Ecosystems Vocabulary Quiz

This is any material or energy needed by living things to survive, grow, and reproduce

• population

• biome

• resource

• competition

An individual living thing is called an...

• population

• organism

• fish

• human

A group of living things that share (physical) traits and can breed successfully with each other, but NOT with other groups is called....

• biome

• biosphere

• team

• species

This interaction between living things that NEED the same limited resources is called...

• competition

• tug-of-war

• fight

• sharing

A group of different species that lives and reproduces in the same area (i.e. habitat) is called a...

• species

• biome

• organisms

• population

True or False: A group of populations of living things and non living things that are part of an environment which support them is called an ecosystem.

• True

• False

This large area of Earth that has certain physical conditions (weather/climate) and the living things that are found here is called a...

• biome

• ecosystem

• biosphere

• population

This part of the EARTH that organisms are able to live is the...

• Crust

• Ecosystem

• Biome

• Biosphere

An abiotic thing is...

• all non living parts of an ecosystem

• all living organisms in an ecosystem

A biotic thing is..

• all living organisms in an ecosystem

• all non living things in an ecosystem