Ecology, hurray!

The study of how organisms interact with one another and their environment is called ___.

• Ecosystem

• Ecology

• Ecologist

• Biology

Habitat: place to live; ____: role of the organism

Bacteria and fungi are called ____ because they convert dead matter into gas and released into air, soil and water.

• Producers

• Consumers

• Decomposers

• Scavengers

An interaction in which one organism kills another for food is called ___.

• Competition

• Symbiosis

• Commensalism

• Predation

A bee and a flower demonstrate mutualism because __.

• Only the bee gets benefit

• The flower is harmed

• Both get benefit from each other

• The flower is unaffected by the bee

Predation: prey; Parasitism: _____

Which statement is not true about the transfer of energy in the ecosystem?

• The Sun is the ultimate source of energy

• Tertiary consumers get the least energy

• Energy is cycled

• Energy is lost as heat

Name the toxins found in insecticides.

A lion and a tiger eating the same food will have which kind of interaction?

• Predation

• Inter-specific competition

• Intra-sepecific competition

• Parasitism

A series of eating and being eaten following a single path is called ___.