Sections 1 & 2 Review - TCi Ecosystsem

Put in order from smallest to biggest

• ecosystem

• species

• population

• organism

Match the following

• Interaction between organisms for limited resources

• Competition

• the things organisms need to live

• Biome

• Large geographical area with similar climate and vegetation

• Ecosystem

• Number of individuals of a species in a given area

• Population

• Community of living organisms interacting with each other and their environment

• Resources

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Match the following

• eats mainly other animals

• Omnivore

• Eats plant and animal matter

• Prey

• Eats Mainly plant mater

• Predator

• organism hunted by another organism

• Carnivore

• Organism that hunts another

• Herbivore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Match the following

• Limiting factor

• Evidence

• Data to support or debunk the solution

• Constraint

• requirements for the solution

• Criteria

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

NGSS.MS-ETS1-2

Match the following

• predictable pattern, changing ecosystem

• Human Changes

• system that experiences a constant chang

• Sudden Change

• slow change over time

• Dynamic System

• changes that are caused by people

• Gradual Change

• quick change

• Ecological Sucession

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Match the following

• Both species benefit

• Parasitism

• One species benefits at the expense of the other

• Mutualism

• One species benefits, the other is unaffected

• Communalism

The organism that is hunted and eaten in a particular feeding relationship is known as:

• Predator
• Decomposer
• Prey
• Autotroph

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

An animal that feeds on what another animal has killed is known as a:

• Scavenger
• Mutualist
• Decomposer
• Parasite

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

• Predator
• Autotroph
• Producer
• Decomposer

Remoras are fish that generally latch on to sharks and eat leftovers of food from the shark. This is an example of which type of ecological relationship?

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

• Competition