Ecology Quiz - Biology 1

What term best describes the grasshopper?

• Herbivore
• Predator-prey
• Competition
• Producer

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Ants protect soft bodied aphids and in return the aphids feed the ants a sugary drink. What is the ecological relationship?

• Cooperation
• Parasitism
• Commensalism
• Mutualism

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An organism that helps to recycle nutrients within an ecosystem by eating dead or decaying organisms is a:

• Predator
• Autotroph
• Producer
• Decomposer

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A group of particular organisms that belong to the same species that live in the same habitat is known as a:

• Population
• Ecosystem
• Community
• Biome

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What does a food web represent?

• All connections of energy flow throughout all organisms in a habitat.
• The specific ways that mutualism is carried out.
• A single pathway or energy flow between organisms. 
• How carnivores get their food. 

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This is the job or role of an organism within its habitat...

• producer

• prey

• carnivore

• niche

• photosynthesis

What are the Abiotic factors in this image? 

• water, sunlight, dirt, air
• birds and plants
• birds, water, dirt
• plants, water

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Where is carbon stored in the environment?

• Fossil fuels
• Wood of trees
• Calcium carbonate (shells and bones)
• All of the above

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Where is most water found on Earth?

• glaciers
• lakes
• rivers
• oceans

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This is NOT a part of the phosphorus cycle.

• Phosphate is incorporated into sedimentary rocks

• Phosphate bound to soil

• Atmospheric phosphate

• Phosphate is absorbed from the soil by plants

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