U3: Communities, Climate, and Biomes

Honey guide birds alert and direct badgers to bee hives. The badgers then expose the hives and feed on the honey first. Then, the honey guide birds eat as well. This relationship best describes…

• symbiosis

• parasitism

• mutualism

• commensalism

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Tapeworms reside in human intestine and take nutrients from the human, what relationship is this?

• symbiosis

• parasitism

• mutualism

• commensalism

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Vines grow on a tree. The vines get light but the tree is not affected. What kind of relationship is this?

• Competition

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

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An organism that helps to recycle nutrients within an ecosystem by eating dead or decaying organisms is a:

• Predator

• Autotroph

• Producer

• Decomposer

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The ecological role an organism performs in their specific environment is considered the organism's...

• Habitat

• Population

• Biome

• Niche

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The place where an organism lives is its _________.

• habitat
• abiotic
• ecosystem
• community

The picture shows this level of organization:

• Community

• Population

• Individual

Which are threats of biodiversity? (check all the the correct answers)

• food production

• overharvesting

• habitat loss

• climate change

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Which picture shows the greatest amount of biodiversity?

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Which of these ONLY lists abiotic factors of an ecosystem?

• sand, saltwater, seabirds

• minerals, water, air

• rocks, insects, trees

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