from predators in the poisonous tentacles of sea anemones. The sea anemones sting their prey to capture food, but the clownfish are not hurt by the stinging tentacles. The clownfish clean the tentacles of the sea anemone and scare off butterfly fish, which consume sea anemones.

• competitive

• harmful

• predatory

• beneficial

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_____ consist of all the biotic and abiotic things in an area.

• Biosphere

• Ecosystem

• Community

• Population

_________ is a group of organisms of the same species.

• Ecosystem

• Community

• Population

• Predation