Notebook Check: Week 9 Enviro Sci

What is the difference between biotic and abiotic?

• Biotic are non-living things
• Abiotic are living organisms
• Biotic is life,
  Abiotic is non-living
• Biotic is non-living, Abiotic is living

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What does biodiversity mean?

• Only one species in an area.
• The different amount of species in an area
• All abiotic life
• Nitrogen fixation

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Which option is abiotic?

• Plants
• Bacteria
• Water
• Fungi

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Which option is biotic?

• Plants
• Air
• Water
• Energy

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What is a keystone species?

• A species that helps to hold an ecosystem together

• A species that lives in or around rocks

• Keys and stones have nothing to do with ecology

• A keystone isn't a living thing, it's just a stone

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A species that is NOT indigenous (native) to an area is called a/an: 

• native species
• natural species
• invasive species
• symbiotic species

The particular role (job) of an organism in its environment including types of food it eats, how it obtains its food and how it interacts with other organisms is called a what?

• niche
• habitat
• home
• ecosystem

Most invasive species move out of their native ecosystem by:

• the exotic pet trade
• being transported by humans
• being planted in ornamental landscapes
• all of these are possible

The term biodiversity means:

• a wide variety of plants and animals in an ecosystem
• only a few types of plants and animals in an ecosystem
• an ecosystem composed mostly of plants
• an ecosystem composed mostly of animals

a species that may become extinct in the near future is called ...

• keystone species

• endangered species

• invasive species

• mutant species