1E Ecology

All of the living and nonliving things in an area that interact with each other are called a/an ______.

• community
• habitat
• population
• ecosystem

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An area where an organism finds food, shelter and water in a specific arrangement

• niche
• biosphere
• biome
• habitat

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Different populations living and interacting with each other in the same area

• Biome
• Ecosystem
• Community
• Niche

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Which biome, because of its climate and amount of rainfall, has the largest number of species of plants and animals?

• Tundra
• Rainforest
• Desert
• Pineforest

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An organism that produces its own food supply from inorganic compounds is called a(an)

• heterotroph
• consumer
• detritivore
• autotroph

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What is the term for each step in the transfer of energy and matter within a biological community?

• energy path
• food web
• trophic level
• food pyramid

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Barnacles are animals that cannot move. In order to get food, they attach to whales and catch any floating plankton in the water. The whale is neither helped nor harmed in the interaction. What type of symbiosis is this?

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

• Neutralism

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In the wild, some alligators gets their teeth cleaned by birds. The birds gets their food from the alligators' teeth.

What type of symbiosis is this?

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

• Neutralism

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An illustration that uses arrows to show the MANY possible directions in which matter and energy can pass through the organisms in an ecosystem.

• Food chain
• Food web
• Energy Pyramid
• Succession Map

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What are the Abiotic factors in this image? 

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

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