Ecology

In the energy pyramid here, which organisms have the most energy available?

• Producers
• Carnivores
• Herbivores
• Top Predator

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a system of food chains that shows the transfer of energy  is termed

• food web
• food chain
• prey
• predator

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

• herbivore
• carnivore
• omnivore

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

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

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The nonliving aspects of an ecosystem.

• Abiotic factors
• Biotic factors

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A collection of organisms that make up a community as well as all of the nonliving aspects of the environment.

• Population
• Community
• Habitat
• Ecosystem

The study of how living things interact with one another and with their environment.

• Biology
• Lithology
• Ecology
• Farmacology

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What type of growth model is shown in image B?

• Exponential

• Logistic

Any thing or organism that regulates the size of a population of another organism is known as __________.

• a limiting measure
• a limiting factor
• factorization
• materialization of precipitation

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