Environmental Science 1st Semester

A place where an organism lives.

• Terrain
• Habitat
• Community
• Population

A collection of organisms that belong to different populations but all live in the same area and interact with one another.

• Population
• Ecosystem
• Community
• Ecosphere

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Water temperature would be an example of ...

• a biotic factor.
• an abiotic factor.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

A collection of organisms that make up a community as well as all of the nonliving aspects of the environment.

• Population
• Community
• Habitat
• Ecosystem

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The role or function or job of a species in a community.

• habitat
• diet
• niche
• ecosystem

Two organisms that are so similar they can interbreed in nature and produce fertile offspring.

• biotic factor

• herbivore

• ecosystem

• species

Nonliving factor that affects an ecosystem...

• biotic factor
• abiotic factor
• food chain 
• biome

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Which of the following best describes a community?

• sharks, groupers, anemones and shrimp on a coral reef
• decorator crabs on the seafloor
• loggerhead sea turtles in Atlantic
• prairie grassland in Wyoming

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What level of organization can be seen here?

• Species

• Population

• Community

• Ecosystem

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

For energy, a carnivore consumes...

• Plants
• Other animals
• Both
• Leaf litter, dead organisms and waste matter

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3