Nutritional Relationships

Which terms best describe heterotrophs?

• Plants; producers

• Plants; consumers

• Animals; producers

• Animals; consumers

Which terms best describe autotrophs?

• Plants; producers

• Plants; consumers

• Animals; producers

• Animals; consumers

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Organisms that cannot make their own food and must obtain energy from external sources are called

• autotrophs

• heterotrophs

• thylakoids

• plants

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The level of organization where biotic and abiotic factors interact with one another is the? (OPCE)

• Organism

• Can reproduce quickly as only ONE parent is required.

• Ecosystem

• Population

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A tick and a dog have this type of relationship.

• mutualism

• neutralism

• commensalism

• parasitism

Cattle egrets are birds that forage in fields among cattle. The egrets get easy access to food and the cattle don't care if they are there or not.

• mutualism

• commensalism

• competition

• parasitism

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Red-billed oxpeckers are birds that feed on parasites found on an impala. The impala gets rid of parasites and the red-billed oxpeckers get a yummy dinner. This is an example of _______.

• commensalism

• neutralism

• mutualism

• competition

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

A relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and the other is harmed.

• Mutualism

• Parasitsm

• Competition

• Commensalism

Cattle egrets forage (feed) in fields among cattle. The egret gets easy access to flying insects stirred up by the cattle, and the cattle don't care if they are there or not.

• mutualism

• competition

• commensalism

• parasitism

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What type of symbiosis? Hummingbirds feed on nectar from flowers. The flowers are pollinated by hummingbirds as they move from flower to flower.

• commensalism

• parasitism

• mutualism

• predation

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