All About Unit 6 Ecology

1. What do all food chains and food webs start with?

• A producer
• A consumer
• An animal
• A carnivore

2. Which way do the arrows point in a food chain?

• to the food the animal eats
• to the sky
• to the Sigma animal
• in the direction that energy flows

3. What acts as a recycler in the food chain?

• a food processor
• a decomposer
• the sun
• the last one

4. If two foxes are fighting over the same food source in the same area, what relationship is this?

• competition
• mutualism
• parasitism
• commensalism

5. A clown fish hides in the sea anemone, the sea anemone gets cleaned by the clownfish; which relationship is this?

• commensalism
• mutualism
• predation
• parasitism

6. What's the smallest ecological level?

• biome
• biosphere
• population
• organism

7. What's the largest ecological level?

• organism
• population
• biome
• community

8. Which biome is dry most of the year and receives very little rain?

• temperate deciduous forest
• desert
• tropical rainforest
• grassland

9. Which biome stays covered in ice and snow most of the year?

• temperate deciduous forest
• desert
• tundra
• tropical rainforest

10. Which biome has the most biodiversity (largest number of different plants and animal species)?

• tropical rainforest
• tundra
• taiga
• desert