Ecosystem

Ecosystem

Multiple Choice

The place where an organism lives is called...

• Biome

• Habitat

• Abiotic

• Biotic

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The way living organisms interact with each other in a particular environment/community is called...

• Ecosystem

• Biome

• Habitat

• Abiotic

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Living and nonliving things make up an ____.

• Organism

• Population

• Community

• Ecosystem

Multiple Choice

A nonliving element in an ecosystem is an

• animal

• abiotic factor

• biotic factor

• organism

Multiple Choice

Temperature, light, air, water, and soil are all _____ parts of the environment

• alive

• biotic

• abiotic

• living

Multiple Choice

A snake

• ecosystem

• organism

• population

Multiple Choice

a bird

• abiotic

• biotic

Multiple Choice

the sun

• abiotic

• biotic

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soil

• abiotic

• biotic

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Is a fern an abiotic or biotic factor?

• abiotic

• biotic

Symbiosis

Ecology

Mutualism

• Occurs when both organisms benefit from the relationship

• +, +

Commensalism

• Occurs when one organism benefits from the relationship, but the other is unaffected (neither hurt nor helped)

• +, 0

Parasitism

• Occurs when one organism lives off of and harms another organism

• +, -

Multiple Choice

Barnacles create home sites by attaching themselves to whales.

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

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Hermit crabs live in shells made and then abandoned by snails.

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

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Mistletoe extracts water and nutrient from the spruce tree it is attached to.

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

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A bee and a flower work together to benefit each other. This is an example of a ______. The bee helps the flower by pollinating it and the flower helps the bee by providing it with nectar.

• commensalistic relationship

• parasitic relationship

• mutualistic relationship

Multiple Choice

Clown fish live among anemones, acting as a lure for the sea anemone's prey. The clown fish get protection and shelter from the anemone. This is an example of which type of symbiosis?

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

Multiple Choice

Mockingbirds will push the eggs out of a blue bird's nest and use the nest for it's own babies illustrating...

• commensalism

• parasitism

• mutualism

• predation

Multiple Choice

When a mosquito bites you, you are the __________ and the mosquito is the ____________.

• host, hostess

• parasite, host

• host, parasite

• prey, predator

Multiple Choice

A relationship between two organisms in which both organisms benefit.

• Mutualism

• Competition

• Parasitsm

• Commensalism

Multiple Choice

What type of symbiosis? Hummingbirds feed on nectar from flowers. The flowers are pollinated by hummingbirds as they move from flower to flower.

• commensalism

• mutualism

• parasitism

• predation

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A tapeworm lives in the intestine of a cat absorbing nutrients through its skin. A tapeworm and a cat have this type of relationship.

• mutualism

• parasitism

• commensalism

• competition

Multiple Choice

A relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and the other is unharmed...

• Mutualism

• Competition

• Parasitsm

• Commensalism