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Ecology is
a) The study of living things
b) The study of nonliving things
c) The study of organisms within its environment
d) The study of heredity

What does every food chain start with?
a) producers
b) consumers
c) the Sun or other chemical compound
d) decomposers

An organism that needs to eat other organisms to obtain energy is known as
a) autotrophs
b) heterotrophs
c) producers
d) decomposers

What is the name of the type of consumer that eats only vegetation?
a) autotroph
b) herbivore
c) omnivore
d) carnivore

What does a food web represent?
a) All connections of energy flow throughout all organisms within a habitat
b) A single pathway or energy flow between organisms
c) The specific ways that mutualism is carried out
d) How carnivores get their food

A relationship in which two species live closely together
a) succession
b) symbiosis
c) mutualism
d) commensalism

The amount of energy that usually transfers from one trophic level to the next...
a) 10%
b) 20%
c) 30%
d) 40%

An illustration that uses arrows to show the MANY possible directions in which matter can pass through the organisms in an ecosystem
a) food chain
b) energy pyramid
c) food web
d) succession map

What is the name given to the living component of an ecosystem?
a) abiotic
b) biotic
c) biology
d) symbiosis

What is the name given to the non-living component of an ecosystem?
a) abiotic
b) biotic
c) biology
d) symbiosis

Which of the following symbiotic relationships is considered parasitic?
a) hummingbirds transferring pollen between flowers
b) pilot fish swimming under a whale shark
c) shrimp picking off dead skin of an eel
d) fleas within the fur of a cat

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