Ecology and Symbiosis

After a volcanic eruption, lava covers the land. What is the order that plants grow to repopulate the area?

• Lichens → Shrubs → Grasses → Trees

• Lichens → tree → shrubs→Grasses

• Grasses → Lichens → Shrubs → Trees

• Lichens → Grasses → Shrubs → Trees

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A tick living on a dog is an example of which type of symbiosis?

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

• Commensalism

"The ants protecting the acacia tree and the tree providing food for the ants" is what type of symbiosis?

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

This is an example of what kind of symbiosis?

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

Match the following

• ++

• Mutualism

• - +

• Commensalism

• + O

• Parasitism

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Symbiosis is the __ between two different types of species.

What is a limiting factor?

• Something that controls the number of individuals that can live.

• Something that kills all of the animals so that no one survives.

• Some factor that limits how much an animal is liked or viewed

• Some factor that is always negative.

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"A bird building its nest in a tree" is an example of which type of symbiosis?

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

An ecosystem is made up of ​ (a)   ​

• Abiotic and Biotic factors

• Plants only

• Animals only

• Biotic Factors only

• Abiotic Factors Only

Reorder the following from smallest to largest

• Population

• Species/ Individual

• Biosphere

• Community

• Ecosystem