Ecology

All living things get their energy from which of the following sources?

• food
• water
• sun

Which of the following is another word for a plant?

• autotroph
• heterotroph
• consumer

Which of the following is an organism that eats only meat?

• herbivore
• carnivore
• omnivore

Which of the following terms describes an area where an organism lives?

• community
• habitat
• area

Which is represented by all of the bullfrogs living around a pond?

• community
• habitat
• population

What would most likely happen if the rabbit population was removed from the food chain grass —› rabbit —› fox?

• their would be more grass
• there would be less rabbits
• there would be more fox

Which is an example of a parasitic relationship?

• a bee pollinates a flower
• a tapeworm takes nutrients from a dog
• an orchid lives in a tree but does not harm the tree

In which type of relationship do both species benefit?

• parasitism
• mutualism
• commensalism

Barnacles grow on whales.  Whales give the barnacles a place to live but the barnacles do not help or harm the whale.  Which type of relationship is this?

• commensalism
• mutualism
• parasitiesm

An oxpecker bird eats ticks off of a zebra.  The bird gets food from eating the ticks and the zebra has harmful parasites removed.  Which type of symbiosis is this?

• mutualism
• parasitism
• commensalism