Download Environment Chapter 1 Study Guide [3/24/2017]

STUDY GUIDE – CHAPTER 1 ENVIRONMENT
NAME________________________________________ PERIOD____________________
1. What word describes the mammals, fish, birds, and plants that live in an environment?
2. A community is several species of animals interacting, while a population
is__________________________________________________________________.
3. List the 5 levels of organization in the environment, from first to fifth.
4. Organisms that can make their own food from sunlight are
called____________________.
5. Grass is eaten by a prairie dog. The prairie dog is eaten by a coyote. This is an example
of _________________________________.
6. Without wolves, Yellowstone Park had too many ________________.
7. The largest population an environment can support is its
____________________________.
8. One type of competition involves individuals competing for resources. The other
involves competition between different ________________________.
9. Young wasps are eating the tomato hornworm that is their host. What is this an example
of?________________________________________________
10. A bird eats a worm. Who is the predator?___________________________
11. Rocks, temperature, and water are what part of the environment?_________________
12. What do several different populations living together make?___________________
13. Two members of the same species fight over who gets a certain food. What is this an
example of?
14. In which type of symbiosis do organisms help each other?
STUDY GUIDE – CHAPTER 1 ENVIRONMENT
NAME________________________________________ PERIOD____________________
15. What is the lowest level of environmental organization that three male egrets would all
belong in together?
16. Herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores are all ____________________________.
17. Rocks, temperature, and water are what kinds of things?
18. What level of organization comes after population?
19. What word describes a community of organisms and their environment?
20. What living things make food from sunlight?
21. In which relationship do living things help each other?
22. Two lionesses are fighting over a fresh kill. What type of competition is this?
23. As loggers take more trees out of a forest, there are fewer places for a certain type of bird
to build a nest. What is this an example of?
DEFINE THE FOLLOWING:
Prey
Symbiosis
Mutualism
Commensalism
Parasitism
Coevolution