Resources and Populations Quiz

• A population is connected to other populations in addition to its consumer and resource populations by ______.

• migration

• competition

• predation

• • a food web

• Populations sometimes _____ for the same resources.

• compete
• cooperate
• ignore
• share

• Two populations can compete for the same resource population. A change to one of these populations affects the ___ of the other.

• size
• location
• age
• color

• The size of a population can be affected by any population that is connected to it in a food web, even if they are not _____ connected.

• indirectly

• directly

• physically
• emotionally

• Scientists revise their claims based on new ______.

• information

• questions

• claims

• evidence

• Science _____ are frequently revised and/or reinterpreted based on new evidence.

• theories
• facts
• findings

• principles

• Ecologists must consider different aspects of a sample to make sure that it represents a _____ population well.

• representative
• large
• whole

• small

• Organisms need to release energy from energy storage molecules in order to ______.

• photosynthesize
• reproduce
• breathe
• perform cellular functions

• Organisms in consumer populations get energy storage molecules from eating organisms in ____ populations.

• producer
• decomposer
• predator
• • resource

• The more energy storage molecules available to a population, the more the organisms in that population can _____.

• decrease in size
• • reproduce

• decrease in number
• remain static in number