This quiz was written to test the material on my ecology unit called,
Community Ecology.
This document can be used as a quiz, as a homework assignment or as test review. The document contains 31 questions. There are 29 fill in the blank questions and 2 short answer questions. Answer key is provided.
PLEASE NOTE: This quiz is also included in my
Community Ecology Complete Lesson Plan Bundle
This quiz is appropriate for biology or life science students in grades 7 - 12.
Topics covered by the quiz are:
1. Community Interactions: Definition of community, types of community interactions such as competition, predation, symbiosis, mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism.
2. Competition: Definition of competition, resource, competitive exclusion principle, character displacement, many examples, resource partitioning, the result of organisms having identical niches.
3. Predation: Definition, examples, predator, prey, the role of natural selection, adaptations found in predators, adaptations found in prey, mimicry, adaptations found in plants and herbivores.
4. Symbiosis: Definition of symbiosis, types of symbiosis, mutualism, commensalism, parasitism, examples of each.
5. Properties of Communities: Species richness and diversity, definition of species richness, definition of species diversity, the species-area effect, the result of habitat destruction.
6. Succession: Disturbances, definition and examples of disturbances, types of succession, primary succession, examples of primary succession, secondary succession, examples of secondary succession, pioneer species, climax communities.
7. Succession in a Marine Ecosystem: A Whale-Fall Community.
The download will include both a Word document as well as a pdf form of the quiz.
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