Chapter 30:
Populations and Communities
Practice Test
1.
What kind of organisms break down dead matter into simpler chemicals?
a.
secondary consumers
b.
primary consumers
c.
decomposers
d.
parasites
Hint
2.
What is the scientific name for the place where a plant or animal lives?
a.
habitat
b.
niche
c.
home
d.
house
Hint
3.
What is an animal that does not eat other animals?
a.
decomposer
b.
secondary consumer
c.
producer
d.
primary consumer
Hint
4.
What is a relationship in which two organisms live in a community and one benefits while the other gets no benefit, but is not harmed?
a.
predation
b.
parasitism
c.
commensalism
d.
mutualism
Hint
5.
What is the movement of animals out of an area?
a.
emigration
b.
transpiration
c.
immigration
d.
circulation
Hint
6.
What is a component of the niche of mushrooms growing on a dead tree?
a.
primary consumer
b.
producer
c.
decomposer
d.
secondary consumer
Hint
7.
All the organisms living in a pond make up the ____ of the pond.
a.
genus
b.
population
c.
species
d.
community
Hint
8.
What demonstrates the relationships between two or more food chains in a community?
a.
energy pyramid
b.
Punnett square
c.
food web
d.
pedigree
Hint
9.
What is the function of an organism in its community?
a.
excretion
b.
niche
c.
habitat
d.
circulation
Hint
10.
What is a single pathway of energy and materials through a community?
a.
intestine
b.
neuron
c.
vessel
d.
food chain
Hint
