Competition and Adaptations

What does the term "competition" mean?

• A community and its physical environment

• The contest among organisms for limited resources of an ecosystem.

• A diagram showing the amount of energy available to pass from one level in the food chain to the other

• A long-term relationship between different kinds of organisms

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True or False: All organisms compete in some way for resources.

• True

• False

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What is an adaptation?

• a group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area

• a community of organisms where there are several food chains that work together in the ecosystem

• the struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources

• an inherited characteristic that increases an organism's chance of survival and the ability to reproduce

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True or False: If an organism successfully competes for resources, it is not more likely to survive and reproduce.

• True

• False

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What is an example of a resource animals compete for?

• food

• camouflage

• sunlight

• biomes

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True of False: In some communities, animals live together and share resources.

• True

• False

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True or False: One oak tree is solely one animal's habitat (no other animals can occupy that tree during that animal's life cycle).

• True

• False

True or False: All living organisms compete with each other in order to survive.

• True

• False

What does symbiosis mean?

• organisms living separately, no relationship between 2 species

• organisms living together, close relationship between 2 species

• organisms living separately, long distance relationship between 2 species

• When one organism kills and eats another

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Which of these describes a mutually beneficial relationship between two organisms?

• A dog with worms in its intestine
• A turtle and a snail that both eat grass live in a river
• A honeybee pollinating a plant and receiving nectar for food
• A small fish attached to a shark, eating tiny pieces of the shark's food as it floats