Distance Learning Week 1 Quiz

Pseudoscorpions often hitch rides on the backs of large beetles or true bugs. What is the ecological relationship?

• Mutualism
• Commensalism
• Parasitism
• Cooperation

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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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A mosquito feeds off of the blood of different organisms. This usually causes discomfort to the organism and sometimes disease and death. This is an example of:

• Parasitism
• Decomposition
• Commensalism
• Mutualism

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This is known as a relationship in which both organisms involved benefit. 

• Predator-Prey
• Commensalism
• Mutualism
• Decomposition

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What is ecological succession?

• A slow change in an environment
• A change that takes days in an environment
• No change
• Abiotic change

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What is the most important function of pioneer species?

• To create rocks
• To create soil and add nutrients to the environment 
• To look nice
• Food for animals 

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A climax community is ….

• the beginning of a new ecological succession.
• the rocks in a new environment.
• the fire that will cause destruction.
• an area that reaches its greatest growing potential.

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What is the difference between primary and secondary succession?

• Primary succession already has soil.
• Primary has soil and secondary does not
• soil is present in both
• primary has no soil and secondary has soil

A farmer abandons his farm. A a short time a forest begins to grow on his abandoned farm. What type of succession would this be considered?

• Primary Succession

• Secondary Succession

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Which biomolecule is also known as enzymes?

• Carbohydrate
• Lipid
• Nucleic Acid
• Protein

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