Ecological Relationships in Ecosystems
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- Q1What type of relationship involves both organisms benefiting?MutualismParasitismCommensalismCompetition30s
- Q2What type of relationship involves competition for a limiting abiotic factor?CommensalismMutualismCompetitionParasitism30s
- Q3Which relationship involves different species living together?Symbiotic relationshipCompetitionPredationSymbiosis30s
- Q4What is an example of a limiting biotic factor that antlions compete for?Prey: the antsAirWaterLight30s
- Q5Which relationship involves one organism consuming nutrients from another and causing harm?MutualismPredationParasitismCompetition30s
- Q6What is an example of a symbiotic relationship where one organism provides housing and food for another in exchange for protection?Competition between birds and fishParasitism between cats and dogsCommensalism between barnacles and whalesMutualism between acacia trees and acacia ants30s
- Q7Why do ecological relationships matter?They affect individual organismsInteractions can make significant impacts on populations of different species living togetherThey don't matterThey only impact one species30s
- Q8What is the relationship called when one organism eats another organism for food?CompetitionMutualismParasitismPredation30s
- Q9What is an example of a limiting abiotic factor that plants compete for in the ecosystem?LightSoilRainTemperature30s
- Q10The example of a bird eating an antlion represents which relationship?MutualismPredationCommensalismParasitism30s
- Q11In the example of barnacles and whales, which type of relationship is it when the barnacles benefit but the whale is not helped or harmed?CommensalismMutualismCompetitionParasitism30s
- Q12What type of relationship has a neutral effect, where one organism benefits but the other is neither helped nor harmed?MutualismCompetitionCommensalismParasitism30s
- Q13In the example of the acacia tree and acacia ants, what do the ants provide in return for the tree's housing and food?CompetitionFoodNectarProtection30s
- Q14What is an organism that gets its nutrients from another organism and causes harm to its host?ConsumerProducerParasiteAntlion30s
- Q15Any increase in the population size of predators in a certain area would result in:Only increase in population size of the predatorOnly decrease in population size of the preyOnly increase in population size of the preyDecrease in population size of the prey, followed by decrease of population size of the predator30s