Quarter 1: Trophic Relationships

The position an organism occupies on a food.

• consumer
• producer
• trophic level
• decomposer

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This type of organism makes its own energy from sunlight.

• consumer
• producer
• decomposer
• omnivore

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The type of organism eats producers, or it can eat consumers which have eaten producers.

• herbivore
• producer
• decomposer
• consumer

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This type of organism breaks down dead, organic matter to return nutrients to the earth.

• decomposer
• producer
• consumer
• carnivore

A primary consumer...

• eats only producers
• eats only other consumers
• eats both producers and consumers
• is a plant or fungus

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What is symbiosis

• relationship between organisms in which one depends on the other
• using symbols to represent plants and animals
• organisms have no interactions in the environment
• the relationship between rocks and plants

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Both organisms benefiting from the relationship is the definition of...

• commensalism
• competition
• parasitism
• mutualism

A relationship in which one organism benefits at the host's expense.

• competition
• parasitism
• mutualism
• commensalism

Which of the following is not true about predator-prey relationships?

• keep populations in balance
• help to drive evolution
• higher trophic level organisms eat lower trophic level organisms
• lead to an overpopulation of prey

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Which type of relationship between organisms is represented by this statement:  One population benefits from the actions of another, but the acting population is unaffected.

• commensalism
• mutualism
• parasitism
• competition

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