Interactions in our Ecosystem - Quiz 7C

Any special characteristics or skills that help living things survive in their environments are called ____________.

• adaptations
• instincts
• habitats
• traits

Food, water, protection from consumers, and shelter are four basic _________ of all living things.

• wants
• desires
• preferences
• needs

A special partnership in which two species interact with each other over a long period of time is called ___________.

• parasitism
• mutualism
• commensalism
• symbiosis

Any organism that lives on or in another organism and takes food from the organism is called a ___________.

• commensal
• parasite
• symbiont
• predator

The plant or animal that a parasite lives on or in is called its __________.

• predator
• symbiont
• parasite
• host

Movement of a whole group of animals from one ecosystem to another ecosystem is called ________.

• migration pattern
• hibernation
• dispersal
• migration

God-given basic knowledge and skills that an animal needs for survival.

• Instinct

• Learned Behavior

Migration and Hibernation

• Instinct

• Learned Behavior

Behaviors that cannot be inherited

• Instinct

• Learned Behavior

An example of a dolphin jumping through a hoop.

• Instinct

• Learned Behavior