Ecology

What is ecology

• Interacion of animals

• study of animals

• study of plants

• interaction of organisms with environment

A bee receives nectar from a flower and carries the pollen to other flowers:

• predation

• parasitism

• mutualism

• commensalism

Mistletoe grows and spreads on trees, taking their nutrients:

• predation

• parasitism

• mutualism

• commensalism

What would be a good example of a primary consumer?

• carnivore

• detrivore

• decomposer

• herbivore

Which organisms would be at the top or last trophic level?

• plant

• herbivore

• omnivore

• carnivore

The monkey would be a

• decomposer

• producer

• primary consumer

• secondary consumer

Introduced species disrupt ecosystems because they are a/an

• Keystone Species

• Endemic Species

• Invasive Species

• Native Species

Mice might grow in population and destroy the community by eating all of the berry bushes if

• wolves and snakes were removed from the food web

• another predator migrated in to the community

• the snake population grew

• none of these

A lion that eats a zebra that eats grass is a

• primary consumer

• secondary consumer

• tertiary consumer

• quaternary consumer

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