QUIZ CHAPTER 17-LIFE SCIENCE

The ________ provides a continuous stream of light, heat, and energy to the earth.

The passing of materials and energy from one organisms to another is called:

• food web

• energy

• food chain

• ecosystem

All the interrelated food chains form a: _____ _____

TRUE OR FALSE- Ecologists often use ECOLOGICAL PYRAMIDS to illustrate energy relationships in a food chain.

A _________ is a group of organisms of the same species living together in a given geographic region.

• community

• population

• biome

• ecosystem

An _________ forms when a number of animals from the same species live together.

• independent oraganism

• social insects

• animal society

• group

Some of the most rigid animal societies are found among the social insects. Select the example of a social insect:

• butterflies

• bees

• flies

• mosquitos

Which of these is an independet organism?

• bear

• wolf

• lion

• ant

TRUE OR FALSE- Female lions defend the territory of the pride.

It is an animal the feeds on other animals.

• predator

• prey