Symbiosis and Relationships among organisms
Non-Symbiotic Relationships
Food Chains and Webs
The Organization of the Environment
Odds and Ends
100
When 2 or more organisms of the same species work together to survive, this is called?
What is cooperation?
100
Some birds display their colorful feathers, and also sign high pitched songs to attract a mate. This is an example of...
What is courtship?
100
Which of the following organisms is considered a producer? A maple tree, a grasshopper, or worm?
What is a maple tree?
100
Organisms of the same species living together in a particular area are called a:
What is population?
100
This is the type of symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other organism is harmed.
What is Parasitism
200
Both rabbits and and sheep eat grass as their main source of food. When rabbits and sheep live together in the same area, what type of relationship do they have in relation to their food source.
What is competition?
200
Wolves were hunted almost to extinction. Wolves ate deer, among other things. As the wolf population decreased, the population of deer in the surrounding areas started to increase rapidly and the deer started to ruin trees and come into people's yards. Why did the deer population increase.
Because they lost their main predator-the wolves
200
A organism that eats only plants would be what level of a food chain?
What is primary consumer
200
The living organisms that live in a specific ecosystem are referred to as a:
What is a community?
200
Which website domain name is most reliable, a .com or a .org?
What is a .org
300
This is the need to secure and defend a specific nesting or hunting ground and keep other organisms away. This increases access to food and resources.
What is territorial imperative?
300
The rainforest canopy blocks sunlight from reaching the ground, therefore it is difficult for all the plants on the forest floor to receive sunlight. Each plant tries to grow taller than the others to receive more of the precious sunlight. This is an example of?
What is competition?
300
This organism makes up the base of all aquatic (water) food chains. It is the main producer in the ocean and the Chesapeake Bay.
What is phytoplankton?
300
The role that an organism plays in its habitat is called its______
What is niche?
300
Trees take in this gas and release the gas oxygen during photosynthesis
What is Carbon Dioxide?
400
This is a symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit, such as bees and flowers.
What is mutualism?
400
This is the relationship in which one consumer eats another consumer.
What is the predator-prey relationship?
400
This is considered the primary source of energy for all foods webs?
What is the Sun?
400
The interaction between biotic and abiotic factors to create a stable system is an____________
What is ecosystem?
400
This is the substance in a plant that traps light energy from the Sun so that the plant can undergo photosynthesis
What is Chlorophyll?
500
This is a symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other organism is unaffected (doesn't care either way).
What is Commensalism?
500
Which of the following is an example of a symbiotic relationship...not a non-symbiotic relationship. Mutualism, competition, or predator-prey
What is Mutualism
500
A hawk will eat snakes, lizards, fish, mice, rabbits, squirrel, grasshoppers and crickets. If all the grasshoppers disappeared, what type of effect would this have on the hawk population. Answer choices: Great effect or Little to No effect.
What is Little to No Effect.
500
This is the physical location in which communities and populations live
What is a habitat?
500
Which of the following organisms in your fish tank ecosystem produces oxygen: Elodea, or the guppies.
What is Elodea?
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