Ecology Review

Which item would be classified as an "abiotic factor" in an ecosystem?

• Bird

• Fungi

• Ant

• Rock

A community is different from a population by having what?

• Communities have biotic and abiotic factors

• Communities have one species living together

• Communities have many different species living together

• Community begins with one individual

Put the levels of organization in order from smallest to largest:

• Population, organism, ecosystem, biosphere, community

• Ecosystem, population, organism, community, biosphere

• Organism, population, ecosystem, biosphere, community

• Organism, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere

What type of relationship is this?

• parasitism

• mutualism

• commensalism

• competition

What does a food web represent?

• All connections of energy flow throughout all organisms in a habitat.
• The specific ways that mutualism is carried out.
• A single pathway or energy flow between organisms. 
• How carnivores get their food. 

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symbiotic relationship in which one organisms benefits and the other organism is not affected

• competition

• mutualism

• parasitism

• commensalism

Organisms that breaks down and absorbs nutrients from dead organisms 

• consumer
• trophic level
• decomposer
• species

An organism that needs to eat other organisms to obtain energy is known as a:

• Autotroph
• Producer
• Consumer
• Mutualist

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Consumer that eats plants

• heterotroph
• herbivore
• producer
• community

The rabbit in this food web would be considered a:

• Decomposer
• Producer
• Secondary Consumer
• Primary Consumer

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