ECOLOGY, CELL BIOLOGY AND HOMESTASIS QUIZ

What type of organism can make its own food?

• A producer

• A decomposer

• All of the above

• A consumer

Organisms that can make their own food do so by the process of:

• decomposition

• photosynthesis

• respiration

• scavenging

What type of consumer eats ONLY plants?

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

• Both herbivore and omnivore

What term do ecologists use to describe where an animal lives (an animal’s home)?

• Ecosystem

• Habitat

• Ecologist

• Population

What is a population?

• One individual member of a species

• a group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area

• a community of different species and their environment

• None of the above

An organism that helps to recycle nutrients within an ecosystem by eating dead or decaying organisms is a:

• Predator

• Producer

• Autotroph

• Decomposer

An area where an organism finds food, shelter and water in a specific arrangement

• niche

• biosphere

• habitat

• biome

In what type of relationship do both organisms benefit from the relationship?

• Parasitism

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

Tapeworms reside in human intestine and take nutrients from the human

• symbiosis

• parasitism

• commensalism

Honey guide birds alert and direct badgers to bee hives. The badgers then expose the hives and feed on the honey first. Then, the honey guide birds eat as well.

• mutualism

• commensalism

• parasitism