Ecology Review

All living things get their energy from which of the following sources?

• food
• water
• sun

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Which of the following is another word for a plant?

• autotroph
• heterotroph
• consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Which of the following is an organism that eats only meat?

• herbivore
• carnivore
• omnivore

What would most likely happen if the rabbit population was removed from the food chain grass —› rabbit —› fox?

• their would be more grass
• there would be less rabbits
• there would be more fox

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Which is an example of a parasitic relationship?

• a bee pollinates a flower
• a tapeworm takes nutrients from a dog
• an orchid lives in a tree but does not harm the tree

In which type of relationship do both species benefit?

• parasitism
• mutualism
• commensalism

Barnacles grow on whales.  Whales give the barnacles a place to live but the barnacles do not help or harm the whale.  Which type of relationship is this?

• commensalism
• mutualism
• parasitiesm

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

An oxpecker bird eats ticks off of a zebra.  The bird gets food from eating the ticks and the zebra has harmful parasites removed.  Which type of symbiosis is this?

• mutualism
• parasitism
• commensalism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

The rabbit in this food web would be considered a:

• Decomposer
• Producer
• Secondary Consumer
• Primary Consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

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. 

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3