Copy of Energy Test

What is the study of the interactions that take place among organisms and their environment?

• Chemistry

• Geology

• Ecology

• Biology

What are the living things within an ecosystem called?

• Abiotic factors

• Consumers

• Biotic factors

• Producers

What is the place where an organism lives and obtains the types of food, shelter, and temperature needed for survival?

• Ecosystem

• Biome

• Habitat

• Niche

What is the largest number of individuals of a particular species that an ecosystem can support over time?

• Carrying capacity

• Trophic level

• Energy pyramid

• Limiting factor

What is the transfer of energy from one organism to another through food webs called?

• Energy flow

• Trophic level

• Carrying capacity

• Energy pyramid

What is an organism that makes its own food called?

• Consumer

• Predator

• Producer

• Decomposer

What is the complex network of many interconnected food chains and feeding relationships called?

• Food chain

• Energy pyramid

• Food web

• Trophic level

What is the animal that is hunted and caught for food called?

• Herbivore

• Omnivore

• Prey

• Predator

What are the three types of symbiosis?

• Mutualism, Commensalism, Parasitism

• Predation, Competition, Mutualism

• Commensalism, Predation, Parasitism

• Mutualism, Predation, Competition

What are some limiting factors that might limit the size of a population within its environment?

• Disease outbreak, Increased resources

• Pollution, Decreased competition

• Drought, Decreased predation

• Increased hunting by man, Increased rainfall