Ecology Review

What is a population?

• One individual member of a species

• a group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area

• a community of different species and their environment

Which is an example of an ecosystem?

• An area of cold climate and communities of different species

• one elk

• a group of elks living together in the same area

• elks, snow rabbits, and owls living in the same area

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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

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One species benefits, the other is unaffected

• symbiosis

• parasitism

• mutualism

• commensalism

Tapeworms reside in human intestine and take nutrients from the human

• symbiosis

• parasitism

• mutualism

• commensalism

An organism that helps to recycle nutrients within an ecosystem by eating dead or decaying organisms is a:

• Predator

• Autotroph

• Producer

• Decomposer

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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.

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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

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What are plants called in a food chain?

• Producers /Autotrophs

• Consumers /Heterotrophs

• Decomposers

• Scavengers

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