Ecology Test Review

Organisms that secretes/releases acid that breaks the rock down into dirt/soil

• Primary Succession

• Lichen

• Hardwood trees

• Rock

starts with bare rock

• Primary Succession

• Secondary Succession

• Political Succession

• Royal Succession

What is the correct order of organisms that inhabit an ecosystem as ecological succession occurs?

• lichen, moss, grasses, shrubs, trees

• lichen, shrubs, moss, grasses, trees

• lichen, trees, flowers, moss, shrubs

• Shrubs, trees, lichen, moss, flowers

Which is the correct order of ecological succession for an ecosystem after a volcanic eruption?

• vascular plants, mosses, dwarf trees, lichen, lava and sand

• lava, mosses, lichen, dwarf trees, vascular plants

• dwarf trees, vascular plants, lichen, lava, mosses

• sea lyme, vascular trees, dwarf trees, mosses, lichen

After an ecosystem has gone through ecological succession which of the following will have the most species diversity?

• a new volcanic island

• a corn farm that has not been plowed for a whole year

• a tropical forest that has mature trees that have never been cut down

• a parking lot that has been mowed regularly

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What helps break down bare rock into soil

• Vascular trees

• Lichen

• small shrubs

• medium size plants

Yucca flowers are pollinated by yucca moths. The moths lay their eggs in the flowers where the larvae hatch and eat some of the developing seeds.  

• Mutualism
• Commensalism
• Parasitism
• Competition

A cuckoo may lay its eggs in a warbler's nest.  The cuckoo's young will displace (or move) the warbler's young and will be raised by the warbler.  

• Parasitism
• Commensalism
• Predation
• Competition

Mistletoe extracts water and nutrients from the spruce tree to the trees detriment.  

• Parasitism
• Mutualism
• Commensalism
• Predation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2