Ecology Tiffany Jones

What is a food chain?

• A representation of an organism’s life cycle

• A way to show the feeding relationships between organisms

• The sequence of events that occurs during photosynthesis

• A way to show how animals interact with nonliving parts of the environment

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The first organism in a food chain is ALWAYS a:

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

• Any of the above

How much energy is transferred between trophic levels?

• 25%

• 20%

• 10%

• 90%

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What is a niche?

• The habitat that an organism lives in

• An organism’s “role” in an ecosystem

• A type of consumer

• The relationship between a producer and consumer

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What happens when different species try to occupy the same niche?

• The species compete with each other

• The species cooperate with each other

• The species coexist with each other

• All of the above

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

• Parasitism

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Predation

Which statement best describes how water cycles in the environment?

• Water only cycles from plants to animals

• Water only cycles between plants and the soil

• Water only cycles between animals and the hydrosphere

• Water cycles between living things and the nonliving parts of Earth

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When we say that a species adapts to changes in the environment, we mean that:

• the species becomes extinct

• the species has to move to a new environment

• the species adjusts and copes with the changes

• the species is completely unaffected by the changes

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What is biodiversity?

• The different ways species reproduce

• The degree of variation of life on Earth

• A way to describe similarities between different species

• The process of creating new species

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What type of relationship is this?

• parasitism

• mutualism

• commensalism

• competition