Ecology and Biome Lessons

Ecology Part 1

Multiple Choice

The study of how living things interact with one another and with their environment.

• Biology
• Lithology
• Ecology
• Farmacology

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The living part of an ecosystem

• Biotic

• Abiotic

• Mother Earth

• Flowers

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The living part of an ecosystem

• Biotic
• Abiotic
• Mother Earth
• Flowers

Multiple Choice

All of the living and nonliving things in an area that interact with each other are called a/an ______.

• community
• habitat
• population
• ecosystem

Multiple Choice

Different populations living and interacting with each other in the same area

• Biome
• Ecosystem
• Community
• Niche

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Two or more members of a particular species living and interacting in the same area

• Community
• Population
• Organisms
• Biosphere

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An individual belonging to a specific species

• Biotic

• Community

• Organism

• Reptile

Multiple Choice

If the number of births is greater than the number of deaths in a population, what will happen to the growth of the population?

• It will increase.
• It will decrease.
• It will stay the same.
• It will fluctuate.

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If the number of births in a population is the same as the number of deaths in a population, what will happen to the growth of the population?

• It will increase.

• It will decrease.

• It will stay the same.

• It will fluctuate.

Multiple Choice

What type of growth is shown in the diagram?

• exponential growth
• logistic growth 
• predator-prey cycle
• boom-bust curve

Multiple Choice

If the number of births in a population is the same as the number of deaths in a population, what will happen to the growth of the population?

• It will increase.

• It will decrease.

• It will stay the same.

• It will fluctuate.

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

Multiple Choice

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

Cattle egrets forage (feed) in fields among cattle. The egret gets easy access to flying insects stirred up by the cattle, and the cattle don't care if they are there or not.

• mutualism
• commensalism
• competition
• parasitism