Evolution and Ecology Assessment

Which one best describes what a food chain is?

• Energy flowing through the ecosystem

• A chain that shows who eats who

• A chain that shows how life works

• Energy flowing through animal cells

What is a producer?

• an organism that gets energy from eating other organisms

• an organisms that uses sunlight to make its own food

• an organism that gets energy from eating dead organisms, non-living material or waste

• an organism that uses chemical energy to make its own food

what organism breaks down waste and recycles it into the ecosystem?

• producers

• teritary consumers

• decomposers

• primary consumers

this bee is pollinating the flower. this is an example of 

• mutualism

• commensalism

• parasitism

• interspecific competition 

The shark and seal relationship is an example of which species interaction? 

• commensalism

• predation

• parasitism

• mutualism

Which of the following best describes an ecosystem?

• a region with a safe climate

• all the living organisms of the same species throughout the world

• all the living organisms in one area

• all the living organisms in an area and their physical surroundings

What is Evolution?

• Evolution is the changes to one's ecosystem

• Evolution is the adaptation to ones environment

• Evolution is changes to an environment that change overnight

• Evolution is inheritable changes to a population that adapt to an environment.

What is a herbivore?

• an animal that gets energy from eating other animals

• an organism that gets energy from eating only plants

• an animal that gets energy by eating both plants and other animals

• an animal that eats only herbs

A group of populations that interact in an area is called what?

• Population

• Resources

• Squad

• Community

Barnacles are animals that cannot move. In order to get food, they attach to whales and catch any floating plankton in the water. The whale is neither helped nor harmed in the interaction. What type of symbiosis is this?

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

• Neutralism