Ecology Quiz Review

Population:

• All the living and nonliving parts of an area

• The same species living in the same area

• All of the species living in an ecosystem

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Community:

• All of the living and nonliving parts of an area

• All of the species living in an ecosystem

• The same species living in the same area

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Ecosystem:

• All the living and nonliving parts of an community

• All of the species living in an area

• The same species living in the same area

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Symbiosis:

• Balance

• Interaction between two species living in the same area

• All the living and nonliving parts of a community

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Mutualism:

• Both species benefit

• One species benefits and one is harmed

• Both species are harmed

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Parasitism:

• Both species benefit

• One species benefits and one is harmed

• One species benefits and one is not affected

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Commensalism:

• Both species benefit

• One species in harmed and one is not affected

• One species benefits and one is not affected

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Scavenger:

• An organism that eats dead things

• A bird that preys on other animals

• A producer

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Decomposer:

• Plants and fungi

• An organism that breaks down dead things

• A carnivore

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In a food web, what do the arrows show?

• Predators

• Where energy is flowing

• Producers

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