Ecology Review

What type of symbiosis?  Hummingbirds feed on nectar from flowers.  The flowers are pollinated by hummingbirds as they move from flower to flower.

• commensalism
• mutualism
• parasitism
• predation

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Aphids are tiny insects that live on and eat the leaves of plants, removing vital nutrients from the plants.

• Predation

• Parasitism

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

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Barnacles create home sites by attaching themselves to whales. This relationship neither harms nor benefits the whales. 

• parasitism
• commensalism
• mutualism

a relationship that occurs when two or more organims of the same species need the same resource at the same time

• competition
• symbiosis
• predation

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Remoras are small fish that swim close to or attach themselves to sharks.  Remoras eat small scraps left as the sharks feed and the sharks are unaffected. 

• Competition
• Predation
• Mutualism
• Commensalism

Why is it important for an ecosystem to have a balanced number of predators and prey?

• To ensure that all animals have enough food

• To prevent any one species from becoming too dominant

• To make sure plants have enough animals to pollinate them

• To ensure that water sources are not depleted

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DOK Level 3: Strategic Thinking

Match the following:

• Snake

• Apex Predator

• Grasshopper

• Herbivore

• Plant

• Producer/Autotroph

• Bird

• Tertiary Consumer

• Owl

• Secondary Consumer

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A field mouse gains 100Kcal of energy from eating berries; how many of these Kcal will transfer to a fox if it eats the mouse?

Mathematical Equivalence

ON

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A gopher has gained 200 Kcal from eating grass all day. A snake comes along and eats that gopher, gaining a portion of those Kcal. A hawk swoops down and eats the snake; how many Kcal from the grass is transferred to the hawk?

Mathematical Equivalence

ON

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What would happen to the bird if the green fish died out?

• the bird population would grow

• the bird population would die out

• the smaller fish will die out

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