Interactions in Communities

Organisms that can make their own food using sunlight are called

• a) decomposers.

• b) consumers.

• d) carnivores.

• c) producers.

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Grass is eaten by a prairie dog. The prairie dog is eaten by a coyote. This is an example of

• a) an abiotic element.

• c) a herbivore.

• b) an omnivore.

• ) a food chain.

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Herbivores, carnivores, and scavengers are all examples of

• a) producers

• c) consumers.

• b) decomposers.

• d) omnivores.

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1- Which of the following consumers is a herbivore?

• cat

• a) ) human

• horse

• a) d) vulture

The largest population an environment can support is its

• a) carrying capacity

• b) limiting factor.

• c) population.

• d) symbiosis.

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One type of competition involves individuals competing for resources. The other involves competition between different

• a) organisms

• b) populations.

• c) environments.

• d) relationships

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Fruit flies may travel on fruit to a new land.

• immigration

• emigration

• relationships

• ) environments

A part of the environment that keeps a population’s size at a level below its full potential

• emigration

• immigration

• limiting factor

• symbiosis.

A bird eats a worm. Who is the predator?

• The worm.

• The bird

• Both the bird and the worm

• a) Neither the bird nor the worm.

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Young wasps are eating the tomato hornworm that is their host. What is this an example of?

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

• Competition