Ecology Test

The disappearance of a species when the last of its members dies.

• ecology

• limiting factor

• biomass

• extinction

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Act of one organism feeding on another organism

• carrying capacity

• predation

• ecology

• trophic level

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Heterotroph that consumes both plants and animals.

• herbivore

• omnivore

• detritivore

• community

Total mass of living matter at each trophic level.

• biomass

• biotic factor

• symbiosis

• biome

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Large group of ecosystems that share the same climate and have similar types of communities.

• biome

• community

• abiotic factor

• heterotroph

Symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits at the expense of another organism.

• niche

• limiting factor

• parasitism

• autotroph

Any living factor in an organism's environment.

• biotic factor

• niche

• food web

• abiotic factor

Scientific study of all the interrelationships between organisms and their environment.

• community

• population

• organism

• ecology

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Biotic or abiotic factor that restricts the number, distribution or reproduction of a population within a community.

• detritivore

• limiting factor

• heterotroph

• biodiversity

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Role or position of an organism in its environment.

• food web

• ecosystem

• niche

• symbiosis