1. What is ecology? (*Hint: use the word wall
and eco- refers to the environment)
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(Monday)
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1. Label the following as habitat or niche:
a. An earthworm living in moist soil H
b. A honeybee pollinates a flower while
gathering nectar N
c. A black bear hibernates during the winter
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(Tuesday)
N
2. Birds require nesting spaces in trees, but there
is limited space available. Will this result in
competition or predation?
Competition
3. Lions eat antelope. Is this competition or
Predation
predation?
1. Sunlight would be a/an (abiotic/biotic) factor while a
tree would be a/an (abiotic/biotic) factor.
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(Wednesday)
2. Wrasse fish feed on the parasites found on the black
sea bass’s body (usually in the mouth), which helps
clean the black sea bass. What type of symbiosis is
this?
Mutualism
3. Some ocean birds, such as gannets, breed on remote,
rocky islands where they are safe from predators.
Many gannets flock to these islands each year to build
nests. Because the islands are small, only a certain
number of birds can nest and reproduce. Is this a
density-dependent or a density-independent limiting
factor? Density-dependent
1. Roadrunners eat both fruit and small rodents. What type of
consumer would a roadrunner be? Omnivore
2. Which organisms can be both a primary consumer and a
secondary consumer? Skunk and Sparrow
3. Write one food chain that can be made from the web. *You
can’t use the one I listed below.
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(Thursday)
4. Look at the food chain grass  field mouse  hawk. If the
grass had 14,000 kcal of energy, how much would the field
mouse and the hawk get?
Mouse: 1,400
Hawk: 140
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(Friday)
1. What type of organism would recycle a dead tree
in the forest?
A) decomposer
C) producer
B) omnivore
D) herbivore
2. In general, which trophic level has the LEAST
energy available to it?
A) producer
C) secondary consumer
B) primary consumer D) tertiary consumer