Ecology Quizizz

Ecology is the study of:

• only the living things in the environment

• only the nonliving things in the environment

• how living things interact with each other and the nonliving things in the environment

• scientists who perform research on living things

What term do ecologists use to describe where an animal lives (an animal’s home)?

• Ecosystem

• Ecologist

• Habitat

• Population

What type of organism can make its own food?

• A producer (an autotroph)

• A consumer (a heterotroph)

• A decomposer

• All of the above

Organisms that can make their own food do so by the process of:

• decomposition

• respiration

• photosynthesis

• scavenging

The first organism in a food chain is ALWAYS a:

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

• Any of the above

What is a niche?

• The habitat that an organism lives in

• An organism’s “role” in an ecosystem

• A type of consumer

• The relationship between a producer and consumer

In what type of relationship do both organisms benefit from the relationship?

• Parasitism

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Predation

Members of a species in a defined area

• Ecosystem
• community
• biodiversity
• population

Series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten

• foodweb
• consumer
• food chain
• omnivore

What may happen if the snowshoe hare was removed from the food web pictured?

• The insects in the habitat would increase.
• The shrew population would decrease due to being only hawk food source.
• The willow tree population would decrease.
• Foxes would dies due to no food source.