23 Ecology Review

Why do some plants have thorns or leaves that close when touched?

• to appeal to plant eaters

• protection from herbivores

• protection from carnivores

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Which example represents a community? (remember community is all of the living components)

• 3 frogs

• 4 frogs, 7 lily pads, 6 fish, and pond water

• 4 frogs, 7 lily pads, 6 fish, and bacteria

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Which represents the correct order of ecological complexity? (simple to complex)

• community, population, individual,

  ecosystem

• ecosystem, population, community, individual

• individual, population, community, ecosystem

Which type of ecological succession would have more immediate species diversity?

• primary succession because there is no soil

• secondary succession because the soil already has existing seeds

• species diversity would progress at the same rate

Does this species diversity graph represent primary succession or secondary succession?

• Primary succession

• Secondary Succession

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

As energy moves through an ecosystem, what happens to the 90% that doesn't transfer to the next trophic level?

• lost as heat

• turns in to matter

• recycled

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Which organism listed is NOT a secondary consumer?

• predaceous insects

• foxes

• squirrel

• spider

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

How much energy is in the primary consumer level is the secondary consumers have 360 joules available?

• 3,600 joules

• 36,000 joules

• 36 joules

• 360 joules

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Birds and raspberry plants have a mutualistic relationship. Birds get food. How does the plant benefit?

• the plant does not benefit

• seed dispersal for the plant

• the plant gets a positive self image

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Identify the producer in this food web.

• phytoplankton

• salmon

• killer whale

• sea lion

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS1-6