2026 Ecology TEST Review

What is the term that refers to all the populations in a given area?

• Population

• Community

• Ecosystem

• Biosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Bird & Tree: A bird builds a nest in a hole in the trunk of the tree. It is protected from the rain and predators. The tree is not harmed or helped by the bird.

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

• Competition

• Predation

What type of ecological relationship?  Hummingbirds feed on nectar from flowers.  The flowers are pollinated by hummingbirds as they move from flower to flower.

• commensalism
• mutualism
• parasitism
• predation
• competition

Rabbits and deer both eat lettuce leaves from a garden.
^{What ecological interaction describes the relationship between rabbits and deer?}

• Mutualism
• Interspecific Competition

• Commensalism
• Predation
• Intraspecific Competition

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

What level of ecological organization would include all squirrels that live in the same area?

• biome

• community

• ecosystem

• population

Tree kangaroos live in the upper branches of trees in the rainforests of Queensland, as well as on the island of New Guinea. This is an example of the tree kangaroos ___.

• niche
• habitat
• community
• population

What is the term for each step in the transfer of energy and matter within a biological community?

• energy path
• food web
• trophic level
• food pyramid

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Food webs are models that show

• one sequence of producers and consumers.

• complex networks of feeding relationships.

• stored energy in food chains

• only primary consumers in an ecosystem

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Organisms that make their own food by using sunlight or chemical energy to convert simple inorganic molecules into complex, energy-rich organic molecules like glucose are called

• consumer

• heterotroph

• producer

• carnivore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

An organism that must obtain their nutrients by eating other organisms is called a

• autotroph

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer