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What do you call all the living and non-living things in an area?
Community
Ecosystem
Biome
Population
2
The average yearly condition of temperature and precipitation in an area is called ____.
Climate
Abiotic factors
Latitude
Weather
3
What is an example of an omnivore?
Humans
Worms
Bees
Dogs
4
What is it called when a disturbance occurs and the ecosysm begins to regrow starting with
Soil
Secondary Succession
Primary Succession
Marine Succession
5
Where an organism lives...
Habitat
Niche
6
Which is NOT one of the Latitude zones?
Tropic
Temperate
Moderate
Polar
7
What do the arrows represent in a food chain or food web?
How animals move
Who eats who
Importance of a good diet
Energy flow
8
What is NOT true about parasites?
Parasite generally weaken but do not kill their host
Parasites neither help nor harm their host
Parasites obtain all or part their nutrition from the host
Parasites are usually smaller than the host
9
An organisms job...
Niche
Habitat
10
When two organisms work together and BOTH benefit.
Commensalism
Mutualism
Parasitism
11
What is the scientific name for a consumer?
Autotroph
Heterotroph
12
What is an example of an autotroph?
A cat
A jellyfish
A rose
A mushroom
13
What is it called when
one
organism BENEFITS and the
other
is HARMED.
Commensalism
Mutualism
Parasitism
14
What is it called when two organisms "fight" for the same resource?
Competition
Symbiosis
Parasitism
15
What do decomposers consume?
Recycle and break down dead stuff
Meat
Plants
Both plants and animals
16
What does ecology mean?
Study of Economy
Study of living things
Study of the climate and how it impacts the world
Study of the interactions btwn living and non-living things
17
What is an example of a Biotic factor?
Water availability
Soil type
Air temperature
Bacteria in the soil
18
What do carnivores eat?
Plants
Meat
Dead stuff
Recycle dead stuff
19
What is the scientific name for a producer?
Autotroph
Heterotroph
20
What is an example of a decomposer?
Fungi
Vultures
Tigers
Tuna
21
What do detritivores eat?
Meat
Plants
Both plants and animals
Dead stuff
22
What is it called when one organism captures and eats another?
Competition
Predation
Symbiosis
23
What shows ALL the feeding
relationships
in an ecosystem?
Food chain
Food web
Food pyramid
Dinner plate
24
What is an example of a heterotroph?
A bacteria from the hydrothermal vent
A lilly
A grass-hopper
A strand of sea-weed
25
When ONE organism benefits and the other does not care (not benefit or harm)
Mutualism
Commensalism
Parasitism
26
What is an example of an herbivore?
Mold
Bear
A tree
A snail
27
What is NOT an example of "getting along"?
Reproduction
Predation
Competition
Symbiosis
28
What has the greatest effect on wind and ocean currents?
Living organisms
Oxygen
Nutrients
Heat
29
What is an example of a carnivore?
Algae
Zebra
Raccoon
Sea otter
30
The world insulating blanket made of gases is called...
The ocean
Asthenosphere
Atmosphere
Litosphere
31
What do omnivores eat?
Plants
Meat
Dead stuff
Both plants and animals
32
What is it called when a disturbance occurs and the ecosysm begins to regrow starting with
rock
Secondary Succession
Marine Succession
Primary Succession
33
What is an example of a detritivore?
Crab
Snail
Deer
Wolf
34
What is the first species to move into an area called?
Pioneer Species
Viking speices
Emigrate Species
35
What do herbivores eat?
Meat
Plants
Break down dead stuff
Dead stuff
36
What is the difference between climate and weather?
Weather depends on your latitude and climate does not
Climate is the average and weather changes daily
Climate depends on the time of year and weather does not
Climate changes daily and weather is the average
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What is the primary energy source for earth?
Hydrothermal vents
Magma (inner core)
Sun
Moon
