Ecology Unit Test Review

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What do you call it when one species benefits AND the other species benefits?

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Mutualism

Front

An organism that makes its own food is called a...?

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Producer

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What is carrying capacity?

Back

The maximum number of organisms an ecosystem and its resources can support.

Front

What type of symbiotic relationship is shown when one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed?

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Commensalism

Front

What do you call a consumer that eats both plants and animals?

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Omnivore

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What is the term for a relationship where one organism benefits at the expense of another?

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Parasitism

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What is a food chain?

Back

A linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.

Front

What is a food web?

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A complex network of feeding relationships among various organisms in an ecosystem.

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What is the role of a herbivore in an ecosystem?

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Herbivores are consumers that eat only plants.

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What is the difference between a carnivore and an omnivore?

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Carnivores eat only other animals, while omnivores eat both plants and animals.