Ecology Unit 2 Test

A squirrels niche would be _________________.

• hunting prey and providing meat for other squirrels.

• searching for fish to eat in the ocean.

• staying busy storing nuts and seeds for winter.

• help decompose other animals and plants.

_____ consist of all the biotic and abiotic things in an area

• Biosphere

• Ecosystem

• Community

• Population

What is a Niche of a honeybee?

• Pollenating Flowers

• A Honeycomb

• Eating other insects.

• Swimming.

What is a niche?

• Where an organism lives.

• An organisms role, or job, within its ecosystem.

• What an organism eats.

What is the niche of the vulture?

• be a scavenger and eat dead animals

• be a producer and release oxygen

• be a primary consumer and eat producers

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Anything that prevents a population from growing

• niche

• limiting factor

• habitat

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A limiting factor is...

• where an organisms lives

• anything that keeps a population from growing

• the role and organism has

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An organism’s habitat provides _____________________.

• food, water, shelter, and space.

• food, water, and clothes.

• only food.

• video games, ninjas, and baked beans.

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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

Limiting factors help keep the ________ from growing too large.

• population

• organism

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