Ecology Twiz

What do owls like to eat?

• rodents and shrews
• hot dogs and pigs
• pizza and chips

An owl chews its food.

• true
• false

Because they cannot digest fur, bones, or feathers, they regurgitate a

• seed
• stone
• pellet

Other things that can be found in pellets are:

• flesh and organs
• dirt, sand, and rocks
• insect exoskeletons

You can discover what an owl has eaten by dissecting an owl pellet and recovering the prey's:

• skull
• teeth
• leg bones
• all of the above

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

All of the following is true about a food chain except:
 

• it shows the relationship between producers and consumers
• it shows the relationship between plants and animals that eat the plants or that eat other animals
•  it only goes in one direction
• it is a more elaborate version of a food web

Which of the following show how plants and animals are connected by

• an ecosystem
• a food web
• a food chain
• none of the above

If one part of the ecosystem is removed:

• it affects the entire ecosystem
• the affect would only involve a small portion of the ecosystem
• the ecosystem would not be affected
• only human life would be affected

What factor describes when populations increase because animals are moving into a population?

• Emigration
• Limiting Factors
• Immigration
• Exponential Growth

No two species can occupy the same niche

• Competitive Exclusion Principle 
• Limiting Exclusion Theory
• Competitive Limiting Principle
• Limiting Competitive Theory