Quiz - October 3, 2019 - Science quiz 1st period

Which of the following best describes a population?

• members of the same species living in the same place at the same time
• all the red birds in an area
• all types of organisms living in the same place
• all members of the same species

An example of a population is

• all trees in a forest
• all maple trees in a forest
• all plants in a forest
• all animals in a forest

All of the living and nonliving things in an area that interact with each other are called a/an ______.

• community
• habitat
• population
• ecosystem

Food, water, sunlight, shelter, and space are resources that are  __________.

• limiting factors
• wet
• messy
• found in rocks

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Which of the following would INCREASE the carrying capacity of an ecosystem?

• increase in predators
• disease
• increase in available food
• drought

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What are some abiotic factors that could be limiting factors in the Iowa River ecosystem?

• Temperature, fertilizer runoff from fields, drought or flood

• Invasive species, floods

• Temperature, predators, droughts, floods, over fishing

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What is a herbivore?

• an animal that gets energy from eating other animals
• an organism that gets energy from eating only plants
• an animal that gets energy by eating both plants and other animals

A connection of food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem is a ____________

• ecosystem
• food web
• environment

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An organism that gets energy from eating dead organisms, non-living material or waste

• producer
• consumer
• decomposer

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What is a carnivore?

• an animal that gets energy by eating other animals
• An animal that gets energy by eating only plants
• an animal that gets energy by eating both plants and animals