Ecology

All of the living and nonliving things in an area that interact with each other are called a/an ______.

• community
• habitat
• population
• ecosystem

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An area where an organism finds food, shelter and water in a specific arrangement

• niche
• biosphere
• biome
• habitat

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The living part of an ecosystem

• Biotic
• Abiotic
• Mother Earth
• Flowers

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The non-living part of an ecosystem

• Ocean
• Lava Flow
• Birds
• Abiotic

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The study of how living things interact with one another and with their environment.

• Biology
• Lithology
• Ecology
• Farmacology

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Organisms that look similar and can produce fertile offspring

• Species
• Fish
• Community
• Trees

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Two or more members of a particular species living and interacting in the same area

• Community
• Population
• Organisms
• Biosphere

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Different populations living and interacting with each other in the same area

• Biome
• Ecosystem
• Community
• Niche

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Which of the following would be the definition of a detritivore?

• Animals that eat insects.
• Organisms that feed on rocks, recycling the nutrients back into the ground.
• Organisms that eat only pants
• Things that feed on dead organisms, recycling the nutrients back into the ground.

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The amount of energy that usually transfers from one trophic level to the next...

• 10%
• 20%
• 80%
• 50%

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