Evolution and Ecology

Which scientist believed in natural selection and studied finches and tortoises?

• Linnaeus
• Darwin
• Lamarck
• Mendeelev

The study of interactions between organisms and their surrounding environment.

• ecology
• carnivore
• species
• geology

Organisms that make their own food

• carnivores
• consumers
• autotrophs
• heterotrophs

The living parts of the environment  ()animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, protists, etc.)

• abiotic factors
• biotic factors
• consumers

A network of the interconnected food chains in an ecosystem

• food web
• food chain
• ecosystem
• trophic level

Relationship in which both organisms benefit

• competition
• commensalism
• mutualism
• parasitism

Relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is unaffected.

• competition
• mutualism
• commensalism
• parasistism

Relationship in which one organism lives in or on another organism.

• competition
• mutualism
• commensalism
• parasitism

The wolf preys on smaller mammals.

• commensalism
• predation
• parasitism
• mutualism

Clownfish live in the stinging tentacles of sea anemone.  They are coated in mucous, which protects them from the anemone's stinging nematocysts.

• mutualsim
• commensalism
• parasitism
• predation