Ecosystem

What is an ecosystem?

• A community of non-interacting organisms and their physical environment.

• A biological community of interacting organisms and their chemical environment.

• A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

• A community of non-interacting organisms and their chemical environment.

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What is a habitat?

• The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.

• The interrelationship of a species with all the biotic and abiotic factors affecting it.

• A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

• The natural home or environment of non-living organisms.

What is a biotic factor?

• Any non-living component that affects the population of another organism, or the environment.

• Any living component that has a population.

• Any living component that affects the population of another country.

• Any living component that affects the population of another organism, or the environment.

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What is a food web?

• A system of intraconnecting chains linked together to show the feeding relationships of organisms in an ecosystem.

• A system of interconnecting chains linked together to show the feeding relationships of organisms in an ecosystem.

• A system of interlocking chains that show a relationship between non-living things.

• A system on intralocking chains that show a relationship between non-living things.

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What is a biological community?

• An interacting group of various species in a common location.

• A non-interacting group of various species in a common location.

• An interacting group of no species in a common location.

• An interacting group of various species in various locations.

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What is an abiotic factor?

• A living condition or thing, that influences or affects an ecosystem and the organisms in it.

• A non-living condition or thing, that does not affect an ecosystem and the organisms in it.

• A non-living condition or thing, that influences or affects an ecosystem and the organisms in it.

• A living condition or thing, that does not affect an ecosystem and the organisms in it.

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What is an organism?

• Several animals, plants, or single-celled life forms.

• An individual animal, plant, or single-celled obejct.

• An individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.

• Several animals and plants.

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What is a niche?

• The place or function of a given object within its ecosystem.

• The place or function of a given organism within its ecosystem.

• The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.

• The natural home or environment of an object.

What is a physical environment?

• The part of the environment that includes purely chemical factors.

• The relationship of plants and animals to their physical, chemical and biological environment.

• The relationship of plants and animals to their physical and biological environment.

• The part of the environment that includes purely physical and chemical factors.

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