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Webster Science 6
Ecology Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A living thing | Organism |
| A group of similar living things. All in the same species. | Population |
| All the different populations that live together in an area. | Community |
| All the living and non living things that interact in a particular area. | Ecosystems |
| Living parts of an ecosystem. | Biotic |
| The non living parts of an ecosystem. | Abiotic |
| A symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit. | Mutualism |
| A symbiotic relationship in which one species benefits and the other species is neither helped nor harmed. | Commensalism |
| A behavior or physical characteristic that allows an organism to live successfully in its environment. | Adaptations |
| The struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resource. | Competition |
| A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web. | Energy Pyramid |
| A series of events in which on organism eats another to gets its energy. | Food Chain |
| A pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem. | Food Web |
| An organism that can make its own food. Plants,and algae. | Producers |
| A organisms that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms. ie human, dogs, lions. | Consumers |
| An orgaism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms. ie, Mushrooms, bacteria, worms, snails. | Decomposers |
| What type of symbiotic relationship is the following: Vines live on trees without harming the trees. | Commensalism |
| What type of symbiotic relationship is the following: Humans become infected with tapeworms. Tapeworms take nutrients from the humans. | Parasitism |
| What type of symbiotic relationship is the following:Bees spread plant pollen as they gather nectarr from flowers. | Mutualism |
| The organism that does the killing in a predation interaction. | Predator |
| An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism. | Prey |
| What is missing from this food chain? grass-> rabbit->lynx | decomposer |
| How much energy is lost from each stage in the energy pyramid? | 10% |
| Soil, temperature, sunlight, water and rocks are examples of what type of factor? | Abiotic factor |
| The organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitism interaction? | Host |
| The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment is ... | Ecology |
| What is the original source of almost all the energy in most ecosystems? | sunlight |