Unit 1 Vocabulary Quiz

A baby alligator is born knowing how to swim. Its mother does not have to teach it this skill. Swimming is a behavior that the alligator begins life with and helps it meet its needs. What is this called?

• Extinct

• Instinct

• Skill/ Born Talent

• Biotic behavior

In the winter the grizzly bear stops hunting for fish. He goes into a dormant, inactive state in which his normal body activities slow. What is this called

• Migration

• Sleeping

• Dead

• Hibernation

The triceratops was the last living dinosaur, the last ones died about 65 million years ago. When all the members of a certain group of organisms die what is it called?

• Extinguished

• Distinction

• Extinction

• Erosion

The sun, rain, air, and stones are all parts of an ecosystem. However they aren't living. A nonliving part of an ecosystem is known as what kind of factor

• Abiotic

• Biotic

• Amniotic

• producer

The red tail alligator lives in the murky swamps of south Florida. I wouldn't want to live in the swamp, but it meets all the needs of the alligator. Especially keeping its skin moist in the hot weather. The swamp would be the alligators what?

• Migrate

• Instinct

• population

• Habitat

The human thumbs position and location help us grab and hold objects. Its a body part that helps us survive. The human thumb would be a what

• Adaptation

• Instinct

• Extension

• Finger

The farmer wanted to count all his brown cows on the farm. He had pigs and sheep also but he only wanted to count all the individuals of one kind living on the farm. He wanted to count the what.

• population

• community

All the living parts of an ecosystem are known as what kind of factors?

• celbiotic

• abiotic

• biotic

• arthrotic

Zebras, Kangaroo, and Giraffe all ram the safari in East Africa. All the populations of different organisms living in an ecosystem would be called?

• Community

• Population

• Group

• Cultural Zoo

Every Fall the grey winged goose flies 150 miles south to a warmer climate. The movement of geese from one region to another is called what.

• function

• immigration

• hibernation

• migration