Ecology Review #2

What does an ecosystem include?

• Plants

• Animals

• Abiotic Factors

• Biotic Factors

• All abiotic and biotic factors in a specific geographic area

What is it called when a group of the same organisms living together in the same place at the same time?

• An organism
• A population
• A community
• A biome

The point in which an area cannot hold any more individuals in an area is called its what?

• carrying capacity
• capital capacity
• carrying capability
• limiting point

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Individuals of a population who exit an area.

• Immigration
• Emigration
• Mitigation
• Lingation

Individuals of a population who move into an area.

• Immigration
• Emigration
• Litigation
• Mastication

Producers are called so because they ...

• produce carbon dioxide

• consume other organisms to get energy.

• produce usable energy/food for themselves and other organisms to consume.

• produce answers to this test.

Consumers literally ...

• consume carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and produce oxygen.

• produce their own food to consume.

• consume their energy from other organisms.

• consume energy from the sun and convert it to food.

An ongoing relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is harmed.

• A. Predator & Prey

• B. Mutualism

• C. Commensalism

• D. Parasitism

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A close, ongoing relationship between species in which at least one is benefiting and the other is not helped or harmed.

• Commensalism

• Symbiosis

• Predator & Prey

• Mutualism

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Thinking about symbiotic relationships, two organisms that both benefit from being in relationship is called;

• parasitism
• mutualism
• symbiosis
• partnerism