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Ecology test
Ecology Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An organism's habitat provides what for the organism to live, grow, and reproduce? | food, water, shelter, and space |
| An ecosystem includes what types of factors? | Biotic and Abiotic |
| Abiotic factors include what? | water, sunlight, oxygen, temperature and soil |
| _______ factors include all living things in an ecosystem. | Biotic |
| Given adequate biotic and abiotic resources, an ______ will maintain equilibrium and continue indefinitely. | ecosystem |
| A _________________________ consists of only one species | population |
| Different populations living together make up a ________________. | community |
| All living and non living things interacting in an area are an ____________________________. | Ecosystem |
| The place where an organism lives and provides the things the organism needs is a _________________________. | Habitat |
| A living part of an organism is a(n) _______________ factor. | Biotic |
| A non- living part of an organism is a(n) _______________ factor. | Abiotic |
| The study of how living things interact with each other and their environments is _______________________. | ecology |
| The number of different species in an ecosystem is its _______________________. | biodiversity |
| Over time, species of organisms develop _______________ and _______________ that help them to succeed in their environments. | adaptations and behaviors |
| The three major types of interactions between organisms are ______________, ____________________, and _____________________. | competition, predation, and symbiosis |
| __________________ is a close relationship between two species. | Symbiosis |
| The three types of symbiotic relationships are _________________, ______________________, and ___________________________. | mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism |
| An organism’s particular role in an ecosystem or how it makes a living is called its ____________________. | Niche |
| The struggle between organisms for the limited resources in a habitat is called ______________________. | Competition |
| An interaction in which one organism hunts another animal for food is called _______________________. | Predation |
| A carnivore that hunts and kills other animals for food and has adaptations that help the animal catch the prey is called a ______________. | Predator |
| An animal which a predator feeds upon is called a _______________. | Prey |
| A close relationship between two organisms in which at least one of the organisms benefits is called _________________________. | Symbiosis |
| A type of symbiosis in which both partners benefit from living together is ________________________. | Mutualism |
| A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed is called ____________________. | Commensalism |
| A relationship in which one organism lives in or on a host and harms it is _________________. | Parasitism |
| An organism that lives in or on a host, causing harm to the host, is called a ________________. | Parasite |
| An organism that provides a source of energy or a suitable environment for another organism to live is a ___________. | Host |
| There are birds that eat the fruits of plants and later deposit the seeds with a little bird manure as fertilizer. The birds get nutrients and the plants get their seeds distributed in the environment. This is an example of ______________. | mutualism |
| A mosquito can take blood from another animal. The mosquito (parasite) may carry a deadly virus and takes blood from the animal (host) and the animal is hurt by the relationship.. This is an example of ________________. | parasitism |
| A bird builds a nest in a tree. The bird gets a nest, and the tree doesn’t mind is an example of _________________. | Commensalism |
| The energy role of an organism is that of a____________, _______________, or __________________. | producer, a consumer, or a decomposer. |
| ____________ are the source of all life in an ecosystem. | Producers |
| The four types of CONSUMERS are: ___________, ________, __________, and ___________________. | herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, scavengers |
| herbivores are animals that ________________. | eat plants only |
| carnivores are animals that ____________________. | eat animals only |
| omnivores are animals that ____________________________. | eat both plants and animals |
| scavengers are animals that ______________________. | eat things found already dead |
| ________________ return nutrients (matter) back into the environment, where they can be used again. | DECOMPOSERS |
| A ________________ shows the path energy and nutrients travel through an ecosystem. | FOOD WEB |
| Only about ______ of the energy is transferred up each level of the energy pyramid. Most is transferred as heat to the abiotic parts of the ecosystem. | 10% |
| An organism that can make its own food is a ________________. | Producer |
| An organism that obtains energy by feeding off another organism is called a _________________. | Consumer |
| An organism that breaks down nutrients and returns them to the soil and water is called a ________________________. | Decomposer |
| A series of events in which one organism eats another is called a _____________________________. | food chain |
| The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem is called a _______________________. | food web |
| A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web is called a(n) __________________________________. | energy pyramid |
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