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Unit 7 - Ecology TEST REVIEW

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Something that limits a population from growing is known as...

a)

biome

b)

limiting factor

c)

only biotic

d)

only abiotic

2.

What is a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical (abiotic) environment?

a)

ecosystem

b)

biosphere

c)

ecology

d)

biome

3.

A community is different than an ecosystem because...

a)

An ecosystem only includes all of the living things in an area

b)

A community and ecosystem include both the living and nonliving things in an area

c)

A community only includes all of the living things in an area

d)

There is no difference between community and ecosystem

4.

What symbiotic relationship is this:

A bee pollinates a flower and the flower gets its DNA spread to reproduce.

a)

Mutualism

b)

Commensalism

c)

Parasitism

d)

Predation

e)

Competition

5.

What symbiotic relationship is this:

When a hookworm lives inside a sheep and steals nutrients from the sheep.

a)

Mutualism

b)

Commensalism

c)

Parasitism

d)

Predation

e)

Competition

6.

What symbiotic relationship is this:

When a Florida Panther hunts, kills, and eats a whitetail deer.

a)

Mutualism

b)

Commensalism

c)

Parasitism

d)

Predation

e)

Competition

7.

What symbiotic relationship is this:

When an ant gets food from an aphid, but the aphid isn't harmed and gets nothing out of the relationship.

a)

Mutualism

b)

Commensalism

c)

Parasitism

d)

Predation

e)

Competition

8.

What symbiotic relationship is this:

When a Burmese python fights with an American alligator over food and land, but they're not trying to eat one another.

a)

Mutualism

b)

Commensalism

c)

Parasitism

d)

Predation

e)

Competition

9.

What is the difference between a food chain and food web?

a)

A food web is simple

b)

A food chain is complex

c)

Both food chains and food webs show complex feeding relationships

d)

A food web shows complex feeding relationships but a food chain shows simple relationships

10.

Carrying capacity is a limiting factor in ecosystems. Carrying capacity means...

a)

The available energy at each tropic level.

b)

The amount of producers in an ecosystem.

c)

The largest number of organisms of a population that an environment can support.

d)

Any close ecological relationship between two or more organisms.

11.

Choose ALL of the BIOTIC factors:

a)

Food

b)

Water

c)

Predators

d)

Space

e)

Diseases

12.

Choose ALL of the ABIOTIC factors:

a)

Sunlight

b)

Food

c)

Elevation

d)

Water

e)

Predators

13.

An autotrophic organisms (producer)...

a)

Can make its own food

b)

Cannot make its own food

c)

Needs to eat other organisms

d)

Can also be called an omnivore

14.

A heterotrophic organism (consumer)...

a)

Can make its own food

b)

Cannot make its own food

c)

Needs sunlight to survive

d)

Is always an omnivore

15.

Carnivores and omnivores...

a)

Make their own food

b)

Must eat other things to survive

c)

Only eat meat

d)

Eat both plants and animals

16.

Organisms that breakdown dead and dying organisms are known as...

a)

Producers

b)

Omnivores

c)

Decomposers

d)

Apex predators

17.

A species that moves into a new area and competes with the native species, taking food and other resources is known as...

a)

Native species

b)

Producers

c)

Apex predators

d)

Invasive

18.

In an Energy Pyramid, where is there the LEAST amount of energy?

a)

Top

b)

Middle

c)

Bottom

d)

There is the same amount of energy throughout the energy pyramid

19.

If all producers in an ecosystem stopped doing photosynthesis, what would most logically happen?

a)

Only the producers would die

b)

Only the producers and primary consumers that eat them would die

c)

Only the producers, primary consumers, and secondary consumers would die

d)

All organisms, at each energy level, would die

20.

Choose the best FOOD CHAIN:

a)

Sun -> blueberry bush -> panther -> rabbit

b)

Sun -> rabbit -> panther -> blueberry bush

c)

Sun <- blueberry bush <- rabbit <- panther

d)

Sun -> blueberry bush -> rabbit -> panther

21.

Looking at this picture, what is one possible reason the Moose population dropped at 1975?

a)

There wasn't enough food for the moose

b)

There wasn't enough water for the moose

c)

There were too many wolves

d)

There were too few wolves

22.

How does water clarity limit populations in aquatic ecosystems?

a)

How clear the water is can limit what producers can live under water.

b)

It can limit what fish can eat.

c)

It doesn't limit anything.

d)

It will limit what apex predators can grow.