Ecology Quiz

What is a population?

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

• a community of different species and their environment

• One individual member of a species

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Which is an example of an ecosystem?

• one elk

• An area of cold climate and communities of different species

• a group of elks living together in the same area

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

Which definition best fits the term BIOTIC?

• Factors in the environment that are considered not alive

• The study of the interactions between animals and their environment

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

One species benefits, the other is unaffected

• commensalism

• symbiosis

• parasitism

• mutualism

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.

• parasitism

• mutualism

• symbiosis

• commensalism

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Tapeworms reside in human intestine and take nutrients from the human

• symbiosis

• parasitism

• commensalism

• mutualism

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

• Parasitism

• Competition

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

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

• Decomposer

• Predator

• Producer

• Autotroph

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

• Biome

• Niche

• Habitat

• Population

The arrows in a food chain or web represents what?

• They point to the organism that is being eaten.

• They represent how water is transferred within a habitat.

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

• It shows how sunlight flows within an ecosystem.

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