Chapter 4 Quiz

Which one is a population?

• Birds, cats, and dogs

• Trees, grass, and plants

• A field of mice

What is an organism?

• anything that is living.

• car

• rock

• mud

What are animals, fungi, bacteria, and plants?

• Biotic

• Abiotic

What makes up a community?

• Plants

• Animals

• A group of various species that live in the same place

• dirt and rocks

What kind of habitat does a red backed salamander need to survive?

• damp forest

• sunny top of a tree

• dry forest floor

• sunny desert rock

Which of the following kingdoms include organisms that can make their own food?

• protists and plants

• plants and animals

• fungi and plants

• fungi and protists

The Chihuahua is a dog that exists because of

• natural selection

• artificial selection

• resistance

• abiotic factors

Humans have promoted the evolution of insects that are resistant to insecticides by

• trying to control pests with chemicals

• using insecticides that are outdated

• using the wrong insecticides

• breeding more useful insects

Which of the following is NOT true of an adaptation?

• it is an advantage to an organism in certain environments

• it increases an organism's chance of survival

• it increases an organism's chance of reproducing

• it decreases an organisms chance of evolving

Which of the following is NOT one of the kingdoms of living things?

• archaebacteria

• protobacteria

• eubacteria

• protists