Ecology Basics

The picture shows what type of succession?

• primary

• secondary

• tertiary

• quadanary

What is the name given to lichen or algae after a primary succession?

• pioneer species

• volunteer species

• founder species

• conqueror species

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

the process by which a new community forms where no community lived before 

• resource

• invasive (non- native) species

• primary succession

• competition

Succession type?

• primary succession

• secondary succession

• tertiary succession

• variable succession

As part of the biosphere, humans only account for ____ % of the Earth's biomass:

• 1%

• 0.01%

• 7%

• 12%

The animal in an ecological relationship that results in another animal being hunted, killed, and eaten…

• autotroph

• habitat

• predator

• herbivore

• producer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What would you call an ecological symbiotic relationship that is helpful to both organisms involved?

• commensalism

• niche

• mutualism

• habitat

• parasitism

What you would call an ecological symbiotic relationship between two organisms where one benefits, but the other is not helped or harmed?

• mutualsim

• predator

• commensalism

• parasitism

• herbivory

The name of the process that producers use to make their own food…

• respiration

• commensalism

• food chains

• photosynthesis

• symbiosis

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Another word for a plant or other producer that makes its own food using energy from sunlight…

• photosynthesis

• autotroph

• consumer

• carnivore

• herbivore

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3