Unit 6: Diversity of Life Review

What is a producer?

• an organism that gets energy from eating other organisms
• an organisms that uses sunlight to make its own food
• an organism that gets energy from eating dead organisms, non-living material or waste
• an organism that uses chemical energy to make its own food

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Where does the energy start in this food chain?

• Plant
• Sun
• Deer
• Wolf

_______are animals that eat only plants.

• herbivore
• carnivore
• omnivore

What are the organisms that break down dead stuff?

• Producers
• Consumers
• Decomposers
• Organisms

Which of these organisms would receive energy from the snake?

• Plant
• Rabbit
• Mouse
• Hawk

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If the mouse population becomes sick and decreases, which statement about the food web will be true?

• The grass population will decrease.

• The hawk population will increase.

• The grass population will increase.

• The wildflower population will decrease.

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Recently, a family of bobcats moved into an area with a large rabbit population. What changes may occur in the ecosystem?

• The rabbit population may increase
• The rabbit population may decrease
• The rabbit population may increase first, then decrease
• The rabbit population will remain the same

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Cattle egrets forage (feed) in fields among cattle. The egret gets easy access to flying insects stirred up by the cattle, and the cattle don't care if they are there or not.

• mutualism
• commensalism
• competition
• parasitism

A tapeworm lives in the intestine of a cat absorbing nutrients through its skin. A tapeworm and a cat have this type of relationship.

• mutualism

• parasitism

• commensalism

• competition

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What type of symbiosis?  Hummingbirds feed on nectar from flowers.  The flowers are pollinated by hummingbirds as they move from flower to flower.

• commensalism
• mutualism
• parasitism
• predation