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5 Written questions

1. Mechanism that increases the number of niches by apportioning the supply of a resource such as food or living space
between species.

2. Relationship that occurs when two different species live together in a unique way; it may be beneficial, neutral, or
detrimental to one or both species.

3. Mutual evolution in which two species exert selective pressures on the other species.

4. Interaction in which one organism (the predator) uses another (the prey) as a food source.

5. Organism that provides nourishment for a predator.

5 Matching questions

1. water (hydrologic) cycle A. Process of hiding from predators in which an organism's

behavior, form, and pattern of coloration allow it to blend
into the background and prevent detection.
2. greenhouse effect

B. Reradiation of solar heat toward the Earth, caused by an

3. species diversity
atmosphere that allows the Sun's rays to pass through but
traps the heat in the same manner as the glass of a
4. Camouflage
greenhouse.

5. Ecosystem
C. Variety of species that make up a community.

D. Biological community together with the associated abiotic

environment; characterized by a flow of energy and a
cycling of inorganic nutrients.

E. Interdependent and continuous circulation of water from

the ocean, to the atmosphere, to the land, and back to the
ocean.

5 Multiple choice questions

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1. Tendency for characteristics to be more divergent when similar species belong to the same community than when they are
isolated from one another.

A. transfer rate

B. Parasitism

C. Heterotroph

D. character displacement

2. Amount of a substance that moves from one component of the environment to another within a specified period of time.

A. Camouflage

B. trophic level

C. Parasite

D. transfer rate

3. Organism that practices predation.

A. Producer

B. Prey

C. Predator

D. Predation

4. Visual depiction of the biomass, number of organisms, or energy content of various trophic levels in a food webfrom the
producer to the final consumer populations.

A. Camouflage

B. ecological niche

C. ecological pyramid

D. trophic level

5. Species that is dependent on a host species for survival, usually to the detriment of the host species.

A. Parasitism

B. Predation

C. Parasite

D. Carnivore

5 True/False questions

1. Primary consumer in a grazing food chain; a plant eater.Carnivore

True

False

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2. Process whereby free atmospheric nitrogen is converted into compounds, such as ammonium and nitrates, usually by
bacteria.Omnivore

True

False

3. Organism that cannot synthesize needed organic compounds from inorganic substances and therefore must take in organic
food.Heterotroph

True

False

4. Organism that provides nourishment and/ or shelter for a parasite.Prey

True

False

5. The order in which one population feeds on another in an ecosystem, thereby showing the flow of energy from a detritivore
(detrital food chain) or a producer (grazing food chain) to the final consumer.food chain

True

False

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