Interrelationships in Ecosystems
True or False: Plants in dry climates have adapted to be efficient with water.
True
True or False: Food chains always start with a consumer.
False, they start with a producer
True or false: In a commensalism relationship both species benefit.
False, only one species benefits and the other is unaffected.
Which species benefits in a competition relationship?
Neither benefits
Fill in the blank: Living things are affected by different __________ in the environment.
Factors
Which way do the arrows in a food chain point?
The arrows in a food chain always point from the food to the consumer.
True or false: Sharks and remoras have a mutualism relationship.
False, they have a commensalism relationship because the shark does not benefit
Competition is the relationship between between different species that have the same _______.
Needs
Fill in the blank: Living things can also _________ or adapt to their environment.
Modify
Depending on how living things obtain their food, they can be producers, consumers, ____________, or decomposers.
Scavengers
Bees that obtain nectar from a flower and pollinate other flowers is an example of what relationship?
Mutualism
The species that benefits in a parasitism relationship is called a ____________.
Parasite
An area where a living thing lives and can find everything it needs is its _________.
Habitat
True or false: Tertiary consumers are herbivores.
False, they are carnivores.
Explain how bees help/benefit flowers.
They help pollinate flowers by bringing pollen to other flowers when they are looking for nectar
What species suffers in the relationship between a dog and a flea?
The dog
In terrestrial ecosystems, the main factors are temperature, __________, type of soil, and light.
Humidity
Decomposers are microorganisms and _______ that break down dead animal and plant materials.
Fungi
Fish in a pond eat the extra food that people throw throw to the ducks. What kind of relationship is this?
Commensalism
Squirrels and dormice have a competition relationship. Name one resource that both species need.
Food (acorns), shelter,