Ch. 2 Biology Quiz

__________ is the scientific discipline in which the relationships among living organisms and the interaction the organisms have with their environments are studied.

• Ecology
• Sociology
• Biology
• Planetology

_______ factors are living factors in an organism’s environment.

• Biotic
• Abiotic

A ______________ is a group of interacting populations that occupy the same geographic area at the same time.

• population
• biological community
• species
• organism

An __________ is a biological community and all of the abiotic factors that affect it.

• biome
• bioshpere
• ecosystem
• habitat

A ________ is the role or position that an organism has in its environment.

• habitat
• niche

A close relationship where both organisms benefit.

• Commensalism
• Parasitism
• Mutualism
• Symbiosis

A close relationship where one organism benefits, the other is neither helped nor harmed

• Commensalism
• Parasitism
• Mutualism
• Symbiosis

A close relationship where one organism benefits at the expense of the other.

• Commensalism
• Parasitism
• Mutualism
• Symbiosis

An _______, or producer, is an organism that collects energy from sunlight or inorganic substances to make food. 

• autotroph
• heterotroph
• consumer
• omnivor

A _________, or consumer, is an organism that gets its energy by consuming other organisms.

• heterotroph
• autotroph
• producer
• plant