Levels of Organization within an Ecosystem

What is Ecology?

• The chemistry of Life

• The study of money

• The study of interactions between living and nonliving things in the environment.

• All of the above.

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Which of the following is an example of a biotic factor?

• Water

• Air

• Sun light

• Plants

What is an abiotic factor?

• All living and nonliving things

• Something that is nonliving

• Microbes

• Food

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What is any individual living thing called?

• Inorganic

• Organism

• Species

• Population

A population must be of the same ________________?

• Color

• Gender

• Age

• Species

All living things found in a particular place are called a/an ?

• Community

• City

• Ecosystem

• Population

What do living and nonliving things make up?

• Community

• Ecosystem

• Biosphere

• Area

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What term refers to the surface of the earth that includes the atmosphere and hydrosphere?

• Interdependence

• Lithosphere

• Biosphere

• Ecology

In an ecosystem, living and nonliving things rely and affect each other in some way. What is this called?

• Biotic factors

• Ecology

• Interdependence

• Homeostasis

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What are the ecological levels of organization from smallest to the largest?

• organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere
• organism, community, population, ecosystem, biome, biosphere
• organism, population, community, biome, ecosystem, ecosphere.
• organism, community, population, biome, ecosystem, ecosphere