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WorksheetsNat Geo Sustainability ch 5
Total questions: 80
Worksheet time: 1hrs 13mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which of the following symbiotic relationships is considered parasitic?
a)
Ticks feeding on a dog
b)
Bees transporting pollen from flowers
c)
Pilotfish swimming under sharks
d)
Birds eating the insects fromo the back of hippo
2.
Maria and her classmates are observing animals at the pond. They notice that wood storks and ibisies both feed on fish. Which of these describes the relationship between these two birds.
a)
Parasitism
b)
Competition
c)
Predator and prey
d)
Producer and consumer
3.
Which of these describes a mutually beneficial relationship between two organisms?
a)
A dog with worms in its intestine
b)
A turtle and a snail that both eat grass live in a river
c)
A honeybee pollinating a plant and receiving nectar for food
d)
A small fish attached to a shark, eating tiny pieces of the shark's food as it floats
4.
Which pair of organisms listed below are competitors for the same natural resources?
a)
Ticks and dogs
b)
Lions and leopards
c)
Honeybees and flowers
d)
Salmon and brown bears
5.
After walking through a field, you find a tick attached to your leg. What is the tick's relationship to you?
a)
Predator
b)
Decomposer
c)
Producer
d)
Prey
6.
Which of the examples below can BEST be described as mutualism between animals?
a)
A tapeworm lives in the intestine of a bird and consumes the food that the bird has eaten
b)
Mountain lions and wolves fight each other for the same deer
c)
A bird eats parasites off a rhinoceros while the rhinoceros provides protection to the bird
d)
Rats live in the garbage dump of a town and rarely interact with people
7.
An organism that kills and eats another for food
a)
Predator
b)
Prey
c)
Parasite
d)
Plant
8.
Occurs when 2 or more organism use the same resource
a)
Competition
b)
Mutualism
c)
Commensalism
d)
Parasitism
9.
A close long term association between 2 or more species
a)
Mutualism
b)
Commensalism
c)
Symbiosis
d)
Parasitism
10.
Cattle egrets forage (feed) in fields among cattle. The egret gets easy access to flying insects stirred up by the cattle, and the cattle don't care if they are there or not.
a)
mutualism
b)
commensalism
c)
competition
d)
parasitism
11.
When a mosquito bites you, you are the __________ and the mosquito is the ____________.
a)
host, hostess
b)
parasite, host
c)
host, parasite
d)
prey, predator
12.
The number of individuals a habitat can sustain with the resources it has available
a)
Carrying capacity
b)
Limiting factors
c)
Resources
d)
Population
13.
Which of the following is an EXAMPLE of a limiting factor?
a)
Water
b)
the color of the sky
c)
Migration
d)
Thick fur
14.
Which of the following is an example of competition?
a)
Two vultures fight over a dead rabbit
b)
A bear eats a fish
c)
Birds migrate south
d)
Pet dog keeps a man company
15.
What is the carrying capacity of the following graph?
a)
1000
b)
8000
c)
800
d)
600
16.
When a population grows past the ecosystem's carrying capacity, what happens to the population?
a)
Continues to grow
b)
The population starts to die off to return to carrying capcity
c)
The population will go extinct due to lack of resources
d)
The population grows then finds a new carrying capacity
17.
If the amount of food or resources available increases, the carrying capacity for an animal:
a)
Stays the same
b)
Increases
c)
Decreases
d)
Fluctuates
18.
In a forest ecosystem, which of the following is the best example of a limiting factor for a rabbit population?
a)
Squirrel Population
b)
Sunlight
c)
Grass available
19.
If the carrying capacity of a predator decreases, what will happen to the carrying capacity of the prey?
a)
Will Increase
b)
Will Decrease
c)
Will stay the same
d)
Will fluctuate
20.
The largest number of individuals in a species that an environment can support long term
a)
carrying capacity
b)
emigration
c)
immigration
d)
population density
21.
Any thing or organism that regulates the size of a population is known as __________.
a)
a limiting measure
b)
a limiting factor
c)
carrying capacity
d)
biodiversity
22.
Limiting factors are sometimes helpful because they can keep the population from getting to large.
a)
True
b)
False
23.
What will happen to the population when the death rate is larger than the birth rate?
a)
grow
b)
shrink
c)
stay the same
24.
What type of growth is represented in this graph?
a)
exponential
b)
logistics
c)
a good kind
d)
representative
25.
Which of the following is NOT a limiting factor?
a)
Increase in predators
b)
Food shortage
c)
Natural Disasters
d)
Symbiosis
26.
Characteristics that allow a population to become better suited to its environment
a)
accommodation
b)
adaptation
c)
variation
d)
selection
27.
Individuals that survive long enough to reproduce have a high level of
a)
fitness
b)
adaptation
c)
hormones
d)
stamina
28.
When two organisms evolve in response to the other
a)
Speciation
b)
Coevolution
c)
Gradualism
d)
Convergent evolution
29.
Formation of a new species from pre-existing species
a)
Gradualism
b)
Speciation
c)
Coevolution
d)
Divergent evolution
30.
What is the order of succession shown in this figure?
a)
A, B, C, D
b)
B, A, D, C
c)
C, D, A, B
d)
D, A, B, C
31.
What type of succession is shown going from figure A to figure B?
a)
primary succession
b)
ecological succession
c)
secondary succession
d)
intermediate
32.
What is the goal of the pioneer species in Primary Succession?
a)
To kill the dead materials after a disaster
b)
To rebuild soil
c)
To feed Johnny
d)
To put fresh oxygen into the air
33.
The picture shows what type of succession?
a)
primary
b)
secondary
c)
tertiary
d)
quadanary
34.
What are examples of pioneer species in a primary succession?
a)
Bushes and Shrubs
b)
Oak trees
c)
Mossess and Lichens
d)
A rose Bush
35.
Reaches a climax community quicker because soil is already present
a)
primary succession
b)
secondary succession
c)
both types of succession
36.
This is an example of...
a)
Climax communities
b)
Secondary succession
c)
Lichen
d)
Pioneer species
37.
A pioneer species is...
a)
a large organism
b)
the first organisms to adapt to a new environment
c)
The best organism
d)
Abiotic organisms
38.
Succession that occurs in an area with NO SOIL
a)
ecological succession
b)
primary succession
c)
secondary succession
d)
pioneer speciles
39.
If the population of a certain predator increases, there is often _______ its prey
a)
a decrease the population of
b)
an increase of the population of
c)
great news for its prey of
d)
no impact found on
40.
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism
a)
Predator
b)
Prey
c)
Competition
d)
Adaptation
41.
The struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same resource
a)
Predator
b)
Prey
c)
Competition
d)
Adaptation
42.
The role of an organism in its habitat, or how it makes its living
a)
Niche
b)
Prey
c)
Competition
d)
Adaptation
43.
On the southwestern prairies there was an increase in the number of pronghorn antelopes over
time. Wolves are one of the major predators of the pronghorn. As time passed, the population of
wolves in the west have increased, and the population of pronghorns is starting to decline. This
probably was caused because:
a)
populations simply fluctuate back and forth over time for no real reason.
b)
the population of wolves increased because they had more pronghorns to eat.
c)
the population of pronghorns declined probably because of a lack of food for them.
d)
There is simply not enough information to tell.
44.
Which of the following graphs represent a competition between two species?
a)
b)
c)
45.
What will happen to the population when the death rate is larger than the birth rate?
a)
grow
b)
shrink
c)
stay the same
46.
Which will add more organisms to a population?
a)
5 animals die
b)
0 animals are born
c)
3 animals immigrate to the population
d)
2 animals emmigrate from the population
47.
There is a flock of 21 birds. 3 birds immigrate to the flock but 9 emigrate.
a)
grow; 15 birds in the end
b)
shrink; 15 birds in the end
c)
grow; 27 birds in the end
d)
shrink; 27 birds in the end
48.
There is a herd of 45 cattle. 1 is born and 2 die. 6 emigrate to another farm and 3 immigrate to the herd.
a)
shrink; 41
b)
grow; 41
c)
grow; 47
d)
shrink; 47
49.
Which of the following is NOT a natural disturbance that is considered when studying economic resilience?
a)
Fires
b)
Flooding
c)
Storms
d)
Introduction of new crop
50.
When an organism copies a characteristic of something else in order to better its chances for survival and reproduction
a)
hibernation
b)
camouflage
c)
mimicry
d)
migration
51.
Which type of succession takes LONGER than the other?
a)
Primary
b)
Secondary
52.
Individual organisms breaking up resources into smaller areas to use it is called...
a)
Ecological succession
b)
Niche specializing
c)
Spreading the wealth
d)
Resource Partitioning
53.
The illustration demonstrates the following interaction
a)
mutualism
b)
commensalism
c)
competition
d)
parasitism
54.
____species coexist by using only part of the available resources
a)
Resource Partitioning
b)
Resource competition
c)
Mutual competition
d)
Mutaulization
55.
What is resource partitioning?
a)
When species compete and drive one of them to extinction
b)
When species subdivide a niche to reduce competition
c)
When species compete indefinitely for a resource
d)
When species eat different food sources
56.
What happened to the bird species when they all needed to use the same Spruce trees?
a)
some died
b)
they divided up the trees into sub niches and used different parts for resources
c)
they out competed the smaller birds and drove them to extinction
d)
the carrying capacity of all of the birds decreased
57.
What species keeps sea urchins in check?
a)
sea otters
b)
sea stars
c)
kelp
d)
fish
58.
Why was it important for sea urchin populations to remain low?
a)
to allow for otters to eat
b)
to allow for kelp to grow
c)
to allow for California mussels to grow
d)
to allow for fish to eat
59.
The act of one organism feeding on another.
a)
competition
b)
predation
c)
population
d)
dispersion
60.
The patterns of resource use in a community; how biotic species use resources to avoid
competition/confrontation.
competition/confrontation.
a)
competitive exclusion principle
b)
resource partitioning
61.
If you have a lot of offspring but do not provide parental care you are described as...
a)
K- selected
b)
r- selected
c)
Q- selected
d)
w- Selected
62.
As a population grows, it will most likely stop growing at what size?
a)
Growth limit
b)
Exponential limit
c)
Carrying Capacity
d)
It won't stop growing
63.
A population is...
a)
A group of one species in one area
b)
Multiple species that live in one area
c)
All of the living and nonliving things in an area
d)
None of these
64.
Refer to the diagram of the survivorship curve.
Which curve best describes an organism that invests a lot of energy in parenting?
Which curve best describes an organism that invests a lot of energy in parenting?
a)
A
b)
B
c)
C
d)
this is not a survivorship curve
65.
Which survivorship curve represents a species where most of the individuals live through their lives and die of old age?
a)
Type 1
b)
Type 2
c)
Type 3
66.
What point on the graph represents the carrying capacity?
a)
A
b)
B
c)
C
d)
D
67.
What factor describes when populations decrease because animals are moving out of a population?
a)
Emigration
b)
Limiting Factors
c)
Immigration
d)
Exponential Growth
68.
When two male lions fight over a lady lion this is _______ competition.
a)
Exploitative
b)
Intraspecific
c)
Interspecific
d)
Bullying
69.
When a pine tree grows real tall and blocks sunlight to another pine tree it is _______ competition.
a)
Interference
b)
Intraspecific
c)
Interspecific
d)
Exploitative
70.
An example of intraspecific competion would be when ________ & ________ fight for food.
a)
2 lions
b)
Lion/Tiger
c)
Polar Bear/Panda Bear
d)
Pine tree/Oak tree
71.
What is defined as competition by members of different species for resources?
a)
interspecific competition
b)
intraspecific competition
c)
interstate competition
d)
partitioning competition
72.
_____ is defined as the evolution of ecologically related species.
a)
coevolution
b)
coexistence
c)
proevolution
d)
prevolution
73.
Which of the following is NOT an example of coevolution?
a)
predators evolving to get faster to catch up to prey
b)
prey developing a new color scheme that better hides them from predators
c)
flowering plants developing colors that attract certain pollinators
d)
flowering plants growing taller over time due to shorter plants dying out
74.
_____ is defined as one member benefiting and the second is neither helped nor harmed.
a)
parasitism
b)
commensalism
c)
mutualism
d)
proverbialism
75.
_____ is defined as a species of overriding importance in determining community characteristics.
a)
keystone species
b)
cornerstone species
c)
pivotal species
d)
primordial species
76.
Competition between members of different species in a community
a)
Interspecific
b)
Intraspecific
c)
Conterspecific
d)
Aspecific
77.
Which is an example of interspecific competition
a)
Trees in the rainforest competing for light
b)
tadpoles in a pond competing for food
c)
big horn sheep competing for mates
d)
Wolves competing for food in the pack
78.
Which is a factor in intraspecific competition but is not a factor in interspecific competition
a)
Food
b)
Water
c)
Shelter
d)
Mates
79.
A species that can tolerate many different conditions in an ecosystem is considered a
a)
Generalist
b)
Specialist
c)
Competitor
d)
Producer
80.
An organism that is adapted to a narrow range of conditions is considered a
a)
Specialist
b)
Generalist
c)
Competitor
d)
Consumer
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