Ecology and the Environment

What is a carrying capacity?

• The number of organisms in a population that an envrionment can support and maintain
• The number of organisms currently in an envrionment
• The number of organisms in an area of land
• The combination of living and non-living factors

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What is not an abiotic factor?

• Dirt
• Air
• Sun
• Trees

What is commensalism?

• When one organism benefits and the other is harmed
• When one organisms is benefited and the other is neither helped nor harmed
• When both organisms benefit
• When neither organism benefits

What is the largest level of ecological study?

• Ecosystem
• Population
• Community
• Organism

There are 750 squirrels in a square mile area. What is this an example of?

• Age of animals
• Carrying Capacity
• Population Density
• Symbiosis

What is the biosphere?

• All the land, water and air on Earth and the organisms.
• Only the abiotic factors on Earth
• Only the biotic factors on Earth
• An area that has a similar climate

What is a term for a group of populations of different species living in the same area?

• Population
• Community
• Ecosystem
• Organism

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What is predation?

• When one organism captures and feeds on another
• When two organisms benefit each other
• When an organism eats a plant
• An organism that eats other animals

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What is a consumer that preys only on other consumers?

• Carnivore
• Herbivore
• Detritovore
• Omnivore

What are the living factors in an environment?

• abiotic
• biotic
• biotical
• abiotical

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